{"51539":{"#nid":"51539","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Student Filmmakers Define \u0022The New Face of Computing,\u0022 Win Prizes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(March 8, 2007)\u003C\/strong\u003E - A digital film short directed by computing undergraduate Beth York won both first place and the people\u0027s choice award at the first annual College of Computing iMovie Competition Red Carpet Premiere and Awards Ceremony held on Friday, March 2, 2007. York and her teammates, Bradley Herrmann, Matt Bigelow, Audrey Southard and Christine Dreas all took home Apple MacBook Pro laptops and $25.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe competition guidelines required student filmmakers to answer the question, \u0022what does \u0027The New Face of Computing\u0027 mean to you?\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winning video, entitled \u0022Scripted,\u0022 features a chase sequence, a rap about recursion, and a profile of the director, who is a computer science major, a student assistant and a varsity crew member with a self-proclaimed passion for film.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s thrilling to see such a variety of takes on \u0027The New Face of Computing,\u0027\u0022 said College of Computing Director of Diversity and Community Giselle Martin, who sat on a panel of judges comprised of Georgia Tech faculty, administration and media representatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This showcase of creative talent proves that ideas about computing are really changing. It\u0027s a discipline that is both coming of age and expanding in more directions than we can list. Today, computing students come from virtually every interest area.\u0022 Martin said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESecond place winners Joshua Cuneo, Achille Brighton, Shawn Wick, Thao Nguyen and Jeremy Duvall took home Apple iPods for their film showcasing a broad selection of new computing research.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third place film, a comedy depicting the foiled recruiting efforts of a fictional computing company (Orange, Inc.), got laughs before iPod Shuffles were awarded to the team members, Eric Bolten, Christopher Henderson, Brett Jones, Adeeb Zaer and Anne Schneider..\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETeams were given one week from February 13-19 to shoot and edit their films using digital cameras, laptop computers and editing software provided by Apple, Inc. and Campus MovieFest. Prizes were donated by Apple, Inc.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe iMovie Competition Red Carpet Premiere and Awards Ceremony was held in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building on the Georgia Tech campus immediately following the New Face of Computing Symposium. The event was hosted by David Roemer, co-founder and CEO of Ideas United, the company that organizes the international student film competition Campus MovieFest.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022iMovie\u0022 href=\u0022resolveuid\/7a6de25cf44f72d065d39887d7fe4f5d\u0022\u003EWatch all iMovie Competition entries online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA digital film short directed by computing undergraduate Beth York won both first place and the people\u0027s choice award at the first annual College of Computing iMovie Competition Red Carpet Premiere and Awards Ceremony held on Friday, March 2, 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:56","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}