KRISTIN CRAWFORD ’11
NATE VANDERPLAS ’08
CURRENT GIG: working as a videographer and editor at Wycliffe Bible Translators, producing promotional videos
CURRENT GIG: freelance motion graphic designer doing character animation and compositing for Gorilla Pictures
WHY MEDIA PRODUCTION AT CALVIN? “The staff and professors are great teachers and friends to the students.” FAVORITE CALVIN MEDIA PRODUCTION MEMORY: working on “ambitious, crazy” projects like the Rock Paper Scissors tournament and the award-winning Calvin LipDub (Watch at vimeo.com/11201881)
COOL PROJECT: Watchmen Motion Comic for Warner Bros. ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS: “Get as much experience as you can.”
CAILIN YATSKO ’10
KAREN ABAD ’07
CURRENT GIG: co-owns her own New York-based film production company, Bicephaly Pictures, which does cinematography for music videos, fashion videos and documentaries
CURRENT GIG: shooting and editing web content for a Chicago-based media company called Zacuto
CALVIN HIGHLIGHT: her short film, Product Placement, was featured at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival HOW CALVIN MEDIA PRODUCTION PREPARED HER FOR HER CAREER: “It gave me a strong foundation and covered all aspects of filmmaking and, from there, helped me figure out what I specifically wanted to do.”
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: nominated for two Chicago/Midwest editing Emmys; won for Filmfellas, a show she edited for Zacuto BEST CALVIN MEDIA PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE: taking a January interim course during which she shot a music video on 16mm film WATCH: vimeo.com/karenabadfilms
JOSH DONNELLY ’10
MIKE ROHLFING ’09
CURRENT GIG: Working at FIAT USA in advertising and social media marketing. Assisted in managing film shoots in LA and Mexico for the FIAT music video, Get Ready, and manages FIAT Source, the brand’s iPad app.
CURRENT GIG: editor for Coolfire Originals, working on projects for networks such as Discovery, Lifetime, Travel, Nickelodeon, OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) and others
HOW CALVIN MEDIA PRODUCTION PREPARED HIM FOR HIS CAREER: “FIAT relies on me to make educated decisions based on my understanding of our target and overall market strategy. This attention to detail and functional understanding of what good advertising is has been one of the most beneficial things Calvin media production equipped me with.”
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Won a Mid-America Emmy in 2011 for his work on a public service announcement for Gateway 180, a homeless shelter in St. Louis, Mo. Shot and edited the pitch tape, or trailer, that launched Welcome to Sweetie Pies, a reality show about a popular soul-food restaurant in downtown St. Louis. The pitch tape made its way to Oprah Winfrey, who bought the show.
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