Thursday, May 7, 2009
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Final Project
My final project is going to be a solo project. I am going to do a video project.
It is going to be a video of the intermural floor hockey championship game. I am going to record parts of the game and do some play-by-play. I will also talk to players and have them explain how they did what they did and what their thoughts on the game were. I am also going to try and incorparite still photos as well.
It is going to be a video of the intermural floor hockey championship game. I am going to record parts of the game and do some play-by-play. I will also talk to players and have them explain how they did what they did and what their thoughts on the game were. I am also going to try and incorparite still photos as well.
Video Project
As the wind whirled the dirt on the infield sprayed the outfield grass, a place the ball would never reach.
Sara Fetterhoff, a pitcher for the Lyndon State Hornets softball team stood atop the hill facing home plate. Forty feet away stood Sebastion Lury, a reporter for the Critic. His assignment, face Fetterhoff, the softball teams best pitcher.
Perched atop the mound grasping the ball in her hand, Fetterhoff stared at Lury like a Hawk getting ready to retrieve its dinner.
Lury stood in at the plate awaiting the first offer. The pitcher released the ball and before he knew what happened Lury was searching for the ball, strike one. Another strike whistled by his bat, then a third, had there been an umpire he would have come out of his crouch and screamed, “strike three, yourrrr out!”
Lury switched sided hoping his luck would be better. His wish would not come true. After looking at a pitch in the dirt, he swung for one that made him look foolish. The next pitch bounced away to the backstop. Fetterhoff again wound up and delivered… swing and a miss. On the next pitch Lury made contact and smacked a week fly ball to where the first baseman hangs out, it was called out number two.
Hoping for a better result, Lury switched sides again, this time to his natural right-handed side. His luck would not change. He would swing and miss on pitch number one. Then he whiffed again. On the next pitch he popped it to the backstop, still down in the count, 0-2. One last chance to prove himself, Fetterhoff leaned back and delivered, a swing and a miss, her catcher popped out of her crouch and made the walk to the mound to congratulate her as a catcher would in a real game.
Lury’s little experiment was a failure. He made contact on only two pitches and struck out twice. Proof girls dominate the game of softball.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Video on newspaper sites
http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/bruins/articles/2009/04/16/old_reliable/
This is a Boston Globe article on the Boston Bruins forward Mark Recchi. The Article describes how the oldest player on the Bruins plays a huge role, while the video attached does not even mention the players name. The story and video were not done by the same person, the same goes with most of the globes videos. Most of the videos are done by TV stations and not people that are involved with the writing of the story.
A great example of video by a newspaper is anything done by the New York Times.
If you go to the web page the lead story is the same as the lead video. The video does a great job telling exactly what you need to know and then the article tells you all the important things and some other facts as well.
This is a Boston Globe article on the Boston Bruins forward Mark Recchi. The Article describes how the oldest player on the Bruins plays a huge role, while the video attached does not even mention the players name. The story and video were not done by the same person, the same goes with most of the globes videos. Most of the videos are done by TV stations and not people that are involved with the writing of the story.
A great example of video by a newspaper is anything done by the New York Times.
If you go to the web page the lead story is the same as the lead video. The video does a great job telling exactly what you need to know and then the article tells you all the important things and some other facts as well.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
IReport
Colby College Students Abused
This video looks like it was taken on someone's phone or maybe a small digital camera and was taken by someone involved in all of the ruckus. There is a story attached that explains what was going on. It is clear it is written by a student who was involved and is very protective of the students who were being arrested.
This does make for an interesting news story. Most students at Colby would be very interested in it. It is a good news piece but if I were a CNN producer it would most likely only air if it was a real slow news day or I was going after a college audience.
I am sure that anyone in our class could do the same thing, most likely better than this is.
The Dog ate it
This is not news. This is some guy with to much time on his hands making a video. It is his view on things and it is kind of funny, but its not news. THere is no way this would air on CNN. Once again I am sure that anybody could do the same thing and it would most likely be better.
Tax time
This slide show is kind of news. Not really however. It is a clever way of reminding people to do their taxes and giving this person's thought on the 'Taxman', it is clever and creative. However it would not be a good choice to run on CNN. THey also ran out of pictures and just used the same ones over and over again, kind of lame. Nice try though. It is well done, but I am sure that some people could do it better.
This video looks like it was taken on someone's phone or maybe a small digital camera and was taken by someone involved in all of the ruckus. There is a story attached that explains what was going on. It is clear it is written by a student who was involved and is very protective of the students who were being arrested.
This does make for an interesting news story. Most students at Colby would be very interested in it. It is a good news piece but if I were a CNN producer it would most likely only air if it was a real slow news day or I was going after a college audience.
I am sure that anyone in our class could do the same thing, most likely better than this is.
The Dog ate it
This is not news. This is some guy with to much time on his hands making a video. It is his view on things and it is kind of funny, but its not news. THere is no way this would air on CNN. Once again I am sure that anybody could do the same thing and it would most likely be better.
Tax time
This slide show is kind of news. Not really however. It is a clever way of reminding people to do their taxes and giving this person's thought on the 'Taxman', it is clever and creative. However it would not be a good choice to run on CNN. THey also ran out of pictures and just used the same ones over and over again, kind of lame. Nice try though. It is well done, but I am sure that some people could do it better.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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