As the final project for our photojournalism 4720 class, we had to make a multimedia package suitable for the web. My teammembers and I decided to do this project over the Emerald Eagle scholarship program at UNT. The program provides qualifying students with 4 years of paid tuition and fees as well as several other benefits. Our team’s goal was to show how two students were personally benefitted by the program. We followed these two students for several days and tried to tell their stories through a combination of video, photo and audio interviews. We packaged all these elements into a Flash presentation.
Doing the project was a blast for me and it helped to reinforce everything we learned about multimedia during the semester. I think I also got better at planning things out. Fortunately, the process was made a lot easier thanks to great volunteers we had in Emerald Eagle graduate assistant Chelsea Clark and students Elia Santamaria and Johnny Villarreal. My classmates, Amber Cross, Daniel Richardson and Rebecca Evans also put huge amount of work into this. I felt we made a great team, so much so that I wouldn’t hesistate to do another such project with them. This project was a great end to a very helpful class.
