FINAL

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.