Films aren’t easy things to make. According to the new program director for Film & Television production, Joshua Russell, films are a sophisticated, populist art for people and by people in their ways of telling a compelling visual story. Not everything in film makes it to their final cuts, and the Spring student thesis film “Creating […]
How was senior thesis film “Creating Joseph” created?
April 27, 2017 by Alec Simkiss
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Why we should be more critical of popular media
February 16, 2015 by Ceillie Simkiss
The millennial generation has grown up with our identities being tied up in our favorite pop culture things. I, for example, have always been extremely bookish, but other people I grew up with are movie or TV buffs or gamers. We all have our own beliefs that we ascribe to, and that shows a […]
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