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Central Michigan Life
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Governor speaking Thursday at CMU Granholm to discuss Michigan Promise at Park Library Staff Reports
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Blanchard senior Mike Miserendino edits audio and video clips together Saturday afternoon during the 48-hour film festival, where students had exactly two days to shoot, edit and produce a film.
The art of the 48-hour film Students compete in competition for $50 prize By Luke Dimick Staff Reporter
Produce, direct, film and edit a 7-minute film in 48 hours. That is what four teams of students did over the weekend for the fourth annual 48hour film competition hosted by the Central Michigan University chapter of the National Broadcasting Society. The competition began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at 6 p.m. Sunday. To keep participants from doing extensive preproduction, the film competition committee released a list of elements each film must include: Line — “I can’t help but feel you’re lying to me.” Location — Stoop Theme — Good guys don’t always wear white hats Prop — Cup of coffee Scene — A showdown “A lot of people come up with ideas ahead of time, but we hope that by mak-
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ing an elements list that we will keep them from writing or filming anything before the competition starts,” said Grass Lake junior and film competition chairman Colin Hennessy. “It helps to keep things in the 48-hour spirit and keeps people from cheating when faced with a challenge.” The films will be judged by Kurt Wilson, executive producer of Public Broadcasting. The first-place film will receive a $50 cash prize and second place will receive gift cards and other random prizes. The films will be showcased and winners will be announced Nov. 30 in Moore Hall Room 110. The time has not been yet announced. “We like to have outside sources judge the films so that NBS members can participate and non-NBS members don’t think we are playing favorites toward any one team,” Hennessy said. Saint Clair Shores graduate assistant Garrett Tanner was up for the challenge for the third consecutive year. This is a chronicling of the making of his group’s short film “Revenge.”
“For me, it’s just so much fun. Even if we place dead last, I don’t care, it’s just so much fun being able to go up and see what you can do against other people and see the creative process.” Garrett Tanner, Saint Clair Shores graduate assistant 6:30 p.m. Thursday Blanchard senior Mike Miserendino sits at the computer in his Jamestown apartment and begins the preproduction for his group’s sevenminute film. Preproduction is the most important element to the success of a film, he said. “You can’t write a script until you have the elements, but there is a certain amount of planning you can do beforehand,” Tanner said. “It’s hard to go in completely blind so, in the past, what we’ve done is, at the very least, decide whether we want to do a horror movie or a comedy. If you have a genre, then you can basically go where ever you want with it.”
8 p.m. Thursday Miserendino begins writing the script for “Revenge,” a horrific tale of murder and revenge. 10:05 p.m. Thursday The script is finished. “We decided to do a horror movie, then we decided to do a revenge movie, and then we decided to combine them,” Miserendino said. “After talking with everyone, I developed a character that I thought would fit the situation. I wanted a concise plot that would be both horrifying and that would support a revenge movie plot line. A film | 2A
Gov. Jennifer Granholm will speak from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Thursday in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium regarding the status of the Michigan Promise. According to a forwarded email sent over a Leadership Institute listserv by Coordinator of Leadership Development Dan Gaken, Gov. Granholm Mike Zeig, a former Student Government Association President and appointments specialist for the governor, said Granholm will speak on campus to students regarding the Michigan Promise, which was eliminated from the state budget in October. The scholarship, which provided $4.2 million to 4,200 students attending Central Michi-
If you go... w What: Gov. Jennifer Granholm speaking on the Michigan Promise w When: 9:15 a.m. Thursday w Where: Charles V. Park Library Auditorium
gan University, began in 2007 after the state legislature voted to increase the state-sponsored award to $4,000 from $2,500. During a conference call Thursday with reporters, Granholm said she wants to reallocate some funds from the Earned Income Tax Credit to help fund the Promise. Granholm also will speak at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Saginaw Valley State University and Oakland Community College. Campus Conservatives sent a release Sunday, saying the group plans to protest the event at 8:30 a.m. Thursday outside the Park Library Auditorium. The group cited the trip as a “partisan political rally.” university@cm-life.com
Cameras add security to residence halls 49 installed in four halls; others receive upgrades Staff Reports
Four residence halls received extra surveillance during the summer and fall. Shaun Holtgreive, associate director of Residence Life, said 49 cameras were installed in Merrill, Sweeney, Beddow and Thorpe halls. Upgrades were implemented to the cameras in Saxe, Herrig, Celani and Fabiano halls, as well as the Towers residence halls. “It gives us the ability to monitor doors and respond to unauthorized doors being propped open,” Holtgreive said. The cameras on the exterior of the residence halls are next to entrances and side doors, as well as in the main areas of the floors. Holtgreive said the cameras on top of buildings did not provide the quality of picture he was looking for. He said the parking lots and building perimeters of campus will be left up to Central Michigan University Police,
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Beddow Hall: 9 Merrill Hall: 16 Sweeney Hall: 12 Thorpe Hall: 12
not Residence Life. “We have got the areas of concern for us (covered),” Holtgreive said.
Cost: $150,000 The cost for the cameras’ wiring and software for Merrill, Sweeney, Beddow and Thorpe halls was $150,000, Holtgreive said. The upgrades to the Towers area, along with Fabiano, Saxe, Herrig and Celani halls, did not cost Residence Life anything because it was equipment they already had, said Coordinator of Residential Security Ben Witt. CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley said there are more than 300 cameras on campus. He anticipates more cameras will be installed in parking lots and on buildings throughout the campus as remodels and money perA SECURITY cameras | 2A
Diwali Night attracts about 400 By Sherri Keaton Senior Reporter
Little candles flickered along the edges of the walls and tabletops in celebration of the “Festival of Lights” during Sunday evening’s Diwali Night celebration. At the Ward Theatre, 218 S. Main St., the Indian Student Association celebrated Diwali Night with about 400 attendees who immersed themselves in Indian culture. The music was like a heartbeat, pumping movement through the veins of Jessica Rorai, Office of International
Affairs admissions officer, who said she was excited to be there. “The music (there) makes me want to dance, you just can’t sit there. You gotta move,” she said. ISA president and India senior Vinaya Adusumilli said Indian people are not as different as they may seem. “I hope people may be very patient and they understand how Indians get adjusted into American life,” she said. A fashion show and several dance numbers took place with colorful saris, traditional cotton or silk female
cm-life.com See the Web site for an audio slideshow from Diwali Night. India outer garment, that ranged in deep golds, blues and pinks. India graduate student Venubabu Nallamothu said he loved the fashion show and felt that he was home. “It was very good, I would like people to know about our traditions within each other,” he said. studentlife@cm-life.com
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Sana Gala, 9, performs an Indian dance during Diwali Night Sunday at Grace Church, 218 S. Main St. Diwali is the Hindu Festival of Lights holiday.
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