This semester I was able to get a lot more involved with Southern Sports Network. Instead of being the one that was learning everyone and helping Joe or John with shoots, I was the one in charge. Jordan & I went out and shot a lot of the soccer and volleyball games on our own this semester. There was also lots of times that I would get to teach the freshman in practicum about shooting highlights for soccer, basketball, volleyball or swimming. My favorite shoot this semester was probably the swim one. I’ve never been to a swim meet before in my life so I really had no idea what was going on. Kim came to help me with the shoot and luckily she knew a lot about swimming and the races. It was cool to get to go down to the pool deck right next to Rollins and be able to film so close to the action. I also took on a bigger role in helping put together the Southern Sports show this semester. I directed the show for the last couple weeks and this was my first ever experience with anything like that. Normally last year I just ran prompter or camera, I never was directly involved in running the show. Being in charge was weird at first for me, I’m normally a shy person when I don’t know people and I felt weird telling people what to do. However I liked being able to run the show by myself and do what I wanted to do, it was really cool to me to get experience like that. I didn’t have as many hours as I needed towards the end of the semester so John asked me to edit the sports show one day. I was nervous about that because last semester I only helped Joe edit, I was never the one doing everything. It took me a little to get a hang of everything because there were a lot of mistakes and retakes in that particular episode but I caught on after awhile. The thing that I find the craziest is that we’ll go out there and shoot an entire basketball game or an entire swim meet and yet when you do the show we only use maybe two or three five second clips of the entire game. Overall I had a great semester, I liked being in broadcast writing and broadcast one. I think that those classes helped me a lot in understanding what goes into a production and improved my writing skills, which in turn helped me with the sports show. I simply ran out of time this semester but I’m hoping that next semester I’ll be able to do my first package for the sports show as well. I haven’t had any doubts all year about being a broadcast major. Now that I’ve gotten past the boring core classes and I’m getting to do the real stuff I like it a whole lot more. Its definitely the right industry for me and taking all these classes is only making me more excited for my eventual internship and job in the industry.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday December 8th
Southern Sports Network - ONE HOUR
Today was our last show of fall semester and Kevin's last show before he graduates. Our guest was Jeb Halfacre from the swim team. I directed the show for the second time. I think that it went smoother today but I was still nervous. I'm not used to being the person in charge and the one that tells everyone what to do. Everyone was more concentrated this week and we were able to run through the whole show only twice before they were happy with it.
Mens Basketball v Ave Maria - TWO HOURS
Before the sports show, John asked me if I wanted to tape highlights for the game this evening. I agreed and Anna, Justin & Shelby came to help me. I set up the camera and figured out how to charge the battery while running the camera at the same time. Justin taped the first half of the game while Shelby took notes and then in the second half Shelby taped the game and Justin took notes.
TOTAL: THREE HOURS.
Southern Sports Network - ONE HOUR
Today was our last show of fall semester and Kevin's last show before he graduates. Our guest was Jeb Halfacre from the swim team. I directed the show for the second time. I think that it went smoother today but I was still nervous. I'm not used to being the person in charge and the one that tells everyone what to do. Everyone was more concentrated this week and we were able to run through the whole show only twice before they were happy with it.
Mens Basketball v Ave Maria - TWO HOURS
Before the sports show, John asked me if I wanted to tape highlights for the game this evening. I agreed and Anna, Justin & Shelby came to help me. I set up the camera and figured out how to charge the battery while running the camera at the same time. Justin taped the first half of the game while Shelby took notes and then in the second half Shelby taped the game and Justin took notes.
TOTAL: THREE HOURS.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Thursday December 2, 2010.
Today I went to finish editing the Sports Show. We had highlights from men's basketball and swimming that I taped last weekend to edit. The hardest part for me was going through an hours worth of tape to find a minute or two of highlights that correspond to what John or Kevin were talking about. I ended up finding a few good shots for basketball that went exactly along with the voiceover and a few good closeups from swimming that went along with the voiceover too. The whole process is just very time consuming, its amazing how much effort goes into editing a short 10-15 minute sports show before airing. Alyssa and TJ were there today after the pod cast to help me and learn more about editing.
TOTAL: 2.5 HOURS.
Today I went to finish editing the Sports Show. We had highlights from men's basketball and swimming that I taped last weekend to edit. The hardest part for me was going through an hours worth of tape to find a minute or two of highlights that correspond to what John or Kevin were talking about. I ended up finding a few good shots for basketball that went exactly along with the voiceover and a few good closeups from swimming that went along with the voiceover too. The whole process is just very time consuming, its amazing how much effort goes into editing a short 10-15 minute sports show before airing. Alyssa and TJ were there today after the pod cast to help me and learn more about editing.
TOTAL: 2.5 HOURS.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wednesday December 1, 2010
Today we filmed the last episode of the Southern Sports Network for the semester. Our interviewee today was one of the freshman woman's basketball players. I directed the show today and it was my first time doing it without anyone else's help. John and Kevin had a hard time getting the script down straight so we had to run through the show a bunch of times.
TOTAL 1.5 HOURS.
After the sports show John asked me if I wanted to edit the show. I agreed to do it since no one else could and I needed the hours. I helped Joe last semester with editing but this would be my first time by myself editing. Nya was the only one who stayed and helped me edit. I didn't have any of the highlights so I just logged and captured the show and interview. Most of the time was spent cutting out John and Kevin messing around and messing up. Nya & I are supposed to go back tomorrow to finish editing the show and adding in the highlights.
TOTAL: 2 HOURS
Today we filmed the last episode of the Southern Sports Network for the semester. Our interviewee today was one of the freshman woman's basketball players. I directed the show today and it was my first time doing it without anyone else's help. John and Kevin had a hard time getting the script down straight so we had to run through the show a bunch of times.
TOTAL 1.5 HOURS.
After the sports show John asked me if I wanted to edit the show. I agreed to do it since no one else could and I needed the hours. I helped Joe last semester with editing but this would be my first time by myself editing. Nya was the only one who stayed and helped me edit. I didn't have any of the highlights so I just logged and captured the show and interview. Most of the time was spent cutting out John and Kevin messing around and messing up. Nya & I are supposed to go back tomorrow to finish editing the show and adding in the highlights.
TOTAL: 2 HOURS
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