I created this piece for an article that a staff member of mine wrote about district parents spreading rumors about litter boxes in bathrooms on our high school's Facebook page. Not included is an accompanying art piece I created that depicted a tiger standing next to a litter box.
This collage, which I made by combining free-to-use paper and comic book textures with geometric shapes and a free stock photo of a brain, accompanied a news piece about the burnout teachers were facing during a remote learning period last fall.
I created this piece to accompany an article I wrote about TikTok, and how its algorithm can draw people into sharing extremely personal information.
I created this piece for an article that a staff member of mine wrote about district parents spreading rumors about litter boxes in bathrooms on our high school's Facebook page. Not included is an accompanying art piece I created that depicted a tiger standing next to a litter box.
ABOUT MULTIMEDIA AT EHS
While outlets for multimedia journalism do exist as clubs at EHS, our journalism classes focus exclusively on print and online news publications. I've been lucky enough to collaborate with EHS Broadcasting before, and there are plans to incorporate journalism students into our school's podcasting club soon. In my time as a journalism student, and editor of our entirely-extracurricular yearbook staff, I've found that I've been most helpful to my school community and fellow student journalists when focusing my time on leading our print and web news publications, even if that means I missed a few opportunities to explore different mediums at this point in my journalism career.
multimedia
Long before I was a "journalism kid," long before I really even understood what being a journalist meant, I was an "art kid." I've been interested in art my entire life, and while writing is my preferred creative outlet now, those illustration skills come in handy when one of my publications calls for it.
The slideshow above displays a small sample of the pieces I've created for our publications over the years, with descriptions that tell the story behind each illustration.
If the YouTube embed doesn't work, try to see the video here.
my collaboration with broadcasting club
Several weeks before Ramadan was to begin, members of Broadcasting Club reached out to our yearbook adviser to find someone comfortable with interviewing a student for an episode of the Friday Morning Announcements that would play the week before the holiday. This was a student I had already planned on interviewing for the yearbook, as our theme that year focused on identifying students from diverse backgrounds as they looked to their past and prepared for their future. The student I interviewed was a freshman who had written a book about a Muslim girl trying to fit in with her friends during Ramadan, based on the student's own experiences.
Several technical errors occurred during the recording of this interview, which meant that the first several minutes of the interview were not recorded. While I had written down some background information and questions I wanted to ask, many questions arose naturally during the conversation, so I wasn't able to just repeat everything we'd discussed at that point, something the students behind the camera didn't realize. This was the first interview that the club had recorded for this purpose, so everyone in the room was a little bit on-edge. Regardless, I'm very glad I was able to experience this, and I hope to explore broadcasting again at some point in the future.
In the time since that video was made, I've taken the opportunity to experiment with video editing with multiple class projects (like this short film). While not journalism-related, these projects helped me learn some video editing basics that could be translated to broadcast news production.