It's a wrap for undergraduates in Telecommunications 419 as they debut their final project videos Friday.
The video production majors have been diligently working all year to produce their five original videos that will be screened twice at Mitchell Auditorium.
Under the supervision of professor Frederick Lewis and assistant professor Eric Williams, the class of mostly seniors began working on their final projects Fall Quarter.
During their advanced scriptwriting class, the students worked on creating two types of scripts: an adaptation from a short story and an original script. After reading all the scripts, Lewis narrowed them to 12. Then the T-Com class chose the five scripts that had the potential to be cinematic masterpieces.
Four of the scripts are based on various authors' short stories and poetry, including the poem The Devil and Billy Markham
by Shel Silverstein. The Vacation is the lone original script, written by Ohio University senior Jordan Blum.
Once the video concepts were chosen, the students began casting, selecting crew and creating a budget. Throughout Winter Quarter, the groups stayed busy working on pre-production.
Our group had to sit down and figure out who and what we needed to make the script come alive on film said OU senior Scott Ivers, writer and director of The Devil and Billy Markham.
Filming began Spring Quarter as the groups turned Athens and surrounding areas into a production playground.
We are on a tight schedule and can not travel very far so we have to use the closest resources
said Tracy Werling, producer of The Converts. Despite the challenge
filming was more interesting and fun as we creatively turned Athens into the set of our horror movie.
The groups finished production by reviewing and critiquing one another's films throughout April and May.
Throughout the entire process
all the groups have made suggestions on how others can improve their videos
said OU senior Amanda Lenker, producer of The Foster Portfolio. We have become a tight-knit group because there is no competition. We want every project to come out well.
The students have been working on post-production elements to prepare for the video screening. Each group has been busy designing posters and having fund-raisers.
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