Flashlight beams held by Ball State students illuminated the Applied Technology Building on Wednesday evening for a class project.
Students of ITGRA 286, digital photography one, made multiple attempts to "paint the building" with their flashlights and cellphone lights.
"I thought it was really interesting because I've never done anything like this before and just the thought of painting light is really amazing," Haeun Hong, a sophomore telecommunications major, said. "You don't get to do it everyday."
Thomas Spotts, an assistant professor of technology, got the idea from an event called The RIT Big Shot Project from his alma mater, the Rochester Institute of Technology.
The Sylvania Corporation produced the "Big Shot" in the 1950s to promote its flash bulb products.
Spotts said he hopes the idea was a fun event for his students as well as a teaching tool.
"I hope students got a little bit of knowledge about flash photography," he said. "Most of the time, you have a student that their familiarity with flash photography is a little unit that pops up on their camera."
As students were dressed in all black and moving across the lawn, they weren't sure what to expect from the result.
"The most fascinating was our impact on the image," Brandon Rex, a senior telecommunications student, said. "The way we are just waving flashlights around almost aimlessly and it turns a dark image into something really cool."
Spotts said he hopes to turn the event into an annual one.
"I hope to start doing it maybe once a year, call it our mini big shot." He said. "I can see all kind of ideas like the music building, maybe the bell tower. That would be challenging but there are some good ideas."
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