Recent regional Emmy nominations will give Ball State University a great deal of visibility, Jacquelyn Buckrop, assistant dean of the College of Communication, Information, and Media, said Wednesday.
The Department of Telecommunications has received 11 regional Emmy nominations for their student programs, student production work and documentaries.
The regional Emmy's Lower Great Lake Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will be held in Cleveland on Sept. 8. The NATAS Lower Great Lake chapter serves to recognize excellence and promote high standards in television professionalism.
"Everyone in the region [is] seeing that we have the capability to produce award-winning work," Buckrop said.
"Cell Block Scholars," a documentary, received five of the 11 nominations. The film was produced by retired TCOM professor Jim Shasky, graduate assistant Justin Gladis and alumni Scott Swim and Laura Huffman, who are former students of Shasky's,
The documentary tells the story of a 74-year-old great grandmother who teaches basic education to convicts, rapists, and murderers at a jail.
The TCOM department's professors and students are the people who made the film a quality documentary, Shasky said.
"A camera, is a camera, is a camera," he said. "A camera doesn't make films. The people behind the camera do."
Ball State also received nominations for music composition and lighting for student-produced short film, "Perspective."
The student-run nightly news program "NewsWatch" and television show "Indiana Outdoors" also received nominations in the student program category, according to a university press release.
"We're enhancing the TCOM program's reputation and the reputation of the students in the program with these nominations," Buckrop said.
Since 2000, Ball State has been nominated for 61 regional Emmy awards and has won 18. The university was named 2007 TV School of the Year by the Indiana Association of the School of Broadcasters.
"I think our students are better than most because they are willing to take chances, risks, and they're willing to experiment with video," Shasky said.
Shasky, who taught at Ball State for 10 years, also will be honored during the chapter's annual Emmy Awards ceremony with a lifetime achievement award for his work in television education.
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