These images were taken by your professor and a student last school year at the SC State University library (Archives Room). You are welcome to use any of these in your feature article and video project.
Formally called the Kirkland W. Green Student Center, and informally known as The Pitt, this building at the center of the SC State campus is truly a center of activity.
In my Advanced Television Production and Editing class, I tasked the students with creating a 60-second promotional video featuring one of the university's places, such as the library, bookstore or student center.
Tigere Campbell, Sophia Galvan and Tarohn Lingard worked together on a student center production. I asked the teams to shoot lots of "b-roll" of their campus place. B-roll is the individual video clips taken to build a story, whether a TV news report, a commercial, film or TV show. You always want to have more than enough good shots rather than not enough. And sequence shooting is advisable, that being the idea of shooting a scene from these perspectives: wide, medium and close up shots.
You see a couple examples of sequence or "in-camera editing" in these videos. Check out the bowling and pool break scenes to see what I mean.
I asked the students to first put together a precisely 60 video then do a second version with music and text. Here is that more polished production.
I wrote this blog post as a demonstration piece so the students are clear how I wanted this project written and posted on their blogs. Let's see how they do!
Adobe Premiere Pro is a truly powerful editing tool used mostly for video but also still photographs.
This post shows how video clips can be lightened or darkened. Ideally, interviews, b-roll and other types of video shots look perfect when done in the field.
Here is an example of using this Premiere Pro lighting tool to improve a video clip. Below are still shots before and after.
In my video production and editing class I gave the students a basic first assignment to post a 30-second video. Introduce yourself and/or talk about what you like about going to school at SC State. Pretty simple assignment, but one that also brings into play on-camera presentation and delivery and shooting, composing video and getting good audio.
This post combines two recent projects in my digital media class. The student recently completed a project utilized our program's green screens in the TV studio and another room to put together a visual that shows where they want to be, what they want to do, that type of goal or ambition.
They are next going to produce a top ten list using Prezi. So this post will show them how to properly embed their Prezi into a Blogger post like this.
Here is a look at the evolution of popular social media going all the way back to the mid-1990s with the advent of the internet. What will be the next thing in social media? Stay tuned!
Just as an aside, a few years ago the Associated Press decided to no longer capitalize the "I" in the word internet. So now in official news and public relations writing just go with "internet." The AP has ruled that internet is no longer a proper noun, hence does not warrant capitalization. Same with "web" when referring in short to the world wide web or WWW.
"Bluetooth," meantime, is capitalize because it is a copyrighted name.
Here is a new slideshow I created using the free and easy Kizoa platform. The slideshow features photographs I took on Easter Sunday at St. Michael's Church in Charleston.
