MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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.
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Members of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
An account of Czech underground rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary.
Working in small teams, students will design and conduct a qualitative project designed to propose strategy for media and cultural organizations.
The tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames.
You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture.
In each session established board games will be played and modifications based on game play will be made.
Sony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF! Attendance is FREE!
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Discussion of adaptation with Matthew Weise: How film genres get translated into videogames.
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts, to pin down their evasive elements, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors.
