"Me in 30 Seconds" Video Project

This semester I'm teaching Basic Television Production and it's a very hands-on class. Students have been quickly exposed to the tools of the trade: cameras, microphones, lights and tripods. 

As a first project I asked them to be in front of the camera sharing "Me in 30 Seconds." Just talk briefly about yourself: where you are from, your major and year, hometown, hobbies, ambitions, what you like about SC State- things like that. 

The students rotated from in front of the camera to behind it. They operated the camera, some held the boom microphone and others held up a stopwatch so the length would be a close to 30 seconds as possible. 

Here are some of the videos that the students will post on YouTube, then there own blogs. 

Patrick Jenkins

Getting Basic in Basic Television Production Class

 

We've hit the ground running in Basic Television Production. In just our third class... It's lights, camera, action! 

Click here to listen to this post. 

I call this project "Me in 30 Seconds." 

One by one students go in front of the camera and talk about themselves...giving their names, hometowns, interests, hobbies and aspirations. And also maybe what they like best about going to SC State. 

This is Nia Smith speaking in our classroom in Turner Hall. 

New School Year!

Ready or not it's back to school! Here at South Carolina State University the fall semester began on Aug. 17. For me as a professor, there has been some classroom smartboard chaos that always seems to happen the first few days and weeks. But at least the air conditioning is working (knock on wood)!

Here's a brief new school-year video greeting recorded earlier this week. I first put this clip on my YouTube channel and imported it to Blogger. 

This video of me is a bit too dark because of the sunlight coming through the window. There is a quick fix on Adobe Premiere Pro that will fix this problem. See the link here for that tutorial. 

And here is the improved clip that is also trimmed. This clip I imported to Blogger without putting it first on YouTube. 

Here is the second version imported directly from YouTube: