Spring 2007 - Robert Morris University

STUDENT
POINTOFVIEW
Last spring, media arts student Brad Grimm spent so many
late nights editing footage that he nodded off during the
premier of his own music video. Grimm, now a senior,
was putting the finishing touches on Archetype, a music
video he co-directed with senior
management major David Toole
and communication alumnus
Darin DiNapoli ’06 for the local band
Identity X, of which Toole is the lead singer.
The trio spent most of the spring 2006 semester
last year filming the four-minute video for
their Advanced Television Workshop class.
A year later, they learned that they’d won
the music video award at the Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences
Foundation’s 28th College Television Awards, billed
as the “College Emmys.” The prize included $2,000 cash,
$2,000 in Kodak film stock and a trip to Los Angeles
for the black-tie awards gala, held March 31.
After returning from their trip, the three sat
down with Foundations magazine to talk
about the experience.
Me and Darin, we kind of went a little wild on the
first night that we arrived in L.A. We walked up to this club,
and there’s a long line outside. So I’m like, “Why don’t you
go tell the bouncer that we’re Emmy Award winners and
see what he says” Darin goes up to him and says, “Yo, man,
we’re here from Pittsburgh, and we just won an Emmy.”
So he says, “Really I’ll see what I can do.” He comes back
and says, “We’re going to let you in, and we’ll clear a section
for you, and we’ll take care of you.” They open up the gate
and everyone’s looking at us. So we sit down – and
we have to act cool, we’re in VIP seating,
you know. I’m trying to maintain
my composure – I’m an Emmy
Award winner now. It was a
$500 night. We went
down onto Rodeo Drive,
where Paris Hilton shops,
and walked down the street.
We didn’t buy anything;
I’m an Emmy Award winner,
but I still have a college
student paycheck.