Break-Out Box

If you’re into music, recording it, editing it, or producing it, then we got you covered. We’ve recently upgraded three audio apps in our software arsenal. The first is GarageBand. The basic, bare bones but powerful “recording studio” software from Apple. All the new apple audio apps have multi-take recording features. GarageBand adds something called “Magic GarageBand” (hilarious, even if it’s not very useful). The second is SoundTrack Pro . Very Cool. The Third is Logic Studio. A significant upgrade that de-clutters the interface, making professional recording and mixing even more accessible. Stop by and check them out. If you want a one-on-one session on how to use any of the apps, shoot me an email at mtdavi@wm.edu.

How to do Good Reporting in the Era of Globalization

When: Friday, September 21, 2:00-3:30 pm
Where: Ford Classroom, Media Center, Swem Library

This informal workshop will focus on issues of journalistic story
telling in multiple media: How to find a story and get the scenes needed
to tell the story well across “platforms.” How to “sell” that story so a
national show will run it. And, crucially, how to confront the ethical,
logistical, cultural and other challenges in telling the story well,
especially a story from outside the United States.

/Free and Open to All Comers!/
/Bring Your Questions & Ideas!/

Mary Stucky has been a TV, radio, and web journalist for more than
fifteen years. She a co-founders of Round Earth Productions, which
writes and produces stories that explain how the policies and actions of
the developed world change the lives of people around the globe. Mary
and Round Earth aim for vivid, personal stories that will help listeners
in America make informed decisions about globally important issues.
Currently Round Earth’s stories focus on Latin America and are broadcast
on public radio’s national news and cultural programs. In addition,
Round Earth reporting is carried on the websites of 70 commercial
television stations across the country and on the World Vision Report,
which airs on 300 mostly Christian radio stations nationwide.

In addition to her work with Round Earth Productions, Mary has reported
on Chinese and Mmong immigrants as part of the public radio documentary
“Crossing East,” which won a 2006 Peabody Award, broadcasting’s highest
honor. Mary has covered social and cultural issues, foreign affairs,
public policy and the environment in South America, Mexico, Cuba, Europe
and Canada. For 13 years, Mary was a reporter/anchor for the NBC-TV
affiliate in Minneapolis. Mary’s reporting awards include the New York
Festival’s Gold World Medal.

For other screenings of the film studies and media center, visit our calendar at http://swem.wm.edu/services/media/calendar.cfm

Sept 6 Thu, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
Who Will Sing a Lullaby …(29 min., dir. Nina Rudik, Ukraine 2006)

Masha’s father and Katya’s grandfather are on paternity leave. They are among the few men from Kiev who dared to use their right to take paternal leave. Challenging their traditional role as breadwinners, overcoming social stigma, and encouraging their wives to realize themselves outside of the home, Masha’s father and Katya’s grandfather do not think of themselves as heroes and dependants.

Sept 20 Thu, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
There are Women in Russian Villages (Dir. Pavel Kostomarov and Antoin Kattin, Russia 2006)

In this film, two women, a mother and a her daughter, demonstrate that poverty in Russia is increasingly a women’s phenomenon. Liuba and Alesya are milkmaids at a state farm—a profession that is underpaid and perceived as too strenuous for most people. But Liuba and Alesya, who are raising children and fleeting domestic violence, have little choice.

Sept 25 Tue, 5 pm., Ford Screening Room at Swem Library Media Center
Kristina and Christ (Dir. Inesa Kurklietyte, Lithuania 2006)

In Lithuania, women occupy a lower position than men in the Lutheran Church hierarchy. Kristina, a graduate of Oxford University, is not ordained to become a priest because she is a woman. As an assistant pastor, she could act as a lay person only. Committed to theology and educating others, she has focused on encouraging women and girls in her community to seek equal rights for women and men in the Church and society at large.

Films are introduced by Elena and Alexander Prokhorov