As they advance through the Missouri School of Journalism, students use MacBook Pro and Apple applications to create video projects of increasing complexity. For their freshman interest group, Natalie Cheng and Samantha Hill used Final Cut Pro to document their experiences in a Charlie Chaplin-style video with old-school effects. For a senior capstone project, a dozen students pushed their skills and learned new tools — including Final Cut Pro — to produce Project 573, an intensive online reporting effort to discover the effect of the recession on typical citizens in Columbia, Missouri.