The Vietnam Wall
Fall, 2002.
The traveling Vietnam Memorial visits the campus of NNU for eight days.
During that time, students of the Mass Comm program were asked to produce a memorial video commemorating the visit. Virtually every member of the department ended up shooting Reflections on The Wall, giving us near-24 hour coverage. Senior students and faculty then wrote a script, hired a narrator, and edited the footage into a 24 minute program so powerful that it was broadcast by a local station.
Reflections on the Wall is not just a souvenir video for those who came to NNU. It delves deeply into the emotions of an unpopular war, and into the lives of both those who fought it, and those who stayed behind.
"Reflections" receives highest VVA award
In October of 2002, the Vietnam Moving Memorial visited the campus of NNU. City organizers of the event asked NNU's Mass Communications program to produce a documentary. Students and faculty worked for ten months filming and editing a 24 minute show which aired on the local NBC affiliate.
Subsequently, the organizing committee submitted the video to the national Vietnam Veterans Association. At a meeting of that association in Nashville, NNU's video was selected as the best of the hundreds of entries. On August 4th, 2004, NNU's Mass Communications program was presented the "Excellence in Education" award in recognition of Reflections on the Wall.
