 Okay. So thanks everyone for joining me today. I'm really excited to share with you this very unique resource that most of y'all may not be aware of, or you remember it back from like orientation when they were like sharing a bunch of information with you so my name is Paris Whalen and I am the Media Literacy Librarian here at UTK and before COVID-19 I spent a lot of my time in a space known as the studio. So for those of you who are unfamiliar with the space, it's basically the creative media center of the library. So this is where students come to do their graphic design, their video projects, audio recordings and things like that. Okay. The purpose of the studio is basically to help you creatively communicate your message using a combination of different media forms. So we're talking your audio in your video or your your PowerPoint and your audio stuff like that. So with that being said, I kind of want to take a look at the studio and what we have to offer who our staff is and what are available spaces I'm going to be during this very odd time period. All right. So on to my next slide. This is our lovely studio staff. First off we have Michelle Branagh. She's the head of the studio. This is basically her brainchild. She knows everything that there is to know. She helps us manage our software and make purchases. Shelly is our studio manager and her purpose basically is to focus on the expertise for video and photography. That is her expertise. She's really good at it. So if you have any questions regarding that, she's the one you want to hit up. We have Trey Hobson, who's our technologist. He helps manage our software on our computers in our actual computer lab and he helps update them. He also is really good with audio. So if you are creating a podcast or if you're recording a song, he will be the person you probably want to talk to at some point. And then there's me, the media literacy librarian and my focus is mostly on graphic design things because that's my background. So we're talking logos, posters, anything along that line. That's what I handle for you all. So we all have more than enough experience to get you started on a project. We also have enough sense to know if we need to pass the buck to someone else. So feel free to reach out to any of us if you have any questions regarding your project. So now that you've kind of seen the faces of the studio, let's talk a little bit more about our physical space. So we are located in Hodges Library in the South Commons in the far, the farthest desk on the right hand side is our public facing desk right now. And I say quote simply because obviously we are not doing in person consultations and things like that at this time of year due to COVID-19. So what you see on this slide is basically what we do have available to you all. So the studio has a chat service just like the library. So if you need to contact us to ask some questions about something simple such as I need to customize my slide in PowerPoint and I don't know how you can chat in and ask us. And we will gladly set up an instruction or consultation and I'll show you how to do that and a little bit. Okay. So we have our video and graphics stations. That's these two sections right here. Our graphic stations are our single monitors. They're usually set up with a scanner attached to it so a negative film scanner like your 35 millimeter films or your letter size scanners. And then we have our video stations and the only difference between our video station or graphic stations is that our video stations have dual monitors, meaning that there are two just to make your video editing process a little bit easier. Okay. These are attached to two types of scanners we have our 11 by 17 or 12 by 18 big scanners. And then on the backside right here these towers that you can't really see. We have digitization equipment so if I came in and I wanted to digitize my 1996 Christmas video where I'm wearing Christmas sweatsuit and black and white cowboy boots. This is where I would come because I want to keep that memory from ever obviously. Finally, we do have our print room and I bring this up because a lot of people ask about it. Our program is stuff only but it's specifically for large format print so if you need to print a poster or anything that's over 11 by 17. You're going to submit that to us and we're going to take care of it. And I'm going to show you where to do that as well. Right. Now, COVID-19 has changed a lot of things for us obviously so I wanted to show our spaces that we do have still they still exist and I'm sure some of you have heard of them or experienced them. But they're not able to be used right now because they are high touch environment which is not safe for CDC guidelines. Right. So, first of all, we have our desk this is where usually a student or staff members sitting and we are available to help you and get you started and check in. All of this is now online. Okay, so can we have our audio room right here, not available but we have keyboards, microphones and other software that's already installed in this room and ready to go. Okay, this is where people do their podcasts and things like this. We have our video room up here whoops in the top corner. This is where you would do any video production we're talking your green screens. We have 4k cameras, your photo shoots, your interviews. This is a really great space that we found to be really useful in the past. Shelly uses a lot to do some stuff at the library. So hopefully whenever we're able to open it back up you all can experience it. Next we have our VR room. Basically the VR room is what I'm telling you what is not available at this time because we have gotten a lot of questions about the existence of virtual reality. But why they can't use it and basically that we have the HTC Vive and it sits on your face. And right now that's not okay so we do have this available whenever we are able to come back in and work together or play together really. The virtual reality room is more of a, it tends to lean towards leisure side of things so people play games like Beat Saber and things like that. However it has been used in classrooms to say