Theater Technical  Director Jo Nazro, Fitchburg State University Industrial Technology/Technical Theater alum, demonstrates various lighting styles and color effects with students in her Advanced Stage Light Design class. Learn more about our Theater Concentration here. 

Students in Communications Media's Assistant Professor, Film and Video, Rachelle A. Dermer's Pre-Production Planning for Film/Video class review projects. This course considers the intent and purpose of a message as a first step in media production. The social and cultural implications of media storytelling are examined. The course focuses on clearly defining message content, intent and audience as a precursor to an exploration of how particular film and video techniques communicate and are interpreted. Teams will subsequently develop the pre-production planning needed for a short film or video work, including idea development, script treatments, story development, script writing, rewriting, storyboarding, script breakdown, production scheduling and resource planning. 

With the help of our good friends at Fitchburg Access Television (FATV) including Executive Director Nathan Glenny, and Operations Manager Travis Falk, students in Professor Kevin McCarthy's Multi-Camera Television Production course got to see what it's like to set up a remote multi-camera production at Elliot Field. From set-up to break-down, teams of students got to operate the cameras, act as subjects, and see how to put the final production together in real time in the FATV remote production truck.

Students in Dr. Robert Carr's Client Project Production course wasted no time and met with this semester's client, the Fitchburg Art Museum. After breaking into small groups and some initial strategizing, the class discussed their project, promotion of an upcoming exhibit,  with Curator Emily Mazzola, and Assistant Curator Sarah Harper of the Fitchburg Art Museum. 

Award-winning filmmaker, Communications Media/Film/Video Concentration student, Tonia Magras continued filming "Do You Remember Me?" at our Nursing Program's Simulation Lab - which for today, served as a hospital for the filming. Toni is enlisting the services of other Communications Media/Film/Video Concentration students, along with Assistant Professor, Film and Video, Rachelle A. Dermer, to bring her project to fruition. 

Award-winning filmmaker, Communications Media/Film/Video Concentration student, Tonia Magras continued filming "Do You Remember Me?" at various locations here on the Fitchburg State University campus including a residence hall, the quad, and our Game Room. President Hodge stopped by to chat with Tonia and the crew of students during their quad shoot.

Award-winning filmmaker, Communications Media/Film/Video Concentration student, Tonia Magras is filming "Do You Remember Me?" at various locations here on the Fitchburg State University campus.

 Our Summer Institute for Journalism Education wrapped up today with presentations by English Studies Professor Collin Syfert Web Editor Mike Elfland (Worcester Telegram & Gazette), Editor John Osborn (The Harvard Press), and Communications Media Professor Kyle Moody.

As part of our Summer Institute for Journalism Education, Communications Media Professor Kyle Moody Introduced keynote speaker Author and journalism professor Dan Kennedy at the Fitchburg Historical Society. Mr. Kennedy discussed the future of local news during his keynote address.

Our Summer Institute for Journalism Education, a collaboration between our Communications Media and English Studies departments, is an inaugural program and is focused on the theme of "Teaching Tomorrow’s Citizens Today: News Literacy as a Tool for Critical Education." 

This institute is a wonderful opportunity to develop key concepts in your research, apply new lessons to the classroom, and address educators across the Commonwealth and beyond about issues facing journalism, news literacy, and new media technologies.