I’m a student at WSU, studying Broadcast Production and Digital Technology and Culture. I’ve been making videos since elementary school. I’ve also experimented with graphic design and photography, which I also love doing, but I love making videos more than anything. I joined a print journalism class in my senior year of high school because I had extra room in my schedule, and I’m really glad that I did. I really enjoyed giving people a platform to tell their stories, and I decided to continue pursuing journalism in college. I chose to do DTC as my second major because it allows me to make creative videos and express myself artistically.
My most recent project is a short documentary about pyrotechnicians that will be airing on PBS and NWPB sometime early this year. It took me about a semester to make, and I’m super proud of how it turned out. In the future, I would love to work on more long form videos. Some day, I would like to make a feature length movie or documentary. I could see myself getting into documentary movies or fiction. I’m really interested in the horror genre. My favorite movie is Hereditary by Ari Aster.
In my free time, I’ve been teaching myself how to fly racing drones, or First Person View drones. Unlike many other types of drones, FPV drones are flown through Virtual Reality. Piloting the drone through VR gives you more control over the drone, which allows the pilot to fly faster and more acrobatically than traditional drones. FPV drones are much harder to fly than traditional drones, so it took me a long time to teach myself to fly. I’ve practiced flying for over 600 hours on a drone simulator. I like drone racing for fun, but in the future I would like to fly FPV for movies and real estate.
I chose this course because I needed an upper level elective credit and mobile media sounded interesting. I’m hoping to learn more about how to utilize social media effectively. before the end of the semester, I hope to get my commercial drone license and more experience posting online.
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