{"id":13370,"date":"2014-09-26T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13370"},"modified":"2014-09-26T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:52:01","slug":"13370_winners-of-first-new-jersey-high-school-media-challenge-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2014\/09\/26\/13370_winners-of-first-new-jersey-high-school-media-challenge-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of First New Jersey High School  Media Challenge Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University presented awards last week to the three winners of its first annual New Jersey High School Media Challenge.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Eileen Conde of Hillside High School took the Lauren D. Fraser top prize of $500 for her \u201cGarden State\u201d video.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Recent Rutherford High School graduate Chloe Keifer was the recipient of the $250 Words &amp; Music award for \u201cWeird NJ,\u201d and Lauren Hardt, also from Rutherford, received the $125 Public Relations Student Society of America award for \u201cJersey Shore Vacation.\u201d<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The awards were presented in the school\u2019s new Morehead Hall facility.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 media challenge invited high school students from around the state to create a 15 second video that contained a New Jersey theme.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>They would then upload their videos to YouTube for judging.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A group of faculty and staff at the school, plus fiction writer Lauren D. Fraser and Words and Music President and Cofounder, Alan Grant also served as judges.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram\u2019s introduction of the 15-second video in June of 2013 was so successful that CNN partnered with Twitter in April of this year to create a 15 second video series.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>At the same time, MSNBC began producing 15 second video stories to be part of a series called \u201c15 Seconds to Truth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The School of Communication and Media at Montclair State saw an opportunity to give New Jersey high school students a chance to test their bite-sized storytelling skills. The theme of this year\u2019s contest was \u201cTell a New Jersey Story in 15 Seconds.\u201d<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Statewide high schoolers could use any inspiration from around the state.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span>The contest kicked off in the spring, and students were allowed to submit their videos through the end of June.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lauren D. Fraser is a Sparta, New Jersey based author whose novel \u201cTrinity\u201d was released in 2012.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>A sequel is set for a spring 2015 release.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Words &amp; Music produces and delivers high definition video for website and other broadcast applications, radio and television commercials, still photography, as well as custom music soundtracks, jingles and other voice-over related marketing projects.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Company president Alan Grant is a 2012 inductee into the New Jersey Advertising Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School Students Tell New Jersey Story in 15 Seconds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":113370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13370","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\/13370","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=13370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}