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(09/10/17 8:55pm)
by Jeremy Rogers
If you’ve enjoyed films like Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983), Donnie Darko (2001), The Fighter (2010), or The Fifth Element (1997), then you finally have the opportunity to voice your thanks to one of the key people responsible.
Sound editor and director Victoria Sampson will be visiting Ball State this Wednesday to conduct a screening of her new short film, Shelby’s Vacation. After the screening she will be holding a meet-and-greet session afterwards for interested students.
Sampson has been working as an ADR editor, dialogue editor, and foley artist in Hollywood for over 41 years. After spending years working on a wide variety of films, she started directing her own short films in 1990. Shelby’s Vacation will mark this Hollywood veteran’s fifth director credit.
Not content with directing a few films and working in the sound department of over 200 films, Vickie Sampson has also worked as an editor, writer, camera operator, and producer.
According to writer and producer Nancy Beverly, Shelby’s Vacation centers around Shelby as she recovers from her latest heartbreak, unable to move on with her life. She retreats to a cozy mountain resort where the manager Carol, and her discover how to live life without being captives of their respective pasts.
The screening and meet-and-greet session will be Wednesday at 7 pm in the Arts and Journalism building, room 175.
Sources: IMDb (Vickie Sampson), IMDb (Shelby’s Vacation)
Image: Stage 32
(09/09/17 9:12pm)
by Nolan Leahy
Streaming services are constantly used where there’s a stable Internet connection. It’s grown quite popular with the millennial generation, as evidenced by the heavily-used phrase "Netflix and Chill."
On Thursday, Spotify and Hulu announced a combo deal that gives Spotify Premium and Hulu Plus for $5 a month, which is in effect as of Thursday’s announcement.
The normal subscription for Hulu Plus is roughly $8 per month, which allows streaming of numerous TV shows with the tacked-on requirement of watching advertisements.
Spotify Premium for students only charged $5 before this new deal struck. Now it’s essentially allowing students to get Hulu for free.
This combination of services is a competitive move to keep up with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile who have individually offered combination services like bundled DirecTV or Netflix.
According to a Spotify News article, Senior VP and Head of Distribution and Partnerships at Hulu had this to say: “We are proud to announce Spotify as our newest strategic partner – they’re an iconic brand in music streaming and a proven leader in reaching and engaging young consumers.”
The idea of combining music and television services together for college students is incredibly generous for $5 a month. To put it into perspective, that's the same price as one year’s worth of Xbox Live or PlayStation Plus. With that in mind, it’s going to be difficult to stop students from taking advantage of this deal that may also ditch the streaming competition.
Sources: The Verge, Spotify News, Alternative Press
(08/20/17 11:00am)
Students, faculty and Muncie community members were invited to snag a free pair of solar eclipse glasses from the Scramble Light from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. today.
(08/17/17 2:59pm)
It’s been almost two years since David Letterman announced that he was donating his collection of memorabilia and awards to Ball State University.
While there were plenty of institutions that wanted the collection, according to Phil Repp, dean of the college of architecture and committee chairman of the collection, there was never any doubt where the material was going to go.
(08/08/17 2:30pm)
With the help of several Ball State alumni and four years of writing, workshopping and entering his screenplay into festivals, alumnus Benjamin Dewhurst produced an award winning short film, SARGE.
(07/19/17 2:30pm)
The Board of Trustees last meeting of the summer will be held on July 21.
(07/18/17 4:04pm)
Editor's note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to editor@bsudailynews.com.
(07/16/17 3:43pm)
The Rinker Center for International Programs hosted Laughter Yoga on July 14 in the L. A. Pittenger Student Center. Participants went through various childlike play motions and sounds to create laughter, which helps lower stress and boost energy. The class was taught by Cindy Cash, an Instructional Design and Technology Consultant for iLearn and an adjunct faculty member for the Miller College of Business.
(07/07/17 3:48pm)
Editor's note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to editor@bsudailynews.com.
(07/05/17 4:25pm)
On June 17, 10 Ball State Students competed in the second stage of being crowned Miss America.
(05/30/17 12:00pm)
This June, the Muncie Children’s Museum turns 40 years old and has plenty of activities planned to celebrate.
(05/23/17 4:26pm)
While in Pittsburgh last week, Trey Moses met last year’s three-time Grammy award-winning rap artist Chance the Rapper.
(05/22/17 3:35pm)
Several parking lots on Ball State's campus will receive repairs beginning at the end of May and continuing into the middle part of July.
(05/11/17 3:54pm)
Ball State has agreed to play Georgia Southern for the first time in 2022 and 2023.
(05/03/17 1:31pm)
When Elizabeth Benzi began stripping in front of her webcam, she thought she was in control. She thought the only person that could see the video of her getting completely naked was her boyfriend—but she was wrong. When Elizabeth sat in her family’s computer room, stripping live for her boyfriend, she never expected that the video would be permanently recorded.
(05/02/17 3:17pm)
Kylin Schoeff, a student at Purdue University, first heard about the issue of human trafficking in high school from a friend. She continued to hear about the issue in college and even in the news. Her colleagues’ passion for the cause inspired her to learn more until it became an issue she could no longer ignore. She herself became passionate about supporting anti-human trafficking efforts because of what she learned about the prevalence of human slavery and the horrendous nature of the crime. Because of this, she joined the Purdue chapter of International Justice Mission (IJM), an organization that raises money for anti-human trafficking efforts.
(05/01/17 2:21pm)
In 2016, on a mid-September afternoon in Vancouver, Washington, Tara Dublin was on her way to pick up her son from school—something she did almost every weekday. Driving down the street in her red Volkswagen Jetta, which had “Proud Democrat” and “A Woman’s Place is in the White House” bumper stickers on the back, she blasted the song “My Hero” by the Foo Fighters through her car’s open windows.
(04/25/17 4:19pm)
Chase Mielke, a teacher at Plainwell High School, has noticed changes in his classroom and in his students caused by the implementation of more technology into the school system. These changes have affected how kids interact with one another and with him, as well.
(04/24/17 2:13pm)
When freshman Madison McGinnis sits in class at Ball State University, she takes notes on her Apple laptop. When iMessages pop up on her screen, she easily swipes over to view them without ever having to get her phone out. When she receives a message or notification from another app during class, it makes it harder to focus because she wants to check it. She feels that technology can make focusing in class more difficult.
(04/20/17 11:43pm)
Tonight: We'll see one more possible line of showers pass through this evening. We've had several lines of showers pass through, bringing over 3/10th of an inch into the Muncie region. You can expect calm winds with an overnight low of 48 degrees.