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
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The making of a Raspberry Tart, didn’t know it could look so good! Great depth of field and lovely monochromatic color.
Sound artist Michael Trigilio is perhaps best known for his experiments with multimedia and modular synthesizers. But last Saturday, he recorded something a little less abstract: a cover of Taylor Swift’s No. 1 hit, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”
Trigilio’s 92-second take isn’t any old cover of the popular breakup tune, though: It’s a death-metal jam with crunchy guitars, computerized blastbeats and Trigilio’s down-tuned, Cookie Monster-style growls.
“I recorded it in about three hours,” Trigilio says. “It took about, I don’t know, six minutes to learn that dumb song.”
Trigilio, a faculty member in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, says he’s always “kind of hated” Swift’s music, but he finds this tune irresistibly catchy. He also appreciates its parallels with punk and metal.
“It’s such an angry song,” he says, “and also really adolescent.”
In 2008, Trigilio recorded death-metal versions of some David Bowie songs for a film he made, Breaking Glass: My David Bowie Movie. It’s unclear what’ll happen with his Swift cover, though, which you can listen to at soundcloud.com/starvelab.
“I’m not planning on anything,” he says. “I just did it to get it out of my system.”
Made by Humans (2012)
16k video loop, 36 channel Iosono surround sound
Hyundai Vision Hall, South Korea
Directed by Universal Everything
Sound by Simon Pyke
CGI by Realise
“Tai Chi” — Five video artworks that use body motion captured from a Tai Chi master to create a series of impossible physical sculptures embodying the human spirit. The abstract anthropomorphic forms only emerge through movement.
EI TOSHINARI IS THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER FOR THE ADAM DOUGLAS KAMIL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT MEDIA PRIZE
This thing is pretty revolutionary!
Spike is crazy-fast moving robot that moves a camera as it shoots high-speed video (normally, the camera would have to be locked in place).
That means the robot’s movements are as fast as a shutter!
Crazy-Fast Robot Lets You Shoot Panning High-Speed Video
via Reddit
a little bit of after effect, some high light and a black background goes a long way ! really good - just have to wonder how long it took him to grow the beard to do this production :)
Do you have a script you want to submit? This screen writing competition just maybe be your thing!
The 9th Annual WRITERS PLACE SCREENWRITING COMPETITION (TWP) leverages the connections of entertainment business executives and award-winning talents to aid aspiring writers in breaking into the industry. The Writers Place allocates its talent, resources, and expertise to attach scripts to the right representation and/or production company.
TWP is looking for full-length features, movies-of-the-week, short film scripts, and half-hour TV scripts. All entrants receive a $50 coupon toward a Writers Place script consultation.
The top scripts will be presented to the competition’s over 6,500 industry participants, including managers, agents and producers, as well as distributors from all over the world. Winning screenwriters receive awards, cash and in-kind prizes, and public relations services worth $2,000 USD.
Canon introduces EOS-1D C Digital SLR Camera, helps keep the costs of filmmaking high(ish)
4K recording, Super 35mm crop mode, 1080/60p, log profile, uncompressed 4:2:2 HDMI output. $15,000 ($8,000 more than the 1D X.) Panasonic and Sony are following with 4K products of their own. Because everybody has to do 4k now (or at least soonish.)
A couple of months ago, Christina mentioned the peculiar Hollywood rule where as the technology gets better, the costs get higher. While this is true for VFX, it’s a totally artificial, culture based phenomenon when it comes to capture technology.
When DV first appeared, engineers complained that they couldn’t replace $15,000 cameras with $3,000 ones so the camera industry responded with the more expensive DVCAM and DVCPRO implementations. When HDV hit the market, all new “broadcast ready” flavors of AVCHD popped up. When DSLR video revolutionized the low budget and pro-am video market, suddenly the pro “cinema” cameras got more expensive. And now that you can shoot 1080 lines of resolution with your phone, lo and behold, 4K is the new more expensive standard that everyone is moving to.
I spent years railing against this when I used to work the technology and engineering side of broadcast. And yes, it’s a little bit more complicated than this but not really.
The entrenched need to justify their budgets and salaries with higher cost, more complicated gear. These moving targets keep them in place.
take apart a new 5D Mark 3??!! BRAVE!
(via Optical Low-Pass Filter Removed From 5D Mark III | DIYPhotography.net)
You know you want to learn more about DSLR ancillary equipment - new this quarter CAGES !! #ucsd
Come to the UCSD Media Lab to learn about Spring Quarter Workshops - including our new CAGE enclosure for the DSLR!
DSLR_Cage_test_09 (by Adriene Hughes)
Check out the new workshop schedule and learn about our new CAGE for DSLR use. For dates and times visit the check-out facility or see Mitchell!
DSLR_Cage_Test_01 (by Adriene Hughes)
