MTSU students and faculty collaborate on superhero web series

Six years ago Media Arts Associate Professor Allie Sultan and MFA student Sarah Michele Bailey started a massive collaboration with over 30 students from programs across MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment, including Video and Film Production, Animation, Audio Production, and Visual Communication.  Flash forward to 2021 and season one of Incognita’s Infamous Adventures is done – and doing well

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MTSU Team in Top Ten of 24-Hours Animation Contest

Last weekend MTSU’s Animation students took part in the annual 24 Hours Animation Contest for a seventh year. This competition requires the creation of a 30 second animated film within 24 hours. The theme that the video must follow isn’t revealed until the very beginning of the event, to prevent anyone from planning ahead. This year’s theme was empathy. Contestants were asked

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Graham and Zeke: MTSU Women In Film’s Documentary Travels the World

Back in November 2016, the MTSU Women in Film group created a documentary to submit into a women’s film challenge. The film didn’t win any awards and the group felt disappointed in their work. But their faculty guide, Video Production Professor Allie Sultan, encouraged them to continue editing the film until they were happy with it. Fast forward to 2018,

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MTSU Places Top Ten in 24-Hours Animation Contest

For the past six years, MTSU’s Animation teams have participated in the 24-Hours Animation Contest, placing multiple times and earning honorable mentions along the way. This year seven teams from MTSU competed against other top animation schools in the 15th annual 24-Hours Animation Contest. Team ‘We Were Framed’, comprised of Alexandria “Zan” Dainwood, Josh Leedham, Josie Dowd, Andrew Demel, and Rachel

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MTSU’s EMC Productions wins national award for Outstanding Student-Produced Live Game Production

EMC Productions, MTSU’s live TV production varsity team has won the award for Outstanding Live Game Production, Collegiate Student category of the College Sports Media Awards. The College Sports Media Awards are conducted by the Sports Video Group (SVG) and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). The award was announced June 1, 2017 in Atlanta in this

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First Look Showcases Exemplary Work by EMC Students

FIRST LOOK is an annual showcase sampling of the best work of the academic year done by students in MTSU’s Department of Electronic Media Communication (EMC). The official screening event for FIRST LOOK 2017 will take place on May 4, 2017 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tennessee. Media industry professionals are invited to attend as well as EMC students and their

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FIRST LOOK: a screening of exemplary student work

Nothing inspires like seeing one’s peers do great work! That’s why it’s so worthwhile to attend EMC’s FIRST LOOK screening on September 21 at 3pm in the Student Union Ballroom. This one-hour event is a screening of exemplary work done by MTSU film, video, animation, and photography students. The FIRST LOOK 2016 selections were chosen from student work completed in

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