FIRST Parody Fatigue and other Media Things [long]

[Carolyn_Grace]

Originally Posted by TheMilkman01

TL;DR

Joined FIRST for the media, after two years FIRST finally had a contest for what I do, and most of the results were cringeworthy. Trying to impact FIRST community in a positive way so that the video quality improves.[/i]

Concentrating on this last comment about wanting to impact the community in a positive way:

I see you're from the Minneapolis area. I bet there are a lot of FIRST events that happen there. One way that you can positively impact your area, and improve video quality overall is to start helping create videos for FIRST in Minnesota.

In Indiana we now have a P.R. and Marketing committee that collects video and pictures at all of our events. It's a new committee, so it's still being developed, but so far it's been an awesome way to create more videos for IndianaFIRST. The committee developed after we had students working on video production for us last year. Here's the videos the STUDENTS created at our 2015 FRC events: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...DK8rSt1ijMeujg Pretty great in my opinion, for a few high school students working on it.

This year, with the expansion of our committee, we have been able to up the professionalism of our videos. The students now have professional and college A/V people mentoring them. Here's our videos from this year so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...PrEcVFsO4KZ7qJ

TL;DR:
Find a way to be part of events in your community. Make videos at events about the events. Include students from teams attending the event. Teach them how to make great videos.