RTVF STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT BEA!

CONGRATULATIONS to the Student Scriptwriting Competition Winners of the Broadcast Education Association Media Festival!

Best of Festival:
Liam Goulding, San Jose State University; Rasputin’s Resurrection (Feature)

Liam Goulding

Liam writes,  “Rasputin’s Resurrection is about the clone of the early 20th Century Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, who is brought back–along with other significant, and “evil”–historical figures, in an attempt to prove that nuture is stronger than nature.
The obscure, and often misunderstood, Rasputin has always interested me for the sole fact that not much is truly known about him. His history, it seems, has more or less been pieced together by the sordid accounts of those closest to him and those who simply thought he was indeed either a holy man or the antichrist.
Films have been made about Rasputin, yes, but none of them have utilized the potential the Rasputin  “character” would have in a modern setting (or, in this case, a post-modern setting).”

Short Subject
Honorable Mention:
Darren H. Rae, San Jose State University; Park Arcadia

 

Darren writes, “Shehbaz and I co-wrote this short together. We wanted to write a piece that we would want to make ourselves. We both love films with deep characters, science-fiction, and a sense of magic. The basis of the story came from an idea I have had for many years. We wanted to create a story that both could be visually stunning but take the audience on a roller coaster of emotion taking them on a crazy adventure that ends with a bang. We believe that a film should have an underlaying theme throughout it and for this one it is fate. No matter how powerful someone is or how much they try to run from their past, every action has consequences and sometimes it is best to let things be. Our plans for the future of this script is to take it to its ultimate form and create an amazing short.”

Feature/TV Hour
2nd Place:
 Joshua Klein, San Jose State University; Striker

Feature/TV Hour
3rd Place:  Dan Koskie, San Jose State University; Friend Triangle

Dan comments, “My screenplay, Friend Triangle was inspired by real events in my life that seem like a million years ago, and I was personally inspired to write it by Mr. Barnaby Dallas and his amazing screenwriting class.”

These awards are SUCH A BIG DEAL, that the CSU Chancellor’s office (NOT SJSU Campus, but the leader of the ENTIRE CSU SYSTEM) bought an ad of congratulations to be placed in the BEA Program this year!  VERY EXCITING!

2013 CSU Chancellor’s Office BEA Ad

 

DR. DREW TODD GETS PUBLISHED!

Congratulations Dr. Drew Todd!

Professor Drew Todd

Drew Todd with his research assistant, Max Todd.

Dr. Todd’s article  “Marked Woman (1937) and the Dialectics of Art Deco in the Classical Gangster Genre” has been published in the peer-reviewed, online journal Film, Fashion & Consumption (1.3, December 2012).

Drew explains, “The subject is one I’ve been interested in for a while, that of the relationship between Art Deco movie design (from the 1920s and 1930s, especially) and ideologies of gender, economics, and consumerism. The article allowed me to combine this specialization with another area of interest, one I’ve taught in RTVF, that of crime films and, more specifically, the gangster genre.”

Here’s the abstract of the article:
In this article, I analyse the function of Art Deco designs in the 1930s gangster genre and, in particular, Warner Brothers’ Marked Woman (Bacon, 1937). Like many gangster films of the period, it associates high-style Art Deco with excess and the criminal underworld. My findings, however, reveal a tension between the film’s moralist stance and its visual excess. Compelling visual signifiers of leisure, style and social mobility, the modern designs are free to circumvent the film’s critical message and reinforce American capitalist ideologies. My analyses underscore Art Deco as an emblematic style of commercial modernity. Marked Woman and other gangster films not only reflect the latest trends in design, but also negotiate a constellation of values, ideologies and desires at a time of social and economic volatility.
Unfrotunately, the article is not free. The library will eventually link and make available the article through ScholarWoks, we will provide a link to that when the time comes. Here is the link to the site, in any case: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=14922/

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