..::Video Production Unit::..::SHOWCASE::..

Project: SU Student Safety Orientation Video
Clip: "Oh No, Otto!"
Client: Department of Public Safety

"Oh No, Otto!" is a video designed for the Department of Public Safety (DPS). It features SU's own Otto the Orange in a series of vignettes designed to teach students how to stay safe on campus. The video is shown to all incoming students during move-in and will reach returning students on OTN, during hall meetings, and on various internet video sites.

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Project: Welcome to the World, Baby!
Clip: Excerpt
Client: Office of Professional Development

"Welcome to the World, Baby!" was the first in a series of three videos created for the Early Literacy Project, a project to promote parental involvement in reading and literacy skills for children at a young age. This video, produced by the Office for Professional Development and the Children's Institute, Inc., demonstrated ways of making reading available to even the youngest of babies.

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Project: "My Classic Life as an Artist: A Portrait..."
Clip: Trailer
Client: Douglas Biklen, CFE/Disability Studies

"My Classic Life as an Artist: A Portrait of Larry Bissonnette" is a documentary about autistic Vermont artist Larry Bissonnette, produced and directed by Oscar®-nominated producer Douglas Biklen. Shot on location in Burlington, Vermont, the film explores the complexities of communication by going between Bissonnette's speech, typing, and painting, and illustrates a "day in the life" of this witty and insightful artist.

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Project: Holidays at Hendricks
Clip: Benediction
Client: Hendricks Chapel

"Holidays at Hendricks" is SU's annual holiday concert featuring the Syracuse University Brass Ensemble (SUBE), the Hendricks Chapel Choir, and the Hendricks Chapel Handbell Ringers. It was recorded live on location in historic Hendricks Chapel on Dec. 2, 2007.

This 90-minute program aired on WCNY-TV and was radio simulcast on WCNY-FM Christmas Day 2007 to the entire Central New York community.

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Project: Critical Incidents in College Teaching
Clip: Cellphone
Client: Graduate School

The Graduate School at Syracuse University requested a video that would help new faculty deal with problems that may arise. The video features nine staged vignettes, each focusing on a specific situation that may arise in the classroom and academic world. These vignettes are meant to be analyzed and discussed with a facilitator while viewing.

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Project: Vision Fund 2001
Clip: Closing
Client: Center for Support of Teaching & Learning

The purpose of the University Vision Fund is to continue the tradition of encouraging visionary, experimental, and creative ideas leading to the improvement of teaching and learning. This annual video documents the innovation for which the Vision Fund grants are awarded. The clip featured is the closing to the Vision Fund '01 video.

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Project: Damn Yankees!
Clip: "Whatever Lola Wants"
Client: First Year Players

First Year Players is a student-run theater organization that produces a full-scale musical production in Schine Student Center's Goldstein Auditorium each spring, featuring first year student performers. The featured clip is from the musical Damn Yankees!, performed in April 2003.

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Project: VISCOM Symposium
Clip: Tracy Sugarman
Client: Department of Visual Communication

The department of Visual Communication sponsors a lecture series each semester. This symposium features prominent alumni of the University and of the VISCOM program, who speak about their achievements as well as giving artistic and career advice. In this clip from Fall '03, alumnus Tracy Sugarman, class of '43, is the featured speaker.

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Project: A Guide to Living Off-Campus
Clip: Parking Animation
Client: Office of Off-Campus Student Services

This animation was used in "A Guide to Living Off-Campus" to help explain the odd-even parking restrictions prevalent in the University area. This animation was created using Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe AfterEffects®.

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Project: DanceWorks 2004
Clip: "And We're Dancing"
Client: DanceWorks

DanceWorks is a student-run dance organization which produces a dance performance each spring semester. The featured clip is from DanceWorks 2004, "And We're Dancing," choreographed by Kaitlind Eydelloth.

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Project: Syracuse Welcome 2005: A Slice of SU Life
Clip: Highlight Video
Client: Office of Orientation and Transitions Services

This program is a highlight music video of the Syracuse Welcome 2005 events coordinated by the Office of Orientation and Transitions Services (OTS). The events featured in this video include the residence hall move-in, Orange Blast, Juice Jam, Home to Dome, Exploring the Soul of Syracuse, as well as various other academic and educational orientation activities.

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Project: Syracuse Symposium 2005
Clip: Michael Moore reads "My Pet Goat"
Client: The College of Arts & Sciences

With a different theme each year, 2005 being Humor, the Syracuse Symposium is an intellectual festival that brings prominent speakers to campus and arranges events throughout the year that will relate to and further explore the theme. Here filmmaker and activist Michael Moore speaks before a crowd of 10,000 at the Carrier Dome. The featured clip is a reading of the children's book, "My Pet Goat."

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Project: First Year - Pilot
Clip: Excerpt
Client: HealthyIM Campus

The HealthyIM Campus Project at S.U. is a unique effort coordinated by the Newhouse School to promote healthy lifestyles among students through a program involving health promotion activities, campaign messages, and media programs.

First Year is a dramatic program focused on the lives of two roommates, Alex and Jen, and the issues they face in their first year at AYU.

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Project: The Healthy Show: Jackie & Tula - pilot
Clip: Excerpt
Client: HealthyIM Campus

The Healthy Monday/ HealthyIM Initiative at S.U. is a unique effort coordinated by the Newhouse School to promote healthy lifestyles through a program involving health promotion activities, campaign messages, and media programs.

The Healthy Show is a reality show starring one student and one professor who strive to reach health-related goals with the help of a trainer, nutritionist, and fitness coach. This is a clip from the Telly-award winning pilot episode.

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