Over Spring Break, a small team from the Learning Studio traveled to New York alongside ACU students and faculty in the departments of Art & Design and Theatre, to document their experiences on film. The result is a series of three short videos we’ve titled “ACU in New York” that show prospective students the high caliber of experiences these programs offer beyond the classroom.
Since 2011, the Learning Studio has offered ACU students and faculty the tools, spaces and training necessary to share your story with the world. We keep our gear, facilities and tutorials up-to-date so that your next project can have the same polish as the pros.
We wanted to make it easy to get to know the resources we offer at the Learning Studio, so we decided to do what we do best: We made a video.
It may seem simple, but this one-minute video really involved our whole team in its creation, along with several student actors, and seven film shoots over the course of four weeks.
We started with a script, storyboarded the whole thing using Adobe’s great mobile tools on iPad Pro, and then we rounded up our actors and gear and started filming. We edited the finished product using Adobe Premiere Pro, along with After Effects for motion design.
Do you have a story idea? Develop it with us here at the Learning Studio. Our media staff is available every day at the Learning Studio’s front desk if you need help or get stuck. And if you’re just getting familiar with what we have on offer, you can check out our Start Page for a quick rundown.
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For this year’s ACU Faculty Presession, the Learning Studio was tasked with spotlighting Summer Shakespeare in the Department of Theatre, and the NEXT Lab in the Department of Engineering & Physics. The resulting short videos gave our faculty audience a window into a couple of the campus’s recent successes.
In the third installment of On Design, the Learning Studio’s joint collaboration with ACU Art & Design, we sat down with the lettering artist and designer Simon Walker.
You’ve probably seen Simon’s work—his eye-popping lettering adorns the cover of a recent Brené Brown book, as well as plenty of magazine spreads and many of the food and drink labels you’ll come across on a casual grocery store run. Before going into business for himself, Simon got his start as a designer at the Austin agency GSD&M.
Following a recent lettering workshop with ACU Art & Design students, Simon was kind enough to sit down and share his wisdom with us.
On Design: Randy Hunt
On Design: Jeff Rogers
This semester marked the first ACU football season in the brand new Wildcat Stadium, and among the first students to set foot on the turf were members of the Big Purple Marching Band. We followed them all season, from summer rehearsals in the August sun through their halftime performances at center field during ACU home games. Take a look inside ACU’s Big Purple Marching Band in our latest video, above.
We also followed the band through a complete Game Day experience in the new stadium in one of our 360-video projects this semester. The video is best viewed in a Chrome browser or using the Vimeo app on a smartphone or tablet. The project was filmed with an insta360 Pro camera that combines 6 wide-angle lenses stitched together into the final video.
Enjoy the full Game Day experience at Wildcat Stadium.