Season tickets promo for the Ole Miss Men’s Basketball Team. Highlights the return of University of Mississippi players Eniel Polynice, Trevor Gaskins, and Chris Warren who were sidelined with injuries last season. This project was inspired by the Season 5 promo for “Rescue Me”. Produced by Robi Coker, Micah Ginn and Matthew Graves. Directed by Matthew Graves. Special thanks to Coach Andy Kennedy.

In addition to our own documentary work and working with student filmmakers, the Media and Documentary Projects Center helps produce and record campus events.  October has been an especially busy month (and we haven’t even gotten to the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium yet!).

Above: Matthew Graves tests out the system in advance of the M-Club Hall of Fame Ceremony and Andy Harper shoots the SFA Viking Range lecture featuring Warren Belasco.  Below: Micah Ginn sets up the switcher for the Alumni Hall of Fame, and Karen Tuttle helps shoot the Overby Center event honoring member of the 1959 National Championship football team.

Media and Documentary Projects utility player Karen Tuttle got some time behind the camera this last week.

Karen covered the Residential College grand opening as well as the first in the Overby Center Gathering in the Grove series featuring Charles Eagles on Friday.

She also recorded oral histories for the School of Journalism on Monday.  Nice work Karen!

John T. Edge was in booth yesterday recording an interview with American Public Media’s The Splendid Table.   The conversation was about the influence of food writer and Craig Claiborne.  Thanks to the modern miracle of ISDN lines we are able to connect live with any studio in the world.

Friday we held open auditions for students to take part in the University of Mississippi’s 2009 ad campaign. Quite a few students showed up and we were able to secure a great lineup. Look for them Sept. 6 on ESPN for the Memphis game and the debut of the “Experience Amazing” campaign being launched by University Brand Services.

Chris on the Camera and Karen on the clapper.

Media Production was there in force to cover the listening session for the newly announced Chancellor, Dr. Dan Jones. Pictured is Greg Grey, our ringer from Memphis, Andy Harper and Karen Tuttle who were streaming the all day Q&A sessions over the web. Not pictured are Micah Ginn and Matthew Graves who were there documenting the event and providing a news package for use over satellite (or “the bird” as the insiders call it). Congratulations to Chancellor Jones for his accomplishment and we at the Media and Documentary Projects Center look forward to working with him.

Matthew Graves was at The Lyric Tuesday night to capture the Oxford City Council Forum. The  candidates for City Alderman and Mayor were on hand to discuss the issues and their goals if elected. Tune in to OMTV Ch. 99 Thursday night at 6pm to watch the event.

As part of the film restoration and transfer work we do here at the Center for Media and Documentary Projects, we’ve come across many incredible moments from history. This one is from the 1963 Ole Miss vs. LSU football game. Featured is a punt return by the late Joe Labruzzo of LSU who was (I imagine) quite surprised to not have reached the endzone on this runback. The man chasing him down is Stan Hindman, one of the best athletes ever to put on the Red & Blue. This is a play that I’ve heard many Rebel fans talk about through the years, and I was very excited to finally see it. The play truly lives up to the legend, as this is one of the most amazing run-downs I’ve ever witnessed. That’s a 6′3″, 230 pound defensive end chasing down the All-SEC speedster Labruzzo. Incredible.

Although Labruzzo was marked down inside the one, the stout Rebel defense held on four straight downs en route to a 37-3 victory over the Bayou Bengals.

*film is silent - click the arrow in the center of the screen to play

Recently we cleaned and transferred an old 16mm “Castle Films” news reel featuring the game-story of our heart-stopping 1959 football game with LSU.  During the transfer process I realized that one of the frames of film actually caught the moment in which Billy Cannon had his famous snapshot taken.  As you can see, that’s a lot of light in that fraction of a second when the bulb explodes.  What a moment for both schools.  It was the lone defeat for the Ole Miss Rebels that year, and on top of that, it was one of only three touchdowns allowed ALL SEASON by the grid-iron Rebs.  The 1959 Ole Miss Rebels were one of the best teams ever fielded anywhere, as was evidenced later in that same season when they were rematched with Cannon and his Bayou Bengals in the 1960 Sugar Bowl.  The Rebels came out on top that day, taking a 21 to 0 victory and holding the Heisman-winning Cannon to just 8 yards rushing.

