One day to prepare

This week was a hectic week because our school was on fall break until Wednesday. It didn’t really matter for the news crew because they were able to re-rack their best non-dated packages. Unfortunately for sports you can not re-rack anything but we did the best we could with our time constraint. As always we had titan and hounds highlights which looked great and were easy to edit. We also had Garrett’s How to and a couple full screen graphics to preview what’s coming up next. I and David Greg had all of our material done by four o’clock yesterday. Then the show starts and everything is going well until we get to the titan highlights. I notice that I can’t hear the music bed I put under the highlights and I shrug it off thinking I might not be able to hear it from where I was watching from. Then we get to the hounds highlights and there the wrong ones there from two weeks ago, so David apologized for the technical difficulty and moved on to Garrett’s How to, which didn’t have sound either. The rest of the show was full screen graphics and they went better but after the show I figured out our rookie crew who has been doing this for two or three weeks forgot to turn on the audio for the highlights and accidentally rewound the hounds tape to a random football game. My show has had two major hiccups since we started and I feel responsible for them but I can’t control these mistakes. Next week I guess I’ll have to do my own audio and push play for my tapes because I will not accept another flaw in show that I can not control.

Pre-recording

Last week we decided to pre-record this show for a few reasons. One was so I could put it on my blog for all of you to view and understand what I do each week. The other reason was so it would be our polished show with hopefully no mistakes. I was a leery about doing the pre-record because I knew that meant I have to get my highlights and graphics done for Wednesday afternoon instead of Thursday night. I also had to call in for an in studio crew to help run a camera, audio, tapes, floor director, teleprompter and the switcher. So I need about six people and I thank everyone that showed up, there were five of us including myself. We started to record the first time and I knew something would go wrong but I wasn’t sure what and of course I screwed up the second tape I forgot to bring it up on the switcher. Round two went better but we didn’t have someone running camera though and David had half his body on the screen so we went to round three and there was no audio for the hound’s highlights. I didn’t realize this till the next day so we had to do it once again. This time it went better and we had audio so I was happy and not so stressed out anymore. All we had to do was sit back and watch the tape during the newscast. There was no worrying about if we would have audio or anything. Here is the show please give some feedback on what the shows strengths and weakness are.
http://www.westminster.edu/student/orgs/radio/county_line.cfm

Getting better

The best show with the least content. Our show this week only had one game for highlights and because of technical difficulties the highlights started in the third quarter. We also had Garrett’s How to which looked even better than the week before. We shot it with a wireless lave lire microphone and it looked and sounded ten times better. We had a lot of full screen graphics that turned out great. In those full screen graphics we represented four PAC athletes of the week from Westminster. All and all we didn’t have much video but we make a good show. For the next show were going to try and pre-record so we can get rid of minor errors such as a highlight tape starting right on cue.

New addition

Our new addition to this week show was Garrett Horvath’s How to Soccer second. I was worried about how this would turn out because when we shot it, we were not sure what to expect and it was kind of confusing. We really needed a wireless lav mic so Garrett could explain what he was demonstrating instead of doing a voice over. Garrett and I edited the day of show and it surprisingly turned out pretty good. Their were a few flaws but we made do with what we had. We also had lots of highlights this week Westminster College homecoming, hounds homecoming and the game of the week. I thought the show went well but I’m also comparing it to last weeks show.