Over the 2023/2024 school year, I worked on the Audience Engagement Desk at the student publication The Daily Tar Heel at UNC Chapel Hill. In my second semester on the team, I was promoted to a senior staffer position where I was responsible for creating the shorts from the podcasts created by the Audio/Visual Team to be posted on Instagram. There were two podcasts that called for two distinct types of video content.
For the weekly news roundup podcast “Heel Talk,” I would combine Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Premier Pro to create an audio visualizer with captions on a specialized background.
For the weekly sports news podcast, “Hark the Pod,” I would find an eye catching segment in the podcast, condense the information down to about one minute and then search for photos and other graphics in the DTH database to break up the video and make it visually interesting. My job also entailed synching the videos to the audio and creating captions.