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Media Arts in the Public Schools (MAPS) begins production in Hamilton, Montana

It’s a classic love story: Boy hears girl singing from the girl’s bathroom and falls in love. Boy gets girl, loses girl, and wins girl back …. Cue the big musical finale.

But before anyone can be nominated for an Academy Award, or the director could even call, “Action,” they had to first secure the set.

“When we were camera blocking, little girls came into the bathroom and screamed, ‘There’s boys in our bathroom!,’” recalled Peter Rosten, president and founder of the MAPS Media Institute http://www.MediArts.org in Hamilton. “So, we now have a sign, ‘MAPS FILMING.’”

It’s just one of many lessons being learned through experience by the students in Rosten’s Short Film Production class, which got the chance this week to begin production on their first feature.

The MAPS Media Institute, the major funding for which comes from the 21st Century Learning Center out of Helena, also offers classes in documentary and journalistic production and Web design and has professional facilities and equipment for each discipline.

For more information, visit MMI’s Web site at http://www.MediArts.org.

by WILL MOSS – Ravalli Republic

Full Story: http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2009/12/03/news/news52.txt

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