Interactive Media Showcase
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RIR Enterprises - Student Project - SMAD major Jenn Schulz created this site as an assignment in SMAD 307. The company is a general contracting and real estate investment business. The site is a rich source of information about the company and includes referrals, household hints and forms. |
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Dangus Kahn and the Tornadoes |
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An Interactive Guide to Driving a Manual Transmission Car - Student Project - SMAD student Kevin Freiberger created this Flash-base site that instructs users how to drive a car with a manual transmission. Images, video and animation help users understand how a manual transmission works, how to shift and even allows them to drive a car around a track. |
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Artistic Photography - Student Project - SMAD student Ben Markowitz created this site for Harrisonburg-based photographers Rodney and Lyn Good and their company "Artistic Photography." The site contains a gallery of their work, including wedding, engagement, children, family and commercial photography. There are also sections on events and contact information. |
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Center for Faculty Innovation - Student Project - SMAD student Tim Farley created this site in over the summer of 2006, while he worked at the JMU "Center for Instructional Technology." He continues to maintain the site, but it was setup to allow the easy addition of new program information in the future. |
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Interactive HDTV Production Tutorial - Faculty Project - Created by professor Tom McHardy, this site takes users through various technical and production aspects of high definition television. The project won 1st place in the "Teaching Sites" category of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) Juried Web Design Competition, held in Toronto in September 2004. |
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Video Exposure Control Tutorial - Faculty Project - The Video Exposure Control Tutorial was created by professors Steve Anderson and Joe Hinshaw. This project won the Best of Festival award in the "2004 BEA Festival of Media Arts" in Las Vegas. It was judged to be the top award among 33 submissions in the "Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition." The tutorial takes users through the experience of adjusting a camera and lights based on different lighting and exposure challenges. |
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Interactive Depth of Field Tutorial - Faculty Project - This is an online tutorial on depth of field created by professors Joe Hinshaw and Steve Anderson. The tutorial won two national awards; Best of Show in the 2002 BEA Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition (BEA Festival of Film, Video and Media Arts) and second place (out of 27 entries) in the teaching sites category of the 2002 AEJMC Best of the Web Competition. |
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VR Reporter - Faculty Project - VR-reporter is an interactive simulation of television newsgathering created by Tom McHardy. Students use the CD-ROM to explore a 360° crime scene. Tom's project received the Best of Show award in the 2001 BEA Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition and has been published by First Light Video Publishers. |
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Basic 3-Point Lighting Tutorial - Faculty Project - This online learning simulation enables introductory video production students to independently explore basic lighting cause and effect. Created by professor Rustin Greene, it received 2nd Place in the 1998 Broadcast Education Association's Interactive Multimedia Competition. |

MACRoCkumentary was produced by SMAD Digital Video students in support of the SMAD Scholarship Fund and MacRock. It recreates the chaos of hosting a grassroots Indie-Rock conference in a rural Virginia college town.
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