Video & Media Design
Create Your Path
The Video & Media Design program at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama gives students the flexibility to explore their intersectional creativity. With its focus on media and projection for live events, students participate fully in the school’s ambitious season of productions, which are student designed and produced with close faculty and staff support. With ever-expanding professional applications for graduates across multiple professional fields, CMU’s Video & Media Design program allows students to create their own artistic path.
Video & Media Design Curriculum
Video & Media Design students are encouraged to study multiple design disciplines within the School of Drama in order to leave their undergraduate studies with a well-rounded skill set. The program’s flexible curriculum allows for students to build a unique course of study within and outside the School of Drama, depending on their individual interests and goals. Many Video & Media Design students minor or double major in other areas, such as Global Studies, History, Computer Science, or Art.
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Student Work
Production Opportunities
Reiley Torfun Nymeyer (Class of 2024) was media designer for the School of Drama’s production of “Adult Things.”
Media, Content, XR
Cassidy Pearsall (Class of 2019) was media designer, content creator, and XR integrator for the School of Drama’s production of “I’m Sure I’ll Figure It Out” – a new comedy from writer/director Burke Louis (Class of 2018).
The show combined the live production of a documentary film with a traditional theatrical experience, centered around the main character’s path to mental stability through producing his own documentary film.
The design team created a mixed reality solution that operated as a film studio, a greenhouse, a rehabilitation center, and an amorphous space inside the main character’s own mind – through the use of blending film and theatrical production techniques on display for the audience.
Learn more about Cassidy’s design process here.
Creative Collaborations
With Love, (คิดถึง)
by Reiley Torfun Nymeyer ₊˚⊹
A house, a clock, a lamp, a piece of my heart.
One side represents the time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while the other represents the time in Bangkok, Thailand.
With Love, (คิดถึง) was presented as a part of an IDeATe A Road with Trees exhibition. This lamp presents the current time with light, but for the purposes of the exhibition a 24 hour simulation in 1 minute could be triggered. The simulation was presented with a soundscape. (December 2023)
Production Opportunities
Reiley Torfun Nymeyer (Class of 2024) was media designer for the School of Drama’s production of “Adult Things.”
Media, Content, XR
Cassidy Pearsall (Class of 2019) was media designer, content creator, and XR integrator for the School of Drama’s production of “I’m Sure I’ll Figure It Out” – a new comedy from writer/director Burke Louis (Class of 2018).
The show combined the live production of a documentary film with a traditional theatrical experience, centered around the main character’s path to mental stability through producing his own documentary film.
The design team created a mixed reality solution that operated as a film studio, a greenhouse, a rehabilitation center, and an amorphous space inside the main character’s own mind – through the use of blending film and theatrical production techniques on display for the audience.
Learn more about Cassidy’s design process here.
Creative Collaborations
With Love, (คิดถึง)
by Reiley Torfun Nymeyer ₊˚⊹
A house, a clock, a lamp, a piece of my heart.
One side represents the time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania while the other represents the time in Bangkok, Thailand.
With Love, (คิดถึง) was presented as a part of an IDeATe A Road with Trees exhibition. This lamp presents the current time with light, but for the purposes of the exhibition a 24 hour simulation in 1 minute could be triggered. The simulation was presented with a soundscape. (December 2023)
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