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Interactive Media Lab Technician

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Maxine Goodman-Levin College of Urban Affairs: Interactive Media Lab Technician (November 2005- October 2007)

As an Interactive Media Lab Technician, Alma shot, edited and published video of class lectures and college forum events. She also provided comprehensive on-ground tech support for conferences and events within the college. Alma expanded the multi-media interactivity of the college website and created CD-ROMs for online classes.

Later in her time in that position, Alma authored and distributed DVD copies of the college television series Urban Issues, some of which she was on the production team for (through her Multi-Source Video Production course).

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Video Editor, SmART in the City program DVD, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation

By • On • In Coursework and Research, Productions

One of the great benefits of the Film & Digital Media program was the ability to do professional work around the Cleveland area in conjunction with courses. Most of these are featured elsewhere in my CV.

In Alma’s Advanced Video and Audio Editing class, she was given video footage from a summer arts and education program organized by the Cleveland Foundation and she got to edit those hours of footage in to a 2-3 minute montage of interviews and performance. This was then assembled with other similar pieces and presented to the students and foundation donors as a produced DVD in the program at an event, which Alma supported technology for.

Alma ingested and logged DV tape and edited the piece using AVID DV Pro.

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Horizon League Webcasting

By • On • In Employment, Productions, Teams and Groups

After taking a course in Multi-Source Live Video Production, Alma was qualified to join the crew of students who shot the University Men’s and Women’s Basketball games. During her time on staff, she regularly ran cables and set up cameras and tripods on the arena platforms before and after games. In addition, she operated cameras during most games both in the seating areas and immediately court side (on one occasion, Alma was even stepped on by a fast-moving J’Nathan Bullock) and she ran CG, updating scores for several games.

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Production Assistant: Red {an orchestra}

By • On • In Productions, Volunteering

After taking a course on multi-source video production, students in the Digital Video Communication program at Cleveland State University can volunteer as Production Assistants for live productions that the faculty and staff are involved with.

This one-day production took place in the Masonic Auditorium in Cleveland, it was a twelve-camera set up with several media trucks digitizing the output for a live performance within Second Life. The Ikegami cameras had long-throw zooms and crank focuses. Quite honestly, it was the most professional broadcast camera Alma have ever used.

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Media Designer, CSU Theater Production of The Laramie Project

By • On • In Coursework and Research, Education, Productions, Self-Teaching, Teams and Groups

Directed by Dr Michael Mauldin

The Laramie Project documents the lives and reactions of a Wyoming community as they are immersed in the aftermath of the brutal murder of Matthew Sheppard. It contains the moving interviews by witnesses, family and friends and transcripts of court proceedings.

A scene in the play portrays the jarring descent of the national media on to the quite town of Laramie, many productions send all cast members armed with news paraphernalia storming through the audience. This, in addition to a greater integration of digital media in to the play, necessitated a cross-department outreach in Cleveland State University’s production. Alma was involved in a production of this play in high school as a member of house crew, and when she heard that my university was going to be producing it, she was compelled to be even more involved. When Alma heard of the need for a liaison between the Theater Arts department and the School of Communication, she worked with the faculty involved to develop an Independent Study course.

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