Lights, Camera, Action: Matthew Graves | The Daily Mississippian
A very nice article on Matthew in today’s Daily Mississippian. We already know of his awesomeness, but it’s nice to see folks outside of Kinard beginning to figure it out as well. Lights, Camera, Action: Matthew Graves | The Daily Mississippian.
The Votes are In!
From the Oxford Film Festival website: “The 2011 Oxford Film Festival came to a close last Sunday night, and now the ballots for audience favorite are in. Mississippi Innocence, the non-competition documentary by filmmaker Joe York, took home the top prize for overall audience favorite. Two years in the making and produced with Tucker Carrington and […]
MDP shines at the OFF.
I hope you will indulge my expressing the pride I feel for the folks I am lucky enough to work with every day. Their talent was showcased at the Oxford Film festival. Nice job Micah Ginn and Matthew Graves–“The Hanging of Big Todd Wade,” Matthew Graves–“Oh Christmas Triage,” and Joe York– “Mississippi Innocence,” which played […]
Mississippi Innocence
MISSISSIPPI INNOCENCE tells the story of Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer, two men who combined spent over thirty years behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit. Here is the trailer that we’ve created for the Oxford Film Festival pre-screening of Joe York’s moving film, Mississippi Innocence. Produced with Tucker Carrington and the Mississippi Innocence Project […]
Snow Day(s)
Matthew Graves doesn’t know anything about a snowcation. While the rest of us were enjoying a day on the “slopes” of Oxford, Matthew was there to record it. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas from Media and Documentary Projects
Every year, the University of Mississippi lights up the tree in front of the lyceum for the holidays. Here’s a short video of this year’s tree. From all of us at Media and Documentary Projects, have a Merry Christmas and a very safe and happy new year!
Ole Miss Rifle
Here is the final cut of the promotional spot we did for The Ole Miss Women’s Rifle Team a few weeks back. Special thanks to Coach Boothe and the Rifle team for allowing us to come out and shoot, especially Senior Colleen Tillson. Best of luck to the team as they continue their season. – […]
3D For You and Me
So we’re a few weeks removed from the jumbotron premiere of the 3D Giants spot and I wanted to take a minute (or 10) to talk about the production and thank all the people who helped make the event a success. We started down this 3D road around the beginning of the summer. I had […]
Let's Shoot This Thing
Last week we spent some time with the Ole Miss Rifle team producing a spot for them. Here’s a look behind the scenes of the shoot. I have a tendency while shooting to ask for one more take 5 or 6 times before I actually mean it! Check back in few days for the final […]
Matthew Graves is a Giant
Media and Documentary Projects producer Matthew Graves has been a very busy young man. This weekend we get to see the fruits of his labor kicking off the halftime show as Ole Miss hosts Auburn. Matthew has produced a 3D commercial featuring all of the varsity sports heros cast as giants roaming the Ole Miss […]
Congressional Debate
MDP was at the Overby Center tonight covering the First District Congressional Debate between incumbent Congressman Travis Childers and his opponent Alan Nunnelee. We shot the event to edit together later and also streamed it for an overflow crowd. We are happy to post it here as well for anyone who may be still undecided. […]
Rebel Run
Every year, the Ole Miss Freshman Class makes the “Rebel Run” just before kick-off of a home football game. This year over 1,500 students made the 100 yard dash across Hollingsworth Field inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Help us welcome the University of Mississippi Class of 2014.
Unidentified footage from the Ole Miss archives…
Maybe you can help put some names with these faces. This film had no label, so during our transferring process we had no way to know who was in it or when it was made. It was made by folks here on campus but that’s about all we know. If you can identify anyone in […]
"The UnRetireds"
As promised and only a week late, here is the exclusive, world premiere of the 2010 Ole Miss Filmmaking Workshop Action Movie Trailer, “The UnRetireds” Special thanks goes out to all the (patient) students in the workshop whose talents are on full display in the trailer. Best of luck to each of them as they […]
Class Is In Session
Micah, our new student worker Matt Minshew, and I were out and about on campus this morning documenting the first day of class. It was cool to see the students starting the semester. They seem so excited. Maybe we should document the 2nd week of class and compare. Anyways, here is the short highlight video […]
Almost There
With only 1 more day to go until the world premiere of “The UnRetireds”, what would a fake action movie trailer be without a blooper reel to accompany it? Check back tomorrow afternoon for the finished trailer!
