Under Pressure

When coming back from fall break I thought that I was going to have a nice easy three day week. But then I came to the realization that we still had to put on The County Line. Which for the most part isnt too bad, we just have to re-rack some past news stories. The only problem with this is sports can not be re-racked becuase then nothing would be up to date. So T.J. and myself are going to be seriously under the gun for the show this week. We have all the highlights we need and we also have Garrets Soccer Second from the previous week that we didnt have time to use. And my script is already written up, all that is left to do is to go over the highlights before I have to go on T.V. So this will be a realy test for T.J. and myself but I think that it is also something that is going to help us out for the future.

Remembering On The Road

I was going through The County Line website when i came across these old episodes of On The Road. Check them out. http://countyline.wordpress.com/on-the-road/

Soccer Second Success

For this weeks show I focused more on shooting and editing then I have in the previous weeks. I went do to the soccer field with Mr. Weaver to shoot “The Soccer Second,” which is hosted by Titan Town reporter Garret Horvath. Having Mr. Weaver down there with me was a big help, he acted as a producer/director and gave me some new ideas to try out. I experimented with new angles when shooting. I also used a canting shot in the segment. After filming I went up to the news room where I viewed the tape to look for the little things such as making sure I white balanced and had the correct filter on. The following day I edited the segment putting it together a little differently then the first segment. T.J. was down with me in the edit bay giving me his insight on how he thought the segment looked. I felt that this week on the County Line sports went over great seeing as how we only had one highlight to show, plus Garrett’s Soccer Second which turned out looking great.

Out Of The Class Room

Last week for Capstone we did something a little different then sitting in a class room. Mr. Weaver thought that it would be a good idea for the seniors to have a little bonding experience, so we ventured up to the Titan Travers ropes course to have a good time and mabye learn some new things about one another. Well i really dont think we learned anything new about one another since we all have been working together for almost four years, but it was still a good experience none the less. Out of al the games we played i really thought that the "Spider Web" brought us a little closer in the respect that we had to really work together and listen to one another for ideas about how to get everyone throught the web. It showed me that we really do work together well when we need to. No ones ideas were ignored, everytime someone had an opinion everyone listened and gave input back. so overall it seemed as though it was a successful day for all of the broadcast seniors, and i believe it was so successful becuase we all get along well and we all rely on each other every week in order to put our news show together, so working together to achieve our goal at the ropes course was not a issue. I would love to do this again for another Capstone.

senior year

Well... it is that time of the year again. The time when baseball season is coming to a close a football season is starting up, which means a lot to some but for other it just means that it is time for school again. And I am back at Westminster for my senior year with a lot on my plate. I have been back in class for two days now so i have been able to experience all my classes and determine which classes im going to like and which ones i am going to dread. Out of all my classes i feel that my sports broadcasting class is going to be my most enjoyable, and beneficial since this semester ill be co-anchoring titan town sports on the County Line. Im looking to learn a lot this semester from this class which may help me find my sports annoucing job after i graduate.

final post

This class was a great learning experience for me. I realized some of the things that i do in CMC that i didnt really notice as much before. For example i starting thinking about whether or not I am the same person in CMC that i am in FtF. And I think for the most part I am, but i also came to realize that most people may have some kind of different persona in CMC then they do in real life based upon who they are talking to.
I had a couple of "oh wow" moments in this class, like watching Buffy (which was an oh wow moment for a different reason, but the biggest one was when we went over all of the different types of expressions that are used in CMC such as ;) or other faces such as that.
Im not sure whether of not i changed the way i communicate online, but i am more conscience of it.
I learned that CMC is everywhere and it is growing. CMC is only going to get larger in the future. With technology becoming more advanced everyday, there is no way to tell what tomorrow is going to bring to CMC.
To be honest this class is pretty much what i thought it would be. I was exactly sure what to expect, but I did think that we would be dealing a lot with things such as IM, and how people communicate online.
Overall I really enjoyed this class and felt that it opened me up to thinking about how I personally communicate online.