by Morgan Pierret, GHS Blue Ink
I’m sure by now you’ve seen at least one of the many YouTube videos the multimedia students have put out, or listened to their new podcast, or even seen one of their sports edits around the school. The multimedia class is taught by Mr. Schrank and he has 13 students in his class. In this class, the students learn how to better use and understand technology by editing pictures and videos.
“My class does anything from editing pictures for events coming up, to recording videos for YouTube, to now building a podcast. Just kind of anything that gets information out to students and blue dragon supporters” stated Mr. Schrank.
Multimedia is a fun and expressive class that challenges students to put their creativity to the test by using technology. During class the students “pitch” ideas to each other for upcoming YouTube videos or other new things they wish to create.
“My favorite part of multimedia is probably the classmates and the teacher. They just make the environment more fun and it’s just easier to get work done”, explained Matthew Gilbert, the idea man and video editor.
Last year’s multimedia class came up with the idea to start a YouTube channel. Mr. Schrank said he hopes his class can get out one creative and entertaining YouTube video per week after this week.
The class is now working on a few videos, including, a tour of the school to see the ins and outs of some rooms you might’ve never seen before, test testing food blindfolded, and they’re going to bring back videos with students in them by asking some questions. You can find these videos when you search Garretson Tech on YouTube.
The multimedia class makes a variety of different videos, according to Mr. Schrank. “A lot of our ideas are just funny and silly ideas so we’re trying to comb through some of those bad ones. It kinda depends what’s going on in the school. If there’s something going on in the school we’ll go with that theme.”
One new thing the multimedians are doing this year is a podcast. It’s called the Blue Dragon Buzz, and there are currently two episodes out. On this podcast they play some games and have different segments where they talk about a variety of things from sports to controversial things happening in the school.
Mr. Schrank noted, “You can find it on all of your podcast platforms. Personally I listen to all my stuff on Apple podcasts but it’s also on Spotify, so just go to any podcast platform and search Blue Dragon Buzz.”
