CREATIVITY

EXPERTISE

co-op

ABOUT OUR PROGRAM

At OTR Media Productions, our Co-op Program is an opportunity to be a part of a team to build and develop foundations in the creative and media industry. From animating to videographers, graphic designers to music management, and much more, we personalize your program to meet you where your skills and experiences are and aim to reach the goals of pursuing a career in the creative media sector.

BRANDING

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MARKETING

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PRODUCTION

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BRANDING · MARKETING · PRODUCTION ·

PROGRAMS WE USE

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

    Premiere Pro

    Photoshop

    Lightroom

    Illustrator

  • Productivity suites

    Notion

    Google Workspace

    Microsoft Office

  • Digital creative suites

    Blender

    Clip Studio Paint EX

    Canva

  • Website Builders

    BigCartel (E-Commerce Platform)

    Squarespace (Website Design & Building)

    GoDaddy (Domain Registrar)

get involved

applying for our co-op

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Waterloo Region District School Board

  • Eastwood Collegiate Institute

Toronto District School Board

  • Northview Heights Secondary School

  • Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute

  • William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute

  • Leaside High School

Our program is a hybrid, with the possibility to come to events, projects, and gain hands-on experience in Toronto, KWC region, and Brantford.

Our co-op program is free and does not require a monetary exchange to participate. Please contact us if you'd like to sponsor or donate to our program. Donations and sponsorships will be used to fund future projects, purchase tools, software, and hardware for our participants, rentals for spaces and/or equipment, and events we may have for our students, and compensate the mentors who take their time to volunteer and develop this program.

For secondary school students (high school, grades 9-12), school credits are only available if you are applying with your school board through the Cooperative Education Program (Co-op) course. Please contact your school's guidance counselor or program coordinator on how co-op works at your school. Our high school co-op placement is not paid, as permitted in the Ontario Government website link below:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/cooperative-education-co-op-courses

For post-secondary school students (college, or university), please speak to your professor, TA, academic advisor about the requirements to your co-op details within your specific program.

schools we’ve worked with

Post-Secondary Schools

  • Humber College

  • "My placement at OTR Media Productions was the most fun I have ever had while still technically “in school”. If I could stay here forever I would."

    — Arseniy Merkin (Cohort 2, SS24)

  • "OTR media is a great place for people who have little or no experience to work at a reasonable pace all while gaining valuable skills and knowledge. I recommend OTR media productions to anyone who might have doubts on what they would like to pursue but would still like to give it a try."

    — Jayden Kroesen Ewert (Cohort 4, SS25)

  • "This Co-op placement helped me to decide what areas I am most interested in through professional experience in multiple areas of the industry."

    — Hayley Brown (Cohort 4, SS25)

  • "Incredible experiential placement, beneficial for your future in more ways than you think"

    — Andy (Cohort 5, FW25/26)