Saturday, January 28, Harold Baldwin celebrated his 90th birthday at The Baldwin Photographic Gallery named in his honor and located in the John Bragg Media and Entertainment building. Family, friends, students, and faculty came out to celebrate the man who brought photography education to MTSU. The band played and the crowd mingled and observed the current exhibit in Baldwin’s gallery,
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As MTSU Men’s Basketball team got ready for a game against Louisiana State, the EMC Productions team prepare to take on a challenge of their own. EMC Productions was hired by ESPN 3 to broadcast the game on January 28. Watch the video below for a special behind the scenes look at the fast paced and exciting world of EMC Productions
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MTSU has partnered with VER to give students the opportunity to work with professional grade video entertainment equipment. VER is known for the largest inventory of rental professional grade audio, video, and recording equipment in the world. Three years ago MTSU was approached by VER who had the idea to lend the school an LED video wall in order to train students to use the technology that is
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EMC Productions is MTSU’s driving force in student broadcasting. Having taken the College Sports Media Award for best student-produced sports broadcast in the nation, the team has quite a distinguished reputation. For the last nine years Assistant Professor Robert Gordon has been helping MTSU students learn professional level live video broadcast experience. With help from MTSU’s mobile production lab, Gordon
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Artlightenment is an annual Art Show and Film Festival which showcases visual artists, painters, sculptors and filmmakers. Created by painter and film producer, Robyn Morshead in 2009, this week long event is held at the Celebrity Center (Old Fall School Building), in Nashville, TN and also features workshops, live music and a fashion show, making this event a vital force
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Students from Allie Sultan’s Single Camera film production class documented the happenings from the Animation department’s 24 Hour Animation Contest. Congrats on a great job to all of the Animation students and the producers of “Illusion of Motion,” Christian Hall, Samuel White, and Kyle Mitchell.
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690 students from 29 schools from across the country, and the globe, competed in Animation Educators Forum’s 24 hour contest to create a 30 second film from scratch on Friday, October 7.This date happened to fall on Fall Break for the MTSU competitors. Each year the contest coordinators sets a theme parameter for student work, this year’s theme: Keeping in mind that walls can
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The photography of Shelby Lee Adams will be exhibited in The Baldwin Photographic Gallery from October 24, 2016 through January 19, 2017. The gallery is located on the second floor of the Bragg Building on the MTSU campus. The exhibit titled “Relationships” is composed of portraits of residents of the Appalachian region of Eastern Kentucky. The photographer and author will be visiting
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For the last 30 years Steve McCurry has put himself in dangerous and delicate situations alike in order to tell stories that so many others can not. What distinguishes McCurry’s style is his ability to capture the human emotions that reside in these situations, and the stories that are told only through one’s portrait. The Baldwin Photography Gallery at MTSU’s Bragg Building
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EMC alumnus and co-founder of Gemini Production Group, Matthew Pessoni, revisited his alma mater on Friday to host the latest installment of EMC’s Friday Forum.
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Nothing inspires like seeing one’s peers do great work! That’s why it’s so worthwhile to attend EMC’s FIRST LOOK screening on September 21 at 3pm in the Student Union Ballroom. This one-hour event is a screening of exemplary work done by MTSU film, video, animation, and photography students. The FIRST LOOK 2016 selections were chosen from student work completed in
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The main hallway of the College of Media and Entertainment was abuzz last week with a fair and exposition of the student organizations affiliated with programs in the College. For the EMC department in particular, there is at least one student organization for every EMC major. The exposition was sponsored and organized by the MTSU ACM SIGGRAPH chapter of the
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The MTSU Film Guild, a dedicated group of student filmmakers, has over the past several months shown exponential growth, connecting with alumni and other professionals in the Nashville entertainment industry and beyond. Recently, No Cleaner Threads, a short-film produced and shot entirely by Film Guild students, screened in New Mexico at the inaugural Las Cruces International Film Festival. In April
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The EMC Deptartment is offering a new 4940 Advanced Production Seminar course this May in Puerto Rico! Students will travel May 9-21 to experience a unique educational opportunity, exploring the culture, cuisine and commerce of the island, while creating a new kind of travel TV show. Different abilities, skills and backgrounds are welcome. The class will work together to film
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Thanks to a change of accreditation, EMC majors are no longer limited to a maximum of 48 credit hours within the College of Media and Entertainment. EMC majors are no longer required to have at least 72 credit hours outside the College of Media and Entertainment. This applies to all EMC majors regardless of which catalog you are using. See
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This new course provides an introduction to the techniques and history of video post-production. Non-linear editing techniques and practice, as well as the history and theory of film/video editing, are explored. Topics of study include post-production workflow, video formats and compression, narrative and documentary storytelling, exporting, sound design, color correction, multi-cam editing, and motion graphics. For students on the 2016-17
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