tips for resume tape

With my capstone presentation date set ive just about finished my poster for my presentation, which explains certain characteristics that a resume tape for sports should have. And after looking through my literature review I have developed several ideas for a sports resume tape

Be Creative
Use only your best shows/packages and make sure to put them in the beginning of your tape
Be yourself, don’t try and imitate other sports casters
Average runtime for a resume tape is between 3 and 5 minutes
Put a slate in the beginning of your tape with your name, phone number, and email address.

These are some of the most important things that I found when creating a resume tape. And I hope that these steps help some other inspiring sports anchors in the future.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

I have finally come to the realization that I am in my final semester of my college career. And with that, there are a ton of things that I need to get done to ensure that I will be getting out of here on time. Right now the major ordeal on my plate is my capstone project. I recently had a meeting with Weaver that really helped me to sort things out and establish a plan for what my presentation will consist of. My conclusion of my project will be me showing my resume tape. For the rest of my presentation I will begin by showing 5-10 steps in putting together a successful resume tape. The next part of my poster presentation will show the expert advice I found on the topics, to do this I will go back through my lit review to find the best sources to use. And during our meeting Weaver gave me a good piece of information to think about, that being that he knows someone is going to come up to me during my presentation and ask me “why didn’t you take a internship?” and at the moment I don’t have a good answer, other then I don’t think the Sebastian ( my alumni) had an internship. Plus I sent TJ an email asking if it would be possible for me to come with him to work a couple of times and shadow him, just so I can have some field experience to my credit. So as of right now this is what I will be doing over my spring break. LUCKY ME!

PACKAGES

This week for Titan Town Sports I had to talk more then I think I ever have had to in my time doing titan town sports. The reason for all my talking was due to a lack of packages. And I don’t want to single anyone out, but someone tells you that they are going to do a package for the show you are really depending on them to come through. Especially during a time when we are going through a highlight dry spell. Now that basketball season is over, and with snow on the ground for spring sports, we have to rely heavily on packages and feature stories. Last week we had a couple of packages fall through, which made Titan Town Sports really light on time, but I guess it is better to be light then heavy. TJ and I gave out two package ideas for this weeks show, and I am hoping that they come through for this week. I have all the confidence in the world in our crew, and I’m not expecting perfection, but I am expecting that packages get done. And I have faith that we will have at least two packages for this weeks show.

Myron Cope

The world of sports broadcasting and the Steeler nation lost a great man this week. Myron Cope died at the age of 79 Wednesday. I think Ill remember Myron Cope, not so much for being one of the greatest broadcasters, but as being the symbol for a nation of fans. Myron Cope was arguably the most unique sports commentators that the sports world has ever known, with his “Yoy’s” and “Double “Yoy’s” Myron became the spokes person for the blue color city that embraced him and his zany style of broadcasting and of course the terrible towel. But Myron was more then just some guy with a scratchy, high pitched voice, after being a commentator for 35 years for the Steelers, Cope was inducted into the National Broadcast Hall of Fame in 2005. Myron is proof that it doesn’t matter what you sound like in the world of broadcasting but as long as you be yourself and bring that into the studio you cant fail. The follow is a clip tribute to Myron Cope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUXPVjLT2kQ