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Kent State Journalism Students Receive Top Honors in BEA Video Competition
Posted April 6, 2015 | Taylor Nickel
Franklin Hall is home to Kent State University's School of
Journalism and Mass Communication. Students from the
school received top honors in the 2015 Broadcast
Education Association’s Student Video Competition.
Students from Kent State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication received top honors in the 2015 Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Student Video Competition. As part of the BEA Festival of Media Arts, the competition recognizes students nationally for excellence in broadcast and electronic media.
In the studio (multicamera or live-to-tape) category, senior digital media production majors Jeremy Herbert and Sarah Vulpio tied with another team in third place for the show, The Agenda.
As producers for TV2, Herbert and Vulpio oversee the The Agenda, make decisions and approve the segments that will air. The Agenda began in 2010 as a take-off of The Daily Show or The Colbert Report.
Herbert says that when the show began, there was very little video content, and the majority of segments were live.
“Since then, it's turned into more of a 50-50 live versus video show and has taken on an identity of its own,” Herbert says. “It's more like SNL's 'Weekend Update' with sketches.”
Herbert says the cast and crew work hard every week from Monday to Thursday to put together a half-hour show.
“It's tremendously gratifying to get some recognition for that hard work,” he says. “We really have the hardest working cast and crew around, and I'm pleased as punch that they got rewarded for it.”
Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni Tyler Pina, ’14, Matt Petrunak, ’14, Kirsten Charlton, ’14, and Devan Ofcar, ’14, earned first place in the music video category for Freaky Love-Captain Kidd. The music video, produced by Kent State Independent Films, received a bronze award in 2014 at the 35th Annual Telly Awards.
Kent State Associate Lecturer Traci E. Williams and Associate Professor Dave Smeltzer served as advisors for Kent State Independent Films on Freaky Love.
The Broadcast Education Association is the premiere international academic media organization, driving insights, excellence in media production, and career advancement for educators, students and professionals. The association currently has more than 2,500 individual and institutional members worldwide. Visit www.beaweb.org for more information.