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Volume 10, Issue 1 September 2019

T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f K a n s a s

Department of Film & Media Studies

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Department of Fi lm & Media Studies September 2019

Upcoming Events

2019 FMS Rally

Date: Thursday, September 5

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Loca on: 125 Summerfield Hall – FMS Soundstage

Meet FMS faculty, lecturers, staff, and students!

Clips from Professor Bob Hurst’s documentary, Garden City, will be screened.

Meet the director and members of the crew (current students and alums).

Free FMS T‐shirts to the first 50 students!


Upcoming Events

Hall Center Video Smash 2019

Due Date: October 1, 2019 at 11:59 p.m.

Screening and Awards Recep on: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 from 5:30‐7:30 p.m. at the Hall Center for the Humani es

Purpose: The Hall Center for the Humani es invites teams of faculty, graduate students, and/or undergraduate students to create videos that demonstrate the power of the humani es to answer pressing ques ons, solve mysteries, illuminate pop culture and current events, and awe the imagina on. Videos should be no more than five minutes in length. The goal of these awards is to encourage collabora on between different facets of KU’s scholarly community and to develop a pipeline of fresh video content for promo ng the humani es at KU.

Award: The first‐place video produc on team will receive a $1,000 cash award; the second‐place video produc on team will receive a $500 cash award; the third‐place video produc on team will receive a $250 cash award. Select video produc on teams will be invited to screen their videos and provide commentary on the produc on process at the screening and awards recep on at the end of October.

See the complete instruc ons here: h p://hallcenter.ku.edu/video‐smash‐2019‐0


Clubs and Activities


Out & About

BlackKklansman’ Co‐Writer Kevin Willmo Gets Underway Direc ng ‘The 24th’, Drama On 1917 Houston Riot And A ermath

A er sharing the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar with Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman, Kevin Willmo has go en underway with The 24th, a film he is direc ng from a script he co‐wrote with Trai Byers*, the la er of whom stars in the film.

The 24th tells the true story of the all‐black Twenty‐Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mu ny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. The riot lasted two hours and led to the death of nine civilians, four policemen and two soldiers. It resulted in the largest murder trial in history, which sentenced a total of 19 men to execu on, and 41 to life sentences.

The film is two days into shoo ng in North Carolina and Byers (Empire and Selma) stars alongside Bashir Salahuddin (Top Gun: Maverick), Aja Naomi King (Birth of a Na on), Mo McRae (Big Li le Lies), Tosin Morohunfola* (The Chi), Mykel Williamson (Fences) and Thomas Haden Church.

The 24th is being produced by Alexandra Milchan under her EMJAG Produc ons banner, Willmo , and Byers. The film is also produced and fully financed by Jordan Fudge under his New Slate Ventures banner. The film’s distribu on will be brokered by New Slate and the law firm of Paul Has ngs.

Willmo separately teamed with Lee on the upcoming Da 5 Bloods for Ne lix, and he previously wrote and directed C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America.

[* Byers and Morohunfola both a ended KU!]

Copied from: h ps://deadline.com/2019/06/the‐24th‐houston‐riots‐blackkklansman‐kevin‐willmo ‐direc ng‐movie‐1202624417/? clid=IwAR2dRtp_6tvh9cFemBQRd8kThuq_I3I26A_NXmCRfxjXUG1gX7cds5892MY


Alumni News

Allen “Fieldhouse” Sanders is working as a Digital Asset Manager at Disney Studios in LA. He men oned on social media that he “went from taking a visitor tour in 2013 to working on the lot for 2019. @ Walt Disney Studios.” Congratula ons, Allen!

Sanders writes: “I’m the Digital Asset Manager for the VFX department on Lady and the Tramp. I started the gig in Savannah, GA on July 09, 2018 for produc on. We are now in post and have to deliver by the end of September because our movie launches with Disney Plus in November. My du es include, but are not limited to, the overall tracking, prepara on, and distribu on of the digital media required for our 1200+ shots in this movie; concepts,

scans, lidar, ADR, ac ve itera ons, edits, QTs, EXRs, ETC... . I provide technical support to the VFX department, the director and studio reviews. It's a lot of leg/gear turning work.

“My primary du es would have been witness camera management and server/file management (during produc on). For post, I'm responsible for organizing, storing and retrieving a plethora of media between produc on and our five vendor houses. I also control the technical aspect of shot review and dailies meets, which includes providing support, wrangling and organizing media. Also, ensuring that our DI house has the right final shot versions to be put into the film for the final DCP conform.

