The Communication & Media Society is creating an industrial style video for the Communication & Media Department at the State University of New York
at New Paltz. The video will highlight all aspects of the Department incuding faculty, alumni, and students. It will cover all seven concentrations
that are encompassed by the Communication & Media Department: Public Communication, Organizational Communication,
Interpersonal-Intercultural Communication, Journalism, Public Relations, Media Production, and Media Management.
The video will first be on the Communication & Media Society Webpage and then transfer to the offical Department webpage.
Distrubution will also include DVDs to be distributed to 2-year colleges targeting transfer students.
The video is currently being produced by a skilled team of New Paltz's own production students. For the duration of the production, Bryan Neilon will maintain a blog style page of what is currently happening.
The project will debut May 4th on campus at the College Terrace when we will also offically launch the Webpage. We will serve food and drink; a cash bar will be available. Faculty, students, and alumni are all invited to come and show support.
Project Staff:
Bryan Neilon: Producer, Director, Editor, Camera Operator, Music, Boom Operator
Fran Zeller: Co-Producer, Camera Operator, Boom Operator
Sean Lilly: Editor, Lighting Director, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Boom Operator, Production Photographer
Dan Asis: Music, Post-Production Audio, Boom Operator
Randy Bakay: Boom Operator
Caterers: Amanda Greshens, Lauren Papot, and CAS.
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Well, here we are... May 4th, the rough cut of the video is being exported as I type. In an hour and a half a room full of people munching on hor'dueves will be
watching what we've done. Although it's still only a rough cut, I cannot express how proud I am of this piece and everyone involved should feel exactly the same way. I want to thank all of those who participated, allowed their classes to be taped, interpreted my poorly worded interview questions and dealt with my attepts at directing b-roll. I should also mention the friends who wasted their meal plans on me as I toiled away tirelessly in the CSB. Thank you all.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Sean has begun to take pictures of the production as it rolls on. Hopefully, I'll be able to post some up here but there seems to be something funky with the server. Until then, look up Sean's facebook - they'll all up there.
Posters for students to come appear on camera (for two seconds, longer if they let us ask them questions) are up. If anyone is interested, You can come down to:
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Acute observers will notice the long pause in updates here. We have really hit the ground running
on this project. In the last week we've done six interviews. Today alone, we got three
done. We're really moveing full speed ahead, which is good because we really don't have much time.
We also got some excellent b-roll of Rebecca Leung's class that showed off CSB 25 as well as
some student diversity. I think I may also be interested in putting up fliers and just get a
bunch of different students to just show their face in front of the camera, in front of the
white roll. We could turn that into a fast paced montage of student faces smiling, only about 5 or six frames
per face. I think that'd be a good way to drive home diversity.
The shape of the video is really congealing in my own head. I'm really getting a good sense of what it needs to be. The common thread, the theme, the unifying idea is going to be much of what the mission statement of the Communication & Media Society is. We are all in the same hallway for a reason. We are all communicators. We may have our own niche ways of delivering that information, but ultimately we all do the same thing - and that is to convey information between people. Be it between groups, readers, viewers, the general public, buisnesses, or anything else -- It's all about communication, and we can all get something useful from one another. And that's what we teach here - communicating, in many ways/forms. That's our message.
The last part of my update is to mention the buzz that's going around. People are talking about this in a good way. People know what I'm doing and what it's about before I tell them, and I can't tell you how excited that makes me.
I think there's a lot of people who think there's a lot of potenial here with what we're doing, and I have to say that I agree. There's a lot this department can do and become and I'm glad I can be a part of it and leave something behind before I graduate... Anyway - back to capturing in Avid! Busy, busy, busy...
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Sean, Greg and I hung the white roll yesterday. It looks great! Very sleek and professional.
Sean, our head lighting director and I set up most of the lighting we'll need for the interviews
which I hope should start very soon. No specific dates set up yet. E-mails are flying back and forth.
We have permission to tape some students in CSB 24 during Rebecca Leung's class at 10:00 a week from today. They will be hard at work on papers and looking very productive. I'm hoping for a good moving shot arcing as wide as we can around the classroom, showing continuously different angles of the computers set up in round groups of four (if you can imagine it). Perhaps, also, a dolly through the middle of the classroom, taking turns around the sea of busy students. The dolly desearves much more attention, I feel. I'll do a dry run of those shots as soon as I'm done updating. I'd like to avoid static shots if I can to make reletively dry "students typing on computers" more stimulating.
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
The white roll arrived from B&H today. It looks pretty big. Had no time to open it- had to get to work (Lab Tech).
I'll e-mail Fran (and group members) and we'll work out when we can get people and professors and alumni together and make a schedule.
We'll start taking b-roll of classes Wednesday since there's no class tomorrow and it's already Monday. We also need to jump on contacting
more alumni. I think we're in a good place.
