One of the helpful things we are learning at the convergent journalism teaching bootcamp this week is that you don't have to break out the high-end video cameras and software to produce a decent video for a news website.
Today we used hand-held Kodak video cameras and Windows Movie Maker to produce short videos. Our instructions were to go some place nearby and find a simple story. So partner Kevin Blackistone, who is a visiting professor at Maryland, and I walked over a mile to this small restaurant he had been to, but they were closed. Fortunately it was a block from our hotel so we got in my rental car and drove a few blocks to a place I had been on Monday, Pawley's Front Porch.
We got the video edited just in time. I had shot the footage, Kevin did the interviewing and the narration and we shared the editing. It's just a simple little story that could be better, but it showed us how easy it is for students to put something together of interest for a student newspaper website.
We had so much fun there that Kevin and I and three others went there for dinner tonight. I had another great hamburger, we shared fired oysters and fried pickles and had a lot of interesting conversation about our experiences and what we've learned this week. It was great time.
Here's the video:
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