New Creative Media Successes!
Here is some exciting news from Creative Media.
- Oct 25th:
We won the Emmy! I can't believe it!
It was a great ceremony at the Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards last might. Thank you to my wife Kim for making this happen and Brandon Vallo (the oneman crew) and to Judson Hemperley for his amazing story (a real Americanhero).
Check out the winning version at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTuRqlXALu8
Or the Extended Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWkXvFeKtE
Thanks for everyone's support of the Creative Media program at NMSU-Grants. - Sept 16th:
Our documentary, Saving Lives in World War II, got nominated for an Emmy Award! Yes, THE Emmy Awards.
(No joke! I know... I know... I can't believe it either).
You can see an extended version at: http://www.youtube.com/nmsugrants
or the winning version at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWkXvFeKtE
The Emmy Awards now give awards for online media and we're fortunate enough to be part of the nominations for this new category. You can download the list of winners at:
http://www.rockymountainemmy.org/
(We're near the bottom of the document under Advanced Media Documentary Historical Cultural)
Thanks to Brandon Vallo for helping make this documentary possible and aspecial thanks to Judson Hemperley who shared his stories. And thank you to everyone for all your support! - Apil 7th:
Our four NMSU-Grants interns will be working on live news shows on KOATevery Tuesday in April.
They are behind the scenes but it is fun to watchKOAT (channel 7) and know that out Grants
students are there making theshow happen.
The original plan was that the interns would get to watch one live show, but since they have done so well, they get to work as crew and be therefor four live shows.
Kudos to Tim Brown, Dustin Vigil, Bruce Williams and Ryle Yazzie! - January 29th:
Our NMSU-Grants web series about Veterans will be
featured on AppleiTunes! If you use iTunes, watch
for it on their main store page. It will be a free
download for your ipod or computer. Subscribe and show
your support. You can view these documentaries online
at the following links as well:
http://www.youtube.com/warveterans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_dMuCM-JE (Islam on my Dog Tags)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytk6QHdpJeY (PTSD)
Also, we plan to do more webisodes on Veterans. If you know a veteran who would like to tell their story, please have them contact me at dbocaz@nmsu.edu or 505-287-6656. Many thanks to our featured Veterans Lewis Bennett (WWII), JudsonHemperley (WWII), Cho Larson (Vietnam) and Zero Aikil-Bey (Iraq). And thank you to Brandon Vallo and Kim Bocaz-Larson who put a lot of work into these videos as well as the many other Creative Media students who havebeen involved. - January 15th: Four Creative Media students (Tim Brown, Bruce Williams, Ryle Yazzie and Dustin Vigil) start thier intership at KOAT news.
- December 11th:
We have another video on CNN! Shot by Brandon Vallo, sound by Tim Brown with Lynsey
Bohannon and Ryle Yazzie as crew.
Check it out:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-160817
You won't believe all the comments. They're entertaining in themselves.
Here is another one:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-161570 If you want something more serious, check out our new videos for a Sundance competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjHq4eTgwxU (Project Redemption)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNDObphlXfc (Trinity Rises) - November 17th:
CASTING CALL: We have three upcoming projects we are casting for
including a feature length project entitled Trinity Rises and short films
entitled Princess Daisy and The Killer Copier. We are looking for both
male and female actors but especially an elderly male and women 18-25.
Casting will be Monday (November 24) at 9:30am the NMSU-Grants Creative Media Studio (room 301 of McClure). Email Doug at dbocaz@nmsu.edu or call 505-287-6656 for more information.
CLUB MEETING: We will have Poco Loco Club meeting at 12pm that same day (November 24).
GOOD NEWS: Three of our short movies were picked for Tromadance New Mexico. The Cowboys Who Say Me at 3:15 showing on Saturday, Nov. 22 at the Guild Cinema (3405 Central Ave NE in Albuquerque). On Sunday (Nov. 23), The Boy Who Cried Genie is at Noon and The Dark Cowboy is at 5:30pm. There are other films to see in between as well. Come see us on the big screen! Each showing is $5.
DORITOS: We also finished up a couple fun Doritos commercials for their Superbowl Contest. You can check them out at the links below:
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/574/
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/578/
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/video/938/ - November 1st: CNN has something called iReport
where regular people like us can submit videos. Our video of AAIM's
Dog Halloween Contest has been selected!
Check it out online:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-131741
Or watch CNN and see if you can catch it. - September 12th: One of our videos about Second
Hand Smoke has been selected for a Smoking Awareness Project in Liverpool,
England that will be doing presentations to schools in the UK. We're
honored to be part of the project.
Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsLn4cZmZ4
Thank you to all the NMSU-Grants students who helped with the project. This project was written, developed and produced completely by our students. I'm proud of how much they've learned and the excellent work they are doing to help our community and now overseas.
Video and the web are powerful tools that can reach around the world and I'm thankful to President Casados and Dr. Sheski for helping make the resources possible to make it happen. - August 29th: Our video "Saving Lives in World War II" has placed in another
competition. We made the top 10 in their August competition and enables
us to move on to the next level of competition. Kudos to Brandon Vallo
and Kim Bocaz-Larson (yes, my wife took my classes) for their excellent
work. This video already placed Top 5 in a national competition and was
also featured by YouTube this summer.
You can view the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWkXvFeKtE
You can learn more about the most recent competition here:
http://www.filmaka.com/films.php?page=journal
Kudos to the team that worked on our Uranium mining documentary as well (Ryle Yazzie, Brandon Vallo, Tim Brown, Lynsey Bohannon and Derrek Antonio). There documentary placed the top 100 in another competition with MSN.com. We're hear about the finalists soon.
We shared this documentary with KNME and they are now asking our help with doing a new piece for Frontline about Uranium mining returning to Grants.
You can view this documentary here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVK2fW4aWw - July 5th: Our video "Saving Lives in World War II" made the Top 5 for the American
Neighbor Program sponsored by the Republican National Convention. Vote
now and support our efforts to recognize Grants resident, Mr. Judson
Hemperley, a World War II veteran who went to war to save lives as a
medic. This is the same video that was recently featured by YouTube.com
as a #1 Featured Video.
Click here and vote now!
http://www.youtube.com/gopconvention2008 (Vote for "Saving Lives in World War II" by dbocaz)
(Note: I'm not Republican and our video doesn't have a political agenda. Please watch and you'll see) - June 29th: One of our videos (Redneck Water Conservation) is a finalist in the
Ramada Do Your Thing Video Contest. Please vote and help us win!
http://ramada.eprize.net/doyourthing/index.tbapp
It's kind of a pain to register but we'd really appreciate the support! Our Poco Loco Video Club could sure use $10,000... this is a quick and easy way to help us raise funds :)
After you register, you click on Doug NM and vote. - June 12th: One of our videos we created, Saving Lives in World War II, is being
featured on YouTube and hit #1 around the world last night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqWkXvFeKtE
Thank you to Brandon Vallo and Kim Bocaz-Larson for working on this project.
We'll be expanding this project to feature veterans from three different generations. Here are some sneak previews of the other veterans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZJelfl-E8 (Islam on my Dog Tags - featuring NMSU-Grants student)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvtCkEzPq5g (When the Farm Boy Goes to War - featuring my father, a Vietnam veteran)
All postings are contributed by Doug Bocaz-Larson.