Newhouse School of Communications

Larry Elin
Associate Professor, TRF
New Media
Television_Radio_Film

Office: Newhouse 3 Rm. 444
Telephone: 315-443-3415
Email: lpelin@syr.edu

Professor Elin teaches courses in writing, production and business for TV, film and multimedia. Before joining the faculty in January, 1998, he had spent 25 years as a creative executive in interactive multimedia, interactive television, feature films, animation and special effects, television graphics, and advertising. His credits include computer animation for the feature films Tron and Ferngully, the last rainforest, popular children's CD-ROMs for Hasbro Interactive, and products for Disney Interactive, Mattel, Hearst Corporation, Turner Interactive, and SegaSoft. Industry awards include a Clio, a Grand Prix, a Gold Medal at the New York International Film Festival, a silver from the Broadcast Designers Association, and a Presidential Leadership award from GTE. He has written or collaborated on three books: Click on Democracy: The Internets power to change political apathy into civic action, Designing and Developing Multimedia, and Designing and Producing the Television Commercial. His research interests include designing and developing interactive products that teach HIV prevention to underserved populations. He is currently working on two documentary films, and has just started a web-based project to explore the dramatic changes occuring in the media sector due to digitization.

More about Professor Elin at his personal Website at http://elin.syr.edu/lpelin/index.html

Expertise:

• Designing and Developing New Media
• Digital Cinema
• Interactive Design
• Interactive Storytelling
• Internet
• Internet Design
• New Technology (relating to Web design and use)
• New Media and Politics
• Writing for New Media
• Communications Management
• Documentary
• Film / TV
• Film Industry
• Independent Documentary Film