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It was the first time I realized that you can learn from popular entertainment, and it was a class that included topics ranging from blockbuster movies to hit TV shows, but analyzed them from a craft perspective. So much of my experience with college to that point was very academic, which meant you have to be serious. It was the first class that I ever took that really taught popular entertainment, but from like an academic perspective. The most impactful class that I took was a media theory class that was taught by Paul Hillier, who now teaches at the University of Tampa. What was the most memorable class you took while at Grady College? Don’t be afraid to ask to ask for help, especially in the entry level for introductions. I’m sure that there were professors who would have made introductions and at least would have helped out a little bit. I kind of felt like it was on me to do it. Instead, I moved to New York and couldn’t find a job right away.Īlso, it’s okay to ask for help. My whole life I had assumed that I would get out of college and immediately get a good job, start a career and then get married and have a family. It’s okay to be patient and it’s okay to take some time for yourself. He is pictured here meeting with his mentee, Taylor Potter (AB ’21), at a Membership Mixer in October 2019. What would you tell your 20-year-old self? Chad Mumm said he wish he had reached out more to professors and alumni when he was a new graduate, and that is one reason he is active with the UGA Mentor program. I wish I would have done the LA internship because it would have given me a lot more exposure to what I do now at an earlier stage. I was like really focused on being a director, and I just wanted to be around physical production and not be in the office reading scripts. I got an internship, but decided to stay in Athens and instead work on a short film with a professor because I wanted to do more hands-on production at the time. I wish that I would have taken an internship in LA when I was in school.

Looking back at your time at Grady, is there anything you wish you had done (classes you had taken, skills you would have liked to have learned, clubs to be involved with) that would help you with what you are doing today? They have been abbreviated for space and clarity. The following are excerpts from an interview with Mumm. Mumm has been an active participant in the Grady College Alumni Board for the past several years. The mixer was sponsored by the Grady Alumni Board in which Mumm, Alex Wallace (left) and Heather Adams (right), were serving in 2019. Chad Mumm (center) gives advice to students during a Membership Mixer in October 2019.

#Vox media internship summer 2021 movie#

He was involved as a video shooter for NewSource, competed in Movie Fest and participated in the Oxford study abroad program (what he said was a “fundamental life-changing summer.”)īefore Vox, Mumm was a video production freelancer in New York and a producer at AOL. Mumm graduated from UGA majoring in telecommunications (currently Entertainment and Media Studies) and religion. He won an Emmy Award in 2021 as one of the creators for a YouTube Originals documentary called “ Creators for Change on Girls’ Education with Michelle Obama.” Mumm was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media in 2016 and one of Variety’s 30 Execs to Watch in Digital Entertainment in 2016. He oversees Vox Media Studios’ work in developing, producing, and marketing modern television, film and digital programming. Mumm is co-founder and currently chief creative officer of Vox Media Services, Vox Media’s Los Angeles-based development, production and distribution division. We are proud to recognize Chad Mumm (ABJ ’08) as an honoree of the UGA Alumni Association’s 40 under 40 class.