{"id":13194,"date":"2014-08-20T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13194"},"modified":"2014-08-20T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:42:03","slug":"13194_young-filmmaker-ken-spooner-embodies-school-of-communication-and-media-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2014\/08\/20\/13194_young-filmmaker-ken-spooner-embodies-school-of-communication-and-media-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Filmmaker Ken Spooner embodies School of Communication and Media Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montclair State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media makes this promise on its website: \u201cWhether you want to make films, produce television programs, create strategic communication campaigns or take the internet by storm, our groundbreaking, cross-platform learning experiences will prepare you to play a role in the evolving world of communication and media.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Many undergraduates in the school have taken full advantage of the ample opportunities offered to them.  <\/span>They can be found developing skills and getting real world experience at leading and innovative new media companies throughout the New York metropolitan area.  <\/span>A growing number alumni are becoming established in industry careers with media giants around the country.<\/p>\n

Then, there are the entrepreneurial types. Ken Spooner, a 2013 graduate of the Broadcasting Department (now part of the School of Communication and Media) decided to take another route and open his own multimedia production company, SpoonyVision.  <\/span> <\/span>The company offers a full range of production services from pre-production services all the way through post production.  <\/span>\u201cI am a Filmmaker. I produce, direct, edit. I tell a story. It doesn’t matter if it is fiction, non fiction, narrative or documentary.\u201d <\/p>\n

His newest work is a documentary about boxer, Anthony Daniels, who is taking a somewhat unorthodox approach to battling his cancer.  <\/span>The program, \u201cTo Be Strong,\u201d which is available online at www.tobestrongfilm.com<\/a>, chronicles the struggles of the 23-year-old Daniels, who has been undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkins Lymphona while continuing his training in the ring.<\/p>\n

Spooner is unabashed in his praise of the education he received.  <\/span>\u201cMontclair State gave me tremendous opportunities, which allowed me to grow both as a person and a filmmaker.  <\/span>Since graduation, I\u2019ve been able to use every tool that MSU supplied me with.  <\/span>My education prepared me for the real world because I had real experience.\u201d   <\/span><\/p>\n

During his undergraduate days, Spooner had the opportunity to travel to Austria, Italy and Jordan and learn how to tell stories through film.  <\/span>\u201cI learned everything I know [about visual storytelling] from Professor Steve McCarthy. He has been my mentor the last three years and without him, I would not be able to tell a story through picture and sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

I want to market myself as someone who can travel any place with my camera and produce powerful content.  <\/span>I have Montclair State University to thank for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montclair State University\u2019s School of Communication and Media makes this promise on its website: \u201cWhether you want to make films, produce television programs, create strategic communication campaigns or take the internet by storm, our groundbreaking, cross-platform learning experiences will prepare you to play a role in the evolving world of communication and media.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":113194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}