The Knightly News Update

This past week has been a preparation week for my project and I would say that it has been very successful. I have gathered around seven other students to assist me in filming this video series, as well as the necessary cameras, audio equipment, and a spot to film that we can access on our school campus. A couple weeks ago our school held a twitter chat which all students were welcome to join, it was very successful in my opinion and turned out to be very informative. I have decided to host my own and I am excited to do so in the next few months. My primary goals were scheduled to have been met about a week ago, I did meet them as my goals were to gather all of the necessities to begin filming in the next week or so. As I previously said I have gathered all of the cameras, equipment, and hopefully I have gathered enough members to cover the series. Next week I am hoping to create a video that will influence students to not only watch the next one but to also be involved with what is going on around the school. I am hoping to mainly create a fun environment for the students at school and hopefully they will enjoy their time here much more once our videos are released.

Knightly News Update

The past week has been very successful for my Genius Time project. I am a supervisor of sorts of the Knightly News and over the past week I have set the date for next week to film our first "episode". I have gathered around seven people in total to film with me, around 2 behind the cameras and 5 people to do segments. As for the script I have written down several segments that we did last year and will most likely continue along with a new segment that I added that is going to eventually spotlight my peers Genius Time projects as well. In regards to equipment we are pretty well off, we have a green screen, several cameras, and audio equipment. We also have a small room in the school that we have permission to set up in after school. 

If all goes well I am hoping to have at least three episodes filmed each quarter, preferably more but it all depends on everyones schedule. This is obviously something that we would not be able to do all the time because we put a lot of time into the script writing and especially the editing afterwards. After our first video or maybe our second I am going to try to hold a poll throughout the whole school in order to see what students would like to see other than what we have already thought of. Next week my school is starting to host twitter chats throughout the whole school and I am hoping that after a couple we will get a lot of participation from everyone. Later on in my project I would like to host one my self and potentially get a lot more feedback about what we can do better next year and what we can improve on. I am hoping that they will bring forward some great ideas so that we can improve the show. I am very excited to start this project as well as to help out with others and see how theirs turns out as well. A lot of people have some great ideas and I can't wait until I see how they turn out.