While planning for the 'Playing with FIRE' campaign, we noted that social platforms like Instagram made it easy to condense bite-sized info for audience consumption. Yet, we felt it was necessary to delve deeper into financial topics for young adults to break through the barrier of financial conversations with guidance.

 

So, FIREside Chat was born.  But our biggest obstacle was manpower. Though a regular live studio like this would require a team of at least 10, we only managed to get a single student volunteer, rounding out our manpower to 5 (with 2 of us having to host). We had to take on multiple roles. For me, I took on the role of the Director, Set Design, Vision Mixer, & Editor (of this particular episode), & also created the opening animation sequence of the podcast series.

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We filmed 4 FIREside Chat podcast episodes & 3 Hot Takes videos within 2 days. With the tight timeline, it was very important that we had formidable teamwork to ensure everything could go as planned. I made the decision as the director & vision mixer to perform live edits like a real-life newsroom to increase efficiency & avoid hefty hour-long editing footage from 3 separate cameras. This shortened post-production editing drastically, allowing me to churn out a speedy turnaround editing time of 2 days for this episode. ​