Christopher Llewellyn Reed @ Stevenson

2010-05-02_VID325_20, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

On the left, Adjunct Video Professor Rich Sayers acts in an HD project shot by Junior Video Major Kevin Marshall, on the right.

Kevin is shooting with the Panasonic HVX200, in the lobby of my apartment building.

For more photos from the shoot, click on the image, above.

2010-04-30_Smith_Roger_Guenveur_054, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

From left to right:

Keith Kutch, Dean of the School of Design

Chris Reed, Assistant Professor, Department of Film/Video/Theatre
(will be Associate Professor, starting Academic Year
2010-2011)

Chris Roberts, Chair, Department of Film/Video/Theatre

Roger Guenveur Smith, Artist-in-Residence, Actor/Writer

G.T. Keplinger, Assistant Professor, Department of Film/Video/Theatre

A disclaimer – there were 3 cameras clicking away at once, so some of us are looking in different directions for a reason.  Also, I had just re-watched The Family Man, with Nicolas Cage, and was doing my best imitation of him in the alternate reality scene where he tries on a suit.  Really, it’s true . . .

2010-04-30_Smith_Roger_Guenveur_049, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

Actor Roger Guenveur Smith was Stevenson University’s Department of Film/Video/Theatre’s first invitee to what we hope will be an ongoing Artist-in-Residence series.

During the day, Roger led improv workshops with our students. Pictured here, from L to R, are Roger Guenveur Smith, Theatre Major Marty Hoegg – Class of 2010 – and Film/Video/Theatre Department Chair Chris Roberts.

See the post previous to this one for all of the info on the day and on the evening’s screening of Do the Right Thing.

Click on the photo to be taken to my Flickr account and more photos!

On Friday, April 30, 2010, Stevenson University’s Department of Film/Video/Theatre is proud to host actor Roger Guenveur Smith as its first invitee to what we hope will be an ongoing Artist-in-Residence series.  During the day, Roger will lead improv workshops with our students.  That evening, at 6pm, there will be a reception in the Inscape Theatre lobby, followed by a screening, at 7pm, of Spike Lee’s 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing, in which Roger plays Smiley, the stuttering Malcolm X fan (and, in many ways, the voice of conscience for the entire film).  Afterwards, Roger will be present for a Q&A session with the audience.

Please note, the reception and screening are open and free to the general public.

Please join us for what will surely be an exciting event!

Come to the Senior Film & Video Showcase on Thursday, May 13, and Friday, May 14, at 6pm each evening, in the Inscape Theatre on the Greenspring Campus.

Our Seniors will be showing their final film and video projects, some documentary, some fiction.

It should be a great two nights of films, and we hope to see you at one of the two showcases.  The Thursday program will feature the work of Chris Reed’s FIVTH450 section, while the Friday program will feature the work of G.T. Keplinger’s FIVTH450 section.

Check out Elyssa Lambert’s new documentary, recently made for VID325 (Video Production): VID325 Documentary by Elyssa Lambert

Elyssa is the student pictured in the blog posting previous to this one.

Thanks for watching!

2010.04.06_VID325Practice_01, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

Look at this wonderful product placement for both Apple and the Panasonic P2 camera series!

Here, Junior video major Elyssa Lambert takes her turn in front of the camera in our in-class practice today for Junior video major Britney Empty’s upcoming narrative film shoot.

After completing their documentary projects, VID325 (Video Production) students now move on to their narrative (fiction) films. These are based on scripts that they wrote in the first half of the semester, as they were filming and editing their documentaries.

With our new fleet of Panasonic HVX200 HD cameras, we hope to allow as many students as possible to shoot in the latest high definition video formats.

HampdenEaster_2010.04.04_02, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

. . . Bunnies . . . I love bunnies . . .

Easter is so much fun.

Meow!

That’s right!  You heard it here first, folks.  The announcement of this very important discovery comes on the eve of our Easter Break.  Stay tuned for more details on the sure-to-be-granted Nobel Prize in Chemistry (the first ever given to a non-scientist).  As the French would say, “poisson d’avril!”

CDC2010_110, originally uploaded by Christopher Llewellyn Reed.

Seniors, from left to right, Brittany Proudfoot (English and Theatre major) and Sarah Eikmeier (Video major) visit the Hollywood sign on this past week’s Stevenson University trip to Los Angeles, for the 34th annual Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Loyola Marymount University.

Also attending were the following Stevenson faculty members: Jim Salvucci, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; Laura Snyder, Associate Professor of English, and Comparative Drama Conference Board Member; and Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Assistant Professor of Film/Video/Theatre.

Starting in 2012, the Comparative Drama Conference will come to Baltimore, as it will be hosted by Stevenson University.