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WVU students on the Immersion Weekend multimedia workshop: transcript

West Virginia University visual journalism and West Virginia Uncovered students describe a spring 2010 multimedia workshop in Davis, West Virginia. They say they gained technical skills, confidence and deeper storytelling experience while producing audio slideshows, which were later published in a local newspaper.

Key points

Eleven students began their spring 2010 semester with an intensive multimedia workshop in Davis, West Virginia.
Students say they learned which shots to take and which to avoid, and what matters technically.
One student says the weekend left them much more confident in their photography.
West Virginia Uncovered and visual journalism students worked together to shoot photos and collect audio for audio slideshows.
One pair profiled a small Nordic ski resort owned by a husband and wife.
The final projects were published in a local newspaper and a West Virginia Uncovered partner publication.

Chapters

0:00Critiques and the start of the workshop
0:32Students reflect on what they learned
1:47Audio slideshows and the Nordic ski resort story

Full transcript

0:00There are pictures here that could be made a lot stronger. He turned out way better. I think he did a great job. I also looked at the beginning how it was sort of like an illustrated story. They didn't seem as disjointed. It worked really well with the audio. It's quite amazing to me that all of you have been able to make this work virtually with pictures as they were shot in camera. Eleven students kicked off their spring 2010 semester at the Purley Isaac Reed School of Journalism with an intensive multimedia workshop in Davis, West Virginia. I really enjoyed the Immersion Weekend experience.

0:32I got a lot of technical skills out of it that I didn't have before, and then I got a great story out of it. I really dove into the story we did deeper than I'd ever done before, and learned a lot about not only myself, but about the multimedia journal. I got a lot out of it as far as learning what shots to take, what shots not to take. technically speaking what's important to get done. A lot of what I did was take shots that I thought were incredible but they weren't technically right. The biggest thing it was for me was a learning experience. I, you know, the entire time I was learning. Everything that happened, you know, I was trying to take it in.

1:16You know, just add it to my knowledge and experience. I feel much stronger. I'm much more confident. You know, I still have really far to go, but I'm much more confident in my photography. Students from the West Virginia Uncovered program and visual journalism students worked together to shoot photographs and collect audio, which they used to produce audio slideshows. I think I was just more comfortable overall being in West Virginia Uncovered last semester and then go into the immersion weekend.

1:47I also learned a lot about Audacity and putting the photos to the sound and just making what I think is usually a pretty good final product for the class. Just not an in-house kind of stay-at-home grandma, and that's okay. Evan and I worked on a story. It was about a little small ski resort. It was a Nordic ski resort, which is basically cross-country skiing. and this husband and wife own it and the people that go there come from all around and they go to this little place because it's just the atmosphere and the people everyone there loves it. Every time it's snow you say wow this is just like a whole new place you know nobody ever has been here before so I think you have that real feeling like you're the first person and every time there's a new snow and you get to break a trail that's really neat to me. The final projects were published in The Parsons Advocate, a local newspaper owned by Chris and Kelly

2:50Stadelman, and a West Virginia Uncovered Partner publication.

Source and licence

Recording: File:About Immersion Weekend-10698293.webm by Tricia Fulks Kelley (2010-04-05), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.