Semester II:
For the majority of this year, Jack and myself were in charge of producing video production and news coverage for the quill. The biggest stories we covered were the groundbreaking ceremony for the new school, interviewing student council candidates, and interviewing a local sheriff to talk about the local and country wide drug problem. We spent our time filming, interviewing, and bringing light and laughter to AHS students with our videos. We even covered the simple things like the weather, with guest cameos from Grayson Milam to Shaw Kassay. Our video style was serious at times, but mostly playful and gag like. But hey, it’s still journalism. This year, journalism taught me to dive deeper into issues more than I usually would, asking the difficult, sometimes personal, and meaningful questions. It also taught me that every voice has power, and that meant a lot considering I could have a voice being a senior and high school but still being the smallest kid at said high school. I had a blast in this class, thank you J Mac. PEACE. IM ON TO BETTER THINGS!
Jack Tescher and myself at the ground breaking ceremony, asking the real questions, and getting real answers. Peep the quill media press pass. We are legit.
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Me interviewing Zoell Lhomi, a future STUCO president, asking him if he could describe his campaign in one word, what would it be? He responded with "sticky notes." I don't think he made the cut.
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Grayson Milam, a co-member of quill media, telling us the weather. It was sunny.
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Semester 1:
Reflection:
It’s the first day of snowfall in the town of Durango, as Animas Senior Adrian Griffith is waking up and most likely going to be late to school, he has to reflect on his productive and meaningful semester. Feeling burnt out over the first semester he is ready for a break.
As the main vessel in the Animas Quill serving his people as the highest functioning member of video production, above Jack Tescher, he looks back on the things he wishes he could have done.
Working on a team, a small group of students were assigned to video production, covering stories from the basic weather, to the Ground Breaking Ceremony, to just checking in with students. Adrian was the interviewer, and as he says in an interview with Jack Tescher, “I am very happy about making videos for the school to see.” As Adrian reflects on his semester looking at the bad and the good, he wishes to focus on the bad. For those who don’t know who Adrian is, he is a goofy character, and his vision for video production was satire based, not necessary picking on the interviewees, but illustrating production in a funny way. The queen of the Quill, Jessica McCallum once said to the production team, “This is great, but this isn’t the quality and professionalism that we want to cover.” This made Adrian quite upset.
But Adrian moved on, and is looking forward to next semester where he will try to convince Jessica that satire production is what the people need, and that it is what Adrian is good at. He has so many ideas, from covering senior project, to winter activities, you name it. While is time in Quill this semester may not have been used as well as it could’ve been, Adrian wants to hammer down on video production for the AHS community.
As the main vessel in the Animas Quill serving his people as the highest functioning member of video production, above Jack Tescher, he looks back on the things he wishes he could have done.
Working on a team, a small group of students were assigned to video production, covering stories from the basic weather, to the Ground Breaking Ceremony, to just checking in with students. Adrian was the interviewer, and as he says in an interview with Jack Tescher, “I am very happy about making videos for the school to see.” As Adrian reflects on his semester looking at the bad and the good, he wishes to focus on the bad. For those who don’t know who Adrian is, he is a goofy character, and his vision for video production was satire based, not necessary picking on the interviewees, but illustrating production in a funny way. The queen of the Quill, Jessica McCallum once said to the production team, “This is great, but this isn’t the quality and professionalism that we want to cover.” This made Adrian quite upset.
But Adrian moved on, and is looking forward to next semester where he will try to convince Jessica that satire production is what the people need, and that it is what Adrian is good at. He has so many ideas, from covering senior project, to winter activities, you name it. While is time in Quill this semester may not have been used as well as it could’ve been, Adrian wants to hammer down on video production for the AHS community.