Filmmaking Resources
TFMS majors should familiarize themselves with the following filmmaking facilities on campus. Each provides access to equipment available for classroom use and for creative projects.
Media Center: Located on the third floor of the Baltimore Hall Library, the Media Center is equipped with VCRs, DVD/CD players, and audio cassette players for classroom use and duplication of materials, as well as a large screening room for the viewing of films. It also includes a dark room, a graphics studio, an audio/video editing and recording studio, and some study carrels equipped with audio-visual equipment. Media services personnel are available to assist students in locating equipment and in operating it safely.
Multi-Media Center (MH 49): Located on the lower level of Montgomery Hall, the Multi-Media Center is an instructional technologies facility accommodating classes and class assignments in art/art history; theater, film, and media; English; international languages and cultures; and music. The Center functions as both a learning lab, focusing on techniques for integrating technology into the curriculum, and a ProLab for high-end digital work. The Multi-Media Center is currently equipped with 20 Apple eMac G4 workstations, 10 Dual-Processor PowerMac G4's with dual monitors, and a Mobile Lab of 10 iBook G4's that can turn any classroom in the building into a digital lab. The lab is also outfitted with a variety of peripherals for importing and exporting, including scanners, cameras, card readers, graphics tablets, and more. Theater-related software includes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Motion & DVD Studio Pro, among others. Use of the space is prioritized for classes, class work, or production-related work, but is open to the entire campus.
Digital Video Lab (MH 20b): The digital video lab is a full-featured editing lab that includes two advanced editing stations and a wide range of utilities for story-boarding, filming with digital video, editing, and producing professional-level DVDs. Each station is equipped with a PowerMac G5 with dual monitors, a real-color NTSC output monitor, and multiple input devices, and currently runs Final Cut Pro and the newest versions of animation and photo manipulation software. Students can produce a range of projects in the lab, from short-form interview documentaries to full-length movies with special effects. Use of the space is prioritized for classes, class work, or production-related work.
A recent sample of TFMS student filmmaking projects follows:
Synthestesia, an experimental film and SMP in film and media studies (2007) and A Child's Garden of Irony, an experimental film, by Aaron Brussat (2006)
No Justice, No Peace, a documentary by Megan Rippey (2007)
1 in 4: A Student Discussion of Campus Sexual Assault, a documentary by Daniel Moss and Katherine Sill (2006)
And the roads are really small as well . . ., a documentary film and SMP in film and media studies (2006), Mountain Don't (2006, a short fiction film), and A Day at the Gym (2005, a documentary), by Kristi Lynn Schools
Performing Femininity and Let's Get on the Move: St. Mary's Feminisms, two documentaries by Lauren Strange (2005)
