These are the videos that my students produced during the two-day Camp VJ beginners workshop in Chicago. I’m really proud of them.
There’s obviously some technical imperfections, which are expected with anyone’s first videos. But notice the use of wide, medium and tight shots and the use of sequences. They all used natural sound too.

These are framegrabs from a video I produced about a student adjusting to college life in San Antonio.
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Colin Wright didn’t go too far from his home in Austin to attend the University of Texas at San Antonio. But life in his freshman year still took some adjustment. This video complements a story by Melissa Ludwig.
I also produced a photo slideshow about Colin’s life through childhood, and created a splash page to house […]

It’s hard work serenading women with Las Mananitas, the traditional song to wish a happy Mother’s Day. The musicians of Monique y su Mariachi America have slept only a few hours since Saturday morning.

This framegrab ran in the paper to refer to a video I produced about middle school students practicing a rocket launch to prepare for a national competition.
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Five middle school students from the Krueger School of Applied Technologies practiced launching rockets on May 8 in preparation for the Team America Rocketry Challenge national finals being held in Washington, D.C. on May 17.

Note: Picture by Robert Hendricks
I’m back from Chicago where I taught beginner video shooting and editing at a Visual Editors video workshop.
Robb Montgomery of Visual Editors organized the workshop, which was held at the offices of the Chicago Sun Times. We had about 10 students in the beginner class — The perfect number because everyone […]

This framegrab ran to refer to a video I produced about a charity event that sells clay bowls to raise money for a homeless shelter.
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Hundreds of people lined up to help San Antonio’s homeless population by buying hand-crafted bowls at Empty Bowls 2008, an event organized by the San Antonio Potters Guild that benefits homeless shelter SAMMinistries.

Celebrating the National Day of Prayer at City Hall on May 1, people of San Antonio prayed about the nation’s financial crisis, the leadership of the country, and bringing others to God.