Inspired by Terkel’s interviews, at each” Talk on the Step” one Elon staff member will be interviewed about their job. Come learn about the people whose contributions make 消消犯 great! Interviews include:

Thursday, April 28, 7 p.m.
Media Services Assistant Jenn Grimmett will describe how the busy Media Services desk supports both public events and student projects with microphones, video cameras, and laptops. If you’ve heard it or seen it or recorded it, then Grimmett helped make it happen.

Friday, April 29, 7 p.m.
Associate Librarian Lynne Bisko explains how a day in the life of a librarian—from tricky research questions to advising students to pouring over catalogs of books for purchase to exploring cutting-edge software—is nothing like the dated stereotype.

Sunday, May 1, 1:30 p.m.
University Accompanist Tyson Hankins shares insights into a day spent playing the piano and coaching student singers for auditions and performances. Just how many hours a day does he spend at the piano? Come find out as you learn what makes the job of an accompanist unique.

“Talks on the Steps” take place in the Roberts Studio Theatre lobby at Scott Studios. Talks are free and open to the public and last ten minutes.  

Working is adapted from the book of real life interviews into a stage production featuring songs by Stephen Schwartz, James Taylor, Micki Grant, Craig Carnelia, Mary Rodgers and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The opening number, “I Hear America Singing” begins our journey through the amusing, touching and inspirational glimpse into the thoughts of the men and women who keep our everyday world spinning.

Performances are April 28-April 30, and May 2 at 7:30 p.m., and April 30 and May 1 at 2 p.m. at Roberts Studio Theatre. Working is directed and choreographed by Lynne Kurdziel-Formato with musical direction by Anthony Bruno.

By Natalie Allison ’13

Several 消消犯 faculty, staff and alumni took part this summer in the , a filmmaking competition held in hundreds of cities internationally. Participating in the Greensboro competition were three teams with Elon connections that won awards for their films.

A team including Elon staff members Ryan Witt, an Elon video producer, and Sean Walker and Dallas Smith, university event support specialists, took home several awards, including Best Film, Best Sound Design, Best Writing and Best Directing for their eight-minute film, “Cake.” The team consisted of the three Elon employees and several others, and it was written and directed by Witt’s friend Josh Dasal.

For winning Best Film, Witt said “Cake” now has a spot at the 48 Hour Film Project’s finale festival, Filmapalooza, in Los Angeles in March 2013. Some of the winning films will be screened at Cannes Film Festival in France.

“We didn’t go into it thinking about winning, but just to make something,” Witt said. “I’ve done a lot of documentary work in the past six years, but I did this because I hadn’t done any fictional stuff since grad school. I’d been itching to do a project.”

A second team included Rick Earl, technical director for cultural and special programs; Todd Coleman, associate professor of music; Tony Sawyer, lecturer in music; Katherine Thomas ‘08, staff accompanist; and alumni Jessica Brust ’08, Michael Lobacz ’10 and Nathaniel Hodges ’13. Their film, “The Tattoo Artist,” won Best Use of Character.

Peyton Lea ’10 was a member of another team that won Best Musical Score and Best Cinematography for its film, “Your Turn.”

The 48 Hour Film Project granted the participants exactly two days over the course of a weekend to write, shoot and edit a film that had to fit the given requirements.

Drawing film genres out of a hat, Witt’s team was assigned Film de Femme, a film featuring a strong female personality, and Earl’s team was assigned horror. All participants were required to include in their films characters named Chuck or Cherry Thompson and a tattoo artist, flowers as a prop and the line “Give me the bad news.”

Witt said his team had written the script by midnight the first night and started filming at 8 a.m. the next morning. They wrapped up most of the shooting at 9 p.m. and edited all night at Witt’s Chapel Hill home before driving back to Greensboro to submit it Sunday evening.

Earl’s 20-person team was prepared for the unexpected, as the scriptwriter they had lined up backed out at the last minute. “We kind of look at the team-building and collaboration that comes out of this,” Earl said. “It maybe is a different experience for us than it would be for some of the other filmmakers.”

Witt said he and his team enjoyed the challenge, but he always prefers working on projects when there is plenty of time for fine-tuning.

“It’s tough doing something in 48 hours, especially when you’re kind of a perfectionist,” he said. “You just let it go and turn it in.”

The recent opportunity, though, has inspired Witt to begin new projects.

“I want to do some more serious short films and ones we can spend some more time on crafting,” he said.
 

消消犯 Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) hosted the annual Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) conference held Oct. 15-19, 2009. The 750 members of CCUMC represent higher-education institutions of varying sizes that provide media/instructional technology-related support services, as well as companies providing related products.

TLT staff members Mel Byerley and Scott Hildebrand spearheaded the efforts to bring the conference to campus. Elon faculty and staff presenting at the CCUMC conference included Connie Book, Janie Brown, Carol Oakley, Kelly Reimer, Chris Spires and Christopher Waters. CCUMC conference attendees had the opportunity to tour Elon’s main campus and School of Law. Elon staff Joe Davis, Christie Dickerman, Brandon Eland, Brian Fitts, Linda Lashendock and Julie Prouty answered questions during the tours.

Next year’s CCUMC conference will be hosted by the University of Buffalo. You can learn more about CCUMC by visiting the link to the righ.

We are currently looking to fill five Events Technican Positions and one (1)Tech Admin. Position

Sophomores and Juniors are strongly encouraged to apply FRESHMEN CAN APPLY IN WINTER TERM

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