Broadcast/Multimedia

My school is old-fashioned. I'm not.

While my heart may lay in in digital arts and journalism, my school doesn't have any multimedia programs. My freshman year the digital media department was shut down due to a lack of funding, and I was no longer able to grow my skillset. I was crushed, but it's what pushed me to pursue print, and apply to programs outside of my school.

I overcame this by editing videos on for fun, by using free platforms or attending camps. When I attended Jcamp in 2023, I had the opportunity to work with Terrell Brown from ABC Chicago to create a short broadcast episode. He trained me a cohort on how broadcast journalism works, and was exceptionally kind. It was an amazing and fun time working on a cohort with everyone, and taught me the basics of decent digital reporting.

Take a look at the video I produced about electric scooters.

Dropped in DC

Every year, JCAMP takes students out and drops them somewhere undisclosed, giving them a 48 hour window to produce something from what they have. My year, we went to US capital area. Students covered topics like gentrification or The American Dream. I covered electric scooters.

I fully had a plan to interview people about the impact of security measures since the US capital insurrection, but I threw it out because I quickly realized about how much the average citizen districts the media. I would ask people, and they thought I was tricking them or going to damage their reputation, making me reflect on the greater power dynamics in this industry.

So I covered... scooters. I returned feeling defeated. Reporter Arelis Hernandez told me that journalism doesn't all have to be serious to be good. It opened my eyes, and reminded me why I create: because I love both the serious and the lighthearted stories.

Behind the Scenes

What the heck is VO?

I constructed this video using concepts that the camp taught me. I wrote out part of the script, and then would overlay media based on what clips I got over a "VO" or voiceover. I used concepts such as tagging, signaling what was "off" and "on" camera and marking what parts I wanted the interview to be.

Finding The Angle

A challenge with broadcast journalism is that you don't know what your story might turn into over time. A starting place is finding the angle you want to go with, for me it was the concerns and controversy over the scooters in DC, but I could have focused solely on the recreational aspect.

Creating for the sake of creating

While there may be no outlet for video or audio production at my school, that didn't stop me from pursing my love of multimedia by practicing editing or interning for the nonprofit Friends of Noise to learn about audio engineering.

Montage Mayhem

Over the past couple of years I have made around a dozen montages capturing myself growing up. Perhaps I have been reporting and editing my own life without realizing. Here are two where I practice my editing skills.

Montage made for fun

Spoken word poem for a project asking "who are you" for freshman year studio art

Friends of Noise

Senior year of high school I interned with the nonprofit Friends of Noise. FON works to create all ages music shows highlighting marginalized groups in the area. But it also taught me the basics of audio engineering- a skillet easily transferable to podcast or radio formats.

Equalizing sounds

My internship taught me the importance of EQ, adjusting sounds to sound right. I learned in freshman year digital media that it's the same skill in audio engineering. I know how to identify the "fuzz" or "warp" in a soundwave, and eliminate it using a board.

Here is a photo of an digital console, one used to change sound over time so instruments sound more in harmony. It's the same skill set applied to audio podcasts or sound over video.

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