5 Dollar Milkshake

Student: Portia Danis
Course: Art 618 Advanced Video Art
Instructor: Greg Rosenberg
Medium: Video (4:21)
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Description: This short experimental video explores the boundaries of analog and digital video. I started with a VHS of Pulp Fiction played on an old CRT television, and filmed the screen with a HD digital camera. I manipulated the video output cables to produce a distorted image on the screen. I then uploaded the video from the camera and digitally edited the sequence to further distort the image.  The resulting images produce an abstract painterly quality that, when combined with distorted audio, have a dream-like effect.  The overall effect is a colorful-dreamlike state that stays true to the raw medium of analog video.

Blessing of the Americans

Student: Amanda Rebello
Course: American Indian Studies Program 450 The Native Creative Process
Instructor: Roberta Hill
Medium: Video (2:29)
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Description: Our reading of Blessing the Americans by Janet McAdams is a poem originally from Sing, Poetry from the Indigenous Americas.  Throughout the reading there are pictures that capture what we experienced while reading the poem.  We discerned the meaning through historical references such as the Columbine shooting and the Red Lake massacre and through Janet McAdam’s emotional response to violence in America to create an illustration of her experiences.

Church Clown

Student: Matthew Eggert
Course: Art 341 Sound Design - Performance and Visual Arts
Instructor: Joseph Koykkar
Medium: Video (3:33)
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Description: The video contains an experimental soundtrack accompanied by various, semi-animated images.

Cute or Creepy? Watching for Red Flags on a First Date

Student: Abra Bankendorf Vigna
Course: HDFS Relationship Education Practicum
Instructor: Linda Roberts
Medium: Video (8:28)
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Description: This video was created to stimulate conversation in a curriculum about healthy relationship skills. It features two teens out on a first date and each display some behaviors that are endearing and some that are concerning. This video is innovative in that the couple is same-sex and neither can easily be read as a perpetrator or a victim. The audience is invited to note both cute and creepy behaviors without identifying a "bad guy" and therefore open up conversation about common relationship behaviors that sometimes lead to control or violence in a non-stigmatizing manner.

Dak Lua Vietnam

Student: Jessica Halbach
Course: Livestock Production 370 Lab
Medium: Video (11:38)
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Description: Team takes a virtual trip to water shed of the Mekong Rive, Dak Lua, Vietnam.  / Team analyzes challenges farmers face.  / Team offers possible projects that might improve agricultural and livestock production outcomes.

A Day Without Music

Student: John Christianson
Course: English 100: Lecture 031
Instructor: Reuben Casas
Medium: Video essay (5:22)
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Description: This is a video essay in response to the nationwide action of school districts cutting their music education programs. It includes facts, statistics, and personal testimonies as to why music education is beneficial.

Drafting Derby: Forging Personas and Shattering the Mold

Student: Amy Freeberg
Course: Folklore 100: Introduction to Folklore
Instructor: Tim Frandy
Medium:Video (18:34)
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Description: Roller derby had its beginnings as a co-ed skating endurance competition but virtually disappeared at the end of the 1970s after falling prey to the exploitative and outrageous production antics of televised roller derby. Roller derby made a comeback in 2003, which jump-started the formation of roller derby leagues all over the world. Since its revival, roller derby has evolved into a highly athletic and competitive sport. However, shadows of what roller derby once was still linger. Through personal interviews with skaters from the Mad Rollin’ Dolls, the women’s flat-track roller derby league of Madison, Drafting Derby attempts to shed light on the evolution of roller derby as an empowering and athletic sport for women, as well as delve into the creative aspects of the derby culture such as derby names and uniforms.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Student: Max Rosenberg
Course: English 100: Intro to College Composition
Instructor: Reuben Casas
Medium:Video (3:14)
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Description: A summary of my trip to Honolulu, Hawaii this past summer. The video showcases the beautiful scenery I was lucky enough to see and the importance of traveling to unknown and unique areas when in a new place.
(Artists' statement:) I had a lot of fun taking the photos from my trip and putting them into this video. I really think it's important to explore the roads less traveled when in a new place; my family and I made an effort to do that when in Honolulu--with the help of our Godfathers it was much easier. I think my project is visually appealing and a good brochure for how great an island Honolulu is.

