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Students learn from award-winning producer/director, Hollywood writer Maharishi University of Management Media and Communications students continue to enjoy the advantages of learning from experienced professionals, this block being taught by award-winning producer/director Leigh Badgley and next block by Hollywood writer Meghan Dowd. Ms. Badgley is teaching a new course, Creating Documentaries from the Inside Out. She is the producer of the documentaries Greenpeace: Making a Stand, True Prince: Vladimir Malakhov, The Dolphin Dealer, and many others. Students are learning to make a documentary step by step, as well as learning about specific production roles from successful film industry experts via Skype presentations. There will be a public showing of their short documentaries at the end of the course. In block 10 Ms. Dowd will teach Creative Development in the Television Industry: From Idea to Broadcast. She has spent six years learning the ropes of the television industry in Los Angeles, working for literary agencies and television shows such as Big Shots, Reunion, Touching Evil, Haunted, and Laguna Beach: The Real OC. Students in this course will create scripts for TV pilots and produce short segments of them. These two new courses are part of an expansion of the department to accommodate the increasing number of students. Additional new courses will be offered next academic year, including Feature Film Production, Advanced Digital Photography, Graphic Design for Media and Communications, Graphic Design for the Web, The Power of the Word, New Media: From Blogs to Books, © Copyright 2010, Maharishi University of Management, Iowa
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