Students in the Film & Video program explore the possibilities of the moving image art form at a 200-year-old art institution, where fine art conceptualization meets technical proficiency with modern, and legacy filmmaking tools. Students engage critically and expansively with the moving image, working across short fiction, non-fiction, and experimental projects, as they learn everything from cutting-edge software and equipment, to writing screenplays and editing 16mm film by hand. Personal expression, critical inquiry, and craftsmanship join to create exciting moving image art, whether in gallery-based installations, narrative experiments at film festivals, or community-based projects.
Equipment, Facilities and Resources
Students will learn to use a range of software and hardware used in connected workflows. By taking Animation and Media Arts Studio electives, CMP students will develop, build and sharpen their technical expertise.
The Animation and Media Arts Department––Students will work with software platforms including the Adobe Creative Cloud suite (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Audition), DaVinci Resolve, DragonFrame, Maya, Unity, Rhino, Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, TV Paint Animation, iZotope RX, Capture One, Unreal Engine, Touch Designer, Maxon ZBrush, Soundly, Madmapper and more.
Students will have access to an array of equipment such as professional video and stills cameras, lighting setups, audio recording and post-production equipment, digital fabrication tools (like laser cutters, 3D printers and CNC routers), microcontroller systems and more. Students can borrow equipment cages from the Art Tech Center, JHU-MICA FIlm Centre equipment cage or the MICA Photo program cage, depending on the courses they take.
Facilities include dedicated spaces for animation, recording, production, interactive art, game design, and a large sound stage, editing suites, and post-production facilities at the JHU-MICA Film Centre, as well as darkrooms and printing labs. Students also have access to various fabrication studios across campus.