The class started with talking about the First Amendment and quickly progressed to the online world of journalism. By the end of the semester we had our own news story with our own multimedia packages. We used all the different sites we talked about in class and the high-tech flip cams to film different elements of our story. We used Bill Blundell’s six elements to make sure we had the story part of it and a lot of patience and hard work to make sure we had the technological part of it. If I did anything differently it would probably be just to get it down quicker so I had more time to play around with kaltura and the online world of editing, because there are so many sites out there. I researched my community, interviewed friends and peers of the girls, teachers, and police officers. I did a little deeper digging, got my hands dirty and learned in the process. I learned how to get the stuff I wanted and make a story about it that would trigger emotion. My story is an emotional story I just had to evoke it out of the audience, and have them be attached to the teenage victims in my story instead of detached. Altogether Mo Krochmal has taught me a lot throughout the course and I am very glad this semester I have immersed myself with the ever-growing and expanding world that is now and the future, online journalism.
