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Harvard what? Harvard Shorts Film Festival, the first of its kind at Harvard, is a university-wide filmmaking contest that will feature the best three-minute digital movies made by anyone in the Harvard community. If walking down the crimson carpet and enjoying celebrity status aren’t enough incentives, winners can also win prizes...
...interactive multimedia presentation. Sponsored by the Office for the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard Shorts is the brainchild of Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies who is a strong proponent of incorporating media projects into teaching and course assignments (like swapping podcasts for papers). Through this contest, Kuriyama hopes to demonstrate the powerful ways that a film can convey a message to its audience, and how the use of images and music can make a subject matter more interesting...
...best part is that you don't have to be technologically savvy or an aspiring filmmaker to enter the contest. The whole idea behind Harvard Shorts is that nowadays, it's a lot easier to create multimedia presentations with software like Keynote and Movie Maker—you no longer need the expensive equipment that is traditionally used to produce movies...
...outlook is surprisingly bright for tonight’s contest. The Crimson is riding a wave of good karma after its first road sweep in 10 years, due mostly to the freshmen getting over their winter swoon: Casey won Ivy Player of the Week, Brandyn Curry carried Harvard on his back late in the Yale game, and both Christian Webster and Dee Giger found their stroke...
...Washington on Thursday to stump for a pair of ailing Democratic Senators in Western battleground states. In Denver, Obama flexed his fundraising muscles at a pair of events for Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado before heading to Nevada, where Senate majority leader Harry Reid is locked in a bitter contest. Democrats are hoping the sojourn, which comes on the heels of Indiana Senator Evan Bayh's surprise announcement that he will not stand for re-election this fall, will bolster the campaigns of two vulnerable candidates whose races could be key in preserving the party's Senate majority, an edge...