Fine Art + Multimedia

When most think of a multimedia/digital and art conjunction; digital animation, graphic design, typography, and digital photography usually come into mind. Well fine artists can make good use of the equipment at the Student Multimedia Design Center all the same!

Some available items of interest for fine artists include:

• Basic Lighting Kits
• Advanced Lighting Kits
• Basic/Intermediate/Advance DV Tape Video Cameras
• Intermediate Flash Memory Video Cameras
• Digital Still Cameras
• Canon Rebel EOS and Pentax K-T DSLR cameras
• Video and Still Camera tripods
• Bamboo Fun Writing Tablet

The studios are also very useful for art projects and include a video transfer deck for DVD <-> VHS, Importing DV tape footage, and a Samson microphone for recording audio. All video editing can be completed right in the studio with Premiere CS5, Final Cut 7, or iMovie 2011 on the Mac, or Premiere CS5 on the Windows machines.

The equipment at the Student Multimedia Design Center is useful for documentation, shooting final pieces, and creating stop-motion animations.

I recently completed a documentation video of my recent installation in the Studio Arts Building, using equipment from the Center. I used the Canon HF S20 digital video camera to shoot some time-lapse of the installation and shoot video of the final product. After the video was shot I did some simple editing in one of the studios using iMovie 2011. LINK