Adviser Update Spring 2014 | Page 3

SPRING 2014 PAGE 22A ADVISER UPDATE ADVISER UPDATE SPRING 2014 PAGE 3A magenta cyan black Basic training at Carol Smith yellow is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Springtown, Pa. The former high school journalism adviser and English teacher was editor of The Bethlehem News, a Lehigh Valley News Group publication. For 12 years, she edited The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Teacher Guide, a Dow Jones & Company publication. She can be reached at casmith309@ verizon.net. QUESTION — GRAMMY Camp student journalists interview Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 at USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, California. Update photos courtesy of The Recording Academy®/WireImage.com, photo by Jesse Grant © 2012 50 guest speakers are selected to work with the students for the camp’s seven career tracks. “Guest speakers are chosen from The Recording Academy membership and leadership as well as professionals who are making an impact in industries closely related to music,” Kristen Madsen, GRAMMY Camp’s senior vice president, said. Career tracks include a focus on audio engineering, electronic music production, songwriting, vocal and instrumental performance, the music business and multimedia. There are also 11 core faculty members in the Los Angeles camp and five in the New York camp. For 2013, 103 campers from across the country were accepted; 74 attended GRAMMY Camp LA and 39 participated in GRAMMY Camp NY. The multimedia track is for aspiring music journalists, music video producers and content creators and managers. This track enables students to learn the importance of telling a story through creating original digital media content. This year’s campers produced a first-time video highlighting the GRAMMY Camp performers’ musical creations. In addition to instruction in effective shooting, editing, writing, reporting and video production, students learn See GRAMMY on page 23A black RAMMY Camp offers high school students an opportunity to improve their writing, interviewing and video-making skills under the direction of industry professionals. For 11th grader Hayley Emerson, who likes to write and film music videos, the 10-day residential summer program not only gave her a behind-thescenes look at the music industry but also gave her the skills and techniques needed to set a goal to write a musical. Emerson who now attends the Berlin Brandenberg International School (BBIS) in Berlin, Germany, describes the GRAMMY Camp experience as top-notch because of the one-on-one attention each participant receives and the in-person networking with professionals who make their living in the industry. GRAMMY Camp is a soupto-nuts live-in camp that gives high school students a taste of the music industry. While many sessions focus on what it takes to perform music, there are behind-the-scenes tracks that enable participants to get handson experience writing articles, making videos of the bands and other campers and promoting and producing the final performance show at the end of the camp. At GRAMMY Camp, more than cyan