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Campus Review
November 13, 2013
Freshmen Volunteer at Atlanta Community Food Bank
tives like the new Pinewood Studios in
Fayette County, Tyler Perry’s studio
expansion, and productions like
“Catching Fire,” “Joyful Noise” (which
included a scene shot on the Clayton State
campus), and “The Walking Dead,”
Clayton State’s Continuing Education
Division has brought Bond east to repli-
cate that same program in the Southern
Crescent.
“We are extremely fortunate to be able to
offer this nationally-recognized curricu-
lum,” says Janet Winkler, executive direc-
tor of Continuing Education at Clayton
State. “Barton Bond comes to us with 40
plus years of media experience, the last
ten of which were spent developing and
teaching the only film crew training pro-
gram in the country.”
“New Mexico was the first state in the
nation to offer financial incentives to
attract films and TV productions from
Hollywood,” says Bond. “And also the
first and to date the only state to develop
a comprehensive training program to
quickly get workers trained at level that
would allow them to work on film sets.
“As the level of film, TV and digital
media production in Georgia grows, the
need for trained workers will also
increase. We saw the same thing happen
in New Mexico, and we trained literally
hundreds of workers – giving the state the
third largest crew base outside of Los
Angles and New York. I see Georgia
poised to exceed that number within the
next few years.”
“In addition to preparing students for fea-
ture film and TV productions, the pro-
gram will also provide students basic
skills required to work in other media
projects like independent films, and com-
mercial and industrial projects,” adds
Winkler.
Digital Film Tech Training I will deliver a
complete basic skill set in the areas of
production planning as well as on-set
skills in lighting, grip, sound, camera, art,
make-up, wardrobe, script supervision,
locations and craft services. Students will
also have the opportunity to participate in
two, all-day Saturday film productions.
Digital Film Tech Training II will develop
and reinforce students’ skills in the areas
of production planning as well as on-set
crafts. The course will include working
with members of the International
Association of Theatrical and Stage
Employees Local 479 (ITASE) and other
credentialed guest lecturers. Students will
be able to work on “real” productions,
network with and receive mentoring from
local production professionals.
DeLandra M. Hunter and Marcia Bouyea-
Hamlet, the director and assistant director
of Clayton State University’s First-Year
Advising & Retention Center, recently took
13 Clayton State freshmen volunteer at the
Atlanta Community Food Bank (ACFB) to
celebrate Hunger Awareness Month.
Taking part were Clayton State students
McKayla Washington (Jonesboro), Erica
Joyce (Macon), Amoni Etheridge
(Conley), Toni Simmons (Stockbridge),
Latrese Hubbard (Cusseta), Taylor
Kendrick (Thomson), Jasmine Bell
(Brunswick), Bianca Dent (Augusta),
Linh Le-Nguyen (Clarkston), Payal Patel
(Clarkston), Deanna Jackson (Jonesboro),
Miracle Brown (Atlanta) and Craig
Roberts (Austell).
Jackson says ACFB does a lot more than
she imagined, including providing an edu-
cational component for the volunteers,
which turned out to be another aspect of
experiential learning for the Clayton State
students.
“They not only distribute food, but they
also provide essential items like toiletries
and baby products to people in need,” she
explains. “After organizing the food to be
distributed, we attended a Hunger 101
workshop to learn about hunger in our
local community.”
Jackson admits that, prior to the workshop
she had mainly associated hunger with the
homeless.
“However, I learned that the majority of
the people that utilize services offered by
ACFB aren’t necessarily homeless, but
they are often children, the elderly and
working poor,” she says. “This was some-
what surprising to me because there are so
many other categories of hungry people;
you just don’t hear about them as much.”
In addition to being enlightening, volun-
teering for ACFB was also fun, and the
Clayton State students could look back on
the day with a significant sense of accom-
plishment.
“Overall my experience at the ACFB was
a fun and enlightening one. By the end of
our visit we had sorted and packed 12,039
pounds of food,” says Jackson. “I feel like
we actually accomplished something with
this service project.”
Maybe more important, the ACFB experi-
ence helped engender as sense of commu-
nity service among the students.
“I’ve been inspired to get more involved
in the community,” says Jackson. “I’m
sharing my experience in hopes that oth-
ers will get inspired to volunteer because
it truly makes a difference in the commu-
nity.”
First row: McKayla Wasghington (Jonesboro),
Marcia Bouyea-Hamlet, Erica Joyce (Macon),
Amoni Etheridge (Conley), Toni Simmons
(Stockbridge), DeLandra Hunter.
Back row: Latrese Hubbard (Cusseta), Taylor
Kendrick (Thomson), Jasmine Bell
(Brunswick), Bianca Dent (Augusta), Linh Le-
Nguyen (Clarkston), Payal Patel (Clarkston),
Deanna Jackson (Jonesboro), Miracle Brown
(Atlanta), Craig Roberts (Austell).
Film, cont’d. from p. 2