University of Missouri

The 4-H Center for Youth Development, in partnership with Miller Imaging, is pleased to announce the first ever State 4-H Video Corps!  Video Corps is a team of 4-H videographers ages 12 and older from across Missouri, building skills, exploring career possibilities, and capturing the 4-H world through their own personal narrative.

Each month State 4-H Video Corps members find something in their world that relates to 4-H or MU Extension and use their skills to create a short (30-90 second) video that tells the world about the experience.  Long distance travel is not required.  Team members will participate in a special statewide training in mid-June on video filming and editing techniques, either in Columbia or through a local MU Extension telecommunications resource center (TCRC). 

Opportunities include:

• Learning how to use mainstream video editing software!
• Learning the scripting & storyboarding processes that filmmakers use!
• Learning video editing skills that make your videos their very best!
• Meeting professionals in the field of videography and journalism!
• Behind the scenes access to see production work at selected State Fair shows!
• Having your videography work featured to a wider audience, through the State 4-H web page!

The Video Corps experience begins during the week after State 4-H Congress in June 2009, with a 2-3 hour statewide Video Corps orientation and training session on shooting and editing techniques.  Next, team members create and submit one video per month by uploading them to a specific web address.  From where they will be selected and featured on the State 4-H web page!  The active portion will continue through December 2009, and members will be eligible to serve as Event Videographers at State 4-H events until the end of State 4-H Congress in June 2010.  Most team communication will take place via the Internet. 

Do you have a unique point of view?  Do you have access to a digital video camera or a digital camera that can record video?  Would you like to have your voice be heard in new and interesting ways?  If so, Video Corps may be for you! 

Video Corps is a team of 4-H videographers building skills, exploring career possibilities, and showing the 4-H world through their own personal narrative.

Click here for the Video Corps application!

Miller's Professional Imaging has grown to be the largest professional lab organization in the United States. They provide professional prints and press products for professional photographers in all fifty states.  CEO Richard Miller is a Master Photographer, twice having been named Photographer of the Year in his home state of Kansas.