Advanced Media

= OUR PHILOSOPHY =

Media isn't just for concentrators anymore - no one owns it and everyone can benefit from it. Our background, both personal and departmental is video production, but our work today is much broader because media has encompassed more and more forms and methods, resulting in a rich and powerful range of skill sets and modes of organization and presentation.

WHAT’S NEW

We’ve already had a student shoot on Red Camera and we are moving quickly away from tape.

What does this mean to you? For most Hampshire students you will begin showing your work by dropping a movie file onto a server and then it will be played from that server for screening to faculty or your class.

Also we now have tapeless cameras (at Media Services), so you will be able to “Ingest” your footage as a file, from the camera to the computer.

The move to HD means much bigger file sizes, more need for ram (if you’re working at home) and MUCH longer Render Times.

Surround sound! More surround sound authoring including one in the Liebling wing and more support in The Media Basement.

= WHEN AND WHERE =

The Advanced Media Facilities are located on the basement level of the Harold F. Johnson Library Center. We are open from 10AM until 10PM Monday through Thursday and close at 5PM on Fridays – we want you to socialize on the weekends. As the semester progresses we add weekend hours and late night hours, too. Remember we're the Library – we do not require that you be a media concentrator to use the facilities nor pay a lab fee. We're here for everyone, but our priority system favors advanced students.

= LABS =

We think of our work as lab-based, though it is not so much centered on the physicality of the room as it is intent on the process of direct experimentation and the refinement of technical procedures sparked by wit, creativity and insight. The product of the work is mostly stories, both about our lives and families and stories of self-discovery and personal voice. They come alive as we make them and the excitement of creation sustains our work. You can learn to do this too.

= MISSION =

OK, I don’t like mission statements either, but this is what we tell administrators that we do and pretty much it’s true.

The Advanced Media Workgroup provides training and skill development in the production of media. This is primarily designed for students, but faculty and staff are frequent clients. The work ranges from video editing, sound design, and interactive DVDs, to still photography, page layout, lecture presentations, and QuickTime VRs. Additionally, we install and maintain labs, classrooms and facilities for media presentation and production. In short, we provide students with the skills and hardware to make, develop and present media. Again we’ve been calling it media or more currently “new convergent media”, but you do hear a lot of people talking about rich media. So to stay ahead of that crowd I think we need to move past all of that in to wealthy media, yep that’s my new hot term – “Wealthy Media”. The boundaries of this discipline end just where our interests end – convenient huh. Of course those are constantly changing too. See how much flux there is, but don’t be put off my my preoccupation with naming. In the end it’s your work, done your way, to your satisfaction. So what do you call it?

= CONTACT US =

John Gunther 84F

Manager for Advanced Media

Phone: 413-559-5713

e-mail: jgunther@hampshire.edu

Office Location: Johnson Library basement: B-4

John Bruner 94F

Inter-Media Specialist

Phone: 413 559-5326

e-mail: jbruner@hampshire.edu

Office Location: Johnson Library basement: B-4

LINKS

Advanced Media

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