New Media Club Fuels Student Creativity

BY ANTHONY ADEM ‘21 AND MAX CHEHVAL ‘21 CO-FOUNDERS OF SLUH STUDENT MEDIA

SLUH Student Media started in the fall as a digital media group for students to learn and create their own media. We worked closely with the administration to secure funding to ensure our club is viable and sustainable for the SLUH community. In addition, Mr. Ryan Doyle, Digital Media Specialist, was hired last summer to bring a new light to the school’s digital footprint and to serve as our club mentor.

We gauged a lot of student interest from all class years when we launched our club. Our first activity included teaching our new recruits how to work video cameras so they could become more independent and creative in their work. We also taught everyone how to fly and shoot video on a drone to add new dimension and depth to our content. Soon we began sending club members to athletic games to collect footage for a fall sports hype video, our first video we produced as a student group. We found many different types of angles and shots to create this video, meshing the creativity and ideas of several different students into one video to illustrate the importance of collaboration.

After finishing the hype video, we took our production to the next level and introduced larger projects to the club. Two of these projects include: • One of our core members, Zach Brugnara ‘22, wrote a script for a short

film called 1-800-BREAKFAST that we began filming this semester. The film follows a student who unknowingly finds himself in the middle of a social experiment. When complete, it will be about 15-20 minutes in length. • Our other big project is a mini documentary about the SLUH 1970 State Champion football team, as this school year marks the 50th anniversary of that team’s championship. We’re working on this project in cooperation with Carter Fortman ‘21 and Luke Altier ‘21 of the

Prep News – the first joint venture with our two clubs.

Everything we’ve done with SLUH Student Media has aimed to preserve the media culture at the school after we graduate. Being able to collaborate with and share our creative insights with the younger students – both in our conversations and in the media we create – has been a vital and enjoyable aspect of this club. The most important thing we can do to help students grow to find their own interests is to fuel their creativity, and that is exactly what SLUH Student Media seeks to do.

View the Spirit Week video by SLUH Student Media

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

Gadfly returned last fall after a two-year hiatus, entertaining the SLUH community with a series of fun, humorous and even heartwarming videos. The student club created one of their videos as an homage to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off during the retro-themed Spirit Week.

Watch the video by Gadfly