Month: March 2018

I’ve been quite familiar throughout my life with video recording, mostly because I grew up in the social media generation. I’ve recorded video during sports games, WWE events, vacations, having a good time with friends, and many more occurrences. My expertise recording video didn’t really take off until I got my first iPhone, and ever since whenever I feel I want to record something that will be intriguing to me, I’ll grab my phone out of my pocket and press the red button. I really didn’t know the techniques of recording video until taking specific classes on-campus.

Before taking video production and TV news reporting classes on-campus, I can’t think of any prior experience of recording video interviews. The two aforementioned classes however really helped me out utilizing several video production basics and skills. I have gotten to know several video production terms, how to take still and precise shots, and what to do while recording a video interview. Most of the video interviews I’ve conducted were for video production-related projects for class. I have done only about five or six video production-related projects up to this point, but have really enjoyed the process meshing together video and video interviews to make packages, something that will once again be done as a part of my feature for NCT.  The aforementioned video projects I have done received good grades too, so I feel confident going forward with the video production of my NCT feature.

As of tonight, I have not yet conducted any video interviews for the NCT feature but have set up a couple of sources either for the end of this week or early next week. I should therefore have enough time to get the b-roll as well to make a video package for the video portion of the feature. I look forward to conducting more video interviews and getting more insight from a variety of perspectives how NCTs have positively and negatively affected UW-Whitewater and schools in general.

I have had a lot of experience with conducting audio interviews throughout my college career so far. It really started to take off during the Fall 2016 semester, when I earned a spot on the Royal Purple sports staff. Since then, I’ve conducted a multitude of audio interviews for the variety of sports I have covered since joining the staff a year and a half ago. I’ve held audio interviews with many athletes from soccer, basketball, and football, women’s soccer head coach Ryan Quamme, women’s basketball head coach Keri Carollo, men’s head basketball coach Pat Miller, and softball head coach Brenda Volk.

I felt nervous doing my first audio interviews but have since become very comfortable with them. It’s become relatively easy for me to approach head coaches, especially after wins, even though it is sometimes still difficult for me to interview head coaches after losses. Most of the audio interviews I have conducted took place after games, although there have been some for features.

As far as the feature assignment for New Communication Technologies goes, I have already audio interviewed communications professor Amal Ibrahim about how NCTs have positive and negative effects in schools. Ibrahim teaches a variety of video production and TV reporting classes on-campus and has done so for many years. The interview with her went very well and she has had a lot of teaching experience throughout the years of how NCTs have transformed the classroom in good and bad ways. I’m still in the process of finding a second source for the other audio interview but I plan on having it being a friend of a friend, or something to that degree.