Introduction
Not only am I a metaphorical leader in the class, but I am also someone that people turn to when they need help. I have worked to make myself someone that people can feel comfortable coming to with their concerns. Time and time again people come to me for help, and I enjoy providing it.
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This can clearly be seen by how many times I assist stories. I am consistently working with my peers. I have assisted story after story and worked with student after student. My time on The Flash can be seen through growth and through failure. In my first year when I was working with others, I often found myself messing everything up. I was an amateur broadcaster, and it would frustrate those around me. I took the anger from my peers to power harder work, with fewer and fewer mistakes each time. I don’t like to get frustrated with new students, I find that it helps no one. However it does happen every so often, and when it does I think back to last year. If not for the mistakes of the past there would never be the accomplishments of today. So I have grown to accept mistakes from those whom I work with, knowing it will all lead to better outcomes.
I have worked with students time after time, in order to assist them in perfecting their work. I helped Hunter create credits that started off very simple. He had about a hundred different ideas to work with, and began setting up. By cutting down the amount of different situations, I helped him make the credits more concise and comedic. I have helped peers like Katie with more miniscule things. I am known to make everyone in the classes’ lower thirds. I can quickly make changes, but most of the time I sit down with the student to teach them, so they know how to do it the next time. Overall, in The Flash we have no official leadership, but the students of the class still look to me for assistance and guidance in their work. |
Graduation
I was blown away when my advisor, Mr. Fornicoia told me I was leading the graduation project. Genuinely I thought there was no way he would choose me. Throughout the year he had given me opportunities I clearly didn’t deserve. This was on a completely different level. As a class, we had only gone live one time, for Turkey Bingo in November. I played a small role, working as a floor director with the anchors. Directing graduation was on a different level. This would be broadcasted to family members who would be unable to attend the in-person event. It was essential to making sure that every student had their moment on camera, to celebrate the occasion. Camera angles, transitions, audio quality, and all other technical challenges would need to be working perfectly. So that Saturday I arrived at 9 to work on getting everything set up. The forecast had a last-minute change, so we were going to be working on the football field.
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Previously, it looked as though it was going to rain, so we had all of our equipment in the main gym. As I rolled the cart of cables and equipment I tried not to think of the looming pressure. Entering the booth, I got a clear view of what I was dealing with. So I helped Mr. Fornicoia and our assistant principal set up cameras in the field. I left around 3 to get myself ready for the formal event. Black dress, curled hair, and headset in place, I was ready. The plan was laid out. Two people would be across the field on a tripod, one above us in the booth, and a special piece. One member would be holding a handheld camera. So the clock struck 5, and it was time to begin.
We worked as a team to produce the show. It has over four thousand views, its impact has been felt by so many. Our smooth transitions, good audio, and lack of technical issues made the video accessible for all. |
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I sat in the booth, and effectively communicated between our different cameras in order to perform everything. It was my first time in a leadership role, and I found a way to make everything work seamlessly.
Turkey Bingo
My second experience directing a live program can be characterized by a few main moments. When I went to stand in front of the class, nearly no one paid attention to me. I understood that I would be forced to conduct things on my own. So came the need to count bingo cards the day before. My friend and I rushed to bring in donuts to celebrate afterward. The streaming system nearly crashed 5 minutes before we began. Turkey Bingo is our celebration of the fall break. The entire school tunes into our live stream for a chance to get to gobble on live tv.
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It's a multicam extravaganza, with a million different factors. Working as the executive producer, I felt the pressure of it all fall onto my shoulders. Everyone had to listen carefully and clearly so everything would happen in a timely manner. We would have to cut between live anchors and live reporters. The difficult part came in the nature of the show, we had to play a game, and then wait for winners to emerge. Once they came, we would need them to speak on camera. In order to win a prize, they would have to answer a simple question. In order for it to all work smoothly, we communicated via Bluetooth headsets, to tell anchors when to speak, and when to air certain pieces.
Overall it was a successful product. Everything fell into place, and we had a ton of winners. It's a tradition that we got to put our own spin on. Most students enjoyed it, and we had a blast planning out the program. |
Disclaimer
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In the past few months, I have found myself taking personal initiative in order to improve the overall quality of The Flash. I also worked to create a brand new disclaimer. One day in class, someone began to complain that we were using the same open for far too long. I looked at it and decided let’s do it, right now.
I quickly over a forty-minute period filmed a dozen or so classmates. Then I got a few more after school, and finally got to edit it down. I made an entire brand-new ten-second disclaimer in an afternoon. It's brief but it works to show off all of the different talents of The Flash. In this brand-new disclaimer, I brought them all together. |
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February 2nd 2023 Show
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This show in particular is compiled of a multitude of pieces I have worked on. The anchoring that we had initially filmed had been corrupted due to numerous circumstances. My peers and I facetimed our advisor to figure out what to do. A number of different options were suggested, but the original anchors failed to respond leaving us with one option, refilm the anchors ourselves. So 7am burning hot coffee, and I walked into school in the negative 7 degree darkness. We set up, just the three of us, then filmed them in about ten minutes. We had no script, we just went by our own sleep-deprived heads. My friend then edited the show together, and we had finished the show in its entirety. I had produced a story, assisted with the credits, created the disclaimer from scratch, and anchored.
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There is not much more you can do for an episode of The Flash. Due to problems behind the scenes, Rowan, Blake, and I were the only ones to touch this episode. I included it to show how we managed to pull it off in a pressurized environment .
The Sturdy ActThe sturdy act can be summarized by a few components. It takes a deeply personal story and shows how change can occur out of passion. My peer and friend came to me with an idea, and with my help he created a beautiful product. It left our audience breathless through its deep tone. I was honored for the chance to share this story. Its use of the 911 phone call starts the story off with a deep tone, and then continues throughout the story as we follow the first hand accounts of the events.
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