Join Dr. Larry Hester and Dr. Garland Owensby, March 8-17
Join Dr. Larry Hester and Dr. Garland Owensby, March 8-17
Join Dr. Larry Hester and Dr. Garland Owensby, March 8-17
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BackpackJournalismDigital Media Arts students beginMission TEN Documentary2011SAGU’s Digital Media Arts studentsjoin student-led missionary teams tocreate a groundbreaking, feature-lengthdocumentary (currently under the workingtitle “World 101”) of their 2011 journey.The project gives Digital Media Artsstudents h<strong>and</strong>s-on training by tellingthe stories of missionaries worldwide.SAGU Director of World Ministries ChadGermany shares, “This will be a powerful,factual demonstration of the Gospel inword <strong>and</strong> deed. It can challenge <strong>and</strong> recruitstudents <strong>and</strong> even win people to Christ asit is shown in the United States.”Nine journalists will divide into2-person teams to travel on <strong>17</strong> MissionTEN summer trips. Each team will carrya backpack containing a laptop, a highdefinition camera that shoots video <strong>and</strong>still photos, a tripod, two external harddrives, a wireless audio kit, <strong>and</strong> a light <strong>and</strong>reflector kit.SAGU student Brianna Woodsoncommunicates the importance of BackpackJournalism, “We are such a visual societynow…to portray these stories, to catchpeople’s attention, we have to move withthe culture–in the direction of media.”The journalism teams will film<strong>and</strong> report 2-3 personal interviews orministries while in each country. Thedocumentary will be studentproducedwith facultyoversight. Studentswill takeparticularcare to protect missionaries’ identities.“World 101” releases December 21, 2011,<strong>and</strong> will be available at www.sagu.tv.Previous SAGU student films havereceived numerous awards. The team for“Murdoch” received three awards at theWorldFest Film Festival in Houston, TX.The film won a Gold Award (2 nd place) forall Short Film Cinematography <strong>and</strong> twoPlatinum Awards (1 st place) for Short FilmEditing <strong>and</strong> Short Film Screenwriting.Earlier this year “Murdoch” won 3 rd placefor Student Productions at the NationalReligious Broadcasters Convention inNashville, TN. It recently won “Best ShortFeature” at Minnesota’s On the EdgeFamily Film Festival.Southwestern Cinema’s firstfilm “Breaking News” received BestCinematography for Short Film atthe World Fest Film Festival in 2009.“Breaking News” broadcast nationallyon NRB network, TCT network, TBNnetwork <strong>and</strong> the Australian ChristianChannel. •For more information about Backpack Journalism 2011,visit www.sagu.edu/backpack2011.8 - Southwestern Today Magazine
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