Looking for new talent for your short film? Tired of student actors, websites, and wooden performances? Thanks to Dean Basset, we have access to a new opportunity to observe, meet, and network with local actors trained in the classic “Improvisation technique.” Check out this open invitation to Dodge College (and general Chapman University) students to
Group messaging, not surprisingly, is the specialty of two popular, competing apps, GroupMe and Beluga. These apps each ask you to define a small circle of friends whose phone numbers, email addresses, and/or Twitter handles you already know, and provides a quick, seamless method for sending each of the group members a short message. Each
Finally home! After an exciting, stimulating, absolutely exhausting week in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive conference, I excited to write that I have lots of interesting trends in technology, social media, and education to share with you all. It's an impossible experience to capture, far more physically strenuous than I would have
Want to travel the world and make documentaries about everything under the sun? Then Chapman is the place for you. Here a quick recap of what Professor Sally Rubin did with students in January 2011: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 THE 7 DEADLY SINS: A CROSS CULTURAL DOCUMENTARY COURSE IN SINGAPORE
It’s great to be back at sea level…it’s amazing to think that just over two weeks ago 10 of us (8 students, myself and cinematography professor Jurg Walther) stood on the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.
Early this week, Steven Bernstein (many-hat-wearing director of photography for Monster, Underworld, and Half Baked to name a few), spoke to students in the Folino covering a wide range of topics from how to work with crews, keep narcissism in check, how to overcome onset fears of all kinds, and recounted some very funny stories
Like many colleges and universities, Chapman University and Dodge College take a very welcome, two-week long break for the winter holidays following the end of classes and exams in December every year. By this time, students have already registered and class schedules mostly finalized for the Spring semester, starting the first week in February. However,
Tonight, Professor Jeff Swimmer’s International Documentary class, Destination: Africa, will screen its 2010 program, “Our Hopes, Our Future” in the Folino at 7PM. The inter-disciplinary, international documentary program “Destination: Africa”, led by Professor Jeff Swimmer, sends students around the world with cameras to profile leading human rights and development organizations. Participating students are from the Dodge
Know any students interested in breaking into the directing biz in Hollywood? Yeah, I thought you might. We’ve just received notice that a really exciting event is happening this weekend, at the DGA (Director’s Guild of America) in Los Angeles. The DGA is hosting a luncheon described as a “Student Open House & Networking Lunch
That’s right – after hearing, living, and sharing social media for the past few years, the world’s online community has finally birthed a day of special recognition for the burgeoning field of social media, cleverly titled “Social Media Day.” What is it? Essentially, it’s a non-government-affiliated holiday, featuring “meetups” (the godchild of last year’s “tweetups”)
Chapman University’s Ad Club just won the entire NSAC competition, placing first at the National level! Congratulations to the entire team, faculty advisor Cory O’Connor, and the dedicated Chapman fans throughout the campus: you’ve all worked so hard – you deserve it! What is the NSAC? It’s the National Student Advertising Competition, a national program
TV Students Robert Amidon and Ashley Young are off to Korea with Prof. James Gardner as part of a Korean exchange program where Chapman students make a short film with Korean students from Seoul Institute of the Arts, then the Korean students come to Orange and make a film with the Chapman Students! Television students