Survey of Technology

As we come closer to deadlines for our project it became time to see what our school had to offer us. Justin Foreman is our point of contact at the media center and luckily, I am already familiar with him. Our school has a lab for recording high quality audio that we could use to narrate a podcast type segment on our website. The diversity of media will help us with general accessibility on our website. Our media center also has a few high-quality macs with top of the line video editing software and the support to learn how to use it. The staff is excited to help with any projects and encourages going the extra mile to produce quality works.

On our media centers website, they list an abundance of equipment available.

Please visit Room 311 to borrow any of the following items:

W     Medium-sized Liberty PA systems

W     Mini-speakers

W     Microphones (vocal, instrument, clip-on & shotgun)

W     Microphone stands (regular, boom, & tabletop)

W     Projectors (data, overhead & slide)

W     Screens (large & medium)

W     DVD and VHS players

W     Monitors

W     Small portable tables

W     Cameras (digital video & digital still)

W     Audio recorders (analog & digital)

W     Conference phone

W     Headphones

W     Tripods & monopods

W     Easels & clipboards

W     PC or Mac laptops

W     Audio & video cables

W     Extension cords & outlet strips

http://library.smcm.edu/media-center/events-equipment/av-equipment/

The school also has high quality microphones and cameras specifically for interviews. The rental of the equipment is easily done with a student ID and is at no cost to us. I checked with Justin to see about checking out some gear for the duration of the semester and they have enough available that it shouldn’t be a problem.

We have some fun ideas about adding in some shots to bolster interviews and break up the static nature of them. I plan to add establishing shots using drone footage and shots from around campus to help bring our story to life. Some documentation of our journey while acquiring the information would be a fun sidebar for our website.

I have worked on previous projects with our media centers for classes that did not expect us to put in the work we did. Our creative ambition paid off with the experience we now have, to tackle this project. Price and I are both familiar with video editing, sound editing, framing, and interviews.  I decided to attach a few of my other school projects to this post to show what we have previously been able to accomplish.  The major aspect of filming we learned during our project was the importance of time management. The editing process can take days for a relatively short piece. Knowing how much time it will take will make the editing and final touches of our project a relatively smooth process.