EMC Students were extra busy this past week, as the holiday season gets into full swing. On Thursday, December 3rd, EMC Students captured MTSU’s first production of “Joys of the Season” at Tucker Theater. The production featured performances from the School of Music and The Theatre and Dance Department with artwork from the Art Department. Then, on Saturday December 5th,
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Studio 1 and Studio 2 in the Bragg building are set for a major graphics upgrades with the installations of two Ross XPression real-time motion graphics systems. XPression is a system of real-time motion graphics, clip servers, workflow tools, and purpose-built software applications that can be used in any kind of live TV productions such as news, sports, elections, etc.
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EMC students are providing extensive technical support — and eye-catching entertainment for fans — at the first large music concert inside Murphy Center since 2013. A dozen students from instructor Mike Forbes’ Video Technology class added to their professional expertise as they set up a massive 30-foot-wide LED video wall in Hale Arena all day Wednesday, Sept. 30. It’ll be
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On Tuesday, September 15th, RED Digital, one of the leading cinema camera manufacturers in the world, made a special trip to Murfreesboro to demonstrate some new functionality of their RED Epic Dragon to EMC Students. Travis Sims- who specializes in RED Education, showed EMC Students some tips and tricks on how to best utilize a RED Camera in the field.
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Not only has the College of Mass Communication Wall of Fame changed its name – it has also gone digital. The new Wall of Fame for the College of Media and Entertainment is now available on the new digital sign (touch screen monitor) at the center of the Bragg College of Media and Entertainment building. The digital sign was made
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Recent EMC retiree, Dr. Dennis Oneal has just become part of a select group within the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters with a special recognition. The association’s highest honor, their Distinguished Service Award was presented to Dr. Oneal during the 67th annual conference in Murfreesboro recently. The award was established in 1974 to honor men and women who have distinguished themselves
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Over twenty MTSU students, two MTSU professors and many alumni are organizing, attending, and participating at the 2015 SIGGRAPH Conference going on this week in Los Angeles, CA. It’s the perfect venue for students enrolled in MTSU’s Animation program to learn directly from movers and shakers in the industry. MTSU’s own Professor Marc Barr is the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference Chair.
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An EMC class of twelve students recently returned from Athens, Greece where they shot footage for three documentary films under the instruction of Professor Tom Neff. The students divided into three teams of four students each. Their assignment was to create a ten-minute documentary about a subject of their choice engaged in some sort of creative activity. After shooting for
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For four days, over thirty EMC and RI students and faculty braved the heat to produce 16 live Bonnaroo performances on The Who Stage for video. EMC Assistant Professor Bob Gordon joined forces with RI professors Michael Fleming and Matt Foglia and a group of volunteer students at Bonnaroo’s “Who Stage”. Gordon and students directed the tapings and students crewed
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On May 7, 2015 EMC rented Nashville’s Belcourt Theater for a screening of a sampling of the best EMC student work of the year. The screening consisted of a one hour and seventeen minute compilation of portions of those works. Now the compilation is available for full viewing as well as each of the twenty-five films sampled in the comp
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On May 7 EMC took over Nashville’s Belcourt Theater for its third annual screening of a sampling of the best EMC student work of the year. More than one student commented on how wonderful it was to see the work on the big screen. The one hour and seventeen minute screening presented a sampling of the best video work of
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EMC Students provided every aspect of video support for this year’s End of the Semester Show hosted in Tucker Theater on Monday April 27, 2015. The End of the Semester Show, or ESS for short, was a partnership built with live entertainment in mind between the Department of Electronic Media Communication and Recording Industry Department. EMC Professor Bob Gordon and
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