I know exactly where NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is going to be on May 22 — in front of the 2014 graduating class of Hillwood Hill School’s Academy of Art, Design and Communications in Nashville, delivering the commencement address. The video invitation — part POP, part promo, part tribute tape and part invitation […]
I know exactly where NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is going to be on May 22 — in front of the 2014 graduating class of Hillwood Hill School’s Academy of Art, Design and Communications in Nashville, delivering the commencement address.
The video invitation — part POP, part promo, part tribute tape and part invitation — was enough to sway the classy and dignified Williams to accept the invitation via live interview shown on Nashville’s NBC affiliate, WSMV. Students from the school, sitting in a room at the TV station, erupted in applause when Williams said, “we’re doing this, I’ll be there.”
With no disrespect to Brian Williams, but how cool is that, high school students getting jazzed over the prospect of having a news anchor speak at their graduation! A rock star, yes, but a news anchor? There is hope after all.
If you’re the parent of a high school student, you know how hard it is to get more than one word from them at the dinner table.
“How was your day?”
“Good.”
“How’s school?”
“Good”
‘Is that all you’re going to say?”
“Good.”
Frankly, I’m not surprised that high school students were able to write, produce and edit such a polished, creative and endearing invitation. Normally taciturn teenagers open up like secret agents on truth serum when given a video camera and laptop with Final Cut Pro. They have a lot to say and they say it well with video. If you want a taste of what students are doing with video, check out a few examples on www.schooltube.com.
And if you want a creative, unique, inventive and very sponsor-able segment on your local morning news, contact your local high schools and open up a pipeline for videos written, shot and edited by teens.
Here’s the video invitation, followed by Williams acceptance on WSMV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3inft9JblvM
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