Media Communications
Film Production: "Sin In Emotions"
On April 29th Media Communications major Aizhan Tuganbayeva presented her feature film "Sin In Emotions" at Vienna's "Breitenseer Lichtspiele" cinema. With the public premiere of her senior-overview project the talented student from Kazakhstan impressed and surprised her audience.
Symposium: under the radar
Congratulations to Holger Lang, Junior Research Faculty Member in the Department of Media Communications, on the great success of his second symposium on Animation, which took place February 23-24 at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. The title of the event was "under the radar."
Casting Director and Producer Lana Veenker
On February 12th, Casting Director and Producer Lana Veenker gave an inspiring talk about how to identify your professional goals in the challenging film industry and how to reach them. This was a unique opportunity for students to meet and and get tips from a Hollywood professional.
The LOOP - New Online Publishing Platform
for Students and Beyond
The LOOP (www.theloop.at) is a new platform for news, reviews, comments and discussions about life in and around Vienna, for and by the young generation. Its topics include city politics, cultural affairs, student issues, work and leisure time, travel and going out, opinions and comments.
Author Peter Morgan meets Webster Vienna Students
On October 5th the British screenwriter Peter Morgan (“The Queen“, “Frost/Nixon“, “Hereafter”) joined media students at Webster University Vienna to give a talk about his accomplishments as an author and his experience in the movie industry. His recent film “360“, based on a story by Arthur Schnitzler, is currently playing in Austrian cinemas.
YouTube Success – The Singapore Food Courts
A video created by Webster media student, Anna Nicolaus, last year has already reached over 43.000 views on YouTube. The video was produced as part of the course "Creative Media Projects", taught by Holger Lang and Elisabeth Knass.
Scriptwriting - a media offering in Fall 1, 2012
In Fall 1 2012, The Media department offers SCPT 2900, a course in Scriptwriting. It focuses on understanding and developing story, character, structure and style and deals with the development of scripts in documentary and feature video/TV and movies. 3 credits. The prerequisite is MEDC 1050/JOUR 1030.
Date:
Fri, 2012-08-31 - Wed, 2012-10-31
Students shoot short film in France and Belgium
As part of a production-course in the Media Communications department students from the Vienna Campus went on a ten day study trip to produce a half-hour long narrative film. During the "Creative Media Projects" class in the summer 2012 term faculty Holger Lang and Elisabeth Zoe Knass organized the shooting of the production that is based on a story that they developed with the students in spring.
Under the Radar
The Media-Communications department collaborated with ASIFA-Austria to organize a symposium with the title "Under the Radar" at the Museums Quartier in Vienna on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th of February 2012.
Workshop: Story-development and Scriptwriting
with Peter Jinks on Friday 25th to Saturday 26th, November 2011
both days from 10:30 am until 5:30 pm
This workshop will introduce participants to the basic building blocks of a narrative: that of characterisation, setting and story premise. They will be encouraged to refine their own story ideas through a discussion about plot and genre, followed by exercises where students will be expected to pitch, that is verbally ‘sell’ their story ideas to one another.
Date:
Fri, 2011-11-25 - Sat, 2011-11-26
