Joe Justice's blog

Pre-visualization is the use of computer animation to visualize something before it actually exists. Often it's used with architecture like the example presented here. This animation was developed as part of a fund raising video for the West Virginia Sport Museum and Hall of Fame, so we needed to go beyond just creating a true-to-life representation of the final building. We needed imagery that would fire the imagination and get people excited!

This video contains two clips from a long form video The Media Center produced for the Education Alliance. The entire video is about 12 minutes long and is designed to be played for community organizations. It explores the causes of dropouts with interviews of students and community leaders and acts as a launching point for discussions of how to help.

Many thanks to Julie Pratt and Emily Schoen for giving us the opportunity to work on this important project. It was our great pleasure to work with such caring and dedicated people.

As part of the National Guard's participation in the fourth annual WV Homeland Security Summit and Expo at Marshall University, The Media Center provided satellite uplink services and a live internet stream of training exercises taking place at the WV Turnpike Memorial Tunnel. Senator Jay Rockefeller and United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano were able to watch the training exercises via a live Internet stream.

Back in April I had the opportunity to be the subject of an article in The West Virginia Record, a local legal journal. The reporter was Kyla Asbury. We met, had lunch and I talked her ear off about animation for a few hours. Little known fact, I can talk anyone's ear off about animation... okay, maybe that's actually a well known fact. A few weeks after this the article came out on the cover page, above the fold, which I consider a real honor.

I had the opportunity to speak at the Putnam Rotary club's luncheon on Tuesday, March 1st. It was a great crowd, with lots of friendly people.They gave me a nice little write-up on their website as well. I'm just happy to know they thought what I had to say was actually interesting.

http://www.putnamrotary.com/news11/110301.html

-Joe

On Tuesday, January 4th, The Media Center provided electronic news gathering support for the broadcast of the Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council's new conference.

(Charleston, WV) - Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, serving 61 counties in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland will be starting to take orders this week and planning booth sales to make sure delicious Girl Scout cookies are available to all that crave the once-a-year favorites.

View The Media Center's Image Gallery of the Tomblin's Investiture Ceremony

On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, The Media Center provided electronic news gathering support for the broadcast of Acting Governor, Earl Ray Tomblin's, Investiture Ceremony at the West Virginia State Capitol.

The Media Center provided coverage of the memorial service marking the 40th anniversary of the 1970 Marshall Football plane crash, on Sunday November 14, 2010. We provided footage of the memorial service, interviews and archive footage of the plane crash, along with the pre-game ceremony for a variety of news organizations.

Bellow are a few links to news channels that picked-up our coverage:

http://www.wvnstv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=89532