you use Google Earth and kind of discover things around there that you would notice or to look at museums and things like that. Now that we have our whisper room right here and this is where people just record audio. Now this has like cloth all over it so therefore we're not using this room either but these places do exist. So what we have done is a studio is a dot to this. And so we moved our online, our public service desk online. We've created a bunch of guides for easy access and practicing different ways to basically help our patrons, who are trying to be successful media creators so while these rooms are unavailable. We have compiled alternative ways to recreate these spaces, which leads me to our next slide which is basically our website. So if you'll drop that in a chat for me, I'll send an end the show and I'm going to navigate to our website and just talk to through that really quickly. Alright, so this is where the studio website lives. Lib.utk.edu forward slash studio right here on this right hand side if you have any questions for us this is where you would go chat with the studio and our online chat hours are right down here. Alright, so if you try to contact us outside of those hours more than likely you'll get a overall library employee and they will send your request towards us, or you could just send us an email and get in contact with us. Next I'd like to talk about consultations. So, consultation sorry and instruction, consultations are basically one on ones or one on groups with groups where we kind of break down what the project is what you want to do and we assess where your skill set is and how to get you to point B. So if you're a beginner, what kind of beginner software, what you are actually able to do. And what's your final project to possibly look like. Now the instruction sessions a little bit different, simply because that's usually a professor who request that. And in that case we do like a general overview of the studio and our resources but we also give some very specific software for the project they're working on but it's not based on say individual skill sets just kind of you know begin our intermediate and advanced we give you a bunch of options alright. So something else that's really important is our office hours they're not often taken advantage of but they're very very useful. During these times right here a studio staff member is on standby on zoom, and we're just waiting for some to come in and chat with us about whatever they need help with so if you need to like I said resize the PowerPoint slide, you can drop in during these hours, and they'll add in and they'll give you a zoom link, and I can show you how to do that we can do a Camtasia so you can remember there's a lot of options for us so don't let us being virtual scare you. That seems to be a problem right now people think that just because we're virtual they can't get help from us, we absolutely can help you. Alright. Over here on our left hand side we have more information about the studio so we have like our workstations and equipment. We have more information about what kind of software we have as well as what equipment would be available, if we were at home right now. This includes most of our stations are we are pre loaded with software they're not all the same software but there's generally a couple that are always on there so we're talking like your Adobe cloud suite. We have a movie audacity for audio those types of things are most of the computers but we do have specific computers that have software like rhino and Camtasia and logic on it so if you have questions about what kind of software we have you're welcome to come here or you're welcome to just chat in and we will let you know okay. Down here we have our large format poster printing. So if you need to print a research paper. You can click on this link in it will take you through the steps to submit one to us and we asked for just a 48 day lead time okay. Once we have our instruction consultation again, we have our comments equipment does which I'll talk about in just a second and then our recommended tools okay so early I was talking about how the studio has made some tools tips and tricks for y'all to go through, even though we're not in person or to visit the sites and just see what we have available and I'm going to open this a new tab and kind of show you what's going on. This is basically a live guide which is an aggregation of information or research research on a particular subject and ours is obviously all media related. And you can go through by the media format and see what we have to offer you so for example, Shelley did our videos have and she gives you some software that we have available at the studio, some basic guys that she makes for whenever she's out in the field. She gives us some tutorials for the software. There's some beginners there's some more intermediate and advanced like Adobe Premiere and so on, and she also gets some resources such as ebooks and journals if you want to know more about a specific time period or something like that. Okay, and that goes for each one of our media types so print graphics line audio podcasting and photography are the same thing. Because y'all are unable to check out some of our more quality cameras and digital cameras and just really nice constant things like that. We have made a nice tab here called the smartphone smartphone media production guide, and this is going to teach you how to use your basic cell phone. You can use your Android or iPhone and make some really decent video so take some time to go through this not everyone has like a super fancy camera at home so might as well make use of what you have okay. She'll just put together some really awesome resources, including ways to record sound without going out to buy some fancy microphone, you know you can go back to your old pillow for and things like that. I have a content and resources page. This includes all of the, not all of them but many places that you can get royalty free images and video resources so if you need to make a video you don't have the ability to film something or you're struggling, you can get a clip or you