MAC offers online courses this summer
Three courses are being offered this summer. MM152 – Intro. to Web Design is online, 4 credits and APC. This course introduces students to the underlying principles, basic methodologies, and fundamental concepts of web design. From conception to comprehensive layout, topics include the basics of web design, developing a problem definition, defining target audiences, content assessment, information architecture, page design and structure, typography, color, selecting images, and design presentation. Further, MM152 will focus on the planning, organization, and selecting the resources required to design an effective website.
You can review the syllabus here. Currently the course is listed in Webster as MM110 but that should be changing in a few days. Go ahead and sign up for MM110, and the course number will change automatically once the system has been updated.
Also, MM125 – Foundations of Digital Media and MM252 – Introduction to Web Authoring will be offered as well.…
Growing Oregon’s Film and Video Industry
To compete with other states, the state of Oregon considers additional incentives for companies who bring their productions to our state.
MA343 – Intermediate Screenwriting, set for spring
Dear MAC Students et al.,
I am pleased to announce that the MAC program has a new online course offering. MA343 – Intermediate Screenwriting explores the methods and methodologies of writing the short screenplay. Topics central to the course include: the set-up of character and plot development; the rising action of the narrative; the structure, nature and resolution of the identified central conflict; the turning point; the climax; resolution, and dialogue.
Nancy Nigrosh, who holds a BFA from NYU in Filmmaking, an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA and an MA in Education from Antioch, will lead you through 10 weeks of screenwriting instruction. Instructor Nigrosh brings over twenty years of film industry experience, working with some of the most well known talent in Hollywood. As a former talent and literary agent at Innovative Artists and Gersh Agency, she has represented many award winning writers and directors for film and television including Academy Award winner Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Pirates Of The Caribbean), Amanda Brown (Legally Blonde), Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), among many others.
- a MAC Film Production major about to begin your capstone film,
- an EOU alumnus looking for a collaborative environment to develop new work,
- interested in learning what it takes to become a Hollywood screenwriter,
- a storyteller with an idea for a great short film,
- in need of upper division credit and movies pique your interest
MAC student lenses “Winter in the Land of the Winding Waters”
Congratulations to Jeffrey Alexander for his ambitious and beautiful new film “Winter in the Land of the Winding Waters.” The film chronicles the history of backcountry skiing in the the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Here’s a preview:
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Twitter fuels a new journalism
Media Arts and Communication embraces new paradigms in journalism. Check out this video.
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Recent Oregon Business article highlights growing film industry
The news about the film industry is good! The recent Oregon Business article states, “Fueled by state incentives, the industry spent $130 million in Oregon in 2011 producing film, television and TV commercials, up from $62 million in 2009.”
Read More: Oregon Business – Celluloid Forest…
Congratulations Ian Clarke!
La Grande, Oregon’s own Ian Clarke highlighted by Filmmaker Magazine as on of the ’25 New Faces in Independent Film.’ Aside from founding and programming the EOFF, Ian is an excellent director with a unique filmmaker’s perspective. Congrats Ian!…
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