A project by Digital Broadcasting students joining in ‘The Image Research Group’ was selected for the Korea Creative Content Agency’s “2010 Broadcasting Creative Content Production Support for College Students” and was to receive grants of about thirteen million won. On the 30th of April, the closing date for applications, seventy-four projects were submitted by university students nationwide, of which twelve, including DSU students, were ultimately selected to receive grants.
The project, ‘The Inconvenient Truth: the Nightmare of Light Pollution,’ is a sixty minute fake documentary about the illness and harmful effects caused by artificial light, especially depression, in our daily lives. It plans to show the correlation between light pollution and depression through both real cases and experiments, with the ultimate of drawing people’s attention to the awareness of this problem
The Korea Creative Content Agency said that they awarded it a high score because of the project intent, the applicants’ production abilities, the quality, and the found in the project.
The students completed preliminary research at the end of May, shot at the end of July, did post-production during August, and finally presented the completed work in September. The filmpresented at domestic and foreign film festivals, including the Seoul FilmCopenhagen International DocumentaryFilm
Professor Lee Ja Hye of the Image Research Group said, “Thanks to our extensive preparation, the students and I made a good plan, and we were selected to receive grants accordingly. We would like to make this film excellently in order to win awards at domestic and foreign film festivals.”