The Scroll is BYU-Idaho's campus newspaper. It is published once a week and distributed on campus and throughout the community. But who makes it? Who writes the stories? Who lays out the pages? Who does the editing? The answer to all of these questions is: students.
Sean Parker, who has been working with the Scroll for six semesters, explains what goes into each issue of the Scroll. He explains how much time the students dedicate to their work and the tools they use to make the Scroll as high-quality as possible, and how through teamwork and cooperation, they help their fellow students keep up-to-date on what's going on both on campus and in the community.
Further resources:
You can see what the Scroll has produced on its website: http://www.byuicomm.net/
Student leadership is one of the core attributes of BYU-Idaho: http://www.byui.edu/about/defining-aspects/student-leadership-model
Last semester, a story about skinny jeans from the Scroll hit the international media: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/skinny-jeans-too-suggestive-for-mormon-college/
Behind-the-scenes: I can find stories everywhere
This story taught me more than anything how you can find stories anywhere and that I can find, film, script, and edit a story within just a few hours. When I woke up Saturday morning before this story was due, I had no idea what my story was. I walked to the Spori to work on another project and happened to go into the Scroll office. I thought to myself, “These people put in a lot of time to make the Scroll possible. I wonder how many people know that?” Then it hit me: I could tell them!
I ran home and grabbed my camera and tripod. Sean was willing to do an interview, and the staff was willing to let me film for a while. I wrote the script, recorded my voice-overs, shot some b-roll, and went to edit it. It was a little bit of a challenge because my b-roll was a little limited, but I figured out how to make it work.
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