Blog

8 09, 2014

Internship Profile: Brands

September 8th, 2014|Industry Connections, Internship, Students, Uncategorized|

Landon Brands spent the summer in New York, New York completing a live action internship with Click 3X, a studio that does award-winning design, visual effects, and animation work. […]

8 09, 2014

Internship Profile: Weber

September 8th, 2014|Industry Connections, Internship, Live Broadcasts, Students|

Benjamin Weber was one of three students to complete a summer internship at Mankato’s CBS-affiliated television station, KEYC-TV. As a production assistant, Ben learned how to floor direct–relaying messages between the anchor and director via headset. […]

8 09, 2014

Stone Path Studios – Summer Project Update

September 8th, 2014|Student Projects, Studio|

Stone Path Studios just wrapped up a summer of interesting projects. One of these jobs presents a compelling example of student designers making complicated concepts easily understandable, as the students went to work creating an animated infomercial for Minnesota Valley Credit Union. […]

8 09, 2014

Internship Profile: Alberts

September 8th, 2014|Industry Connections, Internship, Students|

Becca Alberts just returned to Mankato from a summer in Hollywood where she completed a visual effects (vfx) internship with film studio Paramount Pictures. […]

4 09, 2014

Internship Profile: Bruss

September 4th, 2014|Animation, Industry Connections, Internship, Students|

Aimee Bruss just finished her summer internship at Sunstone Creative Group, Inc. in Mankato, Minnesota. At Sunstone, Aimee worked on a number of logo animations for clients and for the company itself. She also assisted when filming on location and learned more about shooting with a DSLR camera. […]

4 09, 2014

Brian Christiansen lands ESPN internship

September 4th, 2014|Industry Connections, Internship, Students|

We heartily congratulate Brian Christiansen on being selected for an elite internship with ESPN! Brian was one of only six interns chosen from a pool of 18,000 applicants. It was a five month process from his initial application to the offer, with five phone interviews along the way. […]

2 09, 2014

Fall stunts reach out to agencies

September 2nd, 2014|Industry Connections, Student Projects, Students|

For students looking to join the design community, industry connections are highly valuable. This is why media arts professor Kurt Paulsen does what he calls a “stunt” project in his Visual Communication class. […]

15 07, 2014

North Mankato Fun Days Parade

July 15th, 2014|Community Outreach, Live Broadcasts, Studio|

Nine students made BLC Studios history this weekend when they helped with a live-to-tape broadcast of the North Mankato Fun Days Parade. […]

23 06, 2014

Music video provides valuable learning opportunity

June 23rd, 2014|Music Video, Students|

Every project is a valuable learning experience for our students, including the recent production of a music video for New York-based rock band American Authors. […]

17 03, 2014

Media Week 2014

March 17th, 2014|Community Outreach, Film Festival, Industry Connections|

In the days leading up to the 2014 Speechless Film Festival, Bethany is celebrating Media Week, 2014. One of our goals with this year’s Media Week is to help students from other areas of interest see the wide range of careers within the field of media. […]