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VIDEO PRODUCTION: DIRECTING AND EDITING
Teachers React to Rate My Teachers was the first video I ever shot and edited. After collecting the messages and shooting the video with my fellow editor Sami, I taught myself to use Adobe Premiere Pro and added some rhythmic transitions and green screen effects. To this day, it's the most-viewed page on our website.
Ms. Neevel's Skincare Routine taught me to make the most of what you have. Sometimes, you're shooting a makeup video in a classroom, and you have to rearrange some props for impromptu set design. Sometimes, the audio is inconsistent, and you just have to splice individual syllables to create a cohesive whole. This video took me about 2.5 hours to shoot and assemble using iMovie and Canva. This video, like Teachers React, was geared towards our student audience. In fact, it was inspired by a student reader request! |
AUDIO PRODUCTION: PODCASTING
We were recently awarded a grant for podcasting equipment, including brand-new Rode microphones and a Zoom LiveTrak L-8 soundboard. Studenting is a variety podcast. I hosted our first episode, So you think you can multitask, with our science columnist. I edited and mixed the audio -- scrubbed and spliced, amplified and faded -- using Audacity software. |
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INSTAGRAM
This year, we stepped up our Instagram coverage, highlighting photos that featured everything from behind-the-scenes school dance planning to a school bus crash due to inclement weather. Teasing stories and videos from @thehuronemery has helped us gain traffic to our website. Additionally, I've helped writers use Instagram stories to conduct quick polls and casting calls. Here are two of my posts from earlier in the fall. The Climate Strike video, which was made using Adobe Spark, linked to cross-platform coverage on our website. Back then, we had just over 200 followers. Now, we have nearly tripled that follower count, and we're growing with each post! |
Some of my exclusively online stories:
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NEW WEBSITE
We launched our website in 2018. At the time, it was an archive for pieces that were too long to print. That's when Daulton, one of our entertainment writers, started uploading movie reviews nearly every week. Daulton inspired me to upload same-day coverage of soccer games and graduation slideshows. For a while, our work made up most of the content on the website. In Fall 2019, we launched a completely redesigned website, complete with staff profiles and our new five-times-a-week "Humans of Huron" featurettes. I am super grateful for our newly-appointed online editor, Mishal, who took charge with the content scheduling and helped bring a lot of my ideas to life. Thehuronemery.com now publishes exclusive online stories several times a week. To better serve our audience, we're expanding our coverage to include more photostories, videos and podcasts. I have taken Python and R programming classes at the University of Michigan, so I'm able to debug any HTML coding issues we've run into. |
TWITTER
We started reporting on Twitter in the fall of 2019. From students signing with colleges to dive meet statistics to the Health Science class's anti-vaping campaign, our timely Twitter updates often preluded longer analysis pieces online or in-print. Dec. 2 was a highlight for us: we simultaneously live-tweeted the Winter Orchestra Concert and the first women's basketball game of the season. Here are a few of my tweets, also featuring videos I shot and edited using a combination of Final Cut Pro and Adobe Spark: |
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INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALIZATION
Analyzing the Detroit Democratic Debates live in the Detroit Free Press newsroom taught me firsthand the versatile advantages of graphs and figures: capture attention and convey the most information using the fewest words. The experience has inspired me to create more data-driven infographics across all of our platforms. |