New Turner Hall Classroom Building on the Way!

 

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The new school year just began here at SC State and it may soon get pretty noisy on campus. 

A sparkling new academic building is going to be constructed between the current Turner Hall and Dukes Gym. 

The university secured $54.7 million from the state legislature to erect its first new classroom building since 2013 when the Engineering and Computer Science Complex was opened. 

The new Turner Hall will have 94,000 square feet of classroom, collaborative learning, and office space, according to the university.

The outline of the new Turner Hall can be seen clearly and completely from the third floor of the current Turner Hall. 

The construction is slated to last two years and should be open by fall 2027, according to the current timeline. 

Some student and faculty parking spots have been lost to the large footprint of the work site. 

New "Action Sequence" Production

I have always been fond of the assignment that I call "Action Sequence." It depicts one of my SC State University students getting up, leaving the classroom, making his or her way out the door, through the hall and down the steps from the third floor to the ground level of Turner Hall. 

Another student is the director and videographer, and later the editor using Adobe Premiere Pro to put it all together with titles and music and the clips that should be edited together into a smooth, flowing process. 

Last week I shot a sample "Action Sequence" with two students, Ariana Pinder and Andrea Fullington. 

The skills tested in this production exercise include communication and planning between the director and "actor", shot composition, lighting, white balancing the camera in different settings, editing and blog posting correctly. 

Here are some other "Action Sequence" examples from previous years.