Students of UD’s Documentary Filmmaking course won the collegiate equivalent of an Emmy for their short documentary Shattered: A City Under Pressure

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University of Dayton eCommons College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom College of Arts and Sciences Administration 11-14-2022 UD media production class wins ‘student Emmy’ for Dayton documentary Lucy Waskiewicz University of Dayton, waskiewiczl1@udayton.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cas_blog eCommons Citation Waskiewicz, Lucy, "UD media production class wins ‘student Emmy’ for Dayton documentary" (2022). College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom. 600. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cas_blog/600 This Blog is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts and Sciences Administration at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact mschlangen1@udayton.edu, ecommons@udayton.edu. 1/3UD media production class wins ‘student Emmy’ forDayton documentaryudayton.edu/blogs/artssciences/2022-stories/22-11-14-student-emmy-blog.phpMonday November 14, 2022By Lucy Waskiewicz ’24Students of the University of Dayton’s Documentary Filmmaking course won the collegiateequivalent of an Emmy Award for their short documentary Shattered: A City Under Pressure.Shattered won first place in the long-form nonfiction category of the 2022 National Academyof Television Arts and Sciences Student Production Awards, Ohio Valley Chapter. It toppedproductions submitted by colleges and universities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and WestVirginia.The honor marks the UD Department of Communication’s third first-place win in thecompetition since 2018.Alex McClary ’22, a media production alumnus from Columbus, helped produce Shattered.2/3“The whole experience meant so much to me and everyone else in the class,” he said. “Asmedia production majors, we’d learned how to make various productions for four years.Being able to finally come together and apply everything we learned to a documentary wasan amazing opportunity.”Just over 18 minutes long, Shattered tells the story of Dayton’s rise and fall throughout the19th and 20th centuries. It explores the companies and individuals that built Dayton into anindustrial powerhouse with a rich arts culture until the 1960s, when issues like racism andunemployment triggered the city’s slow decay.Mackenzie Bacarella ’22, a media production alumna from Fairfax, Virginia, who also workedon Shattered, said the documentary served as a tribute to the city.“Throughout all of the stages of production, we got to see Dayton history play out almost inreal time through our research,” she said. “Seeing the images and stories of those in the pasthelped to bring perspective, which in turn helped make a film that encompassed hundreds ofyears of history in minutes. It was so rewarding.”Shattered’s production process spanned the 2021-2022 academic year. Nine documentaryfilmmaking students worked both in and outside of the classroom writing scripts, collecting B-roll footage around Dayton, organizing and conducting interviews with significant figures,composing original music and editing video.Students in the course were co-advised by Roy Flynn, principal lecturer and Flyer TVmanager, and Greg Kennedy, senior lecturer and media specialist in residence. Kennedysaid his favorite part of the filmmaking process was watching the students overcome thehurdles typical of such a large production.“Every year I know it’s going to be a challenge, probably the biggest challenge of their livesin terms of a production of this magnitude,” Kennedy said. “Seeing them get to that wall andinstead of giving up, work together to figure out how to complete the project and then getthese accolades for it, I think it makes it worth it.”McClary said overcoming these challenges was a considerable part of the career preparationproducing the documentary afforded him.“The challenges we faced during this process were problems that I now face working in theindustry, so I find myself lucky that I was able to be introduced to these sorts of problems in asetting that was more controllable and familiar,” he said.Shattered’s win was announced Sept. 18 during a virtual Ohio Valley Regional ProductionAwards ceremony. The media production program’s documentaries also won first place fornonfiction in 2018, first place for best editing in 2021, and earned honorable mentions in2016 and 2017.3/3Bacarella, now a morning news producer at WHIO-TV in Dayton, said her experiencecreating Shattered, as well as the award, has been beneficial to kick-starting her career.“It's been such a great thing to have on the resume,” she said. “I can now walk in a room andbe like, ‘Yeah, I worked on a student Emmy-winning documentary,’ and people always havegood responses.” After graduation, McClary joined California-based production company 3 Doors ProductionInc., where he works as an art department assistant. He spoke similarly about theexperience.“I think producing Shattered was a great start to the careers of all the students involved,” hesaid. “I felt like I entered the real world with so much real-life experience and was preparedfor what’s ahead. And now I have an award to back up all that hard work.”To watch Shattered, visit the Flyer TV YouTube channel.For more information about the media production program, visit the Department ofCommunication website.Shattered1/5Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein is interviewed by Mackenzie Bacarella for "Shattered:A City Under Pressure."  

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