So far this semester Titan Town Sports has been flawless other than a few mistakes here and there. Each week Dave and my self have been extremely ecstatic at how well the show has done. In four weeks we have only had one tape play wrong. I don't mean to toot my own horn but I have been impressed with my self too. What I mean is I have been working six days a week for WKBN and I have been basically putting the show together on Thursday afternoon. Last semester I would start putting the show together earlier in the week and I know that if I was to get a Producing job I would do the same thing and put a show together in a couple of hours. The other difference between this semester and last is that I sports shooters now. Last semester I was shooting my own highlights and PKG's and editing them all. Now I usually have one to two shooters and they are making my life a lot easier. I have only shot a few things this semester and I still do the majority of editing but there is usually two stories that I don't have to shoot or edit. At first my shooters put me in a rough spot by not making the deadline or not doing what I suggested to them. But after I made it clear that I'm depending on them when their to shoot for me they have really picked up their game. Another aspect of the show that I think has really improved is the graphics. Since I talked to Bob Hannon and he said if you don't have any video for your topic throw in a graphic so it's not just Dave standing there talking. Katie Hillard and my self have been communicating better and have been sharing ideas with each other and our final product has emensley improved because of it.

Busy busy busy!!!!

Back to tape to tape editing. I went on a trip to Columbus with Peggy Sincovich for a 911 dispatch meeting. A few police chiefs and a dispatcher were unhappy with how their trustees were running things and they went to Columbus to plead their case with the 911 dispatch board. Peggy and I started our trip at 8 in the morning and followed the chiefs to Columbus. Once we got there we only had 20 minutes to get our interviews and then the meeting began. I shot the meeting and we only stayed for a half hour. We left during the meeting because we had to drive back for the 6. Here is where it got a little crazy because while I'm driving back Peggy is in the back seat looking through the viewfinder of the camera and listening through head phones to the interviews we did. She was finding the time codes of the soundbites so I knew where they were. After she finished writing the script for the package we pulled over and she voiced her package into the camera. Then we switched spots and she drove while I was in the backseat editing the package on a tape to tape suitcase editor. Now I have done tape to tape but it had been a year or two since. I practice the day before but you never know how stuff like that is going to work until you start doing it. It took me about 45 minutes to cut the package but the real kicker was having this suitcase editor on my lap that weighs about 30 to 40 pounds with two ten pound batteries on top of it. So it got kind of heavy and very awkward. We got back to the station about 40 minutes before the 6 so I ingested the package cleaned it up a bit sent to the sever for the 6. It was definitely a great experience but it was crazy because Peggy and I were flying by the seat of our paints. Well I was she knew what she had to do.