Elisa Hyder Capstone: The Good Friends Web Show Researcher
The Good Friends is a collaborative web show created by
Markia Johnson, Shelby Harcher, Anna Roman, and myself. This web show acted as
our capstone, including discussions, interviews, skits, extra videos, and
segments. Each of us had a different job to do for the show, and my job was to
act as researcher. Shelby acted as scriptwriter, Anna as camerawoman and
editor, and Markia had health segments. We were all also to be hosts on the
show. Once we all knew what responsibilities we were each to have and had a
general description for our show, we released two promotional videos to get
awareness. From there, we began brainstorming ideas for episodes. My first task
was to reach out to the students of SLA and ask what they would like to see in
our web show so that we can incorporate these ideas into our brainstorming. We
definitely wanted our audience to be involved in our process, and, as researcher,
I was the link between us four and the audience. I went out to collect
interviews from students both on and off camera, did research on upcoming and
passed events in the school, and created surveys and questionnaires. I worked
on twitter and by going around the school to raise awareness of our show and
get more and more students involved in interviews and surveys. This information
I collected served to either influence what we chose to do in our episodes,
such as with music videos, or were relevant to topics discussed in our
episodes. Once I had what I needed, I delivered the results to both Shelby and
Anna to incorporate in the scripts and videos. With all that done, it would
then be time to take on my dual role as co-host on the web show along with my three
partners. As frequently as our schedule allowed, we four would come together to
create the actual The Good Friends episodes. Many of our episodes also included
skits, music videos, and segments, which we would get together to create as
well. These extras would be connected or incorporated into our videos in some
way, and they were very popular with our audience. So, with the four of us
working together on different aspects of our capstone, we were able to create
this web show over the course of our senior year.
Link to Promo 2
*Episode 6 Pending*
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