Author Archive for dnokess

Video Field Day Proves to be Learning Experience

Video Field Day took place at Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center on Monday, February 9, 2014. The event was held for students in Professor Derley Aguilar’s Advanced Multimedia Reporting class. Students were assigned to either the Orange or Maroon team. There were three events scheduled for each team to compete in, as well as a fourth event that […]

Video Field Day Proves to be Learning Experience

Video Field Day took place at Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center on Monday, February 9, 2014. The event was held for students in Professor Derley Aguilar’s Advanced Multimedia Reporting class. Students were assigned to either the Orange or Maroon team. There were three events scheduled for each team to compete in, as well as a fourth event that […]

Ake Looks to Settle into New Position

When the Virginia Tech softball team fell to the Lipscomb Lady Bisons 12-3 back on May 17, 2014, Amanda Ake thought that her time with the Hokies had come to an end. However, after a very successful career in centerfield for Tech, Amanda Ake joined the coaching staff of the softball team this fall as a […]

Newhouse Grads Make Big Impact in Broadcasting

The Samuel Irving Newhouse School for Public Communications at Syracuse University is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious journalism schools in the United States. Founded in 1964, S.I. Newhouse graduates some of the most recognizable names in sports broadcasting every single year. Here’s a closer look at just a few Syracuse products: Each broadcaster listed […]

Gable, #4 Ohio State pay Visit to Blacksburg

The Virginia Tech wrestling program kicked off one of the biggest weekends in program history on Saturday, November 22, 2014. Saturday night, Olympic gold medalist Dan Gable was in town to host a skills clinic for both college and local high school coaches and players. The visit from the wrestling legend set the stage for the […]

Baseball Situations

What I Did In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to try and take as many clips from the same game as possible to try and avoid any sort of confusion for the audience when viewing the final project. Today, I was able to find a game in the Nationals schedule that will […]

Revision Plan

My project is off to a good start. However, there are lots of improvements that can be made to make it even better. First off, some of my clips feature the Washington Nationals in different colored jerseys and playing against different teams. This could get confusing to the audience despite the broadcast running parallel to […]

Progress

What I Did I’ve successfully begun to arrange some of the broadcast clips for my project in iMovie. Most of the content will appear towards the end of the video. I’ve been able to find clips for three of the five players featured in the poem. I’ve also added a few slides that contain text to […]

The Struggle

Curating YouTube content has been more difficult than I thought for this project. I want the viewers of my final project to get all the necessary details in the video that are also in the poem. To do that, I need to find clips from MLB broadcasts that are parallel to the poem. Also, to […]

Timeline

Here’s a tentative schedule for the completion of my project:  M, 11/10: Mock-up, Storyboard, and/or Outline. (Find out what parts of the poem are crucial for the audience to understand what’s going on) F, 11/14: Make sure a good amount of clips are compiled for the video. M, 11/17: Presentation Sign-up. W, 11/19: Rough Cut for Peer […]