Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Why am I interested in Digitial Journalism???

Last semester I studied abroad in Florence, Italy and I took a photography class. I wasn't sure how the class would go for me and had a lot of trouble with it at the beginning of the semester but by the end I was absolutely loving it! It opened me up to a whole new artistic realm but it also made me think about applying something I never thought I would use again to my Communications major here at Roger Williams.

I had already taken a class with Professor Scully during the fall semester of my junior year and it turned out to be one of my favorite classes. The topic, law and ethics of communications was really interesting to me, so when I saw he would be teaching a special topics class this semester, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to try something new.

So far, the electronic portion of the class (using a camera, final cut-pro, and even blogging) have been a bit challenging for me but I think I'm getting it. I'm really excited, though, that this class allows each of us to use our strengths to benefit our group work and the videos or news stories we publish. I'm definitely not savvy enough to be our camera man or editor and I'm not thrilled being in front of a camera so Libby and Shannon are reallyyyyy important to our team but I find myself to be a pretty good planner and organizer so I'm excited to see how producing goes for me! We'll see from here..

-Kristina

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