Students in the School of Film, Television, and Media Arts learn by doing. They gain marketable skills both inside and outside of the classroom thanks to their immediate access to our cutting-edge venues, labs, and studios. They also frequently collaborate with peers and mentors through an array of co-curricular activities, including production groups, workshops, and radio and TV stations.
Learning Outside of the Classroom
Co-curricular Activities
The School of Film, Television, and Media Arts hosts a number of co-curricular activities that offer non-tuition credit. Students participate in organizations that produce everything from magazines and record albums to radio programming and live awards shows.
Production Facilities
Emerging Media Lab (EML)
The EML currently supports curriculum in multiple areas of new media, including but not limited to: 3D modeling & animation; analytical drawing, artistic anatomy & 2D animation; character design, and more.
Paramount Sound Stage
The Paramount Sound Stage is a production facility available to all students and staff. The stage features a full range of equipment and support gear essential to the creation of professional-level cinematic imagery.
Tufte Performance and Production Center Television Studios
The Tufte Performance and Production Center features two television studios; one facility is a fully equipped, custom-designed teaching studio. The other (The Di Bona Studio) is a larger, professional-standard studio used for larger-scale productions by classes, student groups, capstone experiences, and other types of production. It provides space for lectures, demonstrations, viewings, and critiques, as well as use of the standard control room video equipment and production systems.
Darkroom
The Darkroom is a film-processing laboratory featuring 12 individual workstations. Each one is equipped with a Beseler MXT 4x5 enlarger, which accommodates negatives sized from 35mm to 4” x 5”. Outside the darkroom is a finishing area, where prints are washed and dried, and a film developing sink and exchange rooms, where film is transferred from cassettes to developing tanks.
Media Workstations
These multi-monitor desks allow for production relating to graphics or animation.
Post-Production Facilities
Digital Audio Production and Post-Production Center
The Audio Production and Post-Production Center provides a wealth of world-class audio facilities, equipment, and support for Journalism and School of Film, Television, and Media Arts students.
Digital Production Labs and Editing Suites
The Digital Production Labs offer professional, up-to-date hardware and software, with a professionally-trained staff and student assistants to help with any workflow or technical issues.
Film Digital & Analog Post-Production
Film Post Production suites facilitate the continuation of the analog film curriculum, beginning with analog editing on flatbed Steenbecks and progressing to nonlinear digital editing on advanced Avid workstations.
Multimedia Facilities
Bright Family Screening Room
The Bright Family Screening Room, named after the family of Kevin Bright ’76, seats 174. It features the latest 16mm film and digital video projection equipment.
Huret & Spector Gallery
The Huret & Spector Gallery is Emerson’s longest running gallery. It is a laboratory for students and faculty of the College to produce experimental art projects and a venue for students to display their BFA thesis exhibitions as well as other exhibitions and events related to the curriculum.
WERS
WERS (88.9 FM) is Emerson College's award-winning radio station. Student-run and professionally managed, it serves New England an eclectic mix of musical genres and more live performances than any other station in the region. Programming includes 20 different styles of music, calendars of events, public service announcements, news, and special events of interest to the College community and beyond.
Equipment
Equipment Distribution Center
School of Film, Television, and Media Arts students can borrow professional equipment from the Equipment Distribution Center (EDC) to fulfill class assignments. Equipment includes a variety of top-tier digital cinema and 16mm cameras, industry-standard lights, accessory kits, and audio and field recorders.