June 10, 2008
And the Emmy goes to . . . SOC
Twenty-two School of Communication (SOC) students earned more than a grade for their work on the PBS documentary EcoViews: The Chesapeake Bay, a 30-minute production, that aired on Maryland Public Television in April 2007. The student filmmakers also snagged a Student Emmy for the documentary that includes public service announcements and segments on the Anacostia River and the Mattaponi Indian Tribe.
On June 14, the students will each receive Emmy certificates and SOC will take home an Emmy plaque from the awards ceremony hosted by Barry Levinson ’67 and Tony Perkins ’81.
The award-winning production began in fall 2006, when both undergraduate and graduate students in Sandy Cannon-Brown’s Environmental and Wildlife Production class pitched and produced four six-minute segments on topics that included the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population and a program that teaches children about the bay’s ecosystem.
Simultaneously, the undergrads in Brigid Maher’s Motion Graphics course created opening and closing titles and four animated public service announcements to run between the longer documentary segments created by Cannon-Brown’s class.
Students winners are: Sam Aguirre, Andrea Bloom, Jesse Bogue, Jeffrey Buras, Zach Copeland, Daniela Echevarria, Ben Franz, Joe Grimme, Jennifer Harris, Jason Harwell, Vicki Hayes, Mindy Hirsch, Rebecca Howland, Ashley Lorenzo, Irene Magafan, Joe Maloney, Cyler Pennington, Geraldo Rodriguez, Troy Russell, Daniel Suarez, Melissa Sullivan, and Stephanie Winkler. —AF
