Our First News Package

For our first assignment we decided to talk about the smoking ban that was put on campus. The team consists of Jason (camera), Sophia (reporter), Geoff (editing) and myself as the producer. We had little time to begin the project so we got right to work. All in all I think the final piece is pretty good considering this our first real attempt at it.

I felt it was important to capture the ideas of smokers and non-smokers alike to get a full view of how kids feel about the policy. I feel everybody executed their roles with professionalism and dedication. Sophia has a tremendously profound voice when she actually pauses and sounds out each word. Jason did a good job of keeping the camera steady for stand up and B-roll and Geoff sealed the deal doing a great job of "putting Frankenstein's monster" back together.

I'm a bit nervous at the moment given I've checked on Youtube to find our posting but to no avail. Hopefully it will be there by morning.

B-Roll and More

I wrote a piece about the importance of B-Roll on our classe's wiki page. B-Roll is esential to any piece of film looking to be considered seriously. The Flip Camera has been a pretty useful tool thus far. I've taken on trips and started recording other bits for another class too. As far as taking filmed pieces and brining them to Final Cut to be edited we haven't really done that much yet. I feel once we begin the editing process, footage will begin to come together easier. The pieces will be finished (including editing) in a more timely manner. That is all. Till next class this is Chaz signing off.