Monday, April 22, 2013

Intro to Broadcast Final Project

Final Project- April 15th- I shot the pregame for the Ultimate Frisbee Men's A National Championship Game. I conducted interviews with the players and got various b-roll shots that could be used for our final.

April 18th- I wrote the entire script for myself and Jon to work with as well as writing the script that Frank and Orlando would use in their interview segment.

April 19th, April 22- We shot the pre-game and post game segments as well as the interview segment with Frank and Orlando. I edited these parts on the computer along with Frank and Jon to create our 10 minute final project.

Total: 39.5 hours

Thursday, April 18, 2013

April 19th 500 Word Summary



500-Word Summary
                This semester was more advanced than the previous semester. I worked more closely with a lot of different equipment and also, with the Intro to Broadcast Class, focused on shooting a lot of sports games and editing them into packages.
                When going to the sports games I learned a lot of different things from both Tony and Tori. With Tony, I primarily shot the basketball games. Last semester I focused more on just following the basketball. This semester, there was more of an emphasis on finding cutaways, focusing on either offense/defense and not just both, and also getting different shots. This was also the same for the baseball games with Tori. While at the beginning of the semester Tony would help me edit the basketball games, Tori would allow me to edit the baseball games and also write a reader for her voiceover. This helped me work consistently with FinalCut Pro and I now know the finer aspects of the program and how to edit sports games in the future. Not only do I now know how to just log and capture, but also how to edit certain clips into the production. I worked on a Spanish Project for my class this semester and had tremendous success thanks to the FinalCut Pro Program. I was able to input certain clips by using input and output, insert audio from the internet by converting mp3 audio files to WAV files for the program and ensure that the sound levels were correct.
                In addition to shooting and editing, I also helped write readers for Austin’s News Show. In the Intro to Broadcast Writing Class, it was important to know how to write in broadcast style. I took on the challenge of writing readers because they require a person to write in broadcast style and helped me improve my overall writing ability. In addition to writing for the News Show, I would also help out with the News Show in any way possible. Whether it would be running the soundboard, teleprompter or camera, I always tried to take an active role in helping out the production of the show.
                Much like last semester, Tony, Robert and I continued doing the Sports podcast. We decided to change up the format due to time constraints and to ensure we didn’t ramble on about a given topic. This new format proved useful and the show ran very successfully. While last semester Tony had set the show up for us, this semester required Robert and myslef to cue up the entire show. Connecting XLR’s, checking the soundboard, inserting the tape, recording, getting a sample script together, etc...
                John, Frank and myself are currently working on our final project for our class and hope to make the Ultimate Frisbee intramural game into the National Championship game after editing our clips and inserting commercials. This project should demonstrate all that I have learned this year at school from how to properly shoot to how to edit correctly. I am excited to finish the project and am also excited to return in the fall to continue to work on shooting and editing sports games.

Monday, April 8, 2013

April 9

I wrote two different readers for the news show. One of them was for Fiat Lux ad the other was for Day On Campus. In addition, I helped out with the News Show by working with professor Allan on setting up the audio soundboard. It was very different with the new set up and equipment but the set p f the show was successful.

Total: 33.5 hours