Today we had the chance to go out and spend a few hours filming a report about the heat in Phoenix. This project was excellent! First, it's the first time I've been out in the AZ heat for more than 20 minutes. Second, I have always been enamored with cameras and film editing programs, dabbling in random programs like Windows Live Movie Maker and iMovie. However, today taught me the truth about video editing. It reminded me how much I enjoyed working with cameras but also proved how ineffective I was at editing in my other programs. I used to spend hours cutting to make sound work properly, and that's not even dealing with cutting and overlaying of video. I always thought it was a subject of pride that I self taught those other editing programs. Today, my pride took a hit. I have been doing it the hard way all along. I guess this is why we have teachers!
Sarah Noah
Goshen High School
Goshen, Indiana
I guess I've been doing it the hard way, too. But I don't think it was all that hard. The truth is, I don't have Final Cut Pro to work with at school and I won't have it any time in the foreseeable future. I't's frustrating to struggle to learn to a skill that I won't be able to put to use. The same thing will happen tomorrow afternoon when we work with InDesign. My school doesn't own the program. The only print we do is the page the Detroit Free Press designs and publishes for us. Now that so many agree that online is the way to go, I can give up searching for a way to fund print.
ReplyDeleteSara Hennes
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteFirst, what an awesome picture! I also think we have to realize that this media stuff isn't as natural to us as it is to our students. Our students have always had the internet and online storytelling opportunities--we haven't. While parts of my broadcast journalism days started to come back to me as we edited, I was reminded of how much has changed in just a few years. Although I know it's still about the story--it is and it isn't. True we still need a good story in order to have a solid concept to work with, but we also need to think about composition, talking room, wide, medium, and tight shots. We need to think variety and that our audience has a small attention span. Good grief! There's just so much to think about for us---our students don't always think, they just do.
Jamie Nusbaum
Sheboygan North HS
Sheboygan, Wis.