RWU Girls Basketball: Season and Expectations

For our most recent story, MLS news covered the girls basketball team here at Roger Williams University. 

For this assignment our team experimented more with the use of Final Cut Pro. We went beyond lower thirds and added a musical introduction. 

We also tackled a lot of obstacles that we have encountered in the past. Our interview were in quiet places with visually stimulating backgrounds. Also, we chose to zoom in the camera while our interviewees were talking in order to get the best quality out of the shot.

Another obstacle that we tackled was lighting. The lighting was very good in all of our shots and we were able to get some great action shots of the girls practicing. 

We had to shoot indoors for part of the story because the basketball court was the main focus. Otherwise, all of our other shots are outside, just like Professor Scully wanted.

We learned more about working together while we aren't together. It was a group effort even though we all could not be together at the same time. Mike worked hard at the editing process trying to teach Lindsey and Shannon at the same time. Shannon stepped in as the reporter and was able to experience what it was like being in front of the camera versus behind it. Lindsey worked on the blog to keep it up to date. Unfortunately, all of our schedules are so completely different and we are not always able to work on our stories at the same time. Some weeks, other members of the team contribute a little more based on time and schedules, but we also make up for it within the following weeks.

We are very proud with our story this week. We've come along way since the first week of class and have made a conscious effort to correct our mistakes.

MLS news, signing off!!

Editing our first assignment- 9/30/08

During class, we begin taking video off of our Canon Vixia H10 video camera and transferring it to our computer into Final Cut Pro.  From that point, we begin to assemble and produce the news story.  After the video footage was transfered onto the computer, we started to dissect the voice over that was recored so that we could place it appropriately in the video clip.  Mike is an experienced user of Final Cut Pro and led our team through the process of putting everything together.  Lindsey and Shannon are learning more and more each week.

We experimented with the lighting of the videos to make dark shots look lighter and to match the time of day (the event was supposed to take place in the afternoon, but we shot the video as the sun was setting. We want it to look as authentic as possible).  Getting each clip to match with the lighting was a bit of a challenge and we had to spend a little bit of time troubleshooting that part of the editing process. 

Placing the Broll with the appropriate voice over was a little bit harder than we has originally thought.  In order to get the story to flow smoothly, we had to make sure that the voice over and the image matched, but also that it was placed at the right place in the sequence of the story line.

Placing all of the pieces of the puzzle together is a really interesting and fulfilling process. It's cool to see the story unfold even after we've already told it. 

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