Courtney Langstaff

Last week was 519 Online New’s second official broadcast of the semester, and our show was very colourful and very strong. 

This week my role was to be the editor, and Dan also edited with me to show me the ropes of Final Cut Pro. I learned a lot of cool things about Final Cut, learned how to use the chroma key to work with the green screens. Learned how to incorporate lower thirds, and add graphics. It was a really fun experience to be behind the scenes and work in post-production.  

We had four great stories, they were all very strong. Chris & Alyssa’s story on Shark Finning was fantastic because they got permission to use footage from the popular documentary “SHARKWATER” and that made the story awesome to watch because the visuals were amazing. We also had great footage from the Occupy Bay Street protest last weekend, in addition to covering the Grand River Film Festival.  The story was our best yet, and I know that each week our show’s are going to get better and better.

This week, I am the producer for the show and we are doing a themed show on Halloween. We worked really hard to come up with good stories for the show and we wanted to ensure that all of our stories would not be ‘fluff’ so we have a good line up including two fun stories and two strong stories but they all some way are related to Halloween. I think this show will be the most entertaining and creative show we have had yet, because we have a lot of tricks up our sleeve for this episode. 

Our show is at 4PM on www.519onlinenews.com, we also broadcast our show on the vimeo website on Thursdays so check it out.

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See you Thursday !