Ford Center Promo 2010-2011 Season
This is the Ford Center Promo I did for the upcoming 2010-2011 Season! Hope you enjoy it.
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Let's Break it Down
It’s been a while since I’ve posted so I wanted to come back with a bang. Micah and I recently wrapped up the 2010 Summer Film Workshop where 12 high school and college age kids put up with us for a week of film theory lectures, tutorials, and film screenings. As part of the class […]
Cut/Chop/Cook is "Sizzling"
A very nice notice of Cut/Chop/Cook on the Sizzle on the Grill blog where they ask and answer: “What is REAL barbeque? – This.” The blog goes on to say “The University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance created this video profile of Rodney Scott, a second generation owner/operator […]
Class is In!
Micah and Matthew have been helping create a new generation of filmmakers this week teaching the University of Mississippi’s ninth annual Filmmaking Workshop. The class is four days of intensive instruction in the techniques of filmmaking as well as an opportunity for students to get hand-on experience with all aspects of creating a film. Stay […]
Home Movie Highlights
Media & Documentary Projects recently teamed up with the Oxford Film Festival, the YAC, Rock Star Taxi and First National Bank to host a seminar on home movie preservation. As a primer for the event, we showed this 2-minute highlight reel of some of the images we’ve transferred here over the past few years. We’ve […]
"Smokes & Ears" NYC screening featured in Clarion Ledger
“Smokes & Ears” a co-production of the University of Mississippi’s Media & Documentary Projects Center & the Southern Foodways Alliance, was featured today in Jackson’s Clarion Ledger. Check out the article here. The short documentary by Joe York chronicles the Big Apple Inn, a sandwich shop on Farish Street in Jackosn, MS, that specializes in […]
"Smokes & Ears" to screen at New York Food Film Festival
Smokes & Ears, a short documentary by MDP producer Joe York, will screen this Friday night, June 25th, at the New York Food Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the Big Apple Inn on historic Farish Street in Jackosn, MS, and was produced by MDP and the Southern Foodways Alliance in recognition of Geno Lee, owner/operator […]
"Southern Food: The Movie" gets nod in "The Atlantic"
In February, MDP and the Southern Foodways Alliance embarked on a year-long project which will result in the feature-length documentary “Southern Food: The Movie”. Since then, project director Joe York has filmed segments throughout South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and along the Gulf Coast from Empire, Louisiana, to Apalachicola, Florida. In between trips, Joe sat down […]
Cut/Chop/Cook
Last week, MDP producer Joe York traveled to New York to screen his latest short documentary Cut/Chop/Cook at the Big Apple BBQ Block Party and at the Southern Foodways Alliance’s Potlikker Film Festival NYC. The film profiles Rodney Scott of Scott’s Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, South Carolina. Says Scott, “We only cook with wood and I’m […]
SST in the NYT!
Congrats to Tyler Keith, Eric Griffis, and Meghan Leonard–Southern Studies grad. students whose film on the Brown Family Dairy was featured in the New York Times today with a wonderful article on the Brown family. This film came out of the Documentary Fieldwork class that we taught last spring with David Wharton at the Center […]
Filmmaking Workshop Hi-Lites!
Here’s a little bit of behind-the-scenes action from the filmmaking workshop that Media & Documentary Projects helped put on last month. We worked with the Boys & Girls Club, the Oxford Film Festival, and local filmmakers Nitin and Deepak Mantena of Celery Studios in creating a day-long filmmaking camp for local children. Look for the […]
Preserving your home movies
On Tuesday, June 22 from 7 until 8:30, the Oxford Film Fest, in partnership with the Center for Media and Documentary Projects at the University of Mississippi, will host a free clinic at the Powerhouse on preserving your home movies. Whether your films are 8mm, Super 8mm, VHS, Beta, or even 16mm, come on out […]
The basics of shooting good video
This free seminar covers the basics of shooting good video. Be it for the home movie shooter, or the burgeoning filmmaker, this free workshop will introduce the basics of composition, light, sound, and camera movement. Bring your home movie camera for help understanding how to get the most out of it, or work with one […]
Engineering a New Academic Network Profile
Here is the latest addition to the Academic Network profile video series we have been producing this year. This profile focuses on the School of Engineering, touching on the variety of programs that students can focus on including Civil, Chemical, Geological, Mechanical, General, Electrical, and Computer Science. This particular profile comes from a longer piece […]
