CLASS SUMMARIES
April 30th, 2015
Brother Thompson/ Intro to I-COMM
Internships are a big part of the communication department. Internships are great because they provide experience for you. You can get involved in school activities. I-COMM media is ran by students. For taking practicums, we need to take 3 of them in order to graduate. You can take the same class 3 times if you want to. It is ok to repeat the class practicum. The practicum is for experience. Soapbox is one of the practicums you can take here and it is a fully functioning advertising agency. It is ran by the students. There are even some paid positions, so it can become very competitive. You should know your basics first. Get the experience!
May 7th, 2015
Brother Williams/ Journalism
Journalism can affect us personally. It can connect us as human beings. In an average day, people listen to the news about 70 minutes a day. With the new american journalism in our days, we have new ways to tell stories that didn’t exist before. When writing an article, there can be no limits for how many pages you write. With journalism, you can create your own brand. You can make blogs and write about what you are passionate about and can get noticed by what you like. You can also land jobs or internships by others noticing your work. When you first walked through those doors of college, that is when you started your career. Start bogging, start your practicum, and start networking.
May 14th, 2015
Brother Mawlam/ Video Production
Things that are involved with video production is pre production, production, and post production. When filming a video, it is better to have different positions when shooting the video. Try to bring the viewer to where you are at. The main roles in video production is director of photography or cinematographer, director, and production designer. There are many other jobs that are related to video production such as grip, audio, camera, editor, and visual effects. When you do an internship, you are always being watched and tested to be cautious. When working for someone, you represent your company and yourself.
May 21st, 2015
Sister Esplin/ Visual Media
We need more visual media classes for future jobs. Klout.com can measure your influence to social media. When looking for a job it is good to have many different skills. You can get hired more easy if you have many different skills. 5 things that are covered in visual media are graphic design, imaging, web design, social media marketing, and video production. Everyone in the work field needs visual communicators. When having a visual, there are 94% more that are viewed. When in the visual media field, you need the ESV factor which is being efficient, skilled, and versatile.
May 28th, 2015
Brother Hicks/ Public Relations
Public relations is a planned process, involving top management to influence public opinion. Someone in PR is an educator or teacher, who can teach others what your company is all about and can educate the public of what you do. If you have a passion for something, you can always do public relations for that thing. You can work for a company you love as a PR for them, or you can work for an agency and have different places you work. You must be an excellent communicator. In PR it is more relationship driven, more credible, lower control and lower cost. When doing PR you promote a company or organization and help them to get bigger.
June 4th, 2015
Brother Hochstrasser/ Advertising
Branding is a big part of advertising. Every single person can create something. In advertising, it is an opportunity to do something different everyday. Advertising is the structured and composed non personal communication of information, usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature, about products (goods, services and ideas) by identified sponsors through various media. Public service announcements are usually free. In an advertisement, you have about 5 seconds to get their attention. Some of the jobs you can find in advertisement is account management, research and account planning, creating accounts, copywriters, art directors, creative director, media planning and buying, social media, or traffic management. I-COMM soapbox is a good experience to get involved with advertisements.
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
RESUME
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