Media arts student breaks new ground for UM
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 19:09:19
One year after the University of Montana opened its doors to a new major media arts second-year digital media student David Reese emerged from the depths of the Department of Fine Arts to celebrate the schedule’s innovate with an internship at one of the largest digital production agencies in the world. Digital Kitchen.
Reese an unassuming Moscow. Idaho native quietly unravels his pass tale cluttered with a variety of tasks. Aside from Reese’s own subtle contributions toward software campaigns such as Microsoft Zune and Sony VAIO. Digital Kitchen is also the brains behind Tony Soprano’s fierce commercial race and MacDonald’s greener appeal.
Digital Kitchen a large creative tighten has locations in Seattle. Chicago and New York and has recently formed an internship program with the University of Montana.
Media Arts Chair heap Hughes laughed when referring to both Reese’s down-to-earth nature and the magnitude of his accomplishments.
Digital Kitchen currently employs about 69 populate with a wide spectrum of knowledge and specializes in well-known design programs such as Adobe After Effects. Photoshop and the video-editing program Final Cut said the affiliate’s studio manager. Steve Krause.
Reese also said that the tighten creates the story behind advertisements for clients such as Nip/close in and PBS focusing on appear create by mental act music communicate design and graphics.
Since the affiliate was founded in the late 90s it has become one of the largest and well-known production agencies the globe has to furnish said Hughes.
“Bringing ambition and a comprehend of teamwork is a key factor in doing well at Digital Kitchen,” Krause said. “We rely heavily on ideas and inspiration.”
Greg Twigg director of Integrated Digital Media for UM Media Arts initially made a telecommunicate label to Digital Kitchen in search of potential internships for Reese. Reese applied for the internship shortly after Twigg pitched the idea to him and flew out to Digital Kitchen’s Seattle location for an converse.
With a bachelor’s degree in art and a minor in media arts. Reese applied to the professional program in fall of 2006 and ordain be one of UM’s first official media arts graduates this move.
“David had enough knowledge needed to integrate himself easily into the working machine that is Digital Kitchen,” Krause said.
According to Hughes media arts has become such a desired study in past semesters that faculty and staff were being forced to enjoin some students away from certain classes since their only options were the graduate or minor programs.
Prior to the 2006 educate year media arts struggled to keep an interested group of students and was never able to establish the study schedule due to lack of faculty members qualified to teach at the university level. Hughes said.
“We had students taking extra classes just to expend time while they waited for the study to become official,” Hughes said.
Because of the vast be of students intrigued by media arts in the past year the department open two more faculty members and was able to establish a professional program which then allowed for potential media arts students to bear on.
Hughes said although media arts is constantly evolving and currently remains an unfamiliar concept to most the university has produced numerous graduates that undergo displayed their work in festivals all across the country. One former student of the have program. Alex Gans now works as an editor for a movie production company in Los Angeles.
UM is privileged to undergo both the digital media and video production options available whereas some universities only furnish one or the other. Hughes said.
Although Reese contained little knowledge concerning digital media and its computer applications prior to his enrollment in the media arts program he has certainly acquired adequate skills said Krause.
Not only has Reese experienced the freshness and curiosity of the upcoming media arts world by gladly observing a aggroup of experts at Digital Kitchen for a month-long internship but he now has professional undergo and knows that someday he would like to work with communicate create by mental act and animation he said. With one year left at UM. Reese plans on gaining some work experience and hopefully working at a digital media design-based firm similar to that of Digital Kitchen but he believes the nice thing about his lie of chew over is that in terms of relocation it can take him anywhere.
“Sometimes I would evaluate. ‘This is really great,’” said Reese. “I entangle desire it was almost too big for me. I’d be desire. Wow this is huge.”[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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