Dim, Christie, Anna, Brayden, Isaac

STLP Shops Local, Greenwood Mall, Bowling Green, KY  

Drakes Creek Middle School

Kentucky Travel: STLP Shops Local

We created a Shop Local video about Greenwood Mall because it’s close to us and has some great local stores inside. 

To start, we went on to the Greenwood Mall website to figure out what stores we would like to try to visit. We brainstormed about the questions we would ask the workers at each store. Then we went to the mall to start recording our segments, the stores we visited were Market 270, Remix, Perfume Villa, Lotus Express, The Cookie Store, The Smoothie and Pretzel Co., Dunhams Sports, Sam’s Gyros, Hard Copies, and Replay Toys. We are thankful for the stores that said yes for our project to be filmed. 

We used our phones to record the segments of each store we went to. 

Next we asked the workers if we could interview them. Some said no but some said yes, it was a fun experience doing this project. There were some ups and downs but it went great and we got the footage we needed.

Finally, after we got our footage we put all of our video into Canva and started editing. We had a hard time because the people we interviewed didn’t understand our project and sometimes they talked too quietly but we fixed it since we are a team. Our solution for the people who talked too quietly was to add captions to the video.

At the end of our editing, we added music to parts of the video. All of the music we used: Synth Guitar music, Deck The Halls, Glistening Ripples Lullaby are from the Canva music library. Thank you to the following stores for taking the time to help us with our video: Sam’s Gyros, Market 270, Dunham's Sports, and Remix. 

The audience for our video is the teachers, students, and staff of DCMS. We are all part of our school’s news show team so it will play on our news show. 

The purpose of this video is to promote stores that are not well-known in our mall.

A problem we had was some of the stores declined us filming and interviewing them. Luckily we got enough footage! Another problem was that the video was too long and we had to cut out clips to fit in our time frame. We were able to get our clips edited and we made it work!

We enjoyed getting to talk to new people and learning more about stores in our local mall.