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Complete coverage: multimedia website In the large back room at B & L Photo lab, surrounded by computers and printers, Bob Pecher talked about photography as his wife Lauren discussed a photo restoration project with a customer, and the Pechers’ two small dogs scampered freely around the shop. Pecher spoke calmly and slowly, never raising […]

Complete coverage: multimedia web site Shawn Monaghan stands in awe on the edge of a cornfield in Delafield. UFOs are hovering in the distance, their lights spinning and swirling against the golden carpet. A farmer runs out of the house, blasting the hovercrafts and trespassers with a shotgun. This fantastic scene, all of it, emerges right before […]

Complete coverage: multimedia website Shorewood High School English teacher Mike Halloran taps the wall-mounted screen at the front of his class and shows his students how to upload their term papers. He turns back around, surveys the class with a devilish grin, and shows his students how effective the new software is at detecting plagiarism. […]

Complete coverage: multimedia website Letriana Barrett is holding the hand of her three-year-old son Jayden. He’s dressed from head to toe in a black and red ninja costume and jumping up and down in excitement. “Spiderman!” he exclaims, pointing at another kid in a costume. The mother and son are at a trick-or-treating event at […]

On a Friday night in early fall, visitors to the Arts@Large Gallery near Walker’s Point are experiencing what happens when students create a garden through art. Designs range from large paper flowers to mosaics, paintings and photography. Perhaps the largest piece in the gallery is a paper collage painting of a garden entitled, A Flower […]

JAMS 332 provides the groundwork for more advanced documentary film production classes. Students learn the essentials of camera use, basic editing skills and the hands-on fundamentals of the field. Each semester, select work from 332 is chosen for inclusion on Media Milwaukee. Often, these videos represent a budding producer’s first foray into the art.

JAMS 332 provides the groundwork for more advanced documentary film production classes. Students learn the essentials of camera use, basic editing skills and the hands-on fundamentals of the field. Each semester, select work from 332 is chosen for inclusion on Media Milwaukee. Often, these videos represent a budding producer’s first foray into the art.

JAMS 532 is a long-form digital storytelling outlet for students in the journalism/documentary concentration. Students work on professional, nonfiction projects throughout the semester, learning skills documentary storytellers need to master. Topics are timely and socially relevant, benefiting the story’s subjects as well as the students’ portfolios. Past documentaries directed by Tess Gallun have aired on […]

complete coverage: multimedia project Lawrence Peters is a self-described early bird. His days start well before the sun rises. At 4:30 a.m., he drags himself out of bed to put the coffee on. Carefully sipping the amber brew, Peters sits down at the kitchen table to contemplate the day. He strategically times out his ten-minute […]

complete coverage: multimedia project When 86-year-old Jean Garrett sits down at her Macintosh computer, she finds more to do than play a game of solitaire or search the Web. Instead, Garrett opens up Photoshop and gets to work. She taught ceramics and weaving for 18 years at the University of Missouri-Columbia and started dabbling in […]