Training our future replacements
I’ve been busy lately, helping train up our small army of high school VJ reporters for football season - “sideline reporters”, we’re calling them. Of course, high schoolers are video sponges these days, with all their YouTubin’ and Facebookin’, so it’s actually been rather smooth going.
Today, I went out with one of our SLRs as she shot a practice segments about town. We went out to the park, and she ran around on the playground getting video and interviews with kids. I sat on the benches nearby with the adults, occasionally chatting about our youngsters. “Which one is yours?” I’d point to my little VJ reporter proudly, “she’s 4 hours old, that one. We’re so proud of her.”
Anyway, I’m getting kinda excited about my station/company’s new endeavor and I can’t wait to see what the fledgling reporters come up with. The hardest thing about the whole process was learning the video editing software - after spending most of my career becoming an AVID master, it’s kinda frustrating to learn a $79 over-the-counter editing program that’s completely counter-intuitive. But there’s people smiling on the back of the box who look like they’re enjoying it, so I’m gonna give it another shot.
Posted on July 30, 2007
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Actually if you have been using AVID, you should be well-versed with counter-intuitive programs.
Oh snap!
I don’t see why the SLR’s can’t report the news too.
I mean they’re so EAGER and CHEAP!
That way shareholders get increased return and viewers get…..actaully…viewers who don’t demand quality get exactly what they deserve.
The beancounters are coming to the realization that you don’t need multi-thousand dollar software to cut news video together. Enjoy your AVID while you can, because the landscape is changing rapidly.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a fun experiment.
Just to clarify - these kids will be doing web only content (for now, anyway)
Careful, LLR…it’s a slippery slope from this to VJ’ing. And that’s a lose-lose situation all around. Watch your back!
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Sounds really neat, even better that you are taking the time to help them learn the software and not just throwing them into it. I really wish I had the opportunity to do something like this in High School. If you can get the right group of dedicated kids who really want to make something from this, and will care about what they are putting out there…this will do really well.