I am excited to announce that I will be teaching a new course about Motion Design in Spring 2023. The title of the course is Design for the Screen: Theory and History of Motion Design. To register for the class, look for EMC 4800 – Seminar in Media Issues. Many students know me for teaching Student Success courses, but Motion Design
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Congratulations to all of the winners in the 10th Annual Blue Spark Awards competition for excellence in Tennessee High School Media Arts. It was great to see a record number of entries this year as more Tennessee high schools are adding media arts classes to their curriculum. We encourage all students interested in the media arts to consider Media Arts
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MTSU is proud to announce that an XR (Extended Reality) stage for Virtual Production is under construction in the Media Arts Department and will be available for classes in the Fall 2022 semester. This major new production technique is behind the visual magic of the movie Dune, the Mandalorian series, and many others. MTSU students will have the opportunity to
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Don’t let social distancing stop you from touring facilities in MTSU’s Media Arts Department. Click on the link below to watch a live Zoom tour of the department’s facilities recorded with a live audience on March 15, 2022. https://vimeo.com/540881139 Included in the tour: Studio 1 and LED facilities Studio 1 Control room for live television production Mobile Production Lab –
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If motion graphics, visual effects, and virtual production sound like things you would like to do, check out MTSU’s new Motion Design degree program. Motion Design students will create compelling and moving visual imagery that can entertain, educate, inform, influence, or inspire. You see this kind of work anywhere that production design really matters. The major sits at the center
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We sometimes call ourselves MAD (Media Arts Department), and the weekend of February 25-27 was filled with our special kind of MADness. Starting Friday afternoon (which is of course when the weekend starts) Media Arts had a lot going on! Media Arts’ Live Production students were announced as finalists for Best Student-Produced Sports Live Game Production in BEA’s Media Arts
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Six years ago Media Arts Associate Professor Allie Sultan and MFA student Sarah Michele Bailey started a massive collaboration with over 30 students from programs across MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment, including Video and Film Production, Animation, Audio Production, and Visual Communication. Flash forward to 2021 and season one of Incognita’s Infamous Adventures is done – and doing well
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All MTSU students have free access to a full personal, premium subscription to LinkedIn Learning. With more than 16,000 expert-led courses and personalized recommendations, you can discover, complete, and track courses related to your field and interests. You can also choose to add these courses and related skills to your LinkedIn profile once you’ve completed them. Students can access courses on-demand on both desktop & mobile. That’s 24/7
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Since 2013 MTSU’s Blue Spark Awards have celebrated excellence in Tennessee high school media arts. This competition is presented by the Department of Media Arts at Middle Tennessee State University. The competition’s categories reflect programs offered within MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment, and particularly the Department of Media Arts. We are proud to announce the winners in the 2021
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By: Skip Anderson Lecturer of Media Arts, Rick Hinson waited six weeks before he relocated from Los Angeles to Middle Tennessee to tell his employer he had done so. “We had been wanting to get out of L.A.,” says the four-time Emmy-winning sound designer. “At some point, I realized I was already working from home, so it shouldn’t really matter
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By Stephanie Barrette MTSU alumnus Billy Pittard, chair of the Media Arts Department, and Mike Forbes, assistant director of technical systems, use their years of media and entertainment experience to equip students with relevant and in-demand industry skills. The Media Technology course taught by Forbes trains students on LED video display technology, a developing and booming area of the industry,
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MTSU’s Media Arts professor Robert “Bob” Gordon Jr. has always encouraged his multi-camera TV production students to be ready to change course when the unexpected happens, because it always seems to in TV. He didn’t quite expect “changing course” to become so literal. Gordon and his students, who produce live and scripted shows in several multi-camera courses, watched the pandemic
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After fifty years of teaching Video and Film Production in a combined curriculum, the Media Arts Department announces the debut of two new concentrations: one in Filmmaking and the other in Live Production. And for students who like the blend, the classic Video and Film Production program remains available. The new concentrations are ready for enrollment now! It’s no secret
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How can you learn a task when the task you’re supposed to observe isn’t being done? Students in MTSU’s multi-camera TV production courses this spring were as baffled as anyone else when they saw their scheduled live video projects with Nashville Fashion Week, the Nashville Symphony, the six TSSAA high school basketball tournaments, a university year-end rock concert, the Raider’s
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This summer Media Arts is offering a record number of online or remote classes. These are some of our highest demand classes that can be hard to get into during the fall and spring semesters, so this is a great opportunity to catch up or get ahead on your graduation requirements. Some sections are traditional online classes without a meeting
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Students in Media Arts programs will benefit from a range of advancements in curriculum for 2020-21 and beyond. These changes are collectively called Media Arts 2020, a vision for student success. Students enrolling under MTSU’s 2020-21 Catalog will be under these advancements. Students on older catalogs may enroll in the new classes as electives, or talk with their advisors if
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