can get some music to put in over your clip from these links right here so don't be afraid to use them. We can help you figure out how to incorporate them into your work. The final thing I want to show you is the studio is right down the studio desk is right down the. I want to say hallway space from the equipment desk and even though we're not lonely out equipment, the equipment desk is. And right here on the left hand side we have a link to their desk, and you can see exactly what they have available to you to check out okay. And one of the things I mentioned earlier was, here we go, tripods and iPads and things like this, this is where you can check them out and it just has a date where you need to return them okay. These are, they are high touch, but these are easy things to write down versus say a camera so just be aware of that. So now I'm going to navigate back to my PowerPoint. And we are going to talk about how, even though you know the studio seems very amazing it's very intimidating for the most part let's talk about how it kind of ties in with your experience as a first year student. So some of your coursework may require you to create a media project okay. So these products range from recording, you know, over a PowerPoint to doing a video resume that includes your logo and some other things that are part of your personal brand. There's a general process that the studio follows and I think will be very useful for y'all to know so you know what to expect from us and it's not just like some vague cool space that you feel intimidated by okay. So, first thing I do want to make clear is, yes, we are in educational space, but you are able to use our space to work on your own personal projects so, like I said earlier. If you want to digitize that VHS with your UV and your Christmas lights and your cowboy boots, we can help you do that all right. So, starting out with your project, there are two things that could possibly happen. Your instructor could assign it to you and set up an instruction session with us, or you could set up a consultation with us and just move forward or you can. You can have an instruction session with your professor and then you can come see us for consultation because maybe you need some more in depth information. Either way, this is generally the next step for most people. So after you kind of have an idea of some software to get started with in some of the steps in the process, even if you're a little, you know, confused, you can kind of start creating. So that means you taking your, your script, your different iterations of your logos and things like that and you drop them into the software and you start playing with them and this is when you can chat in with us, or you can zoom and we can help you problem solve, or we can help you learn some tools that will be useful in this particular subject. And then the final thing we do, once you feel good about your project is help you preserve it. So that means we help you save it so that it's editable, editable in the future. And it's something that can be exported and uploaded easily to either Canva or wherever you need to share it to. Okay, so we have the tools, we have the experience and if we're unsure, we will definitely find the answer for you. So if y'all just take a moment for me I know that was a lot of information about the what the studio has to offer, but what kind of projects have you been assigned in the recent on the past that the studio could help you with I think this is kind of a good way for us to learn together and see if we're meeting your needs, or if you need more information about what we do so if you guys will go to the outlet link that Alison is dropped and just fill out some things that you think the studio can help you with, I would greatly appreciate that. And I'm just going to pull it up on my screen. Yes, learning to edit videos. Yes, we have tons of software for editing video between iMovie, Premiere, Final Cut, we can teach you all the vocabulary that you need to get there. Okay, Green Screens is a really, really fun one. I'm going to show you an example of that in just a little bit. Captivates a fun one, we use that a lot. We also use Camtasia. Oh, you use a whispering for a podcast assignment. Yes, we recording an audition video. Yep. An ePortfolio, yes. Many of us have done ePortfolio so we can help you with that. Doing service is a really big one, especially right around Eureka and stuff like that, and using Camtasia. So great. So it seems like you all understand what we can help you with. Do y'all have any questions? I cannot see the chat. Nope. I don't see any questions in chat. Oh, here we go. Does the studio have Photoshop? Yes, we do have Photoshop. We have the entire Adobe suite, and we know how to use it. So watch out world. A couple seconds for some more questions if y'all have them. So y'all know what we do. Y'all seem to have an understanding. Last night it was really late but I decided to put together something really quick. I gave myself 10 minutes to kind of showcase some things that the studio has worked on. And we've all learned together on so I put this lovely video together for y'all and I hope that you enjoy it. And let me know if you can't hear it, okay? All of my staff. I mean, we were having so much fun. I mean, we were whining, we were dining, we were dancing. Dancing? No, that ain't dancing, Sally. Fine. You're sneak. Remember to be thorough and percent decent work because either Shantae, you stay. Three hops and signing off at WVLT 8. So I hope you all enjoyed that. My favorite is chilly doing the music for the newscast. Every time I watch it, it makes me a chuckle. But basically this is what the studio has to offer and many, many more things. This is us learning together and just like y'all, we don't know everything, but we are here to help you and help you get to where you need to be. All right. So that basically concludes what I'm going to talk about today. Thank you all for taking the time out to hang with me and let me share this with you. If you have any questions, you can feel free to email me at pwailin.utk.edu or you can ask me some questions right now if you like.