For this Insider Knowledge post, Professor Richard Breyer, co-director of the documentary film and history (DFH) program, highlights the process related to the final thesis project. The final thesis project can be fulfilled through various strategies. Students have produced websites, or a series of short educational videos or even feature-length documentaries. Professor Breyer notes that …
For this Insider Knowledge post, I had the opportunity to ask a few questions of Corinne Pavlicko graduate of the Master’s in Advertising program and team contact for “White Zebra”. White Zebra’s challenge was to redefine the Bravo TV brand to appeal to the Millennial generation in 2015. The team began by researching Bravo TV’s …
For this Insider Knowledge post, Charlene “Charlie” Cooper detailed her time in Washington, D.C., for the D.C. Semester Capstone course. Cooper graduated from the Broadcast and Digital Journalism (BDJ) program and is now working at a station in Roanoke, VA. She found that the Washington Capstone experience presented an opportunity for a lot of growth …
This Insider Knowledge post features Kaiti Cullerton, alumni of the Television, Radio and Film Program (TRF). Cullerton detailed her internship experiences at Grandma’s House Entertainment in Los Angeles. Cullerton was made aware of the internship opportunity at Grandma’s House through an e-mail from Professor Schoonmaker that was distributed to the TRF student listserv. There are …
For this Insider Knowledge post, Samuel “Samu” Rast details his exciting capstone project and internship experiences with the audio arts program. Rast’s capstone project was an EP album, where he produced in various forms five or six different songs. Three of the songs were for jam bands from Michigan. Another song was produced with a …
For this Insider Knowledge post, Queenie Li, alumni of the audio arts program, shared her Capstone project experience as the composer for the film ’55 Days’. Li was asked to join the team during bootcamp 2014. Professor Douglas Quin recommended Li as the composer for the documentary. The documentary had completed filming when she was brought …
The students who participate in the audio arts program have an exciting course load. Students take both Newhouse and College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) classes. This degree program hybrid allows students to study many different components of the field of audio arts with experts from Newhouse and VPA. Former audio arts student Queenie …
In this Insider Knowledge post I had the opportunity to ask a few questions of TRF alumni Randi Lemons. Lemons was lucky that her first gig after graduation was a job instead of an internship. Her first job was as a production assistant on a FOX renovation competition show called HOME FREE. The show filmed in …
In Part 1 I re-capped the advertising campaigns course and the exciting projects that the teams presented to their agencies. For this article, I poked Onjoli Martelly’s brain, Fringe “agency” team contact, to get more insight about Fringe’s project. The team landed on the name Fringe after a few creative choices, like Dolphin Hammer, to stay …