Communication Students Make Videos Promoting College Resources
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Bee's Knees Committee shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Community Garden shoot
Bee's Knees Committee shoot
Videos spotlight voter registration, Food Resource Center, Community Garden, Bee’s Knees Committee, Unity Trail
Student enrolled in the Interpersonal Communication course at Inver Hills Community College have created five videos promoting campus resources. The course is taught by Amy Zsohar, PhD, communication studies faculty at the college.
Amy Zsohar, PhD
“This project was created in partnership with Shannon Williams, the college’s community-based learning coordinator,” Amy said. “Throughout the summer semester, in small groups, the interpersonal communication students worked on improving their communication skills working with campus partners to create videos that can be used to help advertise these incredible resources.”
Amy reported that five student teams worked with the following college staff to make their videos:
“Our students worked with their partners to create their video scripts and set up the shots they needed,” Amy said. “Rachel Marzahn, interactive media coordinator and videographer in the college’s Marketing department, helped with the filming. Rachel also taught the students how to create quality videos.”
Amy mentioned that Maggie Laurel, learning technology support specialist from the Center for Teaching and Learning, assisted with the editing process. “This campus-wide project not only created some incredible videos,” Amy added, “the project also introduced a class of mostly new students to some of the amazing resources we have available on our campus.”
Rachel Marzahn: Staff perspective
Rachel Marzahn
“I was excited when faculty member, Amy Zsohar, approached me to help with her Interpersonal Communication’s class projects. When people think of ‘communications,’ they don’t tend to think of videography and photography as options within that career field. However, much of what I do tells the visual story that accompanies written content. Media is very powerful and a very important part of this industry.
“It was fun to join students in class and around campus as they worked on their video projects. While I have the equipment and expertise, I decided to give direction and then give students the power to run the show. They wrote their own storyboards, had the opportunity to use the camera and lighting equipment to shoot their own footage, and really let their creativity flow into these projects.”
Rachel Marzahn Interactive Media Coordinator Marketing Department Inver Hills Community College
More about the Interpersonal Communication course…
Interpersonal Communication helps you recognize that we live and work in relationship with others and must communicate effectively with them to achieve our goals. This class helps you acquire the skills to effectively communicate with family members, intimate others, coworkers, friends, and acquaintances.
After reviewing relevant interpersonal theory, you will examine and identify your own communication attitudes and behaviors. You’ll also learn and apply techniques for improving communication in your relationships through active practice.
You’ll participate in multiple activities, both in and outside a classroom setting, to build on your interpersonal communication capacity.
Visit Communication Studies to learn more about communication courses at Inver Hills.
Student perspectives
Gretchen O’Leary
Gretchen O’Leary
Age: 20 Hometown: Rosemount, Minnesota Current residence: Rosemount, Minnesota Major and degree earning at Inver Hills:Biology (Transfer Pathway A.S.) Planned Inver Hills graduation date: Spring 2023 Transfer plans after Inver Hills: Either North Dakota State University or Minnesota State University, Mankato Career plans: Environmental conservation
Video project: The Bee’s Knees Committee promotional video
Q & A
What did you enjoy most about creating your video? Going outside and getting footage of pollinators and flowers was very fun (if a little nerve-wracking at times, as I do have a fear of wasps). I also really enjoyed editing; I get a lot of joy out of finding the best way to make things flow and where to put B-roll, when to put jump cuts, etc.
What did you learn about your video’s subject matter that you maybe didn’t know? I didn’t realize how many different species of bees exist in Minnesota. I thought it would be something like 10 at most, but it’s actually closer to 400. That’s, of course, including all the smaller ones you don’t see easily, like sweat bees, mining bees, and all the super-tiny species of wasps that more closely resemble specks of dirt than insects.
And that’s not even counting all the other insect pollinators that live here. Insect diversity is something that’s very hard, if not impossible, to truly internalize. At least for me, as someone who is more familiar with birds than insects. Additionally, this was the first I had ever heard of Bee Campus USA.
Would you consider adding videography to your communication skill set? I would consider it, yes. I consider myself a capable videographer/editor, though at the end of the day I’m only self-taught. I also wouldn’t make it a major career goal to get into videography, I would only keep it as a hobby of sorts. It’s fun, but it’s not where my calling is; that would be with environmental conservation, which is why I chose this topic specifically. I was very excited to have a hand in spreading awareness about this program.
Alexis DeMaio
Age: 25 Hometown: St.Paul, Minnesota Current residence: New Brighton, Minnesota Major and degree earning at Inver Hills:Paralegal A.S. Planned Inver Hills graduation date: 2024 Transfer plans after Inver Hills: Maybe University of Minnesota Law Career plans: Become an intellectual property paralegal and maybe someday an attorney
Video project: Midterm Elections
Q & A:
What did you enjoy most about creating your video? The thing I enjoyed most about creating my video was learning new skills and how to use different editing software I’ve never used.
What did you learn about your video’s subject matter that you maybe didn’t know? I learned that midterm elections are often overlooked and have less voter turnout than presidential elections.
Would you consider adding videography to your communication skill set? I think after this project I would definitely add videography to my skill set. I learned how to create, direct, and edit my own video.
Learn more about the Interpersonal Communication video project by contacting:
Amy Zsohar, PhD
Communication Studies Faculty
Inver Hills Community College
(she/her/ella)
651-450-3659
All human interaction is mediated through communication. The Communication Studies department at Inver Hills focuses on developing a stronger understanding of the nature of human interaction by exploring how messages are created, transmitted, and received through the use of verbal and nonverbal symbols.
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