MURFREESBORO — An
opportunity for MTSU students to learn the art of stop-motion animation is the
topic on the next “MTSU On the Record” radio program.
Host Gina Logue’s interview with professors Erin Anfinson
and Marc Barr will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, and from 8 to 8:30
a.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).
Anfinson, an associate professor in the Department of Art,
and Barr, a professor in the Department of Electronic Media Communication, will
facilitate the 2015 Visiting Artists Seminar at MTSU Feb. 23-27, 2015.
The spring semester course is an intensive,
interdisciplinary weeklong pass/fail course conducted under the auspices of the
University Honors College. It is open to students of all majors who have a
grade-point average of 3.25 or higher.
For the course, MTSU partners with Tiny Circus, “a community-based organization that
uses the medium of stop-motion animation to create and tell stories,”
according to www.tinycircus.org.
“They let the
students collaborate together developing the story and developing the images,” Barr
said.
By week’s end,
the students will have created a short film by painstakingly shooting one frame
at a time, moving the props gradually in setting up for each individual shot.
“It’s a really
great introduction for anybody who’s interested in collaborative work,
collaborative creative work or in learning the stop-motion animation process,”
Anfinson said.
The Visiting
Artists Seminar has been offered 11 times at MTSU and has encompassed a variety
of topics, including songwriting, filmmaking, poetry writing and performance
art.
To learn more
about the course, contact Dr. Claudia Barnett at 615-898-2287 or claudia.barnett@mtsu.edu.
To view a film created by MTSU students with Tiny Circus
during the April 2012 seminar, go to http://tinyurl.com/kbz59yq.
To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to http://www.mtsunews.com/ontherecord/.
For more information, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or
WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.
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