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!
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 […]
The Spirit of '76!
As an ongoing project, we are constantly cleaning, repairing and digitizing the old 16mm film footage here at Ole Miss. In doing that, we try to share bits and pieces of the footage that we discover as we go along. Today’s offering is a hodge-podge of campus scenes from 1976. The footage offers a neat […]
The Kids stay in the picture!
This past Saturday, Micah Ginn and Chris Williams helped out during the Oxford Film Festival’s Kid’s Filmmaking Workshop. The event was hosted by the Boys & Girls Club of Oxford, with many of their members taking part in the production, as well as non-members from the community. The children worked with local filmmakers Nitin and […]
Harvest Time Again
Here are the final projects from the Southern Studies Documentary Fieldwork class we taught this semester with David Wharton. We are proud of the graduate students and the hard work that went into producing these documentaries. “Biker’s Preacher”, by Novelette Brown, Jake Fussell, and Amanda Lillard “A Grit Flick,” by J. Bingo Gunter “Brown Family […]
Blessing of the Fleet
In February, the UM Media & Documentary Projects Center and the Southern Foodways Alliance began work on a year-long project. The result will be a feature-length documentary film “Southern Food: The Movie.” Joe York, who is directing the film, recently returned from a two-week turn along the Gulf Coast where he filmed contestants at the […]
Documenting Our Backyard
Here is a Jackson Free Press review of “Smokes and Ears” that came out just before the Crossroads Film Festival–where it won the Best Mississippi Film award. This review sums up the Mission of the Media and Documentary Projects Center about as well as anything I could write. In a Pig’s Ear By Bret Kenyon […]
Ole Miss Moments
A collection of still and video moments that capture the spirit of the University of Mississippi. Produced by Karen Tuttle of the Media & Documentary Projects Center.
Sending out the Fleet
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, an Ole Miss alum and former Mississippi Governor, was the featured speaker at the 2010 commencement ceremony. Secretary Mabus challenged the Ole Miss class of 2010 to to always be ready … ready to learn, ready to serve, and ready to give back as they go their separate ways.
Civil War in Film
MDP was at the Overby Center tonight recording Professor Gary Gallagher’s lecture on the Civil War in Hollywood. The presentation, sponsored by the UM Center for Civil War Research, addressed the main interpretations of the Civil War as depicted in motion pictures.
Sarah's got an eye for Ole Miss
Sarah Kellum is a student-worker of ours who’s interest lie in cinematography. Her first solo flight with a video-camera in hand was last week, and here is what she cut together from her first time out with the Canon XL-1. Over the summer, Sarah will be working with our Panasonic HD cameras, as well as […]
Green Week
Here are a few excerpts from the Keynote Address and Sustainability Leadership Award Ceremony that took place yesterday at Off-Square Books as part of the University’s Green Week celebration. Enjoy!
Congrats to Joe York
Congratulations to Joe York whose “Smokes and Ears” took home the Ruma Award at the Crossroads Film Festival. The award, designed by artist Wyatt Waters honors the best Mississippi film. Joe has had quite a run this last month with screenings of films in California, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, and upcoming in New Zealand. Joe is also featured […]
NAB Exhibits Day 3 and Closing
Ahhh. That’s the word for today. After a long week of sessions and speakers and cameras and 3D and 3D and 3D, I’ve finally arrived back in Oxford. It was a great week and I tried to learn as much as I could but it’s nice to be back and I’m excited about getting back […]
NAB Exhibits Day 2
Whew. That’s the key word for yesterday at the NAB convention. I spent more time in the exhibit hall speaking to vendors and checking out the new gear. Once again, the big buzz word around here is 3D. I was amazed at how many different groups carried a 3D solution or rig. I was able […]
NAB Exhibits Day 1
Wow. The best word to describe yesterday’s opening of the exhibit hall at the 2010 NAB covention. Products from manufacturers all over the world were on full display and man did they come out swinging. One of the obvious connections with at least the camera makers were the 3D solutions. Everybody was touting their new […]
