{"id":79811,"date":"2024-07-23T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=79811"},"modified":"2024-07-23T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:30:42","slug":"tmn-interns-explore-custom-harvesting-in-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=79811","title":{"rendered":"TMN interns explore custom harvesting in documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, custom harvesters travel the country to cut wheat and other crops for farmers who don\u2019t have the equipment or manpower to do it themselves, a service that is vital to agriculture in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Tiger Media Network documentary, \u201cLife On The Harvest Run,\u201d explores the lives of two custom harvesting families from Kansas and what their summers on the harvest run are like. TMN\u2019s latest crop of paid summer interns \u2014 Ryan Schuckman, Raegan Neufeld and John Billinger \u2014 interviewed the Befort family from Hays and the Froese family from Inman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life On The Harvest Run\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yGvxUgrFuzA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLife On The Harvest Run\u201d can be viewed on the TMN YouTube page on Thursday at 4:00 p.m. Additional videos and information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/rBjMCaxb6ND5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think that the interviews went well,\u201d Schuckman said. \u201cWe were able to get a really interesting perspective from everyone. I am very proud of how we made the story, took what everyone said in the interviews and made a really interesting documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fort Hays State University students interviewed active and retired custom harvesters to get a mix of present and past perspectives. Interviewees ranged from 20 to 91 years old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only are we learning how to work as a team, but we\u2019re also learning about events and history we wouldn&#8217;t have known otherwise,\u201d Billinger said. \u201cIt helps preserve their stories and experiences for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By participating in the internship, the students received a real-world experience of what their prospective careers in the media industry might be like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is something that I think I knew beforehand, but this experience has kind of reinforced that working with other people is very beneficial,\u201d Neufeld said. \u201cWe each have our own strengths, and it would\u2019ve been difficult without any one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schuckman, Neufeld and Billinger each had prior experience with creating a documentary, but this was the first time they worked with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI learned a lot more about what working in a production is like, where you have multiple people and multiple cameras \u2014 working together as a team rather than working by myself,\u201d Schuckman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second documentary produced by TMN summer interns, following the success of last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qLiJAbFZ2zg?si=7zWqWxn3J-DaE5Vl\">\u201c45x: A Dirt Dream.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne goal of Tiger Media Network is to give students a look into what the real-world working environment might be,\u201d said Nick Schwien, director of TMN. \u201cWe want our FHSU students to stand out to potential employers when they apply for jobs post-graduation. Experiences like this fit perfectly into the Department of Informatics approach to preparing today\u2019s students for tomorrow\u2019s workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TMN News and Sports Director Russell Heitmann said he hopes future summer interns can continue to build on the success of prior projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur first set of interns set the bar high with a quality product and gave our current students a goal of what to reach for,\u201d he said. \u201cNext summer\u2019s interns should be able to look at the finished product and see something to try and emulate and learn from, just like this year\u2019s interns did with the prior internship group.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ryan Schuckman is a junior from Hays studying Information Networking and Telecommunications: Digital Media Production and Journalism.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Raegan Neufeld is a senior from Inman studying Information Networking and Telecommunications: Digital Media Production and Journalism.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John Billinger is a senior from Ellinwood studying Information Networking and Telecommunications: Digital Media Production and Journalism.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, custom harvesters travel the country to cut wheat and other crops for farmers who don\u2019t have the equipment or manpower to do it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":79810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397,3398,11],"tags":[15727,15726,15725,14981,15723,14226,15722,103,15720,15721],"class_list":["post-79811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-area-news","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-custom-cutting","tag-custom-harvesting","tag-harvest","tag-john-billinger","tag-life-on-the-harvest-run","tag-raegan-neufeld","tag-ryan-schuckman","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tiger-media-network-interns","tag-tiger-media-network-internship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Thumbnail2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79811"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79820,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79811\/revisions\/79820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}