Beginning Work on Communication Objectives

Communication Objective 1

Produce content for Dixie State University volleyball team in the 2015 season.

How I Accomplished my Objective

This was the start of my work for my professional project. I was tasked with creating an opener for the Dixie State University volleyball team. Before I even started putting anything together I had to watch hours of game film. I wanted to watch multiple games to get the feel of how the show had been put together in the previous seasons. While watching game film I noticed that there were some camera angles that worked better than others and I wanted to use those angles for my opener. I would watch the game and take notes on the highlights from the game and record the times when they happened. I was glad that I took the time to write down the times of the plays because I was able to use those when I finally put together the opener.

I started work on the opener by getting game film that I had previously watched and putting it into Adobe Premier. This step is where I would again watch game film and cut out the clips for each highlight that I was looking at. This process took several hours because I had to either watch every second of the game again, or input the recording time of the game and fine tune each clip from there. All of the games that I watched had two forms. One of them had a time code on them and the other didn't. I would use the game with the time code to initially get the clips because it was easier to find them on that film. Then I would find the same clips on the footage that was not time coded and add it to my final compilation.

In addition to finding clips from the games I needed to find complementary music that could run in the background of my opener, and record a voice over to announce what viewers were going to see. I listened to music from warnerchappellpm.com to find what sounded best with my clips. The song I ended up choosing has a good mix of down beats that coincide with clip changes or kills. For the voice over I ended up asking a member of the CEC staff to record a script that I sent him because he was the voice for the softball and baseball openers. I wanted volleyball to be similar to those and show that the same company produced them.