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JOUR 20503-902

I hope to learn from this course how to better present myself and my work in a professional, intentionally journalistic way. I already have experience in photography and videography, but I want to improve how I communicate that experience to others, especially through social media platforms. This course gives me the opportunity to learn how to tell my own story clearly while also following journalistic standards.

I also want to understand what it means to properly tell a story. I want to apply what i learn directly to my personal website, the podcasts website, by improving how i write about my work in making multimedia content myself. I feel that these tools learned in this course will help me market myself and my job as i continue to grow in my career. At the same time, my college education is helping me connect my real world situations to ones learned from in this course. Allowing me to exceed expectations in journalism standards even at the lowest level of media.

My area of study has changed massively throughout my college career as my interests and career path have shifted over time. I originally started in live sports production, which is still my main career passion for the future hopefully. However, after losing that job due to COVID, I moved into freelancing and began working across a wide range of projects, including weddings, reality-style shoots, commercials, and product photography. That period pushed me to adapt quickly and grow both creatively and professionally, in a harsh professional landscape.

While those projects became my work, what I truly love as a hobby is nature photography. Being outdoors and capturing landscapes became a creative escape and a way to stay connected to why I started working with cameras in the first place. I took several trips out west in 2020 and 2021, and many of the photos from those trips are featured on the main page of this website if you wish to view them, representing the more personal side of my work.

ABOUT ME

I have always really enjoy history, all types really, and all the classes fell into my lap unexpectedly, but they have been some of my absolute favorites, showing me passions that I never knew I had. From music appreciation, art history, film history, general civilization history like the ancient Roman Empire, the massive dynasty of the Egyptians, the Samarians, one of the longest thriving forgotten civilizations lost and destroyed in the Iraq war. Anyways, I love learning about the past and how we have advanced so quickly. The purpose of this blog, and overall this whole professional website, is to document who I am and to show the work I have done, it is a living visual resume to my creative abilities. I put my all into my work, it allows me to communicate with a visual language, when I am working with cameras and capturing a moment, I feel like it is exactly where I am meant to be. A great example of this was working a Arkansas Men’s Basketball game in 2019-20, Arkansas (5 or so?) vs. Tennessee (2 or so?) I am on the camera under the goal, Mason Jones gets a steal on the opposite side, I have a perfect shot, Tenn. power forward charges at Jones as he jumps into his layup on my goal. The players fly into me and my large camera, but the crowd is going wild because Mason Jones made the shot, and was fouled for an and one. It was painful having two huge men plow into me, but the moment was amazing. I think this is when I knew I wanted to work in sports broadcasting after college.

Check out my social medias below

Video Edit- 100 Girls of Code

Reflecting on this assignment reading and memorizing the beginning and ending stand ups was the most difficult for me because I am not used to being on camera, while I had to keep practicing to get it right, the idea of being on camera acts as an atomizer from men in black, you loose all train of thought and the few short sentences are like reading the bible. However this project overall was very easy for me because I was a large part of the television and film program in high school. I was the studio engineer, long and short form editor, script writer, and much more, in my Senior year we won the best National Television Broadcast at the Student Television Network, 2019, where I basically solely made the show, so I am accustomed to this type of video. As well as my current job as a studio engineer for a podcast, editing has always been my forte. When it comes to the mechanical parts of this, I am fantastic, however I know there is much room for improvement with on camera gestures.

Profile a person

In this interview I briefly asked my Employer, Darrin Geisinger about his experience with homesteading in his life, I focused on this topic because it is something that I do not have much experience with but Darrin is very passionate about. During this interview I learned about a few of his past animals that he raised and took care of while homesteading, and I learned about his upbringing and how important this subject is to his life. Unfortunately the only b-roll I was able to get was photos that he had already on hand, this is because he no longer owns the homestead and all of the photos were from the past, however I think that it adds to the context of the interview very well, it allows you to put a face to a name, which gives you a generalization of their personality. This is also to advantage to the particular situation because Darrin is a very performative interviewee, because he is on camera often he is not the typical interviewee he likes to embellish his words and add visual context to things as you can see from the interview. Editing this interview was mainly successful with only one real challenge. My mic was lower than I expected and I had to manually cut and raise dB to match Darrin’s mic, even though I have used these many times before and I was wearing headphones to double check, because I was in the shot as opposed to behind the switcher board, I was unable to see the dB levels and missed it. It goes to show the level of work that is required for something as simple as an interview to be conducted correctly.