hi i'm amy mathis i'm a teacher here and then r t i i teach videography and specifically journalism and we're continuing the class and it's going to be more hands on next go around i'll get that camera out and give it to you you'll get your hands on it you'll figure it out yourselves and you're going to go out and shoot and you're going to do interviewing reporting and we'll come back and we'll look at it we'll assess  critique it figure it out and just discuss it and so hopefully when you leave this class you will be a reporter ready to go into the field of journalism yourself and i look forward to it it's exciting thanks a lot of the number one thing piece of advice for young people is find out what it is you enjoy the most and it really doesn't matter what it is find out that which gives you joy because when you do something that you enjoy you don't go to work in the morning because you're it's not it's not a job it's something you're enjoying doing and so find that which you enjoy and then find ways to to make that part of your your existence says as an adult find out what it takes for you to realize those dreams that you might have you know  wanted to be an astronaut so i found out everything i could about spacecraft with rocket systems and when i first learned how to program a computer one of the very first things i did is i programmed some orbital mechanics equations in into the computer and that was  that was great for me but people have interested range from everything from politics to law to fashion to gardening to you know what ever it is  transportation you might want to be a pilot you might want to be an engineer whatever it is that you see in the world that excites you and say i'd like to do that or i'd like to learn about that follow that and pursue it now another important piece of that is make sure you have a good educational base because wishing to get to to a to an objective is only part of what you need to do you have to create  steps between where you are today and where that objective is tomorrow in education is always a good foundation ok sam amos finnegan of my barlow shoreline community college image and this was about eight or nine yourself turn to the emperor returned to ethiopia nine hundred forty nine the president pullman came up with the poor points the first point was that they would form a united nation the second point was that they university i teach photography in the fine arts department for the be in the b f a program and i have a specialty in documentary practices and documentary photography my name is us for support i work for parks and recreation and and i am the yes there are terrorists we're also partnering with youth in focus and with the photographic center northwest so c l university is very fortunate to be able to work with community partners towards these community based research and and youth outreach programs as so it's certainly not the first time seattle university has been involved and i myself have worked with my students in different classes with non profits over the years this is the first time with able to we've been able to work in collaboration with so many different organizations towards a single goal or an expression towards a long term six weeks summer youth program and that we hope to be sustainable over the years to come so that is new for me kind of breaking ground so i'm excited about it i think this is he tried to coordinate to create a network and partnership and wrote a lot of things for us we appreciate that really it's not easy i went on we spent our time you know you just you are trying to do to get your time and help you know our community is like i said it's a summer program it's a partnership of five or six are going to and as we you know most teams they like to work in summer so this is a six week paid internship program so that makes a little bit first two weeks working with the photographic center northwest and youth in focus and our participants our kids are going to to learn how to do analog photography they're going to shoot film they're going to process film and work in the dark room and that's going to be our morning activities and they're going to photograph the yesler terrace neighborhood area for the afternoon as well as meet with community members they're going to meet with folks who live there for many years they're going to work with nonprofit where they're going to meet with nonprofit organizations we're going to meet with people who are making the plans with the city for the redevelopment so they're going to learn about the history the community and the future of yes or terrace during the second two weeks we're going to switch from analog photography to digital photography and learn intermediate photography skills so we'll do photo editing with photoshop will be shooting and continuing to shoot the neighborhood but in color and digital we're also going to start learning video and that's a big deal so we're going to learn video and then we're going to devote our time to understanding documentary practices how do we interview journalistic practices and so forth and we're going to divide ourselves up into different teams to make a shoe plan for who we want to interview at the stories we want to tell terrace from that shoe plan will move to this last two weeks of our time together we'll learn advanced or more intermediate video skills and advanced photo skills and the teams will go out we're basically turning our group into it a news room we're going to be broadcasting live will be publishing we'll be doing our stories we'll be following our shoot schedule that we made the prior two weeks and what we're going to create at the end is a body of photographs with text that speak to us or terrorists a group of photographs with interviews that speak to the history in the individuals that live in us or terrorists and we're going to have an archive about yes live terrorists and hopefully this is the first of the twenty years to come that documents that the changes that are going to happen in that neighborhood i think really the things you mention are big and really very important and we said you know know neighborhood we're talking about yes the terrorists and the large area around us are terrorists in a specific issue of redevelopment so i think the benefit for the community is we're going to be working with youth who will see themselves as  agents as advocates as voice of authentic voice within their neighborhood to see themselves also as participants within the larger whole working towards a project that speaks with and for their own community and that's that's tremendous that's great so i think that's probably the main benefit for the university you know to be able to reach out to be accepted to work with community members not just our nonprofits but with members of the community these young people and the other community members around us or terrorists who allow us to to interview and to to visit us and to tell us about the history of that neighborhood it's just a tremendous sort of privilege i think because there's academic research and all of that you know stuff that goes on in the classroom but until our students who will be mentoring these youth and and interning also in this project until our students for example in the photography program have a chance to see documentary works being made that are community based it's it's very difficult for them to i think to to imagine what that kind of work is like and so it gives our students a real inside sort of experience working with community members you know side by side and and watching documentary projects grow and it's just going to make them better documentarians and better so i think citizens i think you know i think that yes for terrorists hours it's a place it's their life it's where they spend a lot of hours studying communicating to each other so this gives us a chance as it's a very complex and diverse population so this will give us a chance probably used to work together learn from each other and produce something tangible and a creative thing for them the people that we're going to war and just to come in three i think that that is part of our process and the second two weeks i certainly have ideas i know that we have ideas as to who we'd like to see interviewed and clued in this big documentary project that we're alternately can relating to the kids themselves after they have two weeks of visiting with you know representatives from the city and the housing authorities and the neighborhood those those guys are going to take that information that they learned during the first two weeks and they're going to create a shooting plan and decide who they want to create a story with so they'll make their list and they'll make their appointments obviously i mentioned some categories we would like to have representatives from the city and seattle neighborhoods and housing we would like to have representatives from the neighborhood parents and longtime residents we would like to exhibit the wonderful diversity of the neighborhood and the diversity of opinions and boy i think that you know with some guidance obviously in the second two weeks as we make our shoot plan for our last two weeks we're going to be pretty broad in who has it the neighborhood is is so diverse and they're such a such a amazing different you know group of there's the city there's the nonprofits there's i mean there's just complex and with thinking about the redevelopment of your slip terr it's nothing but complex so you know our our students are our documentarians have a lot of work to do in this part of the joy of this project it's going to really help them i think step up and see themselves as as the presidents their voices their images will be displayed at the community center and we have a schedule yes we have scheduled in september october  yale university as well and will plan events to invite our participants our youth our documentarians and our community yes the terrorist to come to these events and you know ideally this is these are opportunities as multiple layers of opportunities i think in these kind of programs to to create more dialogue within the community to create cohesiveness with the youth to their  community as i said i think it's really great if they see that they have you know they are able to be advocates for their community for themselves and they recognize their agency which is enormous so we hope to create a dialogue of course documentarians and journalists and to people to read and to see and to look at their work so that they can create dialogue and awareness and further understanding i think this is a big project really encourage you to to check out our advocation and to read a little bit on the application about the program to think about your support and encourage you to apply yeah for more information about the