Scot’s Scoop Editor
Isabel Wright
Isabel Wright is a 12th-grade content creator and editor for Scot Scoop and The Highlander Magazine at Carlmont High School. For the next school year, Isabel is headed to DePaul University in Chicago to pursue her interests in filmmaking and complete her BFA in Film and Television. Isabel has many hobbies outside of Carlmont’s Journalism program like filmmaking, editing, fashion, playing multiple instruments like guitar, and skateboarding.
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@isabels.lens
Words, voices, and pictures, the key elements to a captivating story
Over the past eight years, I have been immersing myself in writing, photography, videography, editing, and media realms. Joining the Scot Scoop team sophomore year has helped me explore and master my art in hopes of pursuing and building a career based on the skills I have learned with Carlmont’s Journalism course.
The energetic streets of Tokyo.Via Isabel Wright 2018
Writing
I have cultivated nine articles for my contributions to Scot Scoop and The Highlander over the course of 3 years.
Assigned to student interest in sophomore year, I interviewed peers, recorded their thoughts, and developed articles w my partner.
As a writer catering to the students at Carlmont in my sophomore year, I decided to base my work for that semester around what students would be interested in reading. Although I wrote two articles on testing and online school, I decided to write about what people like to talk about. Themself. I sent out a poll on my personal Instagram and attempted to relate to the students with music. I mashed together two things, both crucial to teens and an element where teens can express themselves to create my favorite writing piece I have produced; Students claim music affects their productivity.
For my feature in sophomore year going hand in hand with my goal to cater to students’ interests, I decided to aim my piece towards trendy social media-based writing, but in a non-cringe millennial writing way. With only two days to chose a big topic to write about, I rekindled the lightbulb in my brain and went through with writing about something other teens and I are very familiar with; trends, TikTok, and Among Us. It relates to students with social media trends and describes how hard it is to connect over quarantine restrictions, bingo!
As my Journalism journey progressed and I started to take likings toward more mature subjects, my writing significantly improved, as well as my digital art for my articles. I utilized my gradual interviewing skills to interview a more varied group of people in order to curate my content. Although many changes have happened in my work for Journalism these past three years, I have continued to create podcasts for my monthly content.
In my last year of Journalism, 2022-23, I have been utilizing the skills I have learned in the years of the course. I got selected to be a podcast editor for Scot Center in the 2022-23 school year and I absolutely love it and find inspiration from the podcasts I edit! I have been continuing The Reel Ramble as an outlet to express my love for cinema and experimenting with different jobs within The Highlander, like page design with InDesign, art, and writing. For the incoming 2023 school year, I have decided to pursue a documentary focused on men’s mental health that I have been wanting to film for a while so be on the lookout for that!
Little shop in Tokyo
Via Isabel Wright 2018
Foggy Osaka, Japan street
Via Isabel Wright 2018
Podcast
All around musician, and obscure music enjoyer, what better way to discover new artists and genres other than discussing it on a podcast.
The Tune Talk, a podcast series I developed to interact with new individuals and dive deeper into different music genres. The Tune Talk discusses and reviews podcasts where we cover artists from Snoop Dogg to The Pixies.
Harijuku city life.
Via Isabel Wright 2018
Photography has been a life-long hobby of mine. I love noticing the little intriguing things of the world and the meanings behind them.
I remember for my third or the fourth birthday, I have gifted a small purple Tinkerbell-themed children’s camera, and I would take it everywhere and take pictures all the time. While sadly, I could not figure out how to develop the pictures, I always used to use my parent’s smartphones to take pictures on family trips we went on or record an aspect of the day with my parents’ cam recorder, which they were reluctant to let me use in fear of me breaking it.
I got my first official camera for my school trip to Santa Cruz, where I took pictures of nature, friends, and the camp. It was then where I started getting super interested in videography, video editing, photography, and picture editing. I had been longing for a DSLR camera because of the quality and settings of the pictures so that I could further my skills. I got a Rebel Canon camera for my fourteenth, I believe, birthday.
Photography & Cinematography
Bondi coastal trail.
Via Isabel Wright 2019
The first time I truly tested it out in a totally different environment was on my trip to Japan a couple of months later. Tokyo is a popular site for photographers, notorious for its lively city life, nightlife, and the influx of people passing through the city. Sounds, people, lights, the different stories every person walking around the city entails. I had a field day. I especially loved the pictures I took of Japanese living. The residents, grocery stores, restaurants, buildings. It truly showed me a contrast between US living and Japanese living. Above is a picture I shot of a salmon color apartment building, complex architecture, lots of colors, and someone drying out their clothes on their terrace around the quieter part of Harajuku, Japan. (I’ve taken all the pictures throughout the site)
My love for photography has more recently translated over to cinematography works. With my unique eye for photography, I utilize it for the scripts I write for films. I discovered the realm of aspect ratios and color grading; inspiring works of these include Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and Wes Anderson’s eclectic film styles.