Career Fair Video

This is a link to the first video project we did in class. I decided to report on the UW-Whitewater Career Fair. Enjoy!

Were you able to take any prior skills to contribute to your success in Digital Journalism?

Were you able to take any prior skills to contribute to  your success in Digital Journalism?

When I started this class I did have a Flip Video and digital camera of my own; and had used them before. I also had taken a video production class that helped me a little bit on certain projects. I have been taking pictures my whole life and have had a freelance photography business since I was 18, so the camera stuff was right up my alley. The Flip Camera however was a different story. I had only used it to take funny videos of my friends and family and I so I did not know technique that was involved to create a news story. The found that you need to record audio separately because otherwise it will sound like crap! Which I'm sure some of you learned as well. The biggest issue I had was with the new software, I had used movie maker before but never Audacity. I had used different programs in my video production class so some of these things were foreign to me.

A big thing I learned from this class is that even though you think you know a lot about a topic, you can always learn more. As a photographer I am always learning new things and improving my craft. And I think this class was the same way. Even when I thought I got the audio recorder down, I learned more things to do with it. And when I thought I knew all there was to know about Movie Maker, I found out how to use different audio and video techniques. So I am very happy I had some skills prior to this class; but I am even happier to say that it made me realize I can always learn more.