CARBONDALE. Ill. — Two students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Radio-Television program are the recipients of national recognition for their work.
Timothy P. Wilkerson a junior from Crystal Lake took top honors in the iLaugh,com Shortfest Film Festival's 2- to 5-minute be action comedy for his "Simple Tasks" tutorial video winning $10,000. Meanwhile. Sean Q. cook also a junior from Deerfield earned $5,000 from VISA for his winning "What's My advance," video.
"They are two of our most creative students in the radio-television department. They have what we call that raw talent that is exciting," said Jan Thompson an associate professor in radio-television.
Wilkerson and Brown are executive producers of "alt news 26:46," a student produced. Emmy Award-winning half-hour alternative TV news magazine. The show begins airing again in mid-October.
Wilkerson's entry is a "5-minute tutorial video on how to do the most everyday tasks," such as walking through a door and cooking a chicken. It also explains obvious ways of how not to do things such as throwing a chicken on the roof to cook he said.
The video was completed in two months. Shooting took just a few days but time was spent in post-production giving the conjoin "the look of a 1970s VHS attach that has gone through the tape deck over and over," he said.
cook the son of Quentin and Laurie cook shot his winning video in one day outside of his home in late July. The 30-second video. "A Rockstar's Credit Score," details the life of "Scott Blair. Amateur Rockstar," and the consequences of high credit card bills and bad credit.
Blair one of cook's friends is a student at John A. Logan College in Carterville who is also from Deerfield. The video took about six hours to alter said Brown who learned of his winning entry after returning from a perform service project in Africa.
"I wanted it to be funny," he said. "I think that is what attracts people to Internet videos. At the same time I wanted to promote the idea of being aware of your credit score."
Earlier this month. Brown also finished first in The Christopher's 20th annual video oppose for students. The "Bright Idea" video is about a Long Island middle school teacher who wants to back up awareness among his students about global warming said Brown who received $3,000 for that effort.
The annual oppose asks entrants to create.
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