Digital Media & Film Making

“Skills are the armour of the 21^st century.”

B.Voc or B.Vocatioal courses are an initiative by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the Skill India scheme. The initiative is funded and monitored by the UGC, and educational institutions like SDM are evaluated and provided resources to administer professional courses titled B.Voc. The very nature of these courses is to provide maximum scope for practical exposure and prepare students to be career ready right after under-graduation.

B.Vocational courses instil adequate and specific career based skills in students which help them pursue their specific area of interest and excel in it early. The courses are designed to cater to the competitive and dynamic requirements of the professional sphere.

• An added speciality of B.Voc courses is the liberty for the student to choose the duration of the course.
• If the student opts to graduate and venture into the professional sphere within six monthsof the course, he /she will be credited with the expertise of completing ‘certificate course’ in Digital Media and Film Making.
• If the student opts to graduate and venture into the professional sphere within one year or two years of the course, he /she will be credited with diploma certificate.
• If the student chooses to complete the course of three years, he/she will be a B.Voc graduate, which is equivalent to any other graduation course in the country.

The certificates for the courses are credited by the Mangalore University.

Qualification for B.Voc courses is completion of Pre-University (+2) in any stream. Anyone willing to join the course with other higher degrees, complete or incomplete, will be allowed.

The entertainment industry in India expands by 12.5% every year, employing a staggering number of young people in a diversified set of creative and technical roles. This course is designed to inculcate and practice expertise in the field of digital media – consisting social media and web content, and film making ranging from short films to feature films. The courses is catered through a well equipped film making facility and expert staff.

• Well-equipped film making setup
• Full-fledged lab facility
• Daily creative activity
• Official YouTube and Instagram pages
• MOUs with leading organisation

About the association

‘Lumos’ is a student association of B.Voc in Digital Media and Film Making inaugurated on 05 February 2022 by Mr. Shashi Kumar IPS, District Commissioner, Mangaluru City Police.

The association is an entity managed by students of the course, led by office bearers nominated on merit basis by the department faculty. The students organize various events and creative discourses under the association banner throughout the year. The events mostly pertain to the areas of digital media and film making, and occasionally encompass allied areas as well.

• Swacch campus abhiyan – Students clean the campus surroundings during the allotted time for one week
• Expand lecture series – faculty members of the department deliver lectures on useful topics to students from other colleges.

• Ms. Ashwini Jain is the recipient of SAHAPEDIA-UNESCO Fellowship for the year 2019, sponsored by Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
• Ms. Ashwini Jain is the recipient of ‘Seed Fund for Research’ granted by SDM College, Ujire (year 2024-25).