Fourth-year Jingjie Chen and third-year Jumo Yang design media arts students have utilized photogrammetry, a process that includes crafting 3-D puppets, scanning and processing through computers, to create a video game. The narrative of their video game focuses on the intersection of art and technology.
Category Archives: Video
Video: The second-annual Westwoodstock
Hosted by UCLA-based event-planning organization House of Balloons, the Westwoodstock music festival took place Saturday on Broxton Avenue. Before the event, the three student founders, John Colarusso, Tim Connors and Jonathan Liu, shared their inspiration and motivation to launch the event. Having received considerable popularity from the first Westwoodstock last year, they upgraded the event’s […]
Global Melodies: LatinJazz Big Band
The LatinJazz Big Band, led by ethnomusicology lecturer Paul De Castro, gives participants the opportunity to perform in a big-band jazz setting with added Latin American instruments.
Video: Out-of-state baseball players find a home away from home
Sophomore first baseman Michael Toglia and sophomore catcher Tyler Haselman, the only two out-of-state players on the Bruin baseball roster, discuss adjusting to life in Los Angeles. UCLA baseball traveled to Toglia and Haselman’s home state of Washington from May 11 to 13, where both players reunited with their families.
Video: Post-graduation plans with Grad Street
Tim Connors, a fourth-year cognitive science student, founded Grad Street after he heard complaints about the prices of caps and gowns for graduation. As Grad Street has continued to expand, he decided to pursue entrepreneurship following graduation instead of joining the job search.
Global Melodies: Music of African Americans Ensemble
Under the direction of James Roberson, the students of the Music of African Americans Ensemble perform a diverse mix of gospel music. The class not only teaches the students the fundamentals of gospel music, but also about the contextual history behind spiritual music dating back to the 1600s with the enslavement of Africans.
Video: Spring Sing 2018
Spring Sing 2018 was held in Pauley Pavilion on May 18. Students gathered together to watch the Student Alumni Association uphold one of UCLA’s longstanding musical traditions. Hayden Everett, a first-year jazz and piano performance student, and Caroline Pernick, a first-year musical theater student, took home the top prize for the event after competing alongside […]