Friday, January 24th was a big night for El Dorado's Advanced Film and Broadcasting students. The El Dorado students earned 14 nominations from the upcoming Orange County Film Festival. This is the most nominations the program has had in years! The OCFF screening will take place on February 14th and winners announced on February 15th:

EDHS Nominations from the 2020 Orange County Film Festival

Best Short Film - Hold On (Natalie Henderson and Aydan Re...

The DMAA Senior of the Week is Zachary Cooper! Zach has photography in his blood! His mom has a popular portrait photography business, and he definitely has learned the tricks of the trade. Zach is the lead photographer for his church, and he is well known for his cool concert photos and high contrast black and white portraits. Zach won a $10,000 video contest freshman year, passed his AP Photo portfolio Junior year and is now excelling in graphic des...

The EARLY ACTION APPLICATION DEADLINE to apply to El Dorado High School's Digital Media Arts and ED Law Academies is approaching on January 17, 2020.  

The regular application deadline is February 14th.  The cutoff time for both applications is midnight (at the end of those days.). 

We began offering an early action application option last year.  We will be able to notify all of our early applicants with completed applications o...

Congrats to the DMAA Student of the Week for January 5-11, Haley Kim! Haley is a four-year video production DMAA student and is currently in the Honors Film and Broadcasting Class. Haley recently directed our short film entry in the Four Points Film Festival, is our Video Yearbook Director, and she produced the Holiday Special Episode of Hawk Talk. Haley is an absolute superstar in our class and is always ready to lend a helping hand to her classmates...

Yesterday 60 EDHS photo students traveled to Oceanside on the Metrolink train on our first of 3 photo field trips for the 2019-20 year. We visited two museums, The Oceanside Museum of Art & the Oceanside Surf Museum. At the OMA we saw modern artist Marina Debris' work entitled "Trashionista" where she transforms trash into lovely gowns and photographs them in beautiful and unique ways. At OSA we looked at old surf photography, including an underwater...

Please congratulate the following DMAA students who placed in the Richard Nixon Linrary & Yorba Linda Library Exposed Photo Contest:

Katie Gabriel - 2nd Place

Emily Solheid - Staff Pick

Danikah Poling - Honorable Mention

The DMAA co-photo students of the week are Rachael Pinoliar & Tabitha Rogers! Rabitha have been photo besties for many years. They are both super intelligent, highly creative and joined at the hip (They even had the exact same schedule last year). Both girls have had their photography featured in many art contests including Orange County Fair, Nixon Library Exposed Contest, PTSA Reflections and Yorba Linda Women's Club Art Contest. They both just rece...

Congratulations to DMAA student of the week for November 17-23, Ethan Lee. Ethan is a 4 year DMAA film student, and is most interested in the field of sound mixing. Ethan is currently serving as the Student News Director for Hawk Talk and recently produced the classes 4-Points International Film Festival entry that was filmed over Veteran's Day Weekend. Ethan works hard in class and is always willing to lend a helping hand to the other students in the...