“Lastly, when I came on the LA Career Week trip in 2013 we toured the Disney Lot and I took tons of pictures while we were touring. Fast forward to six years later... when we wrapped on produc on and came back to LA in December, I went through those pictures and I found one

that I took in front of the mul plane camera in the Frank G Well building. This photo caught my a en on because six years later that mul plane camera s ll stands in the same place, so I recreated the photo. Because to me, it's s ll insane that I went from touring this lot as a student in Kansas to actually working on a movie here!” and if you don't know what the mul plane camera is... h ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mul plane_camera

Allen “Fieldhouse” Sanders and the VFX Team on Lady and the Tramp

2013 – Sanders near the mul plane camera in the Frank G Well building

Sanders recrea ng his 2013 photo in 2019.


Alumni News

KU graduate leads successful YouTube career documen ng life from 13‐foot camper

Looking into her rearview mirror while driving through the Colorado wilderness, University of Kansas alumna Elsa Pageler always has her home in sight — all 13 feet of it.

Pageler, 28, has been living on the road in a Scamp trailer with her partner, Barron Link, and a Shiba Inu named Kamp for almost three years. She documents their adventures and challenges on her Youtube channel, which currently has almost 255,000 subscribers. Together, they have traveled through Colorado, Arizona and Utah, and they’re currently on the road in Montana.

“As long as we have internet, we can really work from wherever we need to in the world, which is sweet,” Pageler said.

“We showed pre y clearly that this is working for us,” Pageler said. “You have to keep pushing through that with

anything you’re doing that’s new and against the classic way that people do things. You have to, or else we’d all be doing the same thing.”

Her videos are not typical vaca on highlights. Pageler, who graduated from KU with a film degree in 2013, has made videos about cooking on the road, renova ng the trailer and other aspects of daily life in the Scamp.

Before Pageler started her life on the road, she’d mainly produced art‐related content on her channel. She said she had to slowly warm her audience up to the idea of more content about camping and the outdoors. But she said the novelty of the videos did a lot to keep viewers interested.

“We have given up a lot to live this ny,” Pageler said. “But by living so ny we have all the freedom to travel anywhere.”

Copied from the Lawrence Journal World: h ps://www2.ljworld.com/news/general‐news/2019/aug/04/ku‐graduate‐leads‐successful‐youtube‐career‐documen ng‐life‐from‐13‐foot‐camper/?

clid=IwAR2Wzd5cVNKXzl7CtyasNGRoUavWQfWHi5wYhkhAAxrTK3c7sjkQEFbiOYE

photo by: Courtesy of Elle Malmstom From le , Barron Link, the Shiba Inu "Kamp," and Elsa Pageler stand in front of their Scamp trailer Feb. 2018 near Lake Havasu, AZ.

The Lion King – Director‐producer Jon Favreau, who also was in charge of Disney’s Jungle Book remake, had sparkling help on both pictures from a Wichita na ve and University of Kansas film student, Barry St. John, who now lives in Los Angeles. St. John reportedly said that 99 percent of what you see in The Lion King is computer generated. That shows what an intricate role this Kansan played in making animals come alive on the big screen.

Copied from The Hutchinson News: h ps://www.hutchnews.com/news/20190725/lion‐king‐highlights‐movie‐making‐magic?

clid=IwAR0Y_f1iYE0yAwQ8jpOGD7TFpxWKdEvWJ3TBm38bB794dPuHJ‐vYU4mBj‐M

Barry St. John with his wife, and daughter at the red‐carpet premiere of “The Lion King” earlier this month.

T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f F i l m a n d M e d i a S t u d i e s T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f K a n s a s

Department of Film and Media Studies

Summerfield Hall, Suite 230

1300 Sunnyside Avenue

Lawrence, KS 66045

Phone: 785‐864‐1340

E‐mail: [email protected]

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updates to Karla Conrad at

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Academic Calendar

September 02 ‐ Labor Day Holiday ‐ No classes

September 16 ‐ Last day to withdraw/drop without a "W"

September 16, – First Period Drop ends

September 17 ‐ Second Period Drop begins

September 24 ‐ Start Credit/No Credit

Equipment Check‐in: 10:00 a.m.— 12:00 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

Equipment Check‐out: 1:00 p.m.— 3:00 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

Sign‐up to check‐out equipment in the binder on the counter in 230 Summerfield.

Sign‐up for edi ng rooms by signing the edit room schedule posted on the edi ng room door (418b Summerfield). Pick up the key in the FMS office (230 Summerfield).

Check with your instructor or John McCluskey, Assistant Technical Director, for more informa on.

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