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Dodge Students Create Campaign to Face Mental Health Together
EDITOR’S NOTE: Five Dodge College students majoring in public relations and advertising (Mara Conway ’18, Sabina Hahn ’19, Katie Page ’19, Skye Sinyard ’18 and Allie White ’18) joined together to participate in this year’s Public Relations Student Society of America’s national Bateman Case Study Competition. The team created a series of events, a Self-Help
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Alum Company Replay Collective Help Tell The Dodge College Story In New Promo Video
Dodge College is proud that when our students graduate, they stay connected and collaborate as professionals. One example of this continued comradery is Replay Collective, a video marketing agency specializing in engagement-driven content targeted for the millennial generation. Replay’s story began in spring 2014, when Siddharth Ganji (MBA and MFA/Film and Television Producing ’14), Christian
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Pre-Release Screening: SLEIGHT on March 27
Join us for a special pre-release screening of SLEIGHT followed by a Q&A with the film’s writers, producers, and distributors. Panelists include Alex Theurer (BFA/FP ’06), John Hegeman (BH Tilt) and Michael Luisi (WWE Studios). A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents passing and turns
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Screenwriting: Where The Story Begins
Before the budget is set, the cameras roll, and the film is edited, there is something very integral to the process that is needed: the script. Too often people forget that these worlds we see on the silver screen need to come from somewhere. “Screenwriters are invisible, and most people don’t know that we exist,”
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Dodge Cast Episode 2 - Screenwriting
This week, we bring you Episode 2 of the Dodge Cast, where we look at the craft of screenwriting. We speak to James Dutcher and Barry Blaustein on what makes a good script, and look back at the history of screenwriting. We’d love for you to give it a listen, and give us your feedback.
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Producing a Film School - Part 2
Last week, we looked at the initial steps of what it takes to create a film school. Now, we continue with part two of how Dodge College came to be. Big ideas Over the years, big ideas drove the vision for what became Dodge College. Some of those ideas came from Bassett’s experience as a
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A Writer’s Anxiety and Obsession Are Explored In Thesis Film Annabelle Crane
If entertainment history has taught us anything, it’s that tortured souls are often the most creative. Knowing this, one of the upcoming thesis films, Annabelle Crane , decided to craft a story that feeds into this, making a film that shows a writer’s process to create…and her descent into madness. The titular character, Annabelle
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Producing a Film School - Part 1
Bob Bassett, founding Dean of Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, has often said that building a film school is like producing a film. It requires vision, leadership, a coherent narrative, careful pre-production and production, fund-raising and marketing. Or, as journalist Terence Loose once wrote in an interview with Bassett in Coast Magazine, “Creating
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Crafting a FIST FIGHT - A Conversation with its Writers
Last week, after we had a screening of FIST FIGHT , we were lucky to be joined by the writers of the film, Van Robichaux and Evan Susser, for a Q&A session, lead by professor James Dutcher, where they talked about their process bringing the film to the screen. The two friends talked about
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Cold Call Like A (Fred) Savage
If you want to break into the industry, cold call like a Savage. Fred Savage, that is. “So many things in my career, to this day, happened because I just picked up the phone and called people,” Savage told students enrolled in the New Era of Television class last fall. “If there’s someone you admire,
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Artificial Intelligence's Role Is Explored in Thesis Film BINARY
Space is often considered the final frontier. But once mankind has conquered that, what comes next? Well, if science fiction is any indication, the advent of artificial intelligence would be the next thing we are aiming to master. But here on a Dodge sound stage, there is a currently filming thesis project that is
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Film Festival Kudos for 2/15/17
Ceylan Carhoglu & Nicole Jordan-Webber’s GARDENERS OF THE FOREST will be playing the 21st Annual John Hopkins Film Festival in Baltimore, Maryland next month (http://www.jhufilmfest.com/) Jack Sample’s BOMBIE will be playing the 7th Annual Nepal Human Rights International Film Festival in Kathmandu (http://www.hrfilms.org/) Nancy Liu’s ANGELTOWN won the Best Student Film award at the 13th