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The Media School: Indiana University
Devin Good, game design student, appears on screen.
Devin Good: "I would say that it's probably one of the best media programs in the Midwest right now."
A student does a stand-up broadcast in the Beckley Studio next to a digital sign that says “Hoosier Sports Nite.”
Devin Good: "I mean I've brought different people here to The Media School and they're just baffled. They're blown away at"
A woman works in a control room.
Devin Good: "how nice everything is here and how"
Danielle Kilgo teaches a class.
Devin Good: "interactive our professors will be."
Jim Shanahan, Dean, appears on screen.
Jim Shanahan: "What sets us apart, number one, is the comprehensiveness that we do things with. So we really have a balance between study and practice and"
Students work in the control room.
Jim Shanahan: "try to integrate those. So"
Susan Kelly talks to a class.
Jim Shanahan: "we have folks doing all different kinds of things."
Katie Beck, associate director of student services, apperas on screen.
Katie Beck: "A lot of students are really interested in knowing a lot about a lot of different things and finding ways that they can develop skills that will transfer across."
Maia Rabenold, journalism student, apperas on screen.
Maia Rabenold: "I got to come to IU and join the IDS and study abroad in London and find some amazing co-workers and friends that help me grow through finding my career."
Gwen Pickett, public relations student, appears on screen.
Gwen Pickett: "My most beneficial experience with The Media was doing the Semester in L.A. program. I did two internships while I was there doing public"
Gwen Pickett poses in front of Ellen Degeneres’ Hollywood star.
Gwen Pickett: "relations. And I got a lot of experience that I don't think I would've been able to get"
Semester in L.A. students pose on the set of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
Gwen Pickett: "in Indiana or just any place that I"
Gwen Pickett poses on a rooftop with the L.A. skyline in the background.
Gwen Pickett: "would have gone. I'd never thought I would have gone to LA. So having that experience"
Gwen Pickett appears on screen.
Gwen Pickett: "thanks to The Media School was really good for me."
Katie Beck appears on screen.
Katie Beck: "We're sending groups to Tokyo"
A student poses next to a life-size statue of a game design character on a street in Tokyo.
Katie Beck: "to do game design. We're sending a group"
Gabrielle Benninghoff uses a purification fountain in Japan.
Katie Beck: "to Okinawa, Japan, to do a reporting trip. We're sending"
Students point and laugh on a riverboat in Paris.
Katie Beck: "our Footsteps of Ernie Pyle course to trace the footsteps of the World War Two reporter Ernie Pyle"
Katie Beck appears on screen.
Katie Beck: "throughout Europe and England and France. And then in the summer"
Two students operate a film camera.
Katie Beck: "we'll be sending students to do short film production in Prague and we'll be sending a group to Ecuador"
Students walk along a beach.
Katie Beck: "to visit various locations and make a series of short documentaries."
Michael Tilka, sports media student, appears on screen.
Michael Tilka: "Obviously the first big opportunity that I've been given is right here in this room and with IUSTV and being able to help with"
Closeup of a hand working on control room equipment.
Michael Tilka: "a lot of sports broadcasts, whether it be news-style"
Mary Kate Hamilton and Josh Eastern do a standup broadcast in front of a digital screen with the Little 500 logo.
Michael Tilka: "broadcasts, whether it be live broadcasts. Really"
A student does a standup broadcast in the Beckley Studio.
Michael Tilka: "anything that involves something on-camera or off-camera,"
Juan Diego Alvarado does radio play-by-play of a soccer game from the press box.
Michael Tilka: "IUSTV has been a great outlet to"
Michael Tilka operates a camera for a stand-up broadcast.
Michael Tilka: "give"
Four students conduct a sit-down interview in the Beckley Studio.
Michael Tilka: "me creative expression but not only creative expression but"
Michael Tilka appears on screen.
Michael Tilka: "professional expression as well."
The camera pans the Beckley Studio. Two students appear at the news desk, and Michael Tilka operates the camera.
Devin Good: "Through The Media School's partnership with IU Athletics, I was able to get an"
Devin Good and two students use virtual reality controllers in a green screen room.
Devin Good: "internship working for the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology. And through that I was able to work in VR gaming"
Footage from an IU football-themed video game.
Devin Good: "and aspects I wasn't able to do in the classroom. I was able to go present my ideas to different people."
