Hotshots Student Videos
The Hotshots programme was developed to assist young people to communicate and present information through the medium of video.
It introduced young people to:
- the art of effective storytelling
- processes such as scripting, preparing question lines, on-screen interviewing and reporting techniques
- the professional use of video, sound and lighting equipment
- offline and online editing
- sound mixing and mastering
- release rights and appearance licensing
- the role of the editor.
Recent Hotshots
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Mating mussels
Students from Queen Charlotte College in Picton find out what makes a 'good' mussel and how breeding programmes are changing.
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Sequencing shark DNA
Wellington College teacher Andrea Shaw spent 2006 at NIWA as a New Zealand Science, Mathematics & Technology Teacher Fellow.
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Wellington Girls' College/NIWA Hotshots
Phil Kendon, a science teacher and 2005 New Zealand Science, Mathematics and Technology Teacher Fellow, invited a group of Wellington Girls' College students to come and learn more about the work of scientists at NIWA where his fellowship was based.
