My Resume

Taylor Manning

675 Camp Road
Cocoa, FL 32927

tmanning2@mocs.flsouthern.edu

(321) 288-0673

OBJECTIVE

Obtain a position related to my major where I can maximize my broadcast and journalism skills, my leadership ability and my editing and design skills.

EDUCATION

Florida Southern College

B.A. Broadcast Journalism and B.A. Advertising and Public Relations

Graduating May 2015

CLASSES

Desktop Publishing: Adobe InDesign basics

Advanced Desktop: Photoshop basics, created a book using InDesign

Short Form Film: Produced an original short film, “The Return”

Media Writing: Grammar and AP Style

News Reporting: Wrote print, online and multi media news stories

EXPERIENCE

Interlachen: School yearbook, used Cannon Rebel T3i to take photos and videos of school events.

The Southern: School paper, contributing writing

FSC Today: School news show, writer and help during production with jobs like camera, teleprompter and switcher

SKILLS
AP style and grammar knowledge

Photoshop
InDesign
Final Cut Pro
Premiere Pro
Can operate studio equipment
Cannon Rebel cameras

Final Practicum Report

This semester in practicum has been great. I feel that I have really expanded my skills in many areas.

Starting at the beginning of the year I was mostly writing readers, similar to last semester. I slowly started to expand what I wrote about and how I got the information. Instead of googling events I would try to reach out and contact someone for the information. It was a little out of my comfort zone at some points but the information I got was better and it opened me up to contacting people. I think being in the News Reporting class helped me a lot with this.

In the studio I have learned a lot more about getting a good camera shot. Lighting has always been confusing to me but I learned where it is important to have lighting and where it is completely unflattering. Even though I already had a clear understanding of focusing and adjusting things on the camera as far as that, it became a lot more natural for me this year. Rachel definitely has an eye for good video quality and that is something I would love to have too.

 Something I am very proud of this semester is the social media accounts I created. I made a Facebook page and a Twitter for FSC Today. I post every single day what is going on in Lakeland and on campus. I also post the weekly shows that Rachel puts on the practicum page. With these pages I would love to expand our viewers of the show. I feel like many people at Florida Southern don’t even know we exist. And why after all the hard work and dedication put into making a quality show, would we want no viewers?

Of course, I still did a few of my hours with Interlachen. This semester however we were focused on completing our book and video versus just scheduling photo times with on campus groups. I did a lot of organizing and uploading files, naming people and helping edit and come up with ideas for our video. It was great seeing how much we accomplished and making all of our photos and video clips come to life.

Next semester I am looking forward to stepping up even more in the news show. I hope to continue the social media accounts, but hopefully pass over some duties to new students. I would like to have specific people focus on sports, campus events and news show features. I believe the social media pages will be very respected if we keep it up.

I am also very excited to produce the show and come up with new and fresh ideas. I really do like the news show feel and how we cover what is going on in our area and on campus. I think it would be very interesting to have more packages played versus the standard news show desk and anchor look. I believe fun, creative videos will be more relatable for our audience. 

Loving Social Media

This week I stayed consistent with posting on Facebook and Twitter. No more likes on Facebook although I have been getting a new Twitter follower every few tweets, which is great. I have all next week planned for posts.

Total hours this week: 2
Total hours this semester:36

And then some Twitter

On Monday I made a Twitter account to go with our FSC Today Facebook. This week I didn't exactly keep track of how much time I spent working on Facebook and Twitter. I have been going through all my emails, taking pictures of every poster I find on campus and planning out day by day what to post. Its become more of a hobby than work so the hours just pass me by. Since my posts are going well and are frequent and cover almost everything on campus my goal for next week is to get more likes and followers.
I am estimating about 3 hours total for making the twitter, following students and getting followers, an organizing posts.

Total hours: 34