As you may have heard, the Media class this year will be making a weekly newscast instead of newspaper. Before we could even think about beginning the newscast, we had to make the intro, which, believe it or not, took a few weeks. Brittney filmed the teacher profile and did the voiceovers. Next we shot footage of events from the homecoming week. We literally had to film everything, such as the dress up days, the pep rally, activity night, the football game, and the crowning of the king and queen. Kinder had two people film the football game so we could get footage from “all angles”. Even though the camera workers were freezing their butts off, they still got some stellar footage. The boys spent a while cutting shots and rendering the videos to make the perfect pep rally scene.
The class is a lot of hard work. We are always doing something, like typing, filming, thinking of new ideas for the blog, or trying to make our next newscast better.
We have faced many challenges throughout the class. First, our green screen and lights didn’t come in on time which delayed some of the segments. Next, our only camera was “mysteriously” broken. After that we couldn’t get the intro put together, but eventually worked out all the flaws. Right after we got the green screen and the lights, both of the lights burnt out and we couldn’t replace them. The most frustrating thing though, was that not everyone got to see our newscast! That was infuriating because we all worked so hard on it and only some of the students watched it. My personal opinion on the newscast is that it is pretty awesome. It had the perfect mixture of funny and serious, and it kept your attention. Our class is going to continue to make the videos better, and any advice or ideas you have are welcomed. We plan on showing them every SWIM week. So I hope you’re looking forward to seeing our next newscast!
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