Asbury has many opportunities available to students on campus, inside and outside the classroom. However, the options do not stop there. Asbury also provides students with opportunities all over the world in every aspect of media. Students have a chance to work for popular events and companies and gain unique experiences that no other college can provide.
Explore opportunities you could have as a student in the Asbury media communication program.
Since 1984, more than 800 Asbury University students have worked in paid media positions around the world at the Olympic Games. Additional students have worked in non-paid media positions. Asbury University media and journalism students have worked in Rio, Sochi, London, Vancouver, Beijing, Torino, Athens, Salt Lake, Sydney, Atlanta, Calgary, and Atlanta.
They have worked in a variety of media positions including video editors, reporters, camera operators, public relations, audio, and loggers for a variety of broadcasters including NBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), local television stations, radio networks, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, online sites and others. Students must apply and be accepted by professors as well as the media outlet in order to work for the Olympics.
The Highbridge Film Festival is the largest event on Asbury’s campus each year…other than graduation. It is sold out year-after-year. It showcases high school and Asbury University student films.
Highbridge is dedicated to expressing and exploring the human condition through the power of the visual story. The film festival showcases high school and college student short films. Every spring, students have the opportunity to tell their story, and each entry is judged by film industry professionals.
The festival, part of the Asbury Media Communication program, is run by the students in our Spring semester Special Events class (MC 428). For more information about the festival, go to www.highbridgefilmfestival.com.
Have you ever wanted to be part of a feature film production? At Asbury University, both our undergraduate and graduate students have the unique opportunity to get hands-on experience as part of a real feature film crew—while they’re students. Asbury’s Media Communication faculty and staff regularly collaborate with seasoned Hollywood professionals to produce films that have been distributed across the United States and around the world.
With a wildly popular romance column and a soul-mate relationship, college student Micki has love all figured out—until a competing, anti-romance column rivals hers for the hearts and minds of campus. It’s love and war as Micki is determined to take down “Not Your Romeo” even if it destroys them both.
Asbury University produced the film Not Your Romeo and Juliet, written by Professor Sean Gaffney and directed by recent M.F.A. graduate Matthew Kistenmacher. Gaffney’s writing credits include three feature films, four commissioned television pilots, and thirty produced plays. Kistenmacher worked his way up in Hollywood and spent two decades lighting films in Los Angeles; his production experience includes films like The Green Hornet and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Damaged Goods is an award-winning original film produced by the Asbury University Media Communication department in collaboration with Hollywood veteran Nancy Stafford, Asbury alumna Katie Oostman ’15 and Professor Doug Smart. The movie, starring Hannah Alline, explores the difficult and culturally relevant topics of abuse, alcoholism, and family and relationship dysfunction.
Both of these AU films are available on Amazon Prime.
Students learn first-hand what the workplace looks like in the media world. They also have the chance to practice their networking skills and gain important contacts.
Over 500 of our students have freelanced for television networks such as ABC, NBC, ESPN, VH-1, Turner and Fox. These networks have flown students all over the U.S. and even overseas. Asbury University also signed a contract to provide television production students for the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, as well as the annual equestrian Rolex Three-Day Event. Now that Asbury has a professional level HD production trailer, the opportunities are increasing. When networks rent our trailer, they almost always hire some of our students as well.
Students have freelanced for places such as the U.S. Department of Justice, NASA, and Walden Media.
Since Kentucky is increasingly attracting films to shoot in the state, this has also increased the opportunity for our students to freelance on film locations.
Every Media student is required to take at least one internship. Internships allow students to apply the classroom-learned theories to real-life situations. We consider internships to be an opportunity for the student to be mentored so we only allow internships at locations who provide a media professional as a mentor. Internships in the past have included production companies, television and radio stations, recording studios, film productions and studios, mission projects, churches, public relations companies, Internet companies, graphic arts studios, the Olympics, and many more.
Asbury students often have the opportunity to travel to other cities as part of a class. The most common trips are to New York City and the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Other trips have included Orlando, Los Angeles, Nashville, Alaska, and Atlanta. Students usually tour production facilities, sit in on productions and talk to professionals about their work. These short trips provide students with the opportunity to see professional productions close-up as well as talk with people working in the industry.
Asbury’s Media Communication program has sent media students to cover missions in over thirty countries around the world. These students desire to tell a story and make a difference in the process. Through a variety of programs, including summer trips and directed studies, students can earn college credit for producing media for various missions teams and organizations. As part of Asbury Univerisity’s core curriculum, students are required to participate in a cross-cultural experience. The Media Communication program provides a chance for students to achieve such experiences while applying the media skills learned in the classroom.
Newswatch is our television news program streamed online. Each Fall semester the program is produced by students in the Broadcast News class. During the Spring semester, the show is entirely produced by student volunteers who want to build their experience in the media field.
Students fill all positions on the show including producer, director, anchors, reporters, camera, graphics, audio, and teleprompter. Students can start working on the show during their freshmen year.
The show can be produced in our large television studio or in the news bureau.
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