ALUMNI INTERVIEW: MILES LEICHER What was your major and when did you graduate? I started out as a Film Production major, but switched to Television Production and Broadcast Journalism after my freshman year. I received an honorable discharge (graduated) in May 2007. Where do you work now? For most of the year I work on
Last week, Comic-Con, the largest comics-themed festival in the western hemisphere, once again descended upon San Diego. The convention, which has been celebrated annually since it's creation in 1970, marks the pinnacle of summer's cult conventions, drawing attendees from all over the world, flooding the hotels of downtown San Diego, congesting traffic throughout the region,
ORANGE An alternative-rock band fronted by an Orange resident this weekend was filming its first music video with the help of Chapman University film students and a member of the TV show “The Waltons.'' The group, SLIDE, used Orange High School as a backdrop for the video, based on a song the group recorded with an
Less than two months after graduating, Chapman TV and Screenwriting student Clay Keller has won the $10,000 David & Lynn Angell Comedy Writing Fellowship for his original pilot script "Dinner Theater." The script was written by Clay for his FTV 328 Seminar in Television Writing course. The fellowship, part of the prestigious Humanitas Awards for excellence
Students, tired of the beginning of the semester crunch? It's a familiar scene, at Universities across the country: every year, hundreds of students pour into the bookstore in the first days of school, swelling the courtyards and bogging down your schedule with aimless waiting. You plan ahead of time, print lists of the classes you're
As someone who teaches TV writing and producing at one of the world’s premier film schools I get asked certain questions all the time: How do you get an agent? (subject for another blog post) How do you break into TV? (see blog of 6/9/2010) Can creativity be taught? The answer to this last question