Testing out a part of Latitude

The School Model

Advisory

On our first day, we brought our students through an activity called Every Job Under the Sun. One of our students recently told us, “we named as many jobs as we knew of. I wrote down jobs like Doctor, Scientist, etc. I was exposed to many jobs I wasn’t aware of such as Botanist.”

The remainder of the first day was meant to prepare them for the interviews coming up the following day. We taught the students how to use DSLRs, boom microphones, camera angles, how to capture B-roll, we even brought out some drones for them to test out getting establishing shots for the videos we created.

Our Learnings

There are too many to list, and we were glad that we did this with students who are planning to join our school next fall. We will post the final student videos soon, but we were [not] surprised to see when you put professional equipment in the hands of students, with access to professionals to interview, and then professional editing software to edit their clips, they can produce videos that make you say “Wow, I never thought a kid could do that.”

Our hope is that this project will become the start of a YouTube channel. The channel will be curated and produced by students of Latitude to help bring other high school students out into the professional world.

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