Media Supply Center at Ferris State

The Media Supply Center is a small suite of rooms inside the IRC building at Ferris State.

Dozerfleet history
This was where almost all production equipment was stored for all major video projects on campus. All students at the time were expected to shoot footage using Sony DV500 cameras, with miniDV tapes and microphones that often didn't work at all - or worked poorly.

Summer 2007
The Dozerfleet founder first utilized this for Video I class in the summer of 2007, for a basic bracketing assignment. Later, the equipment borrowed was used to shoot "Mutt Mackley and Gambino Penguin's "Somewhere I Belong". It was to be borrowed again for a documentary on students' opinions on machinima; but that was canceled in favor of a documentary dubbed Farewell Graduate: A Day at the Open House.

Later, an opening for The Trapezoid Kids was compiled using footage taken with cameras from Media Supply. The titular Trapezoids were composited into appropriate frames inside Adobe After Effects. Music for this demo was a sped-up song from the soundtrack to The Sims 2: Nightlife. Robin Hercher agreed to come on to talk about the anime club for another video that year. Equipment was rented a few more times in 2007, but not to a significant degree. In 2008, the trailer for Volkonir and Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43 were shot with equipment borrowed from Media Supply. Later that fall, film cameras were borrowed for making 3-13 and Penguin on Drugs, yet the latter film was destroyed during shipping. Major equipment borrowing all but ceased after that until the fall of 2009, when Blood Over Water shots took priority. Ferris in Focus in 2010 required constant borrowing of equipment.