Chestnut St. Pedestrian Bridge

 Here in Orangeburg, South Carolina is the very large campus of South Carolina State University. There are many living communities that are apart of SC State. The major ones that are assigned for off campus living. They are University Village and Campus Corner. There's a big problem with students walking to class; there's only one dangerous crosswalk in between Chestnut St. Well, that problem is now being fixed with the new pedestrian bridge.

In Mr. Harwood's Advanced TV production class I had to the opportunity to take pictures. Not just any pictures, but with better lighting.

My partner for this assignment was Jaylaan Riley. I took 3 different pictures of her to display how better the lighting is with the reflector.

This is the first one with her back facing the sun.

The second with the sun shining off the reflector, which gave Jaylaan better lighting.

The third shows everything all together, The sun reflecting of the reflector, the subject (Jaylaan) and the light reflecting off of her.                                                             

5 Question Interview

I recently was able to shoot my first 5 question interview with my fellow communications major classmates, Connie Maybin and Kiera Brown-Simmons. Ms. Maybin sat down with Ms. Simmons to talk about a variety of topics on South Carolina State University, snapchat, make up, and more. 

Watch it now, from my YouTube page! 

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National Anthem Kneeling

I had the opportunity to do my first POS for Mr. Harwood's Advanced broadcasting class. The title of my project is "National Anthem Kneeling," which talks about how San Fransisco 49ers San Fransisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other NFL football players are taking a "kneel" to show express their freedom of speech. Kaepernick feels like he doesn't want to show respect for a country that continues to wrongly kill black people.

Social media, NFL fans, and students all feel a kind of way about. So I went out to ask students around the campus of South Carolina State University, to see how they felt about it, and do they think it's right.

Action Sequence

Action Sequence

 I had a lot filming the Action Sequence movie assignment with fellow classmate Kiara. The assignment was to shoot 8 different shots of a person moving inside of the the communications building, all the way going outside the communications building. Then for the first time I had to utilize "Premiere Pro" to edit the final product of the of my action sequence. I added Travis Scott's song "Pick up the phone," mainly because Kiara was on her phone majority of the video, and the instrumental had a great beat.

Cadet Leadership Camp

CLC (Cadet Leadership Course) or Advanced camp, is the last major qualification next to graduating from college that Army ROTC junior year cadets must complete, before they commission in the U.S. Army. CLC is held at Ft. Knox, Kentucky and lasts a entire month. The course tests your physically and mental abilities, your ability to lead others in and out of tactical environments. Some of the requirements to pass CLC are, a 6 mile road march, 14 days in the field or wooded environment, 4.5 mile run, and the OPAT (Occupational Physical Assessment Test.)

In the end myself and all of my cadets survived all the woods, ticks bites, heat rashes, missions, and briefings and graduated from CLC on August 1, 2016. My experience at CLC was a lot harder than expected, I learned so much from my peers and instructors, became a stronger person mentally and physically, and I think I am ready to become a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.