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/

Nick The Derp

Watch Nick Aresco in his natural habitat as he derps his way down to the mail room. Nick Aresco in all his derpiness glory.

CNN iReport Review

iReport is a page off of the CNN main homepage that allows the everyday average Joe to upload their own stories that they have made. The layout of the page I like because it is simple. The main page allows you to see videos and stories that the CNN Team i Report has recommended. The explore tab is a simple search tab that allows you to search for stories with iReport. The assignments tab I like because it gives you the real feeling of being a reporter by having an "assignment desk" where there are ideas for stories for people to do. There is your profile tab where you can edit your profile and finally there is the upload tab where you can upload the stories that you have done. Overall I feel a very user friendly site.

I do think that iReport is a good idea. It allows people to go out and do their own thing without having to be affiliated with a news station. While yes, most people's work won't end up on CNN it is cool that CNN does consider pieces to air on CNN if they are good enough.

Soundslides Project: Floor Hockey with Matt Drew

Over the weekend, an event occurred in Lyndonville, Vermont in the Lyndon State College Bole gym. At 8 o'clock, on Sunday October 20, Team Matt Drew took on Team J.D. in a competitive intramural sport of floor hockey. This would be Team Matt Drew's 6th game of the season and the first against Team J.D.

         Coming into Sunday night's game, Team Matt Drew's season record was 5-1. The team was feeling very confident coming into the game and expected to win against Team J.D. However, this was a very competitive game because both of these teams are very good.

          Matt Drew was starting and Goalie Joe Anderson was in the net for Team Matt Drew. For Team J.D. Michael Desmond was in the net. The game began with a quick goal by Matt Drew with just minutes into the first period. Drew continued to dominate the game as he scored a hat trick and had two assists. A hat trick is when three goals are scored in the same game by a player. The final score of the game was

11-0, team Matt Drew.        

          Drew has been playing ice hockey for 14 years and this is his third year playing floor hockey for the Lyndon intramural team. He says that floor hockey keeps him active and helps him stay in shape. Since he also plays for the Lyndon State club ice hockey team, he says that floor hockey helps him stay loose when he isn't at the rink.

          Susan Henry, the Athletic Facility Supervisor/Intramural Athletics Director of Lyndon State College puts together the intramural games and makes the schedule, including floor hockey. She also is the referee for some games. Henry hires student referees to ref the floor hockey games. Drew says that without her, there would probably be no well-organized intramural games.

Photographer: Adam Donnelly

Photo/Sound Editing: Adam Donnelly

Audio: Nick Aresco

Text: Nick Aresco

Music: "Paradise" from www.freemusicforvideo.com

Soundslides Synopsis

Nick and I will be going to an intramural hockey game on Sunday October 20 to watch team Matt Drew play team J.D. at 8pm. These two teams are the best teams in the League which is why it will be a good head-to-head match up.
While attending, we will be taking pictures of these two hard-playing teams battling against each other in the Stannard Gymnasium at Lyndon State College. The intended audience for this project will be everyone who attends Lyndon State. There are many students who love to watch intramural sports, and hockey is definitely a crowd-pleaser. While the slideshow is in progress, we will be interviewing one of the star players on team Matt Drew, Matt Drew himself. This will give the audience a different perspective on the game and will help the audience stay more engaged throughout the show. He will describe what is going on and give us some insight throughout the game. 
Adam will be the photographer for this project and Nick will be the writer. We both will then edit the piece together using the editing software, Avid.We will be using Olympus cameras to shoot this project for the slideshows