Chris Hamady

This past summer was nearly entirely consumed by the design and creation of a new media production facility for our school, Toledo Central Catholic. The facility includes a full television production area where we produce and stream via the Internet the daily announcements for our Irish News Network, an instructional area where students learn multimedia creation on apps such as iMovie and Final Cut Studio, and a full multitrack recording studio where the students have access to Apple's Logic Pro, GarageBand, and DigiDesign's Pro Tools.

Recently, I asked the students in my Digital Audio Recording and Production class if they would record a radio commercial for our school. They agreed and were given a script that was prepared by the Director of Marketing for CCHS, Lisa Bowling.

We looked at the script together, and I assigned students to play the different characters in the script. Once that was done, I let them take over the entire project. One of the students acted as the recording engineer, and the rest did the voiceovers. Once they told me that they were finished, I was completely blown away by what they had done.

Check out the radio commercial that they created entitled, "Just say yes!"

Feel free to leave some feedback in the comments so that we can improve with the next one.

CH