The Media Arts Department is excited to announce the launch of Aerial Videography and Aerial Cinematography courses starting with Aerial Videography in Spring 2019. Currently there is nothing similar to these offerings at any other university in the Southeast. The courses will be taught in collaboration with MTSU’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program and are open to a limited number of Video and Film Production
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On October 19th, Media Arts alumnus Nic Dugger was honored with an Distinguished Alumni Award by the MTSU Alumni Association. This is the highest honor bestowed by the association. During his acceptance speech, Dugger asked the College of Media and Entertainment Dean, Ken Paulson, to come up to the podium – where he then handed him a gift of $10,000
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This past May, Animation Professor Kevin McNulty took his EMC 4900 class to Guiyang, China for the 2018 Wonderful World exhibition. At this annual event, students from around the world come together to share short films related to global causes. Leading up to this experience, the animation students spent their spring semester coming up with the idea for their film and
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Last weekend MTSU’s Animation students took part in the annual 24 Hours Animation Contest for a seventh year. This competition requires the creation of a 30 second animated film within 24 hours. The theme that the video must follow isn’t revealed until the very beginning of the event, to prevent anyone from planning ahead. This year’s theme was empathy. Contestants were asked
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Back in November 2016, the MTSU Women in Film group created a documentary to submit into a women’s film challenge. The film didn’t win any awards and the group felt disappointed in their work. But their faculty guide, Video Production Professor Allie Sultan, encouraged them to continue editing the film until they were happy with it. Fast forward to 2018,
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ACM SIGGRAPH had its annual convention this summer, and MTSU Animation students were able to attend for a sixth year. ACM is the the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Within the organization are SIGS (Special Interest Groups), such as SIGGRAPH, which specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. MTSU is very well known in the ACM SIGGRAPH community. The school has
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From a distance, they look like paintings – but taking a closer look at the current exhibit in the Baldwin Photographic Gallery reveals that these images are much more. The exhibit is by Richard Tuschman, an artist and photographer from New York currently living in Poland. His work has been showcased in galleries all over the world and featured in
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