New SC State Greenhouse 60 Second PSA Script

 

60 Second PSA Script 

Music Bed Under Voice...

Looking to brighten up your home or office with a pretty new plant? Or maybe give one as a gift to a friend or family member? The holiday season is upon us right? 

Well, you don't have to leave campus to buy a beautiful potted peace lily (as I did!), succulent, begonia... or how about black stem elephant ears or rex vines? There are two dozen types of plants to choose from! 

Since August, the BECT Greenhouse has been open behind the planetarium, near the ROTC building. BECT stands for Business, Environment, Communication and Transportation. Since 2022 the institute has been doing good things around campus such as the new greenhouse that among things offers learning opportunities for botany students and local school children. 

The plant sales happen the second Monday of each month so the next one will be on December 8. But if you stop by when graduate assistant Penelope Fennell is watering the plants, you probably can buy one or more then. 

So bring some green to the Greenhouse. You won't leave empty-handed! 

Music Out

Music used is from Incompetech.com.

Here's my completed 60 second PSA!

The video was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro. Here is a screen shot of the production. 

This video PSA was produced as a demonstration project to share with my TV Production class at SC State in the Fall 2025 semester. I also produced an audio version of the plant sale for use in my Radio Production class, also this semester. 

Here is the SoundCloud link to that 60-second PSA and below is the screenshot of Adobe Audition. Students in the radio class edit projects in Audition. I slightly sped up my narrative audio so the piece was within 60 seconds. Here is how to do that. 

Five Questions Interview Example

 

An assignment I enjoy in my television production class is called "Five Questions." Students work in three- member teams as producers-videographers, interview hosts and guests. 

The student behind the camera directs the show and records specific shots needed to piece the completed interview so it looks like there were two cameras in use, not just one. 

The students learn about two shots, reverse questions, and listening or cutaway shots. 

And they are instructed on different techniques and tools when editing their interviews on Adobe Premiere Pro. 

Below you can see the interview that I produced using Carroll Kelley's video. 

Jalen Gasque interviewed Dominic Reaves, a defensive back on SC State's football team. 

Carroll will still produce the piece himself. I wanted to do it for demonstration purposes. 

The interview runs about three minutes. Last class, I showed the students my Premiere Pro process (below) and how to tweak things such as audio levels, color quality, as well as adding supers, titles and music, then exporting the finished project before posting it on my YouTube channel. 

Fall 2025 First TV Production Project

In my Television Production class, I call the first assignment "Me in 30 Seconds." It gives the students early exposure and experience in front of and behind the camera. 

During previous classes, we went over camera, microphone, tripod and lighting operations. And I gave the students tips on speaking on camera. In this photo, Summer Gray is speaking with Dallas Barnes recording her. RJ Steadman is the timekeeper. 

Like many things in television production, this project must be carefully timed: as close to 30 seconds as possible. A cue is given when there are 10 seconds left. Reshoots are OK. 

The project also involves putting the video on YouTube, so I did that on my channel. Below is the unedited version. 

New Turner Hall Classroom Building on the Way!

 

(Click to hear this post)

The new school year just began here at SC State and it may soon get pretty noisy on campus. 

A sparkling new academic building is going to be constructed between the current Turner Hall and Dukes Gym. 

The university secured $54.7 million from the state legislature to erect its first new classroom building since 2013 when the Engineering and Computer Science Complex was opened. 

The new Turner Hall will have 94,000 square feet of classroom, collaborative learning, and office space, according to the university.

The outline of the new Turner Hall can be seen clearly and completely from the third floor of the current Turner Hall. 

The construction is slated to last two years and should be open by fall 2027, according to the current timeline. 

Some student and faculty parking spots have been lost to the large footprint of the work site. 

Communication News- August 19, 2025

 

MSNBC news network will now or soon be called MS Now (My Source News Opinion World). 

Part of Comcast's NBCUniversal recent spinoff move.

Associated Press story here.

YouTube to begin testing AI-powered age verification. 

AP report.

AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up Internet service. 

AP story here.

Other summer media news: 

CBS canceling long-running Stephen Colbert late night show. 

AP report.

Howard Sterm Sirius XM show to be canceled.

Five-year $500 million contract won't be renewed, reports say. 

Captured in a Flash: The Epitome of Bulldog Tenacity (Audio Report)

 

Marching 101 band member and drum major Trent Bryant had 15 minutes of fame that lasted three months or so. 

(Click here to listen to this story with Bryant's comments)

Bryant's image was selected last fall to be on SC State's homepage. Decked out in his colorful Marching 101 uniform...he is the first thing people see when going to S-C-S-U-dot-e-d-u. 

Bryant says he was back home in Georgetown, S.C. in December when friends began alerting him that he was on the school's front page...

SOT: Trent Bryant :29
In: When I first saw it...
Out: ...face of the school right now

The director of S.C. State University Relations...Sam Watson...took the photograph when the Marching 101 performed at halftime of the home game versus Fort Valley State on October 19. (YouTube has the show here!)

When Watson looked at the images he captured that day he saw something special in one of them. 

SC State's Website Features Marching 101's Trent Bryant

 

If you've been to SC State's website recently you have seen this image of a Marching 101 band member that some call the epitome of Bulldog Tenacity. 

Meet Trent Bryant, a senior mechanical engineering major from Georgetown, S.C. Bryant is one of the band's drum majors so he is front and center during performances. 

At an October 2024 home football game, he caught the eye of Sam Watson, director of university relations. Watson was taking photographs of the halftime show and snapped this focused, determined image of Trent in action. 

My feature writing students had the chance to interview Bryant in February. The students were assigned to write a feature about Bryant's 15 minutes of fame. I recorded his talk and had my radio production students produce an audio report. 

From the audio recording, here are three memorable comments Bryant shared about his unique experience appearing for several months on the school's homepage. 

Soundbite 1

Here's his first reaction when learning in December that he was on the website. 

Soundbite 2

When he looks at the image of himself, what does Bryant say was going through his mind at this moment in time? 

Soundbite 3

Bryant says it was in 2017 when he decided he had to be part of a university marching band.