Image & Video

Photography, Live-streaming & Videography Resources

Looking for a photographer or videographer for your event? Here are some resources:

UCI DUE Media (videography services)

DUE Media operates as a media services unit for the campus, providing a number of services, including:
  • Broadcast
  • Live event capture
  • Promotional/marketing
  • Training
  • Live web streaming
  • Testimonials
  • Social media vignettes
  • Faculty media support
  • Undergraduate media support for regularly scheduled courses
  • Coursecasting
  • Electronic file format
  • Podcasting
  • Audio capture
  • Undergraduate WordPress support
  • Drone filming and photography
Note: they do not currently provide photography services. Contact them here.

Suggested Photographers

Steve Zylius, UCI's photographer, Office of Strategic Communications and Public Affairs
Email: szylius@uci.edu
Phone: 949.824.2751

Note: Steve Zylius is an incredibly talented photographer. Because he works as UCI's photographer, his schedule is impacted and he's harder to schedule. His rate is $125/hour as of April 2019.

Ebraham Safi
Email: m.ebrahimsafi@gmail.com
His rate is $200/hour for 6 corrected images.

Stephanie Garvey
Email: stephanie@garvey.group.com
Phone: 949-424-4893
Her rate is $200/hour. She provides all of the images in corrected form.

Photo & video release forms

If you plan on taking photos of UCI students, faculty, staff, etc. to use in advertisements or public-facing documents or websites, please have the subjects sign the consent form linked here.

When hosting a public event, it is easier to simply notify all guests that photos/video will be taken rather than to secure individual consent forms. You can access the notice of filming here.

For live-streaming:

Camille Funk, Director of DesignPlus
UCI Division of Continuing Education
Email: cfunk1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0510

As of Feb. 19, 2020, rates are $75-100/hour, depending on how soon you book from your event date and how soon you need the copy of the recording. They need at least two weeks notice.

Image & Video Resources

Google Drive folder with shared images

In this shared folder, you will find SOH and UCI images of buildings and students. 

UCI Widen Collective Digital Assets Archive

The UCI Office of Strategic Communications & Public Affairs has launched a new Digital Assets Archive, now hosted by Widen Collective. The platform provides a more robust resource to curate and house a variety of communications assets. In addition to photos, the archive now includes such items as logos, graphics, marketing materials, press releases and videos. Widen also offers an enhanced user experience with improved capabilities such as:

-  File type search filtering
-  Photo type and orientation options
-  Curated, spotlight categories for common searches (e.g. research, structures, student life, etc.)
-  Keyword search of PDF and Word docs
-  Sharable, curated lightbox collections

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UCOP Brand Portal

The UC Brand Portal offers an assortment of free, UC-focused images you can use for official university publications and websites.

Directions for us:
- Click “Register” and follow the steps to create a username and password
- Select “Assets” at the top menu
- You can scroll through folders, which are by category (campus, Powerpoint-ready & more) or you can use the search bar

UCI Flickr 

Public images of UC Irvine are available on the UC Irvine Flickr account. The Flickr images may also be viewed by collections that contain relevant sets:

- UC Irvine Galleries – Currently available: 12 sets of generic campus images for campus and public use. Photo credit: UC Irvine Communications.
- Archived Galleries (Pre-2013) – Images formerly housed on the UCI homepage as galleries.

Online Archive of UCI History

The Online Archive of UCI History is a digital archive created by the University of California, Irvine Libraries to preserve and make available for research core historical records of the university. Included are audio and video recordings, films, photographs, slides and publications from 1959 forward.

UCI stock video footage

UCI offers a selection of b-roll footage for use in official UCI films.

Free stock photo sites

  • Unsplash: This is my favorite website for stock images because the images are free and without contingency (you can use them & edit them however you want & don’t even have to credit the photographer or website) & they’re exceptionally high-quality.
  • Pexels: This is another great website for free stock images.
  • Wikimedia Commons: Wikimedia Commons has over 36 million freely-licensed and public domain educational images, audio and video available to everyone. All media files on Wikimedia Commons can be used by anyone, but each file is licensed differently (some require attribution, some don’t). The most common licenses used are created by Creative Commons, which require the author to be credited. To learn more about how to choose photos and check their licenses, click here.

Audio resources

Radio interview/ISDN line

Would a radio or podcast like to interview you and use an ISDN line? KUCI offers an ISDN line Mon-Fri between 8 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. Pacific time. Weekday rentals before 8 A.M. are also available at no extra charge but availability may be limited. Contact Kevin Stockdale at kevin@kuci.org or (949) 824-4582 with 48 hours notice. Use of the line is $120.00 per hour (radio production pays).

Podcast

Launching your own podcast? UCI Continuing Education can record the audio. Please note they do not offer podcast streaming or hosting services.

Camille Funk, Director of DesignPlus
UCI Division of Continuing Education
Email: cfunk1@uci.edu
Phone: 949-824-0510