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Fun in Film Studies

  • Journalists
  • Jul 12, 2019
  • 2 min read

By: Maddie Soard


Lights. Camera. Action! Craig Miller’s film studies class starts every Monday sharing their weekend highlights and afterwards they discuss the past weeks and their future projects. Craig has extensive film experience having worked on War of the Worlds, Parks and Recreation, and other multi-million dollar studio movies and television series. He’s used his experiences to teach scholars how to see through films to what is behind the scenes. Film studies scholar Raegan Mardis said that she, “will never be able to watch movies the same way again.” She now knows who will win the fight scene before it begins, what props are fake, and what is about to happen based on the camera angle alone -- and it’s only the third week.

During week one Craig defined what a story is and how you tell a good story with film. Week two brought more excitement when scholars explored narrative visual storytelling and got to dissect beloved movies like The Greatest Showman, as well as make their own movie scene. I sat in on the class Monday of the third week and got to watch them prepare for their busy week ahead. This week they’re focusing on live story telling by filming and live editing a press conference put on by the Communication and Journalism focus areas. As the Director of Creative Arts at Southeast Christian Church, Craig Miller provided state of the art cameras, boom mics, and a live editing system, so the class could put on a professional live action production. The conference went smoothly, and film studies scholars told the story perfectly by switching the cameras as the conversation demanded. In the final weeks of GSP the class will focus on editing film, making their own production, and dissecting other films.


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Jennifer Price grew up in Hopkins County, Kentucky and attended South Hopkins High School. She was a Governor’s Scholar at Murray State University in 1992, and was assigned the Social and Political Theory focus area. After high school, she attended Transylvania University and pursued a degree in Psychology. She finished her bachelor’s degree and then decided to complete graduate school at the University of Arkansas, where she received a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. She has been a member of the GSP faculty and staff for many years, ranging from 1994 to present. She has done every job available except be a focus area instructor. Jen was recently encouraged by her friends to begin running and even completed a half marathon last may. Jen is a wife to Pete, and a mother to two children, Jacob (15) and Eli (12).

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Josh Woodward was a 1992 scholar at Murray State University. After completing undergraduate school at the University of Kentucky, Josh obtained a Masters in Water Resources from Minnesota and a Masters in Teaching from Cornell University. Outside of the program, Josh teaches a variety of science classes at Berea Community High School. When asked about his favorite part of the program, Josh responded with, “My favorite part is the notion that the five weeks is not really the program. It is everything after.” Nearly thirty years later, Josh and his fellow scholars are still close friends. 

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Helen Heines grew up in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, which is in Bullitt County. She attended North Bullitt High School where she applied and was accepted to attend GSP at Murray State University in 2010. Upon graduation in 2011, she continued her education at Western Kentucky University with a degree in elementary education. Currently, Helen is a 5th grade social studies teacher in Louisville, and spends her summers deeply involved in the GSP community. She began working as a Resident Advisor (RA) at Bellarmine University in 2015. She began moving up the ranks to become head RA and then later she obtained the title of Assistant Campus Director, a title that she still holds. 

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