Megan Reed, Campus Carrier News Editor
Three Viking Fusion productions are national finalists in the 2013 College Broadcasters, Inc. National Student Production Awards.
Episode four of the television web series “Going Up,” produced by 2013 alumnus Nathan Sutton and junior Glenn Garrido-Olivar, was nominated for Best Vodcast- Television. Episode five was nominated for Best General Entertainment Program- Television. The video “Roll Call,” which was produced, directed and edited by senior Josy Roman, was nominated for Best Vodcast-Television.
Garrido-Olivar felt honored to be nominated for the awards.
“I felt like it was a great accomplishment when I completed the project, and then to have been nominated means that I had done a good job and that people actually liked what I was coming up with,” Garrido-Olivar said.
Roman agreed and said that she felt the nomination was a “big honor.”
“Going Up” is about two people who are stuck in an elevator and features flashbacks about the background of one character as he seeks revenge for an event which occurred in his past. The first episode of “Going Up” was released in April of this year. Five episodes of the show were released.
Garrido-Olivar said he originally thought that “Going Up” would be a comedy show but then added more dramatic elements and the final product became a “hybrid” of these two ideas.
“Roll Call,” which was released in February of this year, features Eric McDowell, professor of mathematics and computer science, singing a song he wrote listing the names of famous mathematicians. It previously won second place in the Video/Broadcast Production for Student Two-Year/Small College category at the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.
McDowell has collaborated with Viking Fusion on several other productions, including “Jammy Pants” and “The Derivative Rag.” An animated video which he helped with will be on Viking Fusion before the end of the month.
The winners will be announced at the National Student Electronic Media Convention Oct. 31 through Nov. 2 in San Antonio.
Steven Hames, advisor for Viking Fusion and technologist with the department of communication, is the awards coordinator for the convention. He has been coordinating with judges and faculty and staff at other schools to help plan the event.