Before YouTube, students had few outlets to gain visibility for their work with a wide audience. That changed in 2002 when two students, Steve Guerrieri and Brad Shaffer, both Video Production alumni from the School of Media Arts and Studies, created Guerrsfest, a film showcase where students screen their projects to a lecture hall full of people. The showcase, which is scheduled for June 6 in Mitchell Auditorium at 7 p.m., will screen student-shot shorts and documentaries completed over the past year.

“Plan F” is a 27 minute documentary by Casey Hayward, Assistant Professor of the School of Media Arts and Studies, that is turning heads in the film festival circuit. The film was recently picked up Fanlight Productions, a boutique distribution company from Boston, MA that specializes in films on health and disability issues. The distribution company will focus on marketing the film to festivals and use their catalog and network to get the film into schools, universities and organizations interested in disability issues.

Too often graduate students are thrown into the role of professor without any formal training. They can feel ill-equipped for the demands of teaching and undergraduate students are sometimes displeased with the quality of their instruction. In the School of Media Arts and Studies, Duncan Brown’s Seminar in Pedagogy class prepares graduate students from the School, and the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, for teaching at the highest level by giving valuable experience and tools to develop as an effective educator.

11AM-12:30PM: TV Studio C (RTV 515)
Media School Alumni Panel Discussion: Future of the Recording Industry
Featuring:
John Biondolillo: General Manager-ATO Records, NY

Four Ohio University professors participated in a question and answer discussion on Thursday, April 24, 2008, with the Association of Film & Video Producers of Ukraine via broadband videoconference. The Ohio panel consisted of Eddie Ashworth, Don Flournoy and Eric Williams of the School of Media Arts and Studies and David Thomas of the School of Film. They addressed "live" an International Exhibition & Trade Show in Kyiv, Ukraine.

“This has been my best experience in the studio,” says West Virginian musician Jeff Ellis, who has just completed his latest album with the help of 14 Audio Production students in the School of Media Arts and Studies (formerly Telecommunications). Eddie Ashworth’s Commercial Music and Recording class, commonly known as “Rock Camp” gives students the opportunity to work with professional musicians and participate in the entire recording process.

Recent School of Media Arts and Studies graduate Steve Cattrell, class of ’08, has taken his degree in Digital to Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), a leader in interactive learning solutions for the federal, healthcare and corporate training markets.