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Always a moving event, this year’s Chucky Mullins Courage Award Banquet marked 20 years since the inception of the award. Chucky Mullins will forever impact this University, and all of us at the Media and Documentary Projects Center are honored to work on the event. This year, we produced video elements that played throughout the night, featuring remembrances from friends of Chucky’s, as well as former winners of the award and members of the current coaching staff at Ole Miss. Thanks to Chuck Smith, executive producer of “Undefeated: The Chucky Mullins Story” who allowed us to use excerpts from the documentary throughout the program. We also put together highlights of the three outstanding nominees for this year’s award, as well as a highlight reel of former winners of the award. Student Noah Bunn was our lighting choreographer, and he brought a beautiful color scheme to the evening, transforming the Indoor Practice Facility into a showcase-type setting. Good job, Noah, and thanks! We have to also thank Hunter Palmer for pulling grip duty all day and Matthew Graves for coordinating the live show and manning the camera! Also, thanks to our leader Andy Harper, who worked on his birthday to help us get set up for the night. All in all, it was a great team effort and a great night!

Micah Ginn

As part of last week’s Green Week here at Ole Miss, we worked up a special commercial to run at the Sunday afternoon baseball game.  Assistant A.D. Jamil Northcutt came up with the hard-charging “Skipper Green” as the green-awareness coach for the Ole Miss Athletics Offices.  As you can see from the commercial, Skipper Green has an aggressive method for message delivery.

The production spanned Thursday afternoon and all day Friday for shooting and editing.  Student-workers Alyssa Manhold and Hunter Palmer pitched in on the shoot and we couldn’t have done it without them.  Matthew Graves was, as always,  keeping the whole thing together through a frantically-paced shoot.  

Thanks to Jamil Northcutt, Pete Boone, and everyone in athletics who took time out of their day to help spread the word on Green Week.  We had a lot of fun making the spot.

Micah Ginn

I don’t know much about this film.  It is a part of our archive here at the Media and Documentary Projects Center, and was produced by our staff 38 years ago.  The title on the film canister says “1971 Recruiting Film”.  It might be missing a narration track, as there is no voice-over at all.  It is a bit disjointed, but nonetheless a nice slice-of-life look at the Ole Miss campus in the early 70’s.

This film transfer is part of our ongoing efforts to preserve the film history of the University.  I’ll try to keep posting some of these films as I get them transferred and preserved.  If you have any questions about this film, give us a call at 662-915-3475.

Andy Harper and Matthew Graves were in the Johnson’s Commons Ballroom today filming Toyota General Manager Kevin Butt. The keynote address was sponsored by the Center for Manufacturing Excellence in conjunction with Green Week.

 
Check out the first in a series of events we’re taping for Green Week. In this video, Landscape Architect Bob Mercier demonstrates the new BioSwale he designed on campus next to Crosby Hall.

Here are some pics from last night’s Chucky Mullins Courage Award Ceremony where Defensive End Marcus Tillman came home with prestigious award. This was the 20th anniversary of the event which began as a way to honor Ole Miss defensive back Chucky Mullins. Our own Micah Ginn produced the event creating video tributes to Mullins and highlight reels for the night’s finalists. It was a large effort but the night was a great success. Noah Bunn, Hunter Palmer, Andy Harper, and Matthew Graves were on hand  to help the night run smoothly. For more information on Chucky check out the website for Micah’s documentary film “Undefeated - The Chucky Mullins Story”.

Producer Matthew Graves had cameras rolling today for the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies. Senator Roger Wicker was on hand for the event and offered his support to the program.

Here’s a still from the video we shot last night in the Ford Center of Handel’s Messiah, performed by the University of Mississippi Concert Singers with Orchestra. Pictured is guest conductor Dr. Dennis Shrock.

Matthew Graves is in the studio today with students from the University of Mississippi Intensive English Program. He is producing a series of web videos for prospective students in their native languages. Stay tuned for the finished series.

In this blurry picture you can see U.S. Senator Thad Cochran sitting down for an interview in our studio. Senator Cochran was here to give a short P.S.A. about the Center for Natural Products Research on campus. In addition, we were able to ask him a few questions about  the Presidential Debate that happened last September. We’re working on a documentary about the event and Senator Cochran’s interview will be a nice addition to the project. Check back for more news and info about the upcoming Debate Documentary.

This morning, Micah Ginn and Matthew Graves went on location to the Oxford High School gymnasium to shoot footage for an upcoming basketball training video.  This afternoon will be spent in the newly renovated studio to finish the shoot.