Clarksburg resident Dominic Wood lands summer job at St. Michael's College in video marketing

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Dominic Wood of Clarksburg is making videos for Saint Michael's College this summer.

COLCHESTER, VT (07/03/2013)(readMedia)-- Dominic Wood, the son of Randy and Susan Wood of Clarksburg, landed the perfect summer job for him-working on videos at Saint Michael's College where he is a rising junior. He made videos in high school, as a lark because he loves it. And he has taken film classes at Saint Michael's, where he is majoring in Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts. Now he is making a new video every week to market the college to incoming students and future students, in a job with the Saint Michael's College Marketing Department.

Wood graduated from Drury High School before coming to Saint Michael's located in Burlington, Vermont, one of the top 10 college towns in America.

"I really liked the digital media offered at Saint Michael's, along with the liberal arts," he said, about choosing the college. "I wouldn't want to be anywhere else."

Wood's most recent video shows new students what a typical day at Saint Michael's looks like. It focuses on how to budget your time in college, what the dining hall is like, what classrooms are like, and what one of the residences looks like. It can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6XHFeK4fHM  

His next video will showcase interesting spots on campus like the Durick Library, the music practice room in the McCarthy Arts Center, Café Cheray lodged in the science building, and elsewhere. Mr. Wood has also been assigned this summer to assess Saint Michael's social media uses, including blogs, comparing them to other schools and making suggestions for improvement.

Saint Michael's film courses

Woods said his Saint Michael's film classes enhanced his technical skills. In one, called "Screen Life," he produced a documentary film about iPhone cameras versus traditional cameras and concluded that people enjoy the convenience of phone cameras, but that traditional digital cameras give better quality. In another course, titled "Adventure Film-Making," he made a film of his friend skate-boarding in a nearby skate-board park.

A part in Dead Man Walking

In his spare time, Mr. Wood has been very active with the college drama club and landed a part in the major spring theater production Dead Man Walking in which he played Sargent Trapp. To prepare, the cast of the show visited a women's correctional facility and even had the chance to meet Sister Helen Prejean, the author of the book about the death penalty on which the play is based. She told Wood about the real Sargent Trapp, whom she said had to stop working on death row because it became too severe psychologically.

Study Abroad

After his summer in film and social media, Mr. Wood will be studying abroad for the fall semester at the Lorenzo de Medici institute in Florence, where he will take two film-related courses, a language class and a cooking class. On returning to Saint Michael's, he hopes to compete in the local Burlington 24-hour film festival, continue to do videos, and perhaps add theater as a second major to his studies. He will also continue working for the Green-Up group which sponsors Earth Fest and promotes local food production and sustainable living. In fact, he is now working on a video about Saint Michael's own organic garden.

It is clear that Dominic Wood takes advantage of numerous Saint Michael's opportunities both in and out of the classroom, which makes him the perfect advocate working for the college's Marketing Department.

At Saint Michael's College www.smcvt.edu  students are challenged to do their best, find their niche, take on opportunities to grow, and immerse themselves in academic pursuits. Intellectual rigor, compassion, teamwork, caring-these characterize a Saint Michael's experience. A residential Catholic college, Saint Michael's is steeped in the social justice spirit of its founding priests, the Edmundites. Saint Michael's is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top 10 college towns. Headed by President John J. Neuhauser, the college has 1,900 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students. Identified by the Princeton Review, 2013 as one of the nation's Best 377 Colleges, and included in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Goldwater, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation's top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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