Turning a classroom into a video studio at CityU of Seattle

I know it has been very quiet this week on Techwag, but what has been keeping me busy is teaching Web 2.0 to some great students over at CityU of Seattle. The video is being edited, but these are some rush photo’s from the shoot. There is nothing better than teaching students how to use a video camera, record, lights, and getting support from two program managers.

Two of the students were working out how to frame the shots when the speaker is ready to start pacing the front of the classroom. This is an excellent shot of them collaborating on how the video will be shot.

This is one of the senior faculty members giving their presentation on equity markets and debt instrument management. This looks like it will be a lot of fun, especially as they teach stock trading, debt instruments, and how to run a financial portfolio.

This is me preparing for my coverage of the information systems program at the school, in which Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies are going to be a big part of the program. I can honestly say, that this is going to be a kick butt program.

Of course it is just exciting to watch someone speak through a camera.

In all you cannot beat the experience that we had over the week, from orchestrating the whole production to actually getting to shoot and capturing video. It should be very interesting to see what comes of this project. In the longer run though even if we don’t ever use an ounce of video, or the videos are so poor that they cannot be used, this is still one great learning experience. It was also fun that CityU of Seattle would let me use their facilities to do this.

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