Film & Video majors study and create in the JHU–MICA Film Centre, which offers hands-on access to extensive production and post-production resources. This includes a large sound stage for building sets, shooting with controlled lighting, or using a green screen in production. Our professional sound studio offers space for Foley work as well as space for recording, mixing, and mastering audio. A 49-seat screening room with HD projection and surround sound is used for classes, filmmaker lectures, digital video, and 16 mm film screenings.
The Film Centre houses a gear cage stocked with a broad range of equipment — from 16 mm cameras (e.g., 16 mm Bolex and Canon Scoopic) and Mini-DV cameras to heavy-duty production tripods, fluid-head tripods, dollies, risers, and full lighting kits (including LED lighting systems, HMI lighting systems, and Tungsten lighting systems). On the audio side, students have a professional sound studio for use and can check out professional microphones (shotgun, wireless lavalier, and dynamic mics), mixer recorders, and equipment for location and studio sound capture.
For post-production and finishing, the Film Centre features dedicated high-definition editing suites with Mac computers, industry-standard monitors, and the full Adobe Suite and DaVinci Resolve Studio, plus a specialized workshop room for editing 16mm film.
This infrastructure supports a wide variety of media production—from narrative and documentary filmmaking, to video games, experimental media, and sound-driven work—providing students with both the tools and the space to realize professional-level projects in a fully equipped media-arts environment.
