Mike Durkin November 24

On November 24th, Mike Durkin, the Managing Content Editor at Fox 9, came to VANTAGE to instruct our class on a lesson on digital news and social media. At Fox 9, Mike oversees daily news content decisions, reporter assignments, and the distribution of news on digital and social media. Throughout his time in class, Mike explained that news is timeliness, currency, proximity, prominence, conflict, consequence, human interest, and oddity. Mike also informed us that to create great content, it must be impactful, inspirational, emotional, visual, and/or shareable. While he taught us key things about news and digital and social media, he closed with the most impactful and informative piece: "If the news is important, it will find you."

The Door Scene

The DJ VANTAGE team was tasked with creating a 30 second to a minute long video on building suspense. Each group had to include a door in the shot with the main character escaping an unknown monster. Here are the results!

Kare 11 Sunrise

Today three of our VANTAGE DJ students got the opportunity to go to the set of Kare 11 Sunrise. They learned all about the show and got to meet the anchors!  

Ron Schara Productions November 12

Fantastic site visit to Ron Schara Productions to visit with editors, producers, and show hosts. Thank you to the wonderful staff for having us in!

Listen Carefully PSA's for the Starkey Hearing Foundation

In collaboration with Starkey Hearing Foundation, the DJ team joined the contest for creating ad campaign videos to promote hearing loss in teens. Divided into groups of 4-5, the students made videos with their own stories portraying the consequences of exposure to loud music and sounds. The completed videos were sent into the contest to compete with other teens who also created videos on hearing loss. 

93X Station Tour   November 7

Josh from the 93X Morning Show gave a studio tour to VANTAGE students on Saturday.  The students were able to get an inside look at the processes and technology a radio broadcaster uses today.

Yuri Mamchur from Starkey Hearing Technologies       November 4

Bi-cultural strategist and entrepreneur with exceptional execution and communications capabilities, people management skills, and policy expertise. Over a decade of work experience in the U.S. and Eastern Europe with Fortune 500 companies, foundations, start-ups, media outlets, and government agencies. Energetic leader and passionate networker with a wide range of diverse contacts and significant development track record.

Yuri gave feedback on the student's Listen Carefully PSA's they developed for The Starkey Hearing Foundation.

Tim Blotz talks PSA's with Digital Journalism

Tim Blotz talks PSA's with Digital Journalism     October 30
(see his presentation here)

http://prezi.com/gtp-3bbqbzkz/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

About Tim:
As a news reporter, my stories have appeared on Fox News Channel, CNN, CNN International, Today Show, CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News, and New Mexico Public Television. An archive of my stories can be found at www.vimeo.com/timblotz.

Specialties:

• Visual Storytelling
• Strategic Communication Analysis and Planning
• Media and Political Insights
• Social Media Research
• Writing
• Public Speaking and Presentation
• Speech Writing
• Media Event Planning