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MTV rolls tape across campus
“What up everyone, I’m George, and you’re watching
The Dean’s List.” A hip presence hit the quad last
Tuesday when MTV’s new university-based channel, mtvU, filmed
a politically themed episode of a music show with AU’s Democratic
and Republican clubs. Junior Noah Black, president of the College
Democrats and senior Ibbie Hedrick, his Republican counterpart,
led a band of students sporting stickers, buttons, and signs, including
one with a photo of George Bush and the words “My Hero.”
The Dean’s List, a show that counts down the top ten
most popular music videos of the day, was helping to support MTV’s
“Choose or Lose: 20 Million Loud” campaign to get young
people to vote in this year’s presidential election. The perky
VJ, George Oliphant, above with mike, told the group they were looking
for sound bites and minidebates about the presidential candidates
and then led the filming across campus to the steps of Battelle-Tompkins,
the Eagle statue, AU’s Massachusetts Avenue gate, and the steps
of the McKinley Building.
The Freshmen, an mtvU show that screens new music videos
to college students, also filmed on campus last week. VJ Maria Sansone,
below, taped the AU episode in the Media Production Center with
students from Seema Goyal’s SOC class, Film and Video Production
I. Using what they’ve learned so far from Goyal, the students
were able to have a technical discussion about the videos’
production and design as well as react to the music. Both mtvU shows
will air several times during the first week of March.
Since its launch a month ago, mtvU has been available only in university
settings, such as dining rooms, student lounges, and dorm rooms.
Oliphant and Sansone film their shows at schools across the country
and were at Howard University two weeks ago and the University of
Maryland shortly after their visit to AU.
—EDJ
Photos
by Jeff Watts
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