I have taught Broadcast Media or Television Production since 2008. It is one of the most rewarding and fun jobs I have had. I have also had the privilege to teach students that have gone on into the field professionally. Some of my previous students work or have worked at television stations as field reporters, news cast fill in's, film editors, film makers (independent), and two have worked with 3 NFL teams in their multimedia department: Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, and the Washington Redskins. My students have had the opportunity to compete against other high schools across the state at J-Day (Journalism Day) at Troy University. This opportunity allowed them to see what their competition was like and give them an idea of how to develop new ideas for projects, compare their techniques with others, self improvement, professionalism, and also feel a sense of pride when they would win a competition.
When I started teaching this course, Digital Video (DV) was fairly new. Hi8 was still around and DV mini tapes were the standard. Harddrive cameras were the "new thing" then. I remember conversations with some of the students about which to buy b/c our tapes were becoming a problem with storing, keeping them in order, documenting the content, etc. YouTube was definitely around but was not seen as a storage facility for our items - which quickly changed. Although we aired daily throughout the school and live streamed on the web, I wanted to be sure each student knew how to archive media in case they were to go back and need to retrieve items. Utilizing YouTube was a great way to do that.
Using YouTube to archive our footage was a brilliant and effective way to do it; plus it was FREE. Most importantly, even though we still used tapes before we went full "harddrive storage" the students would download the video (1:1 time frame - Yikes). They would then edit out the parts where they left the camera recording when they did not realize it was recording, and upload the "good stuff" and then document the content in the "About" or "Summary" area of the video on YouTube by creating a time line on the presented information. For example,
Time: 0:00 - 12:14 - Pep Rally (11.1.2018),
Time: 12:15 - 35:11 - Football Game 1: Wetumpka vs Smiths Station, 1st half
Time: 35:12 - 46:17 - Homecoming Halftime
Time: 46:17 - 53-13 - Football Game 1: Wetumpka vs Smith Station, 2nd half
Archiving a consistently backed up depository for our school media was a great resource and better yet it was FREE. Also, b/c this content was not necessarily for public view, we listed it as either Private or Unlisted so no everyone could access it. Because school budgets are typically broke or do not have access to a lot of money, using this resource was brilliant and really created a great database of documented information for the TV and Broadcast students. Many of them also used the idea for their own finished and unfinished products.
When I started teaching this course, Digital Video (DV) was fairly new. Hi8 was still around and DV mini tapes were the standard. Harddrive cameras were the "new thing" then. I remember conversations with some of the students about which to buy b/c our tapes were becoming a problem with storing, keeping them in order, documenting the content, etc. YouTube was definitely around but was not seen as a storage facility for our items - which quickly changed. Although we aired daily throughout the school and live streamed on the web, I wanted to be sure each student knew how to archive media in case they were to go back and need to retrieve items. Utilizing YouTube was a great way to do that.
Using YouTube to archive our footage was a brilliant and effective way to do it; plus it was FREE. Most importantly, even though we still used tapes before we went full "harddrive storage" the students would download the video (1:1 time frame - Yikes). They would then edit out the parts where they left the camera recording when they did not realize it was recording, and upload the "good stuff" and then document the content in the "About" or "Summary" area of the video on YouTube by creating a time line on the presented information. For example,
Time: 0:00 - 12:14 - Pep Rally (11.1.2018),
Time: 12:15 - 35:11 - Football Game 1: Wetumpka vs Smiths Station, 1st half
Time: 35:12 - 46:17 - Homecoming Halftime
Time: 46:17 - 53-13 - Football Game 1: Wetumpka vs Smith Station, 2nd half
Archiving a consistently backed up depository for our school media was a great resource and better yet it was FREE. Also, b/c this content was not necessarily for public view, we listed it as either Private or Unlisted so no everyone could access it. Because school budgets are typically broke or do not have access to a lot of money, using this resource was brilliant and really created a great database of documented information for the TV and Broadcast students. Many of them also used the idea for their own finished and unfinished products.