Devin Good appears on screen.
Devin Good: "I met the president of the Pacers and got the pitch him a game, like an AR game for the Pacers team, and I never would've been able to do that in a classroom."
Jim Krause, senior lecturer, appears on screen.
Jim Krause: "Some of the best projects my students have made are for service learning clients, real-world clients. They're producing a video not just for me or for the class, but they're producing it for an actual client. And that really raises the bar on the professionalism and how significant the project is."
Andrew Weaver, associate professor, apperas on screen.
Andrew Weaver: "The things that we wanted to do is bring students here who know that they want to"
Footage of the Ernie Pyle statue in front of Franklin Hall.
Andrew Weaver: "do investigative journalism and give them the opportunity to learn from our faculty how to do it and the techniques and styles involved in being an"
Closeup of the statue’s hands typing on a typewriter.
Andrew Weaver: "investigative journalists but also have an outlet for their work. And so the Arnolt Center is cooperating with"
Footage of a typewriter in a display case.
Andrew Weaver: "several organizations around the world that can provide an outlet"
Andrew Weaver appears on screen.
Andrew Weaver: "for publishing their work and for doing the kind of journalism that they want to do."
Devin Good: "I've had so many meetings with my professors outside of the classroom."
Chabane Maidi teaches a game design class in front of a screen.
Devin Good: "They really stick their hand into our lives and help direct us where we need to go."
Jim Shanahan: "Faculty who are academic in nature"
A student works on a computer.
Jim Shanahan: "faculty who are experienced professionals"
Rob Potter points to a screen that shows charts and graphs.
Jim Shanahan: "faculty who are artists and creative people."
Jim Krause: "In the courses I teach, students are introduced to a variety of different genres. So we do a little"
Two students broadcast from the news desk in the Beckley Studio.
Jim Krause: "news. We do some art,"
A man sits in a chair and sings, surrounded by computer-generated clouds and flashing lights.
Jim Krause: "and students have the opportunity to"
Closeup of the singing man’s face.
Jim Krause: "make a music video or maybe"
Animation of a terra cotta doll dancing with a match.
Jim Krause: "try doing some stop-motion animation,"
Animation of a woman sitting in front of a mirror applying powder to her face.
Jim Krause: "time-lapse."
A man speaks in front of a rainbow flag.
Jim Krause: "We also do mini-documentaries."
Closeup of someone applying eye liner.
Closeup of a woman wearing sunglasses, with another woman reflected in them.
A snowglobe.
A hand points to a place on a map.
Jim Krause: "And we dabble in"
A shaking dinner table.
A hand dials a rotary phone.
Jim Krause: "narrative-style"
A woman smokes in a bathtub.
Jim Krause: "filmmaking."
Katie Beck: "It's really interesting to see the ways in which the different majors are starting to integrate into one another, recognizing that the skill sets across different majors have application."
Jim Shanahan: "We bring that together in a special way with a unique flavor that's Hoosier flavor and the investment and IU behind us. Can't beat that."
Michael Tilka: "I just tell them to take a look around."
Students work beneath a giant TV screen in the commons.
Michael Tilka: "I think this building is absolutely beautiful, from the commons to"
Arturo Contreras practices capoeira in a motion capture suit in the Beckley Studio.
Michael Tilka: "Beckley Studio itself to the game design suites."
Closeup of a hand drawing a character on a tablet.
Michael Tilka: "There's really nothing like it. I don't even think"
Michael Tilka appears on screen.
Michael Tilka: "there's really anything like it on the rest of IU 's campus. It's something incredibly state-of- the-art, and"
Betsi Grabe walks into Franklin Hall.
Michael Tilka: "every day when I walk through the front door and I see, 'A good book is the precious life-blood of a"
Michael Tilka appears on screen.
Michael Tilka: "master spirit," it gets me really excited knowing that I'm walking into something that's really incredible."
Credits appear:
Produced by Anna Howell
Music by Bensound
Footage by:
Anna Howell
Christina Mercedes
Rachel Goodman
Bonnie Layton
Chase Gosman
Isabel Shanahan
Emma Rausch
Susan Kelly
Student Work:
“Believer”
“Laya”
“Life’s A Drag”
“The Death of Venus”
“There She Was”
“Girlhood”
“2018 Little 500 Pre-Race Show”
Indiana University
Fulfilling the Promise
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