Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Supports Troy University's Art and Design Department
Brie Clayton October 3, 2024
0 Comments
Students experience real world workflows with professional digital film cameras
Blackmagic Design today announced that Alabama based Troy University is using Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K digital film cameras as part of its curriculum technology in the Art and Design department. Over the past three years, student projects shot with Blackmagic Design cameras have won more than 60 awards, including dozens of ADDY Awards and film festival accolades, as well as the university's first Telly Award.
According to Associate Professor, Graphic Design and Assistant Chair, Art and Design Chris Stagl, MFA, As a faculty, we work very hard to bring both artistically fulfilling and objective client projects into the classroom. For example, for the past two years, students have worked on a series of commercials for an annual book about Stephen King, which have won multiple ADDY Awards, and this year, five design students made a music video, which won a Silver Telly Award.
It's this determination to expose the students to real world workflows that brought Stagl to Blackmagic Design. The Pocket Cinema Camera 4K was one of his first purchases in 2020 when he was asked to bring the department in line with industry standard technology to help students be more competitive in the workplace, and he was quick to implement the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K due to Blackmagic Design's reputation for affordable and professional cameras.
We implemented the Pocket 4K because we wanted students to utilize affordable, industry leading technology for their creative projects. Most students coming into the design program are used to shooting with their phones, and while that's a great medium, we also want to support students with specialized filmmaking tools, said Stagl. We find it's extremely beneficial to introduce students to real world technology and prepare them for producing high quality media.
Stagl noted that investing in the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K helped increase the students' exposure to filmmaking technology. We chose the Cinema Camera 6K first, to demonstrate and utilize the open gate feature which allows for easy reframing and cropping without losing quality, he said. I personally do this all the time so I can move quicker during production, and it saves a lot of time in post.
Second, anamorphic desqueeze in the camera body is fantastic for wide, detailed, cinematic images. Also, the ability to capture full frame stills is something that many other cinema cameras just can't do. Not to mention that as we migrate to a 6K workflow, having the ability to work with proxy files is a lifesaver. Finally, on a personal note, the OLPF is an incredible feature that creates a very clean image.
We want our students to be prepared after college with strong technical and conceptual skills, and we want to provide them with access to the best tools available to reach those goals, said Will Jacks, assistant professor of photography at Troy University. Blackmagic, especially our new 6K full frame camera, is the perfect tool for all of our photo and video students to use as they work toward becoming the most well rounded creators possible.
Eager to grow Troy University's creative video opportunities, in 2021 Stagl developed the YellowHammer Film Festival, a free and interactive experience open to high school and college students across the U.S. Now in its fourth season, the festival has seen more than 1,100 submissions from student filmmakers around the country.
Not only do many of the submissions use Blackmagic Design, but I use my own ATEM Mini Pro switcher to help produce the YellowHammer Film Festival. It's instrumental in seamlessly switching between our live cameras and feeds of presenters and films from the computer, noted Stagl. Blackmagic Design is ubiquitous when it comes to production. In our current minor, we've also had students enter the incredible workflow of DaVinci Resolve, which has led to some of them securing employment because of their advanced skill set.
With the Art Contract and Photography minors already equipping students with a valuable, real world skillset, Stagl and Jacks have plans to grow academic offerings in digital media at the university.
We plan to leverage and extrapolate the current Art Contract minor into a larger, more focused offering of media courses in the next 12 to 18 months. We have already shown through our many successes a genuine proof of concept and are now securing the data needed from students and faculty to put together the framework for, what I believe will be the future of creativity at Troy University, powered by Blackmagic and built on the shoulders of our already robust Art and Design program, Stagl concluded. Our incredible artistic faculty here at Troy University in audio, motion graphics, animation, film and photography are all folks who are excited about the potential of building upon our strong and competitive program.
October 7, 2024Krotos Introduces AI Ambience Generator in Krotos Studio: Create Custom Soundscapes with Text-Based PromptsKrotos, a leader in innovative sound design technology, announces the release of
October 7, 2024Magewell Unveils Stream Deck Plug-In for Director Mini Production and Streaming SystemIntegration with popular family of controllers provides intuitive tactile access to over
Enjoying the news? Sign up for the Creative COW Newsletter! Sign up for the Creative COW newsletter and get weekly updates on industry news, forum highlights, jobs, inspirational tutorials, tips, burning questions, and more! Receive bulletins from the largest, longest-running communi
Most recent headlines
05/01/2027
Worlds first 802.15.4ab-UWB chip verified by Calterah and Rohde & Schwarz to be ...
06/09/2026
June 9 2026, 23:00 (PDT) Dolby and MagentaTV Bring Fans Closer to the FIFA Worl...
04/08/2026
Dalet, a leading technology and service provider for media-rich organizations, t...
04/07/2026
April 7 2026, 19:00 (PDT) Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway Opens in...
13/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
13/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
YES Network and The Gotham Sports App will air seven Athletes Unlimited Softball...
12/06/2026
The United Football League will host its FAST Innovation Suite at the 2026 United Bowl presented by Credit One Bank on Saturday, June 13 at 3:00 p.m. ET at Audi...
