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| David Closson filming on set in WEIU's green room. |
Over the summer, CATS Multimedia and IHEC (Illinois Higher Education Center) had the chance to
collaborate on The Motivational Interventions for College Drinkers DVD. This project composed of an introduction, first section, and second section. The premise of this project is an interaction between a college counselor and a student seeking help with his drinking habit.
The directors of this project, Cameron Craig and Pete Grant, were grateful to receive their second grant-based project together. Excited about the collaboration, Craig and Grant turned this project into a integrative learning project. Altogether, there was a team of two graduate assistants from CATS, David Mitchell and Kyle Workman, one student worker, Rebecca Hunt, and students from Tempestas et Caelum Productions, Kole Rushmore and Drenen Martin.
Approached in May 2015 by David Closson, Assistant Director of IHEC, Grant and Craig were eager to allow this project to be completely produced by the students. Previous collaborations with the Multimedia team left Closson very eager and ready to work with CATS again.
Including both video production and captioning, this project allowed the students to have a real experience as
videographers and captioners; they worked very closely with clients and allowed them to interact with them more. Their main objective, according to Grant, was to satisfy the request of the client.
Grant believes that doing this project magnifies the talent of the students and helps build their technical skills as well as relationships with faculty on EIU’s campus. He believes for students, the IHEC project was an opportunity to flourish and grow as leaders.
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| Peter Grant on set training David Mitchell |
A month after production had commenced, the project had been completed in entirety. Utilizing Canon XF300s, WEIU’s green room, and various post-production software enhanced the knowledge needed for future clients.
Even though this project only included the captioning team and multimedia (videography) team, Grant hopes to include other departments in CATS to help with future projects.
In light of it all, Grant and Craig continually aspire to provide
students with opportunities to expand on captioning skills,
videography skills, and graphic design skills. In the future, they want to obtain more grants to provide more networking and growth opportunities for the students.
Grant also states that this project made him knowledgeable about the grant-writing process, along with things to look for when searching for grants.
For more information regarding this story, contact: Pagrant@eiu.edu or cdcraig@eiu.edu
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