For this week’s Video of the Week, take a few minutes to enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at how a team of UC’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) students helped illuminate the Queen City during last fall’s BLINK festivities. Watch this student-produced documentary that explores CCM Lighting Design and Technology students role in the BLINK immersive art and light event. This video follows the student design and production team that added lighting to the Insane51 mural, as a part of last fall’s BLINK festival.
UC’s College-Conservatory of Music provides students with professionally-oriented immersive experiences in order to prepare them to enter directly into performing and media arts careers. CCM students learn by doing, both inside and outside of the classroom. This short film was created by CCM’s Production Master Class. You can watch as a team of students put their education into action during one of Cincinnati’s most popular events.
Blink: A Spotlight on CCM is a documentary that explores how CCM Lighting Design and Technology students contributed to BLINK, the nation’s largest immersive art and light event. Held Oct. 17-20, 2024, BLINK transformed 30+ city blocks from Over-the-Rhine through Northern Kentucky and drew an estimated crowd of over 2 million people to the Greater Cincinnati region.
MFA student Lucas Inman was the lead designer on a lighting project involving a Cincinnati mural entitled “Euthenia,” which was created by the Greek street artist and graffiti writer known as Insane51. Located near 1539 Race Street in the parking lot at the corner of Race and Liberty streets, the mural is painted in a style that Insane51 refers to as “Double Exposure 3D.” His murals are designed to react to different colors of lighting, which in turn bring out different elements of each painting.
Inman’s goal was to enhance the mural’s 3D glasses effect with synchronized lighting and music designed to embrace the themes and color palette of Insane51’s original concept.
For this project, Inman worked with MFA student Nate Hedges, lighting project manager; BFA student Hayden Valkema, lighting programmer; and BFA student Flynn Wilson, lighting utility. CCM faculty members Sharon Huizinga and Kevin Lawson served as advisors.
Led by instructor Melissa Godoy, a team of student documentary filmmakers from CCM’s Production Master Class followed along as Lighting Design and Technology students and faculty worked together on the project.
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