I have expertise in visual journalism, visual storytelling, and documentary production. My skills include videography, lighting, video editing (I'm an Adobe Premiere Certified Associate), Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, and InDesign. My teaching experience includes Video Documentary (short and long-form), Digital TV production, TV directing, TV Newscasts, TV Reporting, Weather Reporting, Science Reporting, Broadcast Writing. I am also a science communicator and a producer of nature and science documentaries with such shows as Zoo Keeper Journal, Space Class and the Emmy-recognised Student Achievement-winning series, CU Science Update, a show that showcases the people behind the science they conduct here at CU and the Boulder communities.
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JRNL 2001 - Fundamentals of Reporting Technologies
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Develops news-gathering skills for work in news enterprises. Students learn skills for working with technologies used in news reporting and in storytelling for various media formats. Students are introduced to a range of technologies for recording, editing and producing. Students encouraged to take concurrently with JRNL 2000.
JRNL 3301 - Camera Workshop for Video
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Fall 2024
Develop competent skills using camcorders to get the most compelling visuals and professional audio. Learn time-saving strategies to shoot footage for unplanned news events, scripted shows, and documentaries. Explore types of shots, the axis, camera movement, and ways to shoot for the edit with sequences and in-camera transitions. Students will be introduced to basic camcorder functions, rule of thirds, depth of field, exposure settings, white balance, and focus techniques. Students will also learn how to obtain the best audio for interviews and natural sound, and how to light interview shots. Recommended prerequisite: JRNL 2001.
JRNL 3302 - Video Editing Skills
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Fall 2024
Explore time-saving editing workflows using shortcut editing techniques to create compelling and dynamic content. Understand file management, saving and importing media properly. Recognize and interpret film language and the grammar of editing, such as cross-cutting, montage, screen direction, cutting on the action, match action, and even ways to manipulate time. Students will also learn how to create graphics, perform colour correcting, and do basic animation. Recommended prerequisite: JRNL 2001.
JRNL 3303 - Motion Graphics
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Fall 2024
Explore how to enhance visuals and produce animated graphics using Adobe After Effects. Learn ways to work within virtual 3D environments to create production elements that include titles, lower thirds, bumps, and full-screen graphic presentations. Develop skills with using masks, virtual cameras, parallax in photos, tracking motion, and rotoscoping. Recommended prerequisite: JRNL 2001.
JRNL 3644 - Video News Production
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
This course teaches essential video production skills in both field and studio operation, camera and editing work, lighting, and multi-camera studio directing. Students will learn how to develop visual narratives, shoot quality footage for the story, and apply best journalistic practices to positively impact society on multiple media platforms.
JRNL 3674 - Digital Video Production 2
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
This course teaches students how to do live video production work on streaming services, such as Livestream, and event productions. Students also cover the studio production side of NewsTeam, a live student-produced newscast. In addition, students will do field production projects to sharpen their video storytelling skills.
JRNL 4344 - Video Documentary Production
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Fall 2021
Designed to give students the experience of researching, writing, shooting and editing their own documentaries. Same as JRNL 5344.
JRNL 4354 - Video News Reporting
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Fall 2024
Focuses on writing and reporting compelling visual stories using mobile devices and video cameras. Students also learn storytelling techniques of backpack video journalism and reporting for broadcast television and online news.
JRNL 4624 - NewsTeam
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Students participate in Newsteam Boulder, a program broadcast live over the Boulder cable television system. Same as JRNL 5624.
JRNL 4684 - The Art of Visual Storytelling
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Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2022
Teaches students how to raise the production value of their work based on standards used by professionals. Students learn how lenses, lights and contrast can affect an image; how to assemble their shots with pacing and rhythm; how to apply color grading techniques to give video a cinematic look; and how to create motion graphics for titles and lower thirds. Same as JRNL 5684.
JRNL 4931 - Internship
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Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
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JRNL 5001 - Media Technology Boot Camp
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Summer 2021 / Summer 2022 / Summer 2023 / Summer 2024
Offers a foundation in the technologies of journalistic storytelling across a variety of established and emerging media platforms, such as print, television, radio, online publications, blogs, social media and emerging forms of communication. Students will emerge from the course with basic competence in the technical tools they will need as journalists.
JRNL 5344 - Video Documentary Production
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Fall 2021
Designed to give students the experience of researching, writing, shooting and editing their own documentaries. Same as JRNL 4344.
JRNL 5624 - NewsTeam
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Students participate in Newsteam Boulder a program broadcast live over the Boulder cable television system. Same as JRNL 4624.
JRNL 5684 - The Art of Visual Storytelling
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2022
Teaches students how to raise the production value of their work based on standards used by professionals. Students learn how lenses, lights and contrast can affect an image; how to assemble their shots with pacing and rhythm; how to apply color grading techniques to give video a cinematic look; and how to create motion graphics for titles and lower thirds. Same as JRNL 4684.
