Assistant Professor
of Electronic Media
High Point University
"The Ghosts We Know"
Written and Directed by Jim Goodman
Jim Goodman
Narrative
Creative Scholarship and Teaching, Example Student Works
Writing
Making Steam: Life and Godot
Produced by Ed Simpson and Jim Goodman
Directed and Edited by Jim Goodman
This is a five minute sample from the 52 minute documentary.
Making Steam, Life and Godot explores the creative impulse, the search for meaning and the idea of friendship as we follow the efforts of the High Point University Extension Project in their preparations and performance of Samuel Beckett's controversial and award winning play, Waiting for Godot.
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Played in competition at the 69th Annual UFVA Conference held in August 2015 at American University in Washington, DC and at the BEA Festival of Media Arts held in April of 2016 in Las Vegas, NV.
Call Me, Connected and The One Per Cent are examples of collaborative faculty led projects completed in my spring Senior Production Experience course. All have been presented at the BEA Festival of Media Arts. For these projects students work in departmentally defined roles using industry standard techniques to produce a short original narrative film. They build team and develop leadership skills. The projects were shot on the Red One Digital Acquisition System. The class objective is to show a fine cut of the film by semester's end.
Alucinatio- A Nathan Barrick film. Student sample from Narrative Production class. Visual Story Assignment.
Call Me
tells the story of two college students , life long friends, who struggle to determine the direction of their relationship when one of them comes face to face with unexpected hardship.
Produced by senior Matt DiNatalie and Jim Goodman
Directed by Jim Goodman
Written by senior Bree Hovan
Director of Photography - junior Ed Harlin
Edited by seniors Anna Wallingford, Matt DiNatalie, and Chris Jones
Connected
tells the story of a college student addicted to his use of technology and the consequences of that addiction.
Produced by senior Shannon Taylor, Ed Simpson and Jim Goodman
Directed by Jim Goodman
Written by Jim Goodman and Ed Simpson
Director of Photography - junior Montgomery Brown and senior Anthony Siciliano
Edited by seniors Montgomery Brown, Adam Keelan, Pat Stein, Shannon Taylor
Connected
Written by Jim Goodman and Ed Simpson
The screenplay for Connected won both the "the Best of Festival King Foundation Award "and the "Best of" in the Faculty Short Screenplay Competition at the 2012 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts.
Connected tells the story of a college student addicted to his use of technoogy and the consequences of that addiction.
What keeps us from finding the things we most want? Struggling with a broken heart and trying to care for her two young daughters, single mom Cary Summers can’t seem to cope. A mysterious old woman may have the answer to free Cary from her pain, but every cure has its price.
Dog Tax - A Film Response
Written by Jim Goodman
Film response - Lazslo Santha's film Dog Tax - presented at the 2014 University Film And Video Association National Conference.
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Acting Out, Acting In- A Film Response
Written by Jim Goodman
Film response - Joe Habraken's Acting Out, Acting In documentary film - presented at the 2015 University Film And Video Association National Conference.
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Teaching and the Senior
Production Experience
Screenshot from The Ghosts We Know
The Ghosts We Know
Written by Jim Goodman
The screenplay for The Ghosts We Know won the Award of Excellence in the Faculty Short Screenplay Competition at the 2013 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts. The produced version of the script can be viewed above.
Just a Coincidence -Student Group film Project from Narrative Production class. Team Project. Produced by Ryan Venable, Directed by Alex Nemetz, Cinematography by Ben Farmer, Written by Ryan Venable and Alex Nemetz, Edited by Adam Sewell. Featuring HPU actors.
Lost - An Adam Kellan film. Student sample from Narrative Production class. Visual Story Assignment.
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The One Per Cent
tells the story of Danny, a young waiter, working in a high-end restaurant, who bumps shoulders with the well-to do and dreams of one day being rich and happy. A chance encounter with a magic coin might make his dreams come true. But what is rich? And what is happy?
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Produced by senior Kelly Schwab, senior Michael Shield, and Jim Goodman
Directed by Jim Goodman
Written by junior Ashley Angle
Director of Cinematography senior Ben Farmer
Edited by senior Michelle Gelbar
Trailer Edited by senior Jackson Callahan
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The One Per Cent is winner of the 2016 BEA Festival of Media Arts Award of Excellence, Faculty Competition: Mixed Video Category, Student Co-Production.
The One Per Cent Trailer
The Ghosts We Know
Written and Directed by Jim Goodman
Originated on the Red One at 3K
Presented at the 2014 BEA Festival of Media Arts and
the UFVA’s 68th University Film and Video Conference.
Documentary
Cadence - Written and Directed by Nathan Barrick, Produced by Madison Nelin, Sound by Dan Moriarty. Featuring HPU actors. Final group film Fall 2016 Narraitve Production. This film won the NQSC ELM Best Student Production Award for 2015-16. 11:45.
Sports Link Interview Project - Team Project: Shot by Casey Ellis and Michelle Gelbar. Michelle Gelbar's Edited version of story. VIdeo Production II Interview Project.4:16.
Sample Student
Works from other Production Classes
The One Per Cent
For Other Presentations and Panels contact me at email address below
Sound Mic'ing Techniques Assignment - Created by Louis Samara for Video Production I class.
The Rose - Written and Directed by Anthony Silciliano. Videography by Alanea Cremen for Field Production class.