Every year, starting last year, the school board asks EAST to turn their Annual Report to the Public into a video. It is normally a long, redundant PowerPoint full of numbers. We work with the Jr. High to make videos which feature this data for every building on campus, including the administration building.
It all starts with getting a PowerPoint from the administrators of each building. These have all of the information we need to the videos. We then have to interview the administrators. This includes setting up a time, talking to them earlier, giving them their information, and finally recording them. They read the information off of the Powerpoint to be the background narration for the videos.
Once we have their narration, a crew of students goes around filming student in action. The high school has clips of welding, Mrs. Eaton’s class, our technology, and just student in class working. The video for the elementary feature more of the kids in their pull-out/special classes: music, PE, art, and computer lab, and science lab. The little kids in the videos are so cute! There is also an administration building video the is mainly shots of the different buildings taken by the drone, and a student reading the narration.
After all of the footage has been collected, the editing begins. Another group of people on Final Cut Pro put the clips together with the audio over the videos. Before this starts, someone and Mrs. Graddy choose which clips will look the best in the videos. The editors have the job of putting the multiple clips together and putting the music, chosen by another person, and the narrations by the administrators over the video clips.
A school board meeting is the due date for all of these videos. Mrs. Graddy, Mrs. Kifer, and some students from both buildings go to present the videos. We heard a speech from freshman Seth Harmon that introduced the videos and gave credit to everyone who contributed to the videos. The school board really liked the videos. They are glad that their data isn’t in a long Powerpoint anymore. By Ella Layton