takeVolume: 23 Issue: 1 Fall 2011

ACP class 1 • the Young Building

40 Years • ACP

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Ashley O’Neill

Designer • Layout

Adam Price

Designer • Layout

James Nielsen

Manager • Writer

Nate Jones

Photographer • Writer

Dr. Tyler Rowe

Writer • Graphics

ACP reunion at Fotoprint: This Victoria business has been very sup-portive in terms of hiring our grads over the years. Current employ-ees include Galadriel Rodelander (class 25) and Susan Kobley (class 9). Oh, and Connie Low (class 18) is still making it happen at the competition, Hillside Printing.

Rocking it: Adam Blainey (class 25) has a new company, Rock Bay Media, specializing in online broadcasting and interactive publish-ing, including iPad Apps, eBook conversion, and HTML5 video. Check it out at rockbaymedia.com

Writing it: Jan Hutchings (class 34) is now a staff writer for SonyRu-mors.net. And Erin Ball (class 38) is commuting to UVic where she is the editor-in-chief of the Martlet.

Learning it: Class 38 grad Jina Mousseau was one of 12 accepted out of 85 applications to the four-year Graphic Design for Market-ing and Advertising degree at Vancouver’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University, on the basis of an interview and her ACP portfolio (which included this year’s Playback invite and program). Also accepted: Alisha Charmley (class 37) to Vancouver Island University’s Graphic Design degree program. Congratulations!

Babies! (This should be a regular column): Brendan Strain (class 26) and Melissa had a son in April, as did Ryan Price (class 31) and Lind-say Macfarlane. Natalie (Burton) Wagar (class 24) and Lantz Wagar welcomed a daughter in July, as did Merrilee (Hargrove) Bouchard (class 27) and husband Derek Bouchard in September.

Weddings! (Yet another regular column!): Ryan Spedding (class 35) wed Megan this past summer, and Kimberli Persley (class 32) made it official with Luke Kozlowski in August. Jenny Smith (class 35) be-came Mrs. Justin Engwer in September.

Faithful Few • ACP Alumni membership renewals since last issue:

Lois Fernyhough—class 10 (paid to 2012!)Matt Silver—class 28 (paid to 2013!)Ed Sum—class 37 (paid to 2013!)Natasha Vander Wal (aka Tash Post)—class 26 (paid to 2012!)Don’t forget to send in your $10 so you can continue to reap all the benefits of membership, like the fabulous Take 5 newsletter!

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B&W Photos • ACP Archives

Playback Photos • S. Swenson

Special Thanks!

Rick Caswell • Lois Fernyhough

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Class 38 Shows Great Talent on Their Majors… Darin Steinkey • Documentary on paddleboards Shawn O’Hara • Weekly humour podcast Max von Kleist • Logo design business Alli Pickard • Music journalism website Bryan Kelly • Broadcast games and video production Alex Haro • Magazine editor & writer Cherylann Nesbitt, Dustin Brown, Luke Holland • Comedy videos Liz Jarvis • Beach fire cookbook

Chapter 1The night of April 15 continued a tradition that has spanned two decades. It was 7 pm, and Playback for class 38 was about to be-gin. Soon-to-be grads Shawn O’Hara and Darren Steinkey had been elected to host for the evening, so host they did.

Throughout the nearly two hours that followed, O’Hara and Stein-key entertained the crowd that filled the Young building’s Gibson auditorium. Grads of past ACP classes joined class 39 in the upper balcony to witness class 38’s projects. Websites, demo reels, and even new businesses were presented as each student commanded a lectern for the final time as an ACP student.

Applause and laughter punctuated the evening as each unique proj-ect, produced with a combination of humour, ingenuity and in some cases, sheer brilliance, was presented to the captivated audience.

Chapter 2The presentations were in full swing. Unbeknownst to the enter-tained guests inside the auditorium, first year students and ACP staff had been busy preparing for an extended showcase of the pro-gram and its facilities. The video studio, now adorned with a green screen backdrop, was home to a large panel of collected student works. Brochures, newsletters and other products of Rick Caswell’s publishing classes were on display for the families of class 38 as well as alumni, guests and fellow students.

Across the hall the Y307 computer lab was unusually quiet, its rows of computers unused, its back tables covered with portfolios show-casing the collected works of the graduating class.

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Playback 2011• class 38/39

Award winners: PublishingBest:

Jina MousseauMost Improved:

Nate Linford

RadioBest:

Darin SteinkeyMost Improved:

Renee Andor

VideoBest:

Dave WallaceMost Improved:

Luke Holland

Golden Coffee Cup (2nd year): Dustin Brown

Golden Coffee Cup (1st year): Phil Moydl

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acp bench

We have finally realized the dream of a memorial bench in front of the Young Building to honour the founder of Ap-plied Communication, Kerm Carlson.

It started back in 2003, just after Kerm died, and class 13’s Alan Barton came up with the idea of a memorial bench. Initially the cost was pegged at $650 and people began to donate money towards this cause. Of course the price went up from there over time, but once we realized we had $1,000 in place we started to discuss our options with Camosun’s physical resources depart-ment. We placed our order this spring with RecTec of Delta, BC for a recycled plastic bench (somehow seems appropriate for Kerm, the king of recycling and collect-ing cast-off gear). In fact, the only things missing are an ashtray and a coffee cup holder!

Special thanks have to go to Denis Humphries, super-visor of physical resource projects, for taking the lead on the ordering and installation. The new bench was in place for September’s intake of ACP class 40.

But the bench did wind up costing more than the mon-ey we have raised. We had $1,010.35 set aside and the total cost (even with free installation) is $1,539.62. We had enough alumni bank account money to cover the shortfall, but we still need donations to reach the total and pay the account back the difference of $529.27.

