After Community Impact, an Austin-area newspaper boasting Central Texas' highest circulation rate, introduced its new site at www.impactnews.com, they began to urge reporters to add new dimension to their stories with multimedia productions.

As a reporter at Community Impact, I began creating videos to accompany my news features in the spring of 2008. These ran the gamut from Ken Burns-style photo slideshows to web video. These videos allowed us to take readers deeper into the stories and to see political and governmental events that they were often not privy to.

My absolute favorite of these videos is the one introducing the MetroRail. Although it was one of my first video projects, and I have learned much since then, I still like the quick and lighthearted vibe of the video and think it captures what people want in web entertainment.