Camp has gone on for three days and it has been really fun so far! At first, I was nervous about the camp with the students being around high school age, and knowing how high schoolers are I was preparing for a dreadful experience, but honestly, it has been a blast. Getting to help these kids learn how to record and edit audio has been fun and not as stressful as I first thought. Also, I feel like my presence is helpful with not just me going to fetch stuff or be an assistant but having my opinions and actions matter. Talking to Eve today about what exactly she wanted from me when making a video helped me narrow down what I should record and how I should edit the video. Before our conversation, I wasn’t sure if she wanted me to make a highlight reel of events the students have done or create a 5 minute narrative about the week and what the students have done. Now that I have the idea of making a highlight reel I can focus on the students working more than the teaching parts of the day. The hardest part of recording to me is when the students spread out from whatever location we are filming for the day. This has been a struggle because I have to check everywhere for a person and I feel like that every minute I don’t see someone field recording is an important minute that I have wasted. The last field recording trip we did with the camp was a little bit of a struggle, so hopefully, tomorrow when we all go out and record it will be a little easier.
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Glad you are settling into the camp! These are great kids and they are fun to work with.
I appreciate the care you are putting into capturing the video of this camp. It will be great to have a record of how things went for us so that we can communicate clearly about the program to others.
Now that you have heard about audio description, we’ll have to plan for adding that too. As much as possible, let’s make things accessible!