Student Projects Overview

The following projects will provide hands-on experience in journalism, media production, and digital storytelling. Each assignment is designed to strengthen your writing, storytelling, editing, and technical skills while preparing you for real-world media production.
 

Podcast Production
This project will challenge you to develop your skills in writing, storytelling, and audio editing using a digital audio workstation (DAW). You’ll produce a five-minute mini-episode by editing a longer news podcast interview, provided by Industry Media Arts. With guidance from your mentor, you'll learn how to identify key quotes, responses, and comments to craft a compelling story within the given time frame.
 

• Key Skills: Audio editing, storytelling, news curation

• Final Product: A professionally edited five-minute podcast segment

• Detailed instructions will be provided in the Google Classroom Modules.
   

Audio Production – Podcast Creation
With podcasting rapidly growing as a cost-effective and personal medium, this project expands on the audio production unit by guiding you through script development, audio recording, editing, and distribution.

You’ll work alongside your mentor to develop a professionally recorded podcast from scratch, researching your topic, writing a synopsis, and creating a show rundown. The final podcast will include recorded dialogue, sound effects, and music—all of which must be either original, Creative Commons licensed, or properly credited.
 

• Key Skills: Podcast scripting, recording, audio production, sound design

• Final Product: A fully produced podcast episode, uploaded to a streaming platform and embedded in your website

• Detailed instructions will be provided in the Google Classroom Modules.

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Postproduction – Video Editing
This assignment focuses on non-linear video editing workflows, allowing you to take on the roles of writer, producer, and editor. Using stock interview footage and b-roll, you’ll develop a detailed editing script (Edit Decision List) that outlines how the final story will be structured.

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Once your script is finalized, you’ll exchange it with a classmate who will edit the video based on your instructions—giving you hands-on experience in both script development and editing execution.
 

• Key Skills: Scriptwriting, video editing, project management

• Final Product: A completed video segment following a structured edit script

• Detailed instructions will be provided in the Google Classroom Modules.

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Video Production – Interview with B-Roll
Interviews are one of the most powerful storytelling tools in journalism. In this project, you’ll research, plan, and produce a three-minute news-style or documentary-style video.

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With guidance from your mentor, you’ll go through preproduction (research, scripting, scheduling), production (interview recording, b-roll collection), and post-production (editing, finalizing the story). The topic of your video will be your choice, and the final product will be uploaded to our YouTube channel and embedded in your website.
 

• Key Skills: Interviewing, video production, field recording, video editing

• Final Product: A three-minute news/documentary video

• Detailed instructions will be provided in the Google Classroom Modules.

 

Website Development
Your website will serve as a portfolio for all your journalism and media work, including your video and podcast projects. Even after the course ends, this website can continue to grow, featuring social media highlights, news stories, and other original content to help promote diverse voices and strengthen democracy in news coverage.
 

• Key Skills: Website design, digital publishing, multimedia integration

• Final Product: A functional, professional news website

• Detailed instructions will be provided in the Google Classroom Modules.