12/06/2026
PTZOptics and LayerJot will present live demonstrations at InfoComm 2026 showing how natural-language AI prompting, robotic camera control, and on-device comput...
12/06/2026
MultiDyne Video and Fiber Optic Systems will exhibit at InfoComm 2026, featuring...
12/06/2026
Ateme has announced that Eurovision Services is using Ateme's software-based frame-rate conversion technology for international live event workflows. The de...
12/06/2026
Bitmovin and Simplestream have announced a partnership with Xperi to simplify the launch of OTT streaming services on TiVo OS smart TVs and devices. The collabo...
12/06/2026
Net Insight has announced that a multinational technology company is deploying a...
12/06/2026
MLB Players Inc., the business arm of the MLB Players Association, has announced a partnership with Athletes First to develop and sell brand partnerships across...
12/06/2026
Guntermann and Drunck (G&D) and VuWall have announced the CommandKeyboard-Advanc...
12/06/2026
Comcast Smart Solutions announces a new smart technology deployment with Major L...
12/06/2026
Elevation Worship completed the initial leg of its Elevation Nights 2026 tour ...
12/06/2026
AJA Video Systems has announced KONA IP25 support for Colorfront Transkoder and ...
12/06/2026
Audinate Group Limited (ASX: AD8) will exhibit at InfoComm 2026 (Booth C7321, Ce...
12/06/2026
Pac-12 Commissioner Teresa Gould has announced the appointment of Scott Adametz as Chief Technology Officer. The Pac-12 describes the hire as the first CTO appo...
12/06/2026
Grass Valley has announced AMPP Edge Live, a production system combining Grass Valley hardware, NVIDIA Blackwell GPU acceleration, and AMPP OS in a single platf...
12/06/2026
At one time a trailblazer with the launch of the Longhorn Network, the Universit...
12/06/2026
Ratings Roundup is a rundown of recent rating news and is derived from press rel...
12/06/2026
Chyron has announced PAINT 10.4, an update to its illustrated replay and sports ...
12/06/2026
SVP, Production Mark Gross: With the new schedule, with not having every Sunday night, it's given us an opportunity to take a step back and reimagine what ...
12/06/2026
For Televisa Technical Engineering Manager Roberto N nez Ibarra and the small team of 12 technicians and two production personnel at the IBC things are already ...
12/06/2026
Simple Steps to Better Acoustics - Taming The Small Room
Most of us mix in spare rooms and small spaces, where the acoustics fight us at every turn. At Gear...
12/06/2026
Latest addition expands vintage-inspired effects palette
Meris' Ottobit pedal range draws its inspiration from vintage gaming consoles, and the latest a...
12/06/2026
Soundbox-based chamber strings series expanded
Sonora Cinematic have just announced the launch of the second instalment in their Soundbox-based chamber stri...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
AJA Announces KONA IP25 Integration with Colorfront Software
Brie Clayton June 12, 2026
0 Comments
Collaboration enables uncompressed SMPTE ST 2110 I/O ...
12/06/2026
URSA Cine 12K LF Used to Create Visuals for STUTS' K-Arena Concert
Brie Clayton June 12, 2026
0 Comments
Organic visuals projected on a giant scre...
12/06/2026
MTI FILM Acquires Mango New Edit, Expanding its Global Post-Production Services ...
12/06/2026
AI Point Tracking Speeds Up Complex VFX Tracks in Mocha Pro
Jessie Electa Petrov June 12, 2026
0 Comments
The 2026.5 release adds automatic point trac...
12/06/2026
Bitmovin, a provider of video streaming solutions, has partnered with Simplestream, a provider of OTT and broadcast solutions, and technology provider Xperi, to...
12/06/2026
Leostream Corporation, creator of the world-leading Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform, today announced Jigsaw24, a leading B2B IT solutions provider wit...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
Share
Copy link
Facebook
X
Linkedin
Bluesky
Email...
12/06/2026
How Aussie indie games and screen are levelling up with IP 11 June 2026
Ari Harrison, Pro Jank Footy
Head of Games Joey Egger and Ari Harrison of Umbrella sha...
12/06/2026
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry's first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to com...
12/06/2026
Back to All News
Netflix Unveils First-Look Images from Villaflor, Santiago Mitre's New Film
Entertainment
12 June 2026
GlobalArgentina
Link copied to ...
12/06/2026
Back to All News
Cross the Boundaries of the Real World into the Spirit Realm i...
12/06/2026
With John Daro, DI Colourist at Warner Bros. Water Tower Color Tuesday 23 June, 10am-1pm or 3-6pm
Restar Corporation
Tokyo
Register here
John Daro is the ...
12/06/2026
Meet The Grumpy Onion Ireland's newest online sensation, all he wants is to ...
12/06/2026
RT stays Up All Night with brand new daily 2026 FIFA World Cup Vodcast
Adding to the fun around 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament, RT has launched a brand new d...
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K Supports Troy University's Art and Design Department 
