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Hurricane Katrina, Behind the Headlines

Ten years ago, Professor Joseph B. Treaster led The New York Times’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst disasters in American history. Professor Treaster, who had been covering hurricanes for years, was one of the few reporters from a major news organization in New Orleans when the storm hit in late August, 2005 and he stayed with the story for days, working nearly around the clock, scavenging food and water, catching naps on a cot in the emergency operations center at City Hall.  As Professor Treaster tried to [...]

August 27, 2015|Journalism|
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MFA Graduate Tim Warren Wins International Award for Whiskey Spot

Tim Warren, a School of Communication Cinema and Interactive Media M.F.A. graduate in motion pictures, won a Finalist award at the New York Festivals’ International Advertising Awards for his Master’s thesis highlighting the mystique of the Johnnie Walker brand.  The student spot was shot in South Florida, the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, and New York City. More than 60 industry professionals worked in sub-zero weather conditions, with a full special effects team, elite lighting crew and camera equipment, and the only Milo Motion Control Camera Rig in the [...]

2019-12-17T19:36:46-05:00August 26, 2015|Advertising, Motion Pictures|
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10th Annual Canes Film Showcase

For many filmmakers, screening their film in Los Angeles is an opportunity that rarely comes. For motion picture students from University of Miami’s School of Communication, that dream is about to be realized. On June 4 at 8 p.m., the 10th annual Canes Film Showcase presents to a theater of leading industry professionals the top five student films and best screenplay, as judged in May during UM School of Communication’s Canes Film Festival. Screening are Espionage 101, Home, El Mar y El, The Mermaid, and I Want to Beat up [...]

August 22, 2015|Motion Pictures|
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Canes Film Showcase Screens Student Projects

From a migrant worker in Beijing to a would-be “Marielito” in Cuba, from hacking computers to “hooking up” in college, the Canes Film Showcase offered a wide variety of subject matter and style for the 450 attendees who filled the Directors Guild of America theater on Hollywood’s famed Sunset Boulevard, Thursday evening, June 4. The annual event, in its tenth year, showcases five student films selected by judges as the best of the Canes Film Festival, held each spring at the University of Miami. Those students then get to travel to Los [...]

August 22, 2015|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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UM Publications Win Mark of Excellence Awards

The Mark of Excellence awards honor the best journalism students. Awarded by the Society of Professional Journalists, students in print, radio, television and online collegiate journalism are recognized. To be eligible for this award, students cannot have had full-time or professional journalism experience except for internships. The contest is open to all college students studying journalism either in the U.S. or internationally. Entries are judged on accuracy and completeness, originality and creativity, adherence to high journalistic standards, significance and effectiveness, clarity, insight and respect for the audience, creative use of [...]

2019-12-17T19:39:31-05:00August 22, 2015|Broadcast Journalism, Journalism|
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Calle Ocho at 360 Degrees

In a strip mall on Eighth Street in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, there’s a typical Cuban coffee shop named Pablo’s Cafecito. The only way to get a seat at the counter is to put on your Oculus. Pablo’s Cafecito is the setting for Calle Ocho, the University of Miami School of Communication’s first venture into 360 degree filming. Previous films using virtual reality (VR) technology have taken viewers to the tops of mountains or on bike rides through the country. Calle Ocho is the first student-produced narrative 360 degree film, [...]

August 22, 2015|Interactive Media, Motion Pictures|
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Beloved Journalism Professor Alan Prince Passes Away

For more than two decades, Alan Prince drilled School of Communication students at the University of Miami in journalistic writing, editing and history. To each class, say students, faculty and administrators, he brought a keen sense of integrity, knowledge and professional know-how. Prince, who retired from the university in 2000, suffered a fall in March after which he contracted the flu and pneumonia.  In and out of the hospital and rehabilitation centers for the past three months, Prince died under the care of a family friend on June 17. “I [...]

August 22, 2015|Journalism|
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School of Communication Offers a Semester in LA

Starting in the spring semester of 2016, selected senior and junior students majoring in motion pictures or media management will have the opportunity to gain professional experience through a 14-week semester in Los Angeles. The semester is supervised by School of Communication faculty and taught in LA by handpicked adjuncts with professional experience and advanced degrees.  Program participants will be expected to take 12 credits of classes and three credits of supervised internship. “I’m personally extremely excited because this semester in Los Angeles offers a huge opportunity to our media [...]

August 22, 2015|Media Management, Motion Pictures|
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Unsavory Earns Gold Honor in International Serious Play Competition

Unsavory, the mobile game developed by NERDLab at the University of Miami’s School of Communication in collaboration with Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, won a gold honor in the Games for Good category at the 2015 International Serious Play Awards competition. The competition recognizes outstanding examples of titles that deliver a high quality of engagement and learning opportunities for students, employees, or other education or training situations. Unsavory places game players in the role of a restaurant employee at an eatery named Rocket Taco to see if they can prepare [...]

2019-12-17T19:39:18-05:00August 22, 2015|Interactive Media|
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Robert’s Rules for Summer Camp

Summer is a time when students are free from school and parents scramble to find a camp their child can have fun in, but that is also educational. With so many camp choices, probably the hardest sell for a parent to make to their free-from-the-constraints-of-learning child would be... debate camp. I can hear the conversation now: "You mean a camp that's like school,” asks a dumbfounded child. "Kind of, but I swear it's fun," says a parent with a trembling voice. This is the part when tears and arguments start [...]

August 22, 2015|Communication Studies|
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