Wednesday, February 24, 2010

First Ever Preview on Lehighsports.com

I've worked very hard this week on season previews for baseball and softball. Monday night I spent several hours over on Goodman Campus, filming, interviewing and gathering some B roll to add to my video. I even braved the sleet and snow to talk to a few of the softball players under the lights of Ulrich Field!

On-site reporting is tough because you are always on someone else's schedule. I was hoping to be able to interview softball players at the end of their practice and then interview baseball players at the beginning of their practice, but the two ended up overlapping. Classmate Kenny Burgess came along with me to help film the openings, closings, interviews and B roll. Softball's practice ran a little later than expected, so I missed my opportunity to talk to the baseball players before practice. Instead of sitting there for the entire baseball practice, I dropped Kenny off at home so that he could study for a test and then went back over to catch the players and head coach on their way out of practice.

I got there at around 8 and didn't end up leaving until 9:15. In total, I probably spent about 3 hours at the practices. But the work didn't stop there!

The next morning, I went in to begin the editing process on Adobe Premiere, a program completely different from Windows Media Maker in its complexity. After over 3 hours of work, I edited and uploaded the 2010 softball preview to the web, so that my supervisor could look over it before publication.

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