{"id":11340,"date":"2013-11-07T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=11340"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:04:15","slug":"imsa-student-productions-rise-to-compliance-and-curtailed-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2013\/11\/07\/imsa-student-productions-rise-to-compliance-and-curtailed-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"IMSA Student Production’s Rise to Compliance and Curtailed Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submitted anonymously.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Disclaimer:<\/i><\/b> Much like official IMSA Facebook photo albums, this article has not been published with the approval of IMSA Student Productions.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

With the vision that the vibrant campus of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy could be captured through sound, video, and photography, then filtered and hidden, Ryan Eberhardt and his team formed IMSA Student Productions (ISP).<\/p>\n

The organization\u2019s purpose is two-fold: first, to ensure the destruction of the rule of thirds in photos posted online; and second, to impart to students the valuable life skill of doing work without sufficient credit.<\/p>\n

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Above: Quite possibly the only image produced by IMSA Student Productions during the 2012-2013 Academic Year. The ubiquitous 960×640 pixel shot of campus\u2019 Clash of the Halls can only be truly commemorated by being posted to Facebook and omitting an ISP Credit.<\/p><\/div>\n

From time to time, ISP stores the occasional SD card or camera in the campus\u2019 IMSA Media Services (IMS) Department. The key partner in ISP\u2019s endeavors is IMSA\u2019s Marketing and Communications Department (MarComm), which works alongside ISP every step of the way to impart inconclusive advice and frustrate the distribution process. Both MarComm and IMS agree that it is essential to ISP\u2019s growth and the nature of IMSA\u2019s community that any media produced by the team is swiftly, if not instantaneously, sequestered from students\u2019 possession.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to serve the tens of tens of people who populate the traffic of IMSA\u2019s Facebook page, we must obscure the fact that students are allowed to handle cameras and edit video\u201d says a MarComm member. \u201cThe legitimacy of the IMSA brand can only be furthered by isolating and posting photos of intentionally poor quality.\u201d Over the past few months, IMSA Marketing has bolstered the efficacy of this process by retrieving said media in secret and appending forcefully awkward captions to each and every JPEG.<\/p>\n

The effect on team moral has been tremendous. An ISP team manager says that he is capable of working on whatever projects need help, including photography, videography, photo editing, or studio recording. At the end of the day, he reflects that nothing satisfies him more than knowing that his hard work will be censored and discredited. Thrilled by suppression of IMSA creativity, an ISP videographer hopes to see the ISP website, which is currently burdened by the detrimental presence of more than nine months\u2019 worth of residential, athletic, cultural, and academic photos and videos, crippled or even taken offline.<\/p>\n

IMSA Marketing shares this pristine vision and, over the past few weeks, significant steps in the right direction have been made. An anonymous member of the Media Department is particularly excited to see the changes being made to ISP\u2019s logo: \u201cWhen I heard that Marketing wanted to add the IMSA stairs motif to the ISP logo, I was inspired. I could only have dreamed of a better way to adulterate the symbolism of the aperture and the purpose of IMSA Student Productions. Once we switch our website header to all capital letters and adopt the academy\u2019s color scheme, we\u2019ll really be on our way.\u201d The anonymous source is confident that the Marketing Department\u2019s preset style sheets, consisting of \u201cInquiry Blue,\u201d \u201cImagination Yellow,\u201d and \u201cSodexo Marinara Magenta\u201d hues, will be exactly the keystone overhaul necessary to drive students, faculty, and alumni away from ISP\u2019s online content.<\/p>\n

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Above: ISP Seniors Ram Patel and Sai Somasundaram, as well as Junior Malachi Loviska, work tirelessly to run the sound booth at IMSA auditorium events, a service that increases in its utility purely because their work cannot be posted online without the heathen practice of metaphotography.<\/p><\/div>\n

With all these fascinating reforms, more can be done, especially in quelling the next group of skilled, creative, and passionate student members. A prospective ISP photographer embraced the teams\u2019 training sessions: \u201cMore than video editing, one of the most helpful skills I picked up from Milosz and Ryan was utter silence.\u201d The budding media artist remarked that he plans to hide his new extracurricular commitment from his wing mates, family, and teachers, lest IMSA Student Productions gain a presence on campus.<\/p>\n

The prospective photographer’s views resonate with a member of IMSA staff, who believes \u201cStudent recognition could only tip off other faculty members to an opportunity to have their events and members celebrated and remembered by wider audience. Had I not known about their services for last year\u2019s Cyber Security Panel, many dedicated alumni who serve our nation in the Department of Homeland Security would have only been seen by the 20-or-so students who were able to finish their homework and reschedule meetings to attend the event. I\u2019m absolutely furious that this sort of diverse – and dare I say pioneering – content is allowed on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waking up from a good night\u2019s rest of six REM cycles, an ISP member summed up the progress for us. \u201cThe significance of the aperture in our logo is to close the space through which light can pass. We\u2019re here to limit the spread of artistic work around campus and to shut the door on students with promising talent in the fields of photography, videography, booth administration, and sound mixing.\u201d Brushing a pile of SD cards containing media from the previous night\u2019s Homecoming Pep Rally into the trash, he remarked: \u201cWe\u2019re part of a new brand. Why let others see what our lives are really like when we can conceal them behind a few capital letters?\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more about this dastardly organization online at: imsastudentproductions.com\/about.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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