Topics: College of Communication Information and Media, College of Fine Arts, Emerging Media, Immersive Learning
April 4, 2007
A Ball State student-produced film continues to reap honors, receiving a second-place award at the College Television Awards ceremony March 31 in Los Angeles.
"Perspective," a short film created by a Ball State student team led by Sam Day, a senior telecommunications major from Georgetown, Ind., and Travis Hatfield, a 2006 telecommunications graduate from Floyds Knobs, Ind., was honored in the comedy division during ceremonies sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation.
The film won a Student Academy Award in 2006 and received the Best of Festival award at the 2007 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts.
"Winning our first Student Academy Award and now a College Television Award says a great deal about our work and Ball State," Day said. "We received excellent feedback during the weekend. Several people told us it was their favorite movie."
"Perspective," a film about a young man who fights with his conscience and memories in an attempt to win back a lost love, was written and produced in 2006 on campus by Ball State students and recent graduates.
For the next project, Day has joined with Griff Partington, a senior telecommunications major from Indianapolis, to create a new production team for the science fiction short film called "Any Way." Partington wrote the script for the film, which focuses on a young couple separated during a pandemic. The film will be submitted for the upcoming Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2007 Student Academy Awards.
"We are very proud of 'Any Way' because we think it stands up to the quality of past Student Academy Award winners," Day said. "It is a very intense film set in the science fiction film genre, an area we have not yet explored."
The films were created by Day and his student team, consisting of students from the College of Fine Arts and the College of Communication, Information, and Media. The films also have received assistance from Ball State's Center for Media Design (CMD) and the Institute for Digital Entertainment and Education (IDEE) as well as the College of Fine Arts and the College of Communication, Information, and Media.
IDEE, one of four immersive-learning institutes created by the university with funding from a $20 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., is working with Ball State's seven academic colleges to create innovative curricula and experiences that immerse future students in the skills required to work in all aspects of the film and television industries.
A complete listing of Ball State's rankings and recognitions may be found online at www.bsu.edu/up/ranked.
By Marc Ransford, Senior Communications Strategist