Bronx River Ecomedia Blog

This documentary is the final project of a course which explored a range of professional broadcast journalism production and post-production techniques. Students learned how to make a documentary video from conception and script development to field shooting, editing and completion. The course focused on instilling hands-on field production experience, including hand-held camera work, interview preparation and sound recording with professional microphones. Students utilized their newly acquired documentary filmmaking skills to create, as a group, to edit a short broadcast piece with Final Cut Pro on the ecological makeup of the Bronx River, its treatment and its relationship to the members of the local Bronx Community. In addition to capturing documentation of the ecological workshop, and conducting interviews with select ecological educators, students also wrote a script and did a re-enactment teaching viewers about good and bad habits, which affect the environment.

Instructor: Marianna Ellenberg

Students: Ester Ford, Stuart Gardiner, Luz Polo, Adam Rodriguez