Cape Coral High School’s news program, Hawk News, has started the year with new members and renovated production.
This year, Hawk News decided to go above and beyond in the making and editing of their videos with multiple changes.
“The first new thing is experience, as we have a lot less,” stated Aaron Smoly, the advisor of Hawk News. “This year, we have mostly new staff. Last year was mostly seniors. This year, we’re mostly freshmen.”
This explains why Hawk News might now have a few complications with performance.
“We have new technology. We have new cameras. We have a new set, and we’re bringing new energy,” said Smoly, revealing the modifications Hawk News received.
“We added two new green screens,” said Smoly. “When we first started last year, we were working off an old teacher desk. Now we actually have a real anchor desk.”
With changes to the Hawk News production, there are new objectives.
“This year, we’re working to be more timely, and getting an episode posted before or at the beginning of fifth period,” said Sylvie Winters, a senior and the producer of Hawk News. “We’re getting better at more entertaining and informative segments, to keep viewers engaged, but also make sure they have all the information they need.”
One of the new intentions of Hawk News is being more diverse in their content. “We’re focusing more on capturing the smaller parts of the school, like clubs you normally wouldn’t hear about, and sporting events you wouldn’t see footage of,” said Winters.
“So far, we haven’t truly integrated as much as we would like to,” Smoly commented, detailing how Hawk News hasn’t yet improved to meet his high expectations. ”But it’s going to make it look a lot more professional.”
Smoly wants Hawk News to progress with their new staff and equipment. “It’s going to hopefully make our news program start stepping up to the level of the other news shows in the district,” Smoly said. “The goal is to look as much like a professional news program, like WINK, as we possibly can.”
“There’s always room to grow and with the help from us producers they really are interested to grow from previous mistakes,” said Co-Producer Cameron Diaz, a sophomore, explaining that the staff will always be there to help each other when needed.
“One thing I will say is that this class this year is always trying to take the critics and apply them to their new segments for the following week and last year we weren’t so great with that,” said Diaz, describing one thing Hawk News got better at.
“Compared to last year we really have been trying to improve, getting better and growing stronger together week by week,” said Diaz, anticipating how Hawk News will advance this year.