Send your donations c/o Lois in ACP at Camosun Col-lege, 3100 Foul Bay Rd., Victoria BC V8P 5J2. Cheques should be made out to “ACP Alumni Association” and in the memo area of the cheque please note it’s for the bench. Thanks!

~ Lois Fernyhough

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Marty Taillon • Show produced at Shaw Alex Pask, Emily Laing • Audio-visual portfolio Teleza Shafooli, Jina Mousseau, Amanda Richardson • Magazine Erin Ball, Renee Andor • Conference organization Justin Doyle • Electronic music EP Gabrielle Kind • Podcast on personal growth Adam Holroyd • Novella Brett Blair, Nathan Linford • Marketing & branding Dave Wallace • Videography company

playbackThe radio labs also lay in suspended animation, a low hum rising from the computers that were feeding an automated shift of Village 900. Soon, after the formal presentation in the Gibson auditorium ended, people

shoved past each other in the station’s crowded hallway as stu-dents showed loved ones what they had been doing the previous two years. After visiting the radio studios, the students opened the door and exited into the third-floor hallway, not realizing it would be their last time there.

Chapter 3Several first year students greeted the night’s guests as they en-tered the final room on the third floor. Followed by a transaction of currency for tickets, guests proceeded to the student-operated bar, where a selection of wine, beer, and soft drinks were available for consumption, and instructors, students and guests exchanged tales of ACP.

Eventually, the drinks disappeared, and it was apparent to 25 stu-dents that a great two years of school had finally come to an end.

Epilogue:Just like that, it was over. Classes 38 and 39 exited the Young Build-ing shortly after 11:00 pm. Many of the students headed towards downtown Victoria—Balmoral Street to be exact—to celebrate the unlimited opportunities awaiting class 38.

~ James Nielsen

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comes a fresh wave of new students, and new gear. This includes 10 Canon T3i cameras and a Canon 7D MK II, a professional shooter’s choice. Other new additions to the studio include a large green screen, a Force Four el-lipsoidal light, and an analog to digital converter.

With the addition of the T3i and 7D cameras, and storage devices for the Panasonic HVX 200 cameras which have made these second year cameras HD-capable, using videotape has become a thing of the past for second year students. The modest price tag of the T3i made purchasing it a wise decision. “I can run a shooting lab with the T3i, send ev-erybody out, and get the project shot in two hours,” says video instructor Andy Bryce. Before the new DSLRs, a video lab would have been parceled out over a few lessons.

The video studio has finally gone green—green screen that is. The investment in a 12x18 foot green screen is something that will benefit the students, and ACP. “It’s probably the biggest green screen in town right now,” says Bryce. This screen is another tool that is widely used in broadcasting, and with it comes new rental opportunities. “There’s enough production around that needs a green screen, and in turn, allows us to defer some of the cost of running the studio,” says Bryce.

Another big purchase is the new ellipsoidal light, making flats a thing of the past. “You can shine patterns and designs on the backdrop that will provide a different look and feel without taking up all the space of flats,” says Bryce.

Last but not least, an analog to digital converter finally gives us the ability to stream productions live over the internet. The second year students will be working on several café-style music productions this year and these performances will be streamed live.

So there should be a lot to expect from the second year video students as they enter the new school year. With new HD capable cameras, cool lights, and screens that are green there is sure to be some high quality video projects on the horizon.

~ Nate Jones

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A lot can change in 40 years, and for the Applied Com-munication Program that statement rings true in respect to its graduates and the sophistication of the program it-self. A Camosun College fixture since 1972 (my own father was 13 then), ACP has always been focused on the three main streams: video, audio, print. In the ‘70s, that meant

a closed-circuit radio station, creating PMTs in an offset darkroom, printing on an offset press, using a photo-typesetter and splicing up actual film. Now, it means DSLRs, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, websites, flash animation, and a full-fledged AM radio station. That is to say, we have it easier these days—Crtl+z is as bad as it gets a lot of the time in 2011. What we take for granted every day in year 40 might have meant hours and hours of work for an ACP alum.

The radio station that Kerm Carlson built in 1973—the closed cir-cuit CAMO which became 103.1FM in 1993 and finally Village 900AM CKMO in 2001—is only months away from yet another permutation when it shifts over from broadcasting to webstream-ing only as our lease on the transmitter expires. There are no more cart machines in the CKMO studios, only CDs uploaded once into a database. There is no reel-to-reel anymore, no film even. It’s been replaced by a library of digital video and picture cameras and recorders. We even have our own green-screen in the TV stu-dio now, one of the biggest on the island. Things are easier, sure.

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40years of acpBut they’re also the best. If all good things must come to an end, what must the great things do?

The third floor of the Young building has always belonged to ACP, and that floor and the clock tower above have been central to the collective imagination of the program and its students and staff for four decades. Through ACP’s changes, great works have been done, great careers launched from a technical program for media which has always grown with technology and yielded so much pro-fessional-quality product. Forty years is a long time—just ask any-one with a student loan. So it is with a healthy measure of gratitude and even a greater amount of trepidation that we must dedicate this issue of Take 5 to the demise of the Applied Communication Program. Hopefully it will be resurrected, at least in part, by a new program that will surely share elements with, but be markedly dif-ferent than, the ACP we know.

But in our dedication lies proof of the greatness of this educational empire, lost from this world too young thanks to general wrong-mindedness about the program by those who decide these things. A picture of a quizzical George W. Bush comes to mind when I think of the death of ACP, ruined like Rome by Visigoths. But I digress. These 40 years have been about a lot getting done, and by that measure, ACP, from Carlson to Bryce, has succeeded entirely.

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