Lansing Community College (LCC) is putting the finishing touches on a $200,000 renovation of the Gannon building, a project that will give digital media and audio cinema students access to high quality equipment.
The renovation includes a computer room-turned-production facility and a 65-seat presentation room complete with a new sound system and 9 foot by 16-foot screen.
“This is just the next step in putting together technology that is common in the 
industry,” says Judith Berry, dean of Business Media and Information Technologies for LCC.
LCC recently create a certificate program that includes an information design course, which focuses on two-dimensional information design, and a simulated reality course, which focuses on using hardware and software from EON Reality. Students taking information design and simulated reality courses will use the space.
“We will be the first community college in Michigan to have this type of program,” Berry says.
The program caters to the state’s push to increase film industry-based jobs in Michigan.
“If they (students) have design emphasis in the film industry, they can get a variety of jobs and go into immediate employment,” Berry says. “They can also go into a four year college.”
Source: Judith Berry, LCC
Ivy Hughes is the managing editor of Capital Gains and can be reached here.
Photographs © Dave Trumpie
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