The Academy for Creative Media in University of Hawaii’s College of Arts and Humanities encourages students to tell their own stories while applying the different aspects of digital media. This program offers courses in Digital Media, Computer Animation, and Critical Studies - allowing students to master their skills in narrative, story telling, and digital media. Students in this program have the opportunity to create their own program in film studies beyond the ACM core courses. Students are also provided with an ACM Media Center, which is where all of the equipments are held for students to check in and out and to report any problems with the equipments. Students also have access to tutorials to aide them with the basic operating of the equipment. Students in the ACM program produce over 100 short films every semester. These films are entered into competitions in local film festivals. ACM is also part of an international program called the Student Media Art Exchange. This is an integrated program with China that allows students to film on location and gives students the opportunity to experience filmmaking outside of the school complex. Students gain a better outlook in the film-making business through this international program.
WongFu Productions is an independent production company who is well-known through YouTube. Ted Fu, Wesley Chan, and Philip Wang create short films, music videos, and vlogs. They write, direct, and edit on their own with their own equipment. They have also started their own t-shirt brand, Nice Guy, designed, run, and modeled by them as well. Collaborating with Far East Movement has given them the opportunity to begin their own concert series known as the International Secret Agents, held seasonally with various artists in the making, such as David Choi, Kina Grannis, and many other famous YouTube artists. Their videos are very inspirational and they are able to bring a positive impact on themselves and to their audience. They are very entertaining and they have succeeded in reaching a new aspect of film-making through their own humor. Today, they are working on a new series and collaborating with Far East Movement and many other YouTube artists, as previously mentioned, to develop their new Spring Concert Tour 2011.
MainStay Productions is another “underground” and independent professional company in the making - focused in the art of film-making. There isn’t much information about their background and the development of the company. However, they are exemplary for multi-tasking and time management. As of now, they have 10 open projects in various stages of development. Their challenge is finding the time to focus on just one of the projects. Their collaboration skills and their ability to manage their time wisely allows them to be able to progress through all 10 projects, but at the same time, develop quality work. MainStay Productions is currently working on a Hunger Games Project. They have previously released previews and sneak peeks of their project, which is the cave scene with Katniss and Peeta, Rue’s death scene with Katniss, and a small introduction to Mockingjay. This is not the only project they are working. They are also working hard in producing Taylor Swift’s official music video for her song, Mary. They were able to contact her record label and they have started a campaign to help them become selected to shoot her music video. They have many projects in the making and yet they are able to produce them with quality content, cinematography, videography, and sound.
The Jubilee Project is also another film-making crew. Their videos are mainly focused in bringing awareness about the issues occurring in society today, such as poverty in Africa and the blind. They receive sponsorships through their videos to help support the organizations who are helping those in need. The Jubilee Project’s main goal is to impact society in a positive manner, hopefully bringing about a change and influencing their audience to make a difference in the world today in the process.
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