Film and video students getting new tools of trade
- Grant bringing new technology to OCCC students.
- New cameras and editing software will be ready to go in the fall.
By Yvonne Oberly, News Writing Student
The college’s Film and Video Production program will get $105,000 worth of additional equipment for the fall thanks to work done by two faculty members.
Journalism Professor Sue Hinton and Adjunct Professor Rick Lippert submitted a proposal for a grant that was recently approved by The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
This grant will provide five high definition video camera packages which include a video camera, tri-pod, microphone and audio support for the Video Production class. The equipment will be used by students in the Broadcast News lab to be taught by Lippert this fall.
Hinton wrote the grant to help prepare students for the changing industry, which is shifting toward high definition video. She said she couldn’t have written the grant without help from Lippert.
Lippert said he is proud of the work he and Hinton did and the benefit it will have for the college.
“The broadcast world is in expansion mode,” she said. “The industry itself is involved by being more technology, Internet and computer based.
“Ink on paper is leaving and we are seeing a shift in the industry that our video [journalism] students need to adjust to.”
Lippert and Hinton want the students to be able to become skilled in using the equipment before it becomes industry standard.
Three years ago, the same Foundation provided OCCC a grant that paid for approximately $100,000 in computers, monitors and everything needed to create a high-class editing suite.
The college since has purchased 10 editing suites, Hinton said.
