More than 70 Ball State University students worked together to bring "The Terri Dreams" to life, winning seniors Adam Hicks and Nicholas Johnson Ball State's Creativity + Innovation award for February.
Hicks and Johnson masterminded, produced and directed the project, which was a combination of live acting, music and a movie.
"[The Terri Dreams] was kind of a collaborative idea," Johnson said. "We started tossing the idea around in January [of 2006]."
Hicks said the idea was to combine a bunch of different mediums, such as music, acting and video.
To make the project, students took advantage of Ball State's technology. Most of the directors edited their videos in the telecommunications labs, including Via 1, Via 2 and the Teleplex, he said.
Many of the students that helped work on "The Terri Dreams" are friends of Hicks and Johnson, but they also put up signs all around campus, sent out e-mails and held a call-out to get more volunteers, Hicks said.
He said the hardest part of the project was trying to coordinate such a large student team and keeping everyone on schedule.
Johnson said he thought the scale of "The Terri Dreams" is what impressed the Creativity + Innovation judges.
"It was a good experience and I think people got a lot out of it," he said. "It pushes students to go outside the classroom and it's something that students don't get to experience very often. I think everyone that worked on the project knew it was a real learning opportunity."
Johnson is proud that everyone involved, from the directors to the composers to the crew, stepped up to make the project work, he said. The university also helped provide money and equipment.
Hicks and Johnson said it felt great to win the Creativity + Innovation award and be recognized for their hard work.
"It's too bad it's just the two of us getting the award," Hicks said. "[Johnson and I] had the idea, but it just took so many people to make it happen."
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