A HIGH-DEF EXPERIENCE:
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nterface Media Group, a media production company that John Hodges, JMU technology manager, says the high
serves clients ranging from PBS to the Peace Corps, is definition facility is “certainly in the top 5 percent of
always on the hunt for highly qualified, motivated recruits. universities in the United States. And I don’t have to say for a
It’s no surprise then, that school our size… We have an
11 SMAD grads work at the amazing facility, period.”
award-winning Washington, The television studio
D.C., firm, which boasts a features three Ikegami HD
$10 million digital facility. cameras and a four-person
Interface Media Producer anchor station.
and JMU alumni Matt Next to the studio is
Uvena says, “We know a control room featuring
exactly what we’re going to two flat-screen 63-inch HD
get,” when they snatch up a monitors that any football fan
former Duke dog. would die for on Super Bowl
That’s in large part Sunday.
because the university A Grass Valley Kayak
invested $1.5 million for Switcher, a 24-channel
video technology that’s built Wheatstone audio board
for the future. and a Chyron Duet character
“It’s a competitive world, generator light up the room.
so we want students to The dual monitor HD
have the absolute best in editing stations are one floor
equipment,” said Digital
Hot seats: Nick Mueller, Christina Cangelosi, Alex Harrison and Alex
above the studio, where
Taylor get hands-on experience in the production room during a live
Video Professor John oodyW .
broadcast.
students work with Final
In 2007, SMAD unveiled Cut Pro (FCP) and Motion
a high definition video studio, control room and classroom applications.
with 16 digital editing stations. It’s a high tech wonderland, Sarah Hannon, a senior Digital Video major said, “After
bursting with creative potential for the fertile imaginations of working with Windows movie maker or iMovie for most
SMAD students. of my life —where you fight with the program — FCP is a
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