Broadcast and Photo Journalism
As someone who has always been more comfortable with traditional journalistic writing, multimedia journalism has often pushed me out of my comfort zone and challenged me to learn new storytelling methods, such as video, podcast and photography. These various multimedia projects have built my visual analysis and design skills, helping me become a stronger and more courageous designer for my roles in print.
Spotlight stories
Though I had experience using a camera before, nothing could have prepared me for the fast-paced nature of covering a basketball game. Covering this game was definitely outside of my comfort zone, as throughout my time as a journalist, I had rarely covered sports games. Yet by the end of the game, I came to better understand how to adjust the shutter speed and aperture of the camera to capture better photos, how to follow certain players and wait for the ball to arrive to them instead of attempting to follow the ball and ultimately enjoyed editing them on Adobe Lightroom for exposure and contrast before publishing. I also wrote captions providing information and context on the game and players.
This video was the first time I felt I really began to understand the documentary journalism process: collecting b-roll, conducting interviews, using a camera and microphone, writing our voice-over script. I learned how putting together a documentary is very similar to writing a features piece - how it is constructed of small snippets of quotes, building blocks that are compiled together to tell one cohesive story.
I made this video with a reporter, Noelle, who would later become our broadcast editor, at the 2024 Fall National High School Scholastic Press Association in Philadelphia. We set out into Philadelphia to find someone to do a video profile on, and came across Alihu Benbakhr, a musician playing in the city's center.
Grabbing B-roll and approaching him for an interview, we both learned much about reporting on a time crunch and solving problems on our feet as journalists. We had some technical issues with the microphone clearly picking up his speech in such a busy area, and ultimately had to insert subtitles to the video to clarify his quotes. This was a great opportunity to practice video editing, and I was able to help mentor Noelle on how to use our camera equipment, the correct format for our voice over, and how to edit together a video according to our journalistic style guidelines.
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