The College Access Challenge is here! Now through February 27, 2010!
Right now, students all across South Carolina are sitting on their couches thinking about whether or not college is right for them. Guess what? It is!
The College Access Challenge is an online video contest for South Carolina college students. We’re inviting students across the state to make short videos (3 minutes or less) telling those folks thinking about college why they should go. These days, an education beyond high school is virtually required for almost every career in America! That means for our state to have an employable workforce, everyone has to consider the benefits of an education beyond high school.
C’mon! Convince them to get off the couch and go to college!
Visit www.collegeaccessch allenge.org and upload your video today.
The Prizes
Our grand prize winner will receive a shiny new 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro, complete with Apple’s professional video editing software suite: Final Cut Studio!
Our second place winner will receive a new 15-inch Apple MacBook Pro, pre-installed with Final Cut Express!
Our third place winner will receive a new 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro, pre-installed with Final Cut Express!
Our honorable mention award recipients will each receive an Apple iPod Touch!
Eligibility
The College Access Challenge is open to students enrolled at the time of the contest in a college or university in South Carolina. All participants in the contest must be at least 18 years of age at the time of their contest submission.
Questions or Comments
You can find out more about the College Access Challenge by visiting the Web Site at www.collegeaccessch allenge.org. You can also contact us by telephone at 1-800-277-3245 or via email at CACinfo@scetv. org
More to Come
The College Access Challenge is the first of many exciting efforts from the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education to begin engaging youth across the state. This collaboration brings together the Commission on Higher Education and South Carolina Educational Television to promote college awareness. The College Access Challenge unites college and high school students in a creative way for a clear and honest dialogue about why South Carolina’s students should go to college.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Assignment 1a-cohen
Wayne Roelle, Production Manager
Wayne Roelle
Production Manager
Savannah, Georgia
Can you briefly define your job?
union business agent - handle all contracting and negotiations for short and long term labor contracts. i represent the international alliance of theatrical stage employees local union # 320 members and other referrals. since 2001 i have established rates terms and conditions for theatre, concert production and corporate events where my members and other referrals work. as business agent i handle labor disputes (rare thing but they do happen), employer complaints (since 2001 maybe a 1/2 dozen), employees grievances (which are non-existent). i also handle the administrative side of jobs by creating labor bills, invoicing clients, following up on delinquent accounts payable. i also advance the incoming show or event and help our clients establish the labor call for their event
union call steward - i make all the labor calls to my members and other referrals. giving them call times and locations for the work, if they are available for the work i have.
union job steward - i handle onsite timekeeping, personnel assignments, and act as the central nervous system between the venue, the traveling crew and my crew
production assistant - whatever it takes (within reason) on a video or photo shoot
production manager/coordinator - help the production company coordinate venues, rentals, labor, catering, licensing, permits, etc. more or less become the central nervous system of the shoot
- How did you get started in the business?
when i finished college in ohio (ohio university, bs mathematics, minor sociology) i came to savannah because i have family here. i had never been backstage and didn't know i wanted to do what i do. my cousin worked for a sound company and after 6 months i finally did too. i quit there after about a two years where i had become warehouse manager, pro audio manager, and a systems guy. i started working as a over-hire stagehand @ the savannah civic center. in about a year i was the # 2 guy there. then became the production manager there in another 6 months. i left there and went on a road tour. when i finished that and came back to savannah and became business agent
- How do you tell someone over you that you couldn't accomplish an assigned task?
my motto "there is nothing we cannot do". unless there is a legitimate safety issue or a lack of time, money or personnel. on a job we take a proactive approach to what we do and we make it happen. the vast majority of work we do is not impossible. for the most part what we do has been done in some way or fashion prior to our doing it. you take your knowledge from your past and always build on it then use that knowledge in your present situation. further, with enough time and money and manpower pretty much anything is possible
- Do you have any advice for a media student who is just starting out?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Assignment 1a-cohen
Jarema, Michael
Savannaha, GA 31405
jaremamichael@comcast.net
producer, production manager, field producer, assistant director...
1. Can you briefly define your job to me?
Not actively freelancing at the moment, that’s been the case on and off since 1982. Savannah is a small enough market that you have to do more than one thing in order to make a living. In bigger markets (he lived in LA) you can be more specialized. I’ve been a producer, production manager, and assistant director. My favorite is producing because you get to decide what your working on, it’s the most involved they are usually 4-5 year projects, we take a year or two to get it written by the time its written and sold 5 years go by. So in the scheme of things I don’t get to do many.
2. How did you get started in this business?
I graduated from the University of Michigan in 1882. There a used to make a lot of my own independent films on 8mm and 16mm and I was really involved in theater. Just by chance, I saw an add in the paper for a guy who was looking to put a crew together, the guy wanted to make a feature, and at the time, the home video market was taking everything. So he decided to put together a ½ million dollars and shoot the 35mm feature. So I started helping this guy raise money, and he was really good at it. A lot of people don’t know how to raise money, or never get there, but this guys was great. We raised all of it, shot the film, and then he raised another 200 thousand and put the film in theaters we cut dvds, it was great. He went on to move to LA, but I was the guy in the Detroit area who knew how to make a feature film, so people would call me when they wanted to make one.
3. How do you tell someone over you that you couldn’t accomplish an assigned task?
Sure, a lot of these people that I worked with were people who were younger and less experienced than myself, but they didn’t know what they were doing as far as directing, and beyond. These jobs like directing and producing contain a lot, and a lot of people struggle with this. It’s a lot to bring in some of these shots, and some people can’t get it done. It’s a bit of dance you don’t want to step on any toes. In LA I was working as an assistant director, and I pushed some of the guys to hard, I was trying to finish in 2 days, because that’s how much time I thought we had left, and the director became really unhappy with they way the shots came out and blamed me. I was one of those times I made a mistake and I payed for it. I should have just let things go and created a better piece, that my boss was happier with.
4. Do you have any advice for a media student who is just starting out?
In savannah I’ve noticed that because of SCAD the students coming out of that program want to be hired as shooter as a assistant director, these huge positions, but your not going to get hired as that. Your not going to transition into something like that. You have to start out as a pa, and your going to get to position faster if you would sell yourself as a pa, telling the producer your willing to do what the producer wants to do. It’s amazing no one can find a good pa in savannah because they all expect to do big things right of the start.
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