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Brinkley is the worst broadcasting professor I've ever had. We spent 75% of the class in a news studio environment, do no directing/coaching of actors, and then the last two weeks of the semester we are expected to write, cast, direct, edit, and make a mock budget of a final project (short film, commercial, interview, etc.). Not only is that not enough time, he fails to realize we actually have other classes that are throwing other projects/papers at us as well. Also, we never even discussed a budget. He claims we have done it before in other classes, which is true, but we spent two weeks making a mock budget alone in the other classes. This is simply a failure on his part to give us enough time to fulfill the requirements. Often, professors will give you weeks notice of the final project, Brinkley gave us 2.5. And that .5 was right before Thanksgiving Break, which hinders access to actors, locations, and equipment.
Brinkley claims to be interested in all aspects of directing, but that's a lie. He puts so much focus on this "news directing" that he is actually doing a disservice to the class. How? Well, there is more to directing than a news environment.
All in all, I've literally gotten nothing out of his class, it's basically a glorified BCOM 266.
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