UCSD Media Lab / All About Production
The Media Lab's Mission is dedicated to providing outstanding facilities, equipment, and technical assistance to UC San Diego undergraduate students enrolled in official media production classes, and graduate students using media in their research.
We are a teaching facility and home to over 800 media students in varying disciplines who attend our educational workshops in camera training, production software education and post-production media management, as well as audio production and all phases of studio filmmaking practices.
The Media Lab's aim is to facilitate students in making the highest quality videos and films, with excellent sound, editing, and cinematography.
Media Equipment Checkout Facility hours of operation: 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM daily. If you have questions concerning your equipment reservation
please call 858-534-4635
For all other inquires contact
Adriene Hughes at 858-534-1175
or Mitchell Wright at
858-822-7656
You can also email us at
medialab (at) ucsd (dot) edu
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This is the official Tumblr of the Media Lab located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
“Yohji stands with the horizon ahead of him watching the grey air touch the grey water.”
(via bbook)
Shooting film? Check out this list of labs all over the United States that still process film!
(via Motion Picture Film Labs – USA | AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force)
Jack Nicholson, 1975
(via bbook)
The Beauty of the DAGUERREOTYPE and the Photographic Process
(via bbook)
Photographer/Director Chase Jarvis gives a quick tip on how to get dynamic boom shots on the cheap
Here’s what went into this fine piece of jury-rigging:
_Manfrotto Support
_Canon 5D Mark III
_Cordelette [Find it at most outdoor gear stores or online — often listed under “Accessory cords.”]
If you’re swinging that camera out over an edge (like Chris does), make sure you’re on solid footing and keep a tight grip on that cordelette.
And that’s it. Super-cheap, super-effective boom solution done at altitude.
The ArtPower! Student Marketing team is all revved up for the Spark Party! (at The Loft At UCSD)
(via bbook)
Interviewer: Do you think people understand you?
Bresson: I don’t know if they understand me, but is the issue here the film or me? If its the film, I think - I’d rather people feel a film before understanding it. I’d rather feelings arise before intellect.
(via bbook)
2012 in 366 Seconds
1 second of video for a whole year. What a great thing to do!
William s Burroughs, Paris, devant le Beat Hotel.
Altered and scratched 35-mm slide.
(via bbook)
Like Arrested Development? Need stock green screen footage to play with? Why not put Dr. Tobias Funke directly into your films!
(via insertmeanywhere - The Acting Styles of Dr. Tobias Fünke)
Created for Sight & Sound magazine (bit.ly/V3vPqd) // The cinema of Koreeda Hirokazu is defined by moments of everyday life. Whatever potential there is for heightened drama – the suicide of a husband, a cult massacre, abandoned children – it is diffused by the familiar rhythms of everydayness.
The British Independent Film Awards video mash of former winners. Really well done.
