Final I-News Full Show

The final I-News full show is up on byuicomm.net.

And by final I mean final. It's not only the last full show of the semester but it will be the last full I-News show produced. For now at least. After some discussion with John Thompson the faculty head of i-Comm it's been decided that we are not going to be doing to full length shows next semester. We'll continue producing the two minute I-News updates, and the reporter will continue to create news packages but most of those packages will just be uploaded to the i-Comm website, rather than getting integrated into a full I-News show.

I'm getting a "promotion" as well. I'll be the one of the i-Comm web content managers next semester. Basically I'll be approving all the videos that are added to the website, as well as writing the polls that appear on the front page of the i-Comm website, and updating the I-News social media. It's more of a promotion of title than anything else. But it should be cool. I'll still be helping out the I-News people and may take on a story or two but I'll focused more on our web presence.

I-News full show.

I have only one I-News full show left this semester. It'll be out next week. As I was thinking of this I realized I never posted a link to the last I-News show I produced. As usual it can be found on byuicomm.net.

I think it's the best show we've done yet, there are a lot of good stories there I think. Aaron was out sick on the day that we shot so Monica is anchoring the show all by herself.

Pumpkins and Charity

I'm currently working on my latest I-News show, and I have a bit of time while I wait for it to render so I thought I'd go ahead and do a post to get caught up here a bit.

First my latest I-News package (which will also be in the full show.) It's about the Pumpkin Bowl. Basically for a class students put together a night of bowling, but with a twist. Instead of regular bowling balls pumpkins were used to knock down soda bottle pins.



Next we have a VOSOT that was cut from the last I-News full show (11-4-2010). I thought it was a good story, but keeping meant the show would be longer than we needed so it was cut. I thought it would be good to still run it thought so I sectioned it off and I've posted it.



I'll have another post as soon as the next I-News full show is up on the iComm website.

I-New 11-4-2010

The newest I-News full show is now up at byuicomm.net.

I think its the best show that has been done so far this semester. We have some new graphics that were put together for the show and they look really good. But more importantly the stories are pretty good.

The top story of the fish in the Geology Museum aquarium dying was given to me as a tip from a friend. Cyndi Hutch covered it and did an awesome job. There's also some good coverage of the Halloween celebrations around Rexburg.

We shot in the studio for the first time this semester. Shooting in the studio actually made things g much faster. It was nice.

Pre-schoolers tour The Crossroads, and third full show

[Update] 10-25-2010

I've removed my story on the pre-schoolers from YouTube and from the full show that was posted. I received an e-mail today from John Thompson the professor in charge of i-Comm Student Media (and therefore I-News) saying that he had received a complaint from a parent concerning their child being shown in the story, and asking for its removal. He removed the full show, my video, and the I-News update show that featured the story. I have removed the video from YouTube in order to respect that parents wishes. I have placed another story into the full show in my stories place.

We were under the impression that we were allowed to film the children when we shot the story. The preschool teachers said it was fine for most of the kids and pointed out some kids to us that they knew their parents wouldn't want their children shown. Since the teachers are students they were apparently unaware that we were not supposed to do this.

I was quite happy with what I put together when I produced the story and I don't really understand why the parents would want it removed (I don't have kids, but if I did, I think that I would not mind them appearing in a news story like the one I made) but I am going to comply with their wishes.

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Above is my latest package for I-News. It's about the "R" Children pre-school run on the BYU -- Idaho campus and a field trip they recently took to the crossroads. There's lots of footage of cute kids making and eating pizza.

Also my third full show is now up on byuicomm.net. This is the strongest show I've produced yet. My reporters are getting better as we go along and that's good to see. There were overall fewer hiccups in getting this show ready for to go up, and I think the end result is pretty good.

Second Full Show

The Second Full Show I produced this semester is now up on the BYU i-Comm website. I think that its a much smoother show than the last. There are still some little details that are not quite what I would hope, but over all I think this a stronger package than the last.

I had to put a shortened version of my profile on Keisha from the last post in because one of my reporters was not able to deliver a package after she forgot her camera in Salt Lake. We're still working on getting a style guide for the show solidified as well. But I think things are much improved and I'm pretty happy with the end result.

Keisha Profile

This is a profile I did a couple of semesters ago. I never got it online so I figured I ought to. So here it is.

1st Full Show

The first full show I produced.

The above link should take you where you can watch the first full show that I produced for I-News. All things considered I think its pretty good for a first show. While technically the second full show of the semester it's more or less the first show of the semester too. By that I mean it was the first to be done this semester. The full show released before this was made up of packages created by the producers from the semester before. This show was made up of packages made by my crew this semester.

Most of the crew is new to I-News and new to news production in general. Of my crew of nine only two have done I-News in the past and one did some news production in high school. The other six completely new.

