Communications Candidate Turns Journalists into Video Editors
2/12/2024
Biddeford, ME – This past Friday, a local University tested the waters in a unique way, by allowing a professorial job candidate to teach about his specialty to a group of undergraduate students.
Dominic Dipaolo came to the University of New England in hopes of securing a teaching spot in the communications department, and his teaching demo was all that stood between him and his coveted position. The professor of the course Dipaolo would be taking over for the day walked to the front of the room, introduced himself as Jesse Miller, and informed Dipaolo that the students in front of him were journalism students. Dipaolo explained that today would be a switch in gears for the group, as his specialty was in video editing.
DiPaolo quickly launched into this lesson, explaining the basics of Adobe Premiere to the group of students, giving insight on how the students would be following along in his normal teaching setting. As the students waited anxiously for the first grilling question to be posed from the faculty members, it finally came.
“Did you leave a little space to make a point?”, Oran Suta, an Adjunct Professor of Design and Illustration, posed to DiPaolo. Staying relaxed, DiPaolo corrected his mistake, apologized to the room, and continued with his lesson.
After nearly an hour of lecturing about the basics of Adobe Premiere, as well as explaining what his full lesson would look like, DiPaolo opened the floor for faculty and students to ask questions.
After a few student questions, Michael Cripps, the Academic Director of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University, posed one final question.
“What would the next week look like for a real class?”, Cripps asked DiPaolo, “What would a homework assignment look like?” DiPaolo explained that students would not only be shooting their own footage but would also be working on editing at home. Following this question, the group was dismissed having learned a little bit about video editing.
