This lab was surprisingly fun to work on. I was worried about the prospect of filming an interview and editing it myself, something I had never done before. My partner was super helpful with understanding iMovie, but once I got working on it I found that it was fairly easy to use.
It’s really interesting to me that people do this kind of thing as a career. My Intro to Journalism course had a speaker once who worked at a local television station and he spoke to us about having to set up his own camera, film himself, and edit it. I don’t know if I could ever edit for a career because it requires such a strict attention to detail and visual creativity. However, I think that it’s a very important career in the journalism field.
As we discussed in class, the video needs to be interesting in order for audiences to tune in. With the political climate that we are currently experiencing, journalists are faced with a new challenge: get viewers interested in news that seems never ending and down-right depressing. Video editors are able to go in and create interesting, watchable coverage of topics that may seem mundane but deserve recognition.
Jordan Jewell 