The Less We Exist

Student: Celeste Robert
Course:  Comm-Arts 651: Advanced Video Production and Direction, Experimental Filmmaking
Instructor: Bill Brown
Medium: Video (5:07)
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Description: What do relationships mean in the era of the born-digital? This short film explores the topic of friendships online from one young woman's perspective, the elation and alienation of online interactions, and questions the meaning of what it is "to know" and "to be friends" with people in this day and age of digital intimacy, as well as what internet personae are and how they differ from our physical personalities. Who is online? Who is stalking us? This film forces the viewer to question their assumptions about who is a creep, and what message they are sending out with their carefully curated online images to whomever may stumble upon them. / The original score provides a fitting backdrop to this visually and intellectually stimulating short, provoking questions for all of us about the meaning of leading our social lives online. / The film's medium is fitting, as the viewer watches the online interaction in seemingly real time as if they themselves were participating. /  / Field Mountains is a Madison, WI based band who graciously gave permission for this song to be used in this film.

Madison Wisconsin's Dane County Farmer's Market

Student: Henry Erdman
Course: Comm-Arts 355
Instructors: Aaron Granat and Andrea Comiskey
Medium: Video (4:58)
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Description: A short observational documentary on the last outdoor Dane County Farmer's Market of the season.

Naomi Introduction Video

Student: Abbey Schneider
Course: Comm-Arts 210 Introduction to Media Production
Instructor: Eric Hoyt
Medium: Video (1:00)
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Description: The project was designed to get to know our cohorts in the class and gain experience with video cameras and editing software. However, after I was finished the video I learn that the project opened my eyes to a whole new culture, and introduced me to a brand new friend.

A Remix About Remix

Student: Olivia Conti
Course: Comm-Arts 609
Instructor: Eric Hoyt
Medium: Video (7:17)
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Description: A remix that I made about my research interest: political remix video. In this video, I use samples from various sources as well as illustrative examples to explain what remix is, what enables it, and what makes it an interesting object of study.

Synthesis & Fragmentation in Poetry

Student: Elizabeth Delaquess
Course: Course # 18488 American Literature
Instructor: Monique Allewaert and David Plastrick (TA)
Medium: Video (2:41)
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Description: Using iMovie software, I created a video comparing the narrative structure of 'This Compost' by Walt Whitman and 'A Carafe That Is A Blind Glass' by Gertrude Stein.

Talk to the Hand

Student: Julia Boms
Course: Comm-Arts 522 Digitally Documenting Everyday Communication
Medium: Video
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Description: A study of nonverbal communication at a local State Street bar in Madison, Wisconsin, specifically hand gestures.

Tall, Dark, and Loathsome: The Emergence of a Legend Matrix in the Digital Age

2013 Best of Show

Student: Andrew Peck
Course: Comm-Arts 609
Instructor: Eric Hoyt
Medium: Video (6:56)
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Description: The faceless, tall, eerily long-limbed humanoid clad in a black suit emerges in an online forum as a pair of photoshops and a half dozen lines of text. Soon, this so-called “Slender Man” begins appearing in images, videos, stories, and blogs across the Internet. By sharing, discussing, and commenting on these artifacts in participatory media, users create legendary narratives and audio/visual “evidence” that present researchers with a new kind of digital folk practice. Enabled by the affordances of digital and social networks, this digital legend matrix serves as an example of a new form of digital folklore that combines the generic conventions of oral and visual storytelling with the collaborative potential of networked communication.

University of Wisconsin Madison Zoological Collections

Student: William Johnson
Course: Comm-Arts 355 Intro to Media Production
Instructor: Aaron Garnat
Medium: Video (4:52)
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Description: This is an observational documentary made about UW Madison's own Zoology Museum and explores some of the activities that take place there.

UW-Madison Cinematheque

Student: Tony Tran
Course: Comm-Arts 609 Essential Digital Media Production for Graduates
Instructor: Eric Hoyt
Medium: Video (7:19)
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Description: Our video explores the workings of the UW-Madison Cinematheque as we travel through its history, film selection process, role in archiving and preserving film history, and projection room.

When Justice Calls

Student: Jacob Wears, Ricardo Romero, Adam Levitt, Perri Zaret
Course: Comm-Arts 210 Introduction to Digital Media
Instructor: Eric Hoyt
Medium: Video (6:33)
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Description: Something is awry in the Sellery Residence Hall. Called to the scene is Ricardo Romero. Throughout the six minute short he interviews suspects, breaks down doors, and slowly loses his composure.

Yes We Can

Student: Luana Genot
Course: Comm-Arts 355
Instructor: Aaron Granat
Medium:Video (2:47)
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Description: Linda and John are a multiracial couple that need to deal with the challenge to raise their baby during their college lives.