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Introduction to the Library: Media Labs/ Media Production

Welcome to Hampshire College! This guide will give you a brief overview of all the Harold F. Johnson library has to offer you as students.

Media Labs / Media Production

Located in the bottom floor of the Harold F. Johnson Library, the media makers lab has production, post-production, screening and collaborative learning space, as well as green screen and in-house lighting grid, television studio and control room, animation stand, voice-over sound booth, analog digitization, flatbed scanners, digital music production, and several digital media editing stations and private suites.

For more information on the media labs, visit their website.

To get in touch with John Bruner, please email him at jdbLO@hampshire.edu.

Meet Media Labs/ Media Production Staff

John Bruner: Advanced Media Coordinator

he/him/his | jdbLO@hampshire.edu

John Bruner (94F) was born and raised in Oklahoma, in the town whose best known hero is Will Rogers. He is an example of the benefits of the JobCorps program where he graduated from Tulsa Technical Institute with a degree in electronics. During his time in the midwest, John started a futon business, worked as a union carpenter, and was a drummer in several local bands. It was during that time he started building studios and honing his electronics interests. After a storied journey, John found himself stranded at Hampshire College, but on hearing the school's philosophy and experiencing the campus, John applied and was accepted to Hampshire where he first met and worked with the legendary John Gunther as a lab assistant. As a Hampshire student, he studied audio recording, digital video and communications. Since graduating, John has worked on commercials and many independent film and television projects. In 2004, John spent a month in India helping Tibetan’s at the Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies to develop strategies for using digital media to preserve their heritage. Since then John has Co-Produced “Return to Mountain” a documentary on the origins of T’ai Chi shot on location in China with fellow Hampshire Alumnus Jud Willmont. He has written as well as directed a number of stage plays and screenplays. John is responsible for the HFJ Library Media Labs which include InTran Video Collective and YURT Radio broadcast stations as well as the Stop Motion Lab. John considers himself a jack-of-all-media -trades, with a broad range of interests and experience—animation, special effects, music recording and all varieties of analog and digital production. With over two decades of institutional knowledge, he’s always ready to help.

 

Taylor Ortiz: Media Production Coordinator

he/him/his | tcoLO@hampshire.edu

Taylor Ortiz (He/Him) has been working on creative projects in the Hampshire spirit his whole life, he just didn't know that until he got to Hampshire in the fall of 2017. He has been a Stand up comedian for 8 years, worked on countless plays, and is a film maker by trade. This new position as the Media Production Coordinator marks Taylor's first full time job in media, but he has spent the last four years working in upper management for a private sector retail company. Taylor hopes that his unconventional education and time in the private sector will help him bring new ideas and life to Hampshire. You can find him in the B4 office in the media labs. Feel free to ask him about your media project or how to use the various amenities of the labs, or to say hello at the various events he'll be running AV for!