MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
A visual lecture and intensive hands-on workshop with Scott McCloud in the art of making comics. Strong emphasis will be given to developing clarity, storytelling skills and personal expression.
Cartoonist Scott McCloud discusses recent developments in comics and graphic novels and the recently accelerated evolution of comics on the Web.
Rediscover the magic and pep of this delightfully elastic medium. Work with award-winning animator and designer Pell Osborn.
Learn fansubbing--the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation.
Henry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
A workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Japan's cell phone (or keitai) culture is the most developed in the world today, with new uses, marketing strategies, and social relationships increasingly transforming the ways people communicate and experience their own identity.
Back for a second year, this is a workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
This session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture.
Documentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen.
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
Join award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting, makeup, learning how to make special f/x gore, and shooting your very own zombie movie.