The format itself is new. This is the first semester that we are producing full shows. The goal is to get at least six episodes done this semester that are good enough to be broadcast on BYU TV.

I had a number of technical problems, you'll notice the video is stretched in a few places. I minimized it the best I could. At least one of the packages was not formatted right which caused the stretching.

I also got it onto the web late, because apparently there is a size limit on the byuicomm website, that I didn't know about. That problem has obviously been solved now.

I hope that you like the show. Hopefully we'll have gotten many of these issues ironed out by next week.

My latest package for I-News. This was made to be part of the first show that I produced. That show is not up yet but (hopefully) will be soon. I'll have a link up and more details on it when it is up and ready.

Behind the scenes of Shark Brown

This is a video that I edited together using footage that Doug shot on his flip cam for a behind the scenes feature for Shark Brown.



The premiere is tomorrow night! Again if you're near Rexburg we look forward to seeing you there.

Recyclable sorter and others

Here is my last I-news piece for this semester a VOSOT on the recyclable sorter being done by the mechanical engineering students. Yeah the guy I was interviewing wasn't very good at look towards me or even the camera. I'm still having trouble getting video from the i-Comm website to embed properly so the link will have to do.



The above the trailer that a member of my group cut together for the TV pilot we did. The pilot is premiering April 7 at 7 PM in the Spori room 35. If your in Rexburg feel free to stop by.

Capstone Projects

My latest package for I-News on the mechanical engineering capstone projects. Most of them weren't entirely assembled as the students are still working on their designs and working out kinks and what not but they showed me what they have and they are looking pretty cool.

I did some other supplementary pieces where each of the projects are explained in more detail.

http://www.byuicomm.net/video.php?c=839

http://www.byuicomm.net/video.php?c=838

http://www.byuicomm.net/video.php?c=837


I'm working on figuring out how to embed video from the i-Comm website but so far its not really working for me. So the links will have to do for now.

New Videos

The iComm website was revamped and so that is why I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. We were waiting for the new site to be up and instructions on how to make our videos in the new format required for the new website.

My most recent was on Brain Awareness Week, which was celebrated by the Neuroscience Academic Society. http://www.byuicomm.net/video.php?c=797

Here is a quick reader I did on the Rat Lab here at BYU -- Idaho. http://www.byuicomm.net/video.php?c=798 As is standard with readers I took the picture and made the graphic and our anchor read the script I wrote.

Geology Museum

I did another VOSOT for i-News this time on the schools geology museum. This time we had time to run through the script so Melissa reads it very well. The guy on turbos was a bit slow on hitting play so you don't get to see much of the aquarium stuff I shot, but over all this one ran pretty smoothly. You can watch it at the iComm website here.

Guitar Tuning

I did this for class as a corporate video. My original plan was to tie it into a business (either Alvarez Guitars or the local music store Mike's Music) but I realized I could pass it off as a video that came bundled with the guitar and that would meet all the requirements of the project so there isn't any tie in with a specific business. This isn't quite finalized, you'll notice that some of the audio is a bit hotter than others. I re-shot this three or four times and then took the best bits from each take. I'm actually fairly happy with how it came out all things considered. Some tweaks are still needed, but I don't think it turned out bad at all.

Chickens

Hey so I have a new video that I did. It's a VOSOT which means that it's a story that I wrote being read by our anchor Mike while the video I shot is being shown, and towards the end there is a quick bit from an interview I shot. The day we shot the show we had a guest speaker show up to iComm which iNews is a part of. So we didn't have a chance to do a run through of our show. So it's a little rough Mike is reading his script for the first time and he stumbles quite a bit, but I think the video that I shot is good. You can watch it on the iComm website here.

I went ahead and did a version of the video with me doing the voice over since it's not the greatest reading on the link. And it's not Mike's fault, I don't want it to sound like I'm bad mouthing him or anything. It's just that since Mike didn't have a chance to look it over his reading wasn't very smoother. So the video below is a smoother version.

Acoustic cafe

My first package for iNews this semester. It's a "look live" which means that since our school doesn't actually have either a microwave or satellite truck to do live shots with in order to gain live experience we fake it. That's why it begins and ends as it does. I'm pretending to be speaking live to the anchors in the studio.

The auditions were fun to attend and shoot, and overall I'm pretty happy with how this package came out. This is different slightly from the one that aired because I changed my ending "live" stand up. I flubbed up speaking a bit on the one that aired, but there was more time at the end to give the TD a chance to switch back to the anchor before our illusion of being live was ruined. So I used that one. I liked this take better unfortunately I cut my end padding too short so I felt I should use the other take instead for the broadcast (podcast?) version.

My producer just walked into room to tell me that she loved my look live and that its the best she's seen come from iNews yet. I'm feeling very happy about that.