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CCC Update January 2009
Posted on: January 15 2010
Participants in Digital Media and Movie Making, a Connecticut Career Choices program, braved a cold winters day and a ninety-minute delay to attend the second quarterly meeting of the year at Quinnipiac University (QU).
Professor Liam O’Brian of QU spoke live from South Africa about a student documentary project currently being filmed in Cape Town and Krugar National Park. They also communicated via the a virtual world, Second Life.
After the Skype presentation, students separated into working groups to prepare their production company for the projects that must be completed in the second semester. Faculty members hosted workshops in Animation, Directing, Virtual Environments, Producing, Production and Web Design.
Quinnipiac students gave participants a tour of the Hamden campus shortly after the breakout groups, after which pizza was provided.
“The tour was awesome,” Mary McCurley, a senior at East Haven High School, said, according to a Qunnipiac press release. “The fact that you have so many professors here who will lecture to high school kids is a testament to their dedication to their subject and teaching in general.”
During lunch, students were afforded the opportunity to interact with faculty and ask questions relating to their options after high school and prospective careers in film and digital media.
Finally, schools presented and selected one animated logo that was produced as part of unit three in the DM3 curriculum. Students and faculty were able to text their vote to an online poll, where Simsbury High School came out victorious to win the award for “Outstanding Animated Logo”.
Steven Maldonado, a senior at Career High School in New Haven, said he enjoyed his time at Quinnipiac, the press release said.
“I will leave here with new skills and techniques,” he said. “It gave me a new perspective on things.”
Participants will use their newly-honed skills to create a public service announcement, a news report, a documentary short, an animated sort and a fictional short; the winning submissions will be posted on http://ctstudentfilms.org.
Thanks to Quinnipiac University for their time and support!
The next DM3 meeting will be held on Feb. 24 at IBM.