Final Project

Final Project Synopsis: Rita Bole v Stonehenge

For our final project Nick and myself will be doing a piece on what it is like to live in Rita Bole. Living in Rita Bole is very different comparative to living in the Stonehenge resident halls. 

We will show what Rita Bole has to offer as far as what the dorm rooms are like and what extra utilities students get by living there. We will then show a suite in a Stonehenge dorm to show how it compares to a Rita Bole suite. 

For the Rita Bole suite we will be interviewing friends of ours, Zach Rodrigues, Matt Drew, Duffy Webster, and Jeremy Holden, to get their take on living in Rita Bole and what they do not like about it and what they do like about it.

For the comparative aspect to Stonehenge we will be interviewing our friend John John who has a room in the Stonehenge dorms, and who also spends a lot of time in the afore mentioned people’s suite, to get his spin on what it is like to live in the Stonehenge dorms and what he thinks is better.

Finally we will interview an RA to get him/her to get their take on what it is like to do rounds in Rita Bole compared to the Stonehenge dorms.

We will incorporate still pictures as well as video to tell the story. We will shoot video and take pictures on an iPhone and we will also strap a Go-Pro to some of the interviewee's heads to get their perspective of the dorm rooms. Adam will do the shooting, Nick will do the reporting, and we both will do the editing.  

Video Project 2 Web Producer

Lyndon State College is a Vermont State College located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in a small town called Lyndonville.

 As a student, you can choose many paths to go down in your college career. However, there is one that stands out from the rest. News 7 is a student run newscast that broadcasts out to the neighboring towns around Lyndonville.

Courtland Hanley, a senior at Lyndon State, works as a reporter for News 7. He is a senior web producer for the News 7 website, Newslinc. This is his first semester as a web producer and enjoys it very much.

Hanley works with three other web producers down in News 7 during the semester. The three of them rotate week long shifts and average about 6 hour shifts per day.

Hanley wanted to become a web producer because he loves the internet. ESPN.com is his most visited website as he is a huge sports fanatic. He gets most of his news from the internet. Working as a web producer allows him manage what news should and should not go online.

Hanley also likes the “free schedule” of web producing. He says that down stairs in News 7 there is a 5:30p deadline which is when you need to get stories in. However, up in Newslinc, “you are done when you’re done and it is a little bit more relaxed.”

As a web producer, like Courtland, he finds stories for the reporters down in News 7 so he will contact the producer downstairs and so they can figure out the more important stories are and then the stories are brought up into Newslinc for the writers to work on.

When the stories are upstairs, Hanley assists the writers and looks the stories over and give them some feedback. He then he posts the stories on the website in order in which they were finished for the public to see.

Hanley says that he cannot wait to web produce next year for his last year at Lyndon State College.

Video Project 2

 For this project, we are going to be shooting a day in the life of a web producer for Lyndon State College's news website, Newslinc. This will be featuring Courtland Hanley, who has been a web producer for the website for about 5 months.
          Throughout the video, Courtland will discuss what his job description is and what it takes to be a web producer. He will show us how he picks the stories that he wants on the website and how he decides those stories that will be posted. Courtland will then give us a 1 on 1 on reasons why he likes and dislikes web producing.
          We will be using an SLR digital camera for the shooting of this video project. Adam will be shooting the production and both Adam and Nick will be editing it. Nick will be doing the writing portion of this project.
          We plan on shooting this project while Courtland is working on his shift as a web producer. 

Guitar Hero Tournament

 Guitar Hero is a musical rhythm game that turned into a series in 2005. The series currently has seven minor releases and four expansions on gaming consoles and has become a sensation. Guitar Hero continues to be popular with the entire world and is still selling in high numbers.
          Zach Rodrigues has been playing Guitar Hero since he was 12 years old. When he plays, he focuses only on the game and nothing else. With purchasing almost every game in the Guitar Hero series, he could be considered one of the best.
          In this short video, we see Rodrigues duel against three contestants, Matt, Jeremy, and Duffy and blows them all out of the water. We asked them that they play on the same difficulty as Rodrigues which was "expert", the most hardest difficulty. On every song, Rodrigues scored an 85% or higher on the most hardest difficulty. Throughout the video, you can see that Rodrigues doesn't even have to put in an effort. In one clip, we can see that he plays the guitar behind is back without even having to look at the buttons on the guitar.
          After every contestant was finished matching up against Rodrigues, we interviewed them separately and everyone time we asked them what went wrong, their response was, "He is just too good." and that they need more practice.
          Rodrigues says that he will keep playing Guitar Hero because it is fun and it relaxes him. He knows he is good but wants to get better. There are plenty of people that are better than him in the world and he wants to increase his skill level.
        
Photographer: Adam Donnelly
Reporter: Nick Aresco
Editing: Adam Donnelly/Nick Aresco

Video Project Preview: Guitar Hero Battle

For this project, Nick and I will be taking a video camera from VIC and shoot a Guitar Hero Tournament.

Zach Rodriguez, a Guitar Hero pro, will try and keep his title standing. 5 others will compete and try and take his title away from him.

Adam will do the shooting.
Nick will be the reporter and editor.
We will both be editing the piece down in avid.

(This is just a joke, Zach is not really a "pro" but he is really good and we are going to pretend this is a Tournament.)

Video In Newspapers: Telegram & Gazette

This particular newspaper is the Telegram & Gazette which is a newspaper that covers central Massachusetts located in Worcester, Massachusetts.

This newspaper has a multimedia section on its website and within the multimedia section it has a specific video section as well. These videos do not look professional they look rather amateurish despite the fact that they are done by the Telegram's reporters.

The type of videos vary. There are sports videos, person profile videos, etc...in order to get to the video section you must scroll to the bottom of the homepage until you come across a single video. From there you can click on a link above the video that says "see more videos." It appears that the Telegram & Gazette does not make the videos that they produce a priority on their website.

Check out the Telegram & Gazette here: http://www.telegram.com/