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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 hands-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 and deed. It can challenge and recruitstudents and even win people to Christ asit is shown in the United States.”Nine journalists will divide into2-person teams to travel on 17 MissionTEN summer trips. Each team will carrya backpack containing a laptop, a highdefinition camera that shoots video andstill photos, a tripod, two external harddrives, a wireless audio kit, and a light andreflector 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 filmand 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,and 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 and twoPlatinum Awards (1 st place) for Short FilmEditing and 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 and the Australian ChristianChannel. •For more information about Backpack Journalism 2011,visit www.sagu.edu/backpack2011.8 - Southwestern Today Magazine
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