Homecoming Weekend!

Well I have to start off by apologizing for my late post this week. I've been feeling really sick again lately, and I haven't slept, oh, about all week. Ya know, nose, head, throat, cough, all the good stuff. I finally got some sleep today - almost all of today. So, at least I feel better now, right? I have a busy weekend ahead of me, and a pretty busy week behind me as well.
In other news - It's Homecoming Weekend! Sarah Bowers came by to watch The County Line last night, and Joy is supposed to come up tonight for the weekend. Yay for alumni. Homecoming also means the parade and game tomorrow - I'm Field Commander for Titan Marching Band, so it's going to be a busy day. Unfortunately, it looks like it might be a yucky cold rainy busy day.

What I did in BC This Week: Probly about the most fun thing so far...I went out with Liz this past weekend to film the Fall Festival at the Apple Castle. Liz had to most of the filming, since she needs raw video footage for video production class. But I helped point out shots that would be fun, and the folks we interviewed were great. It was a really enjoyable atmosphere, and I was SO excited that people knew what we were doing? The first guy we bumped into was like "Oh, are you guys with Cable 9?" I was like, yeah, totally! No one's ever known what I was doing before, wandering around with a camera and Sarah Bowers by my side! Plus, when Liz had me reach up like I was going to pick an apple, three other apples fell on my head. *makes mock-angry face*
I also had my DJ shift - Tandi gave us back our aircheck tapes and some notes. Mine were mostly good, and I tried to work on the other stuff that she pointed out, but nothing major. So that was good. My newscast on the other hand.... Just about the worst newscast ever. Don't get me wrong - we had great stories and pretty decent sound, with good story order/flow and all...but it took so long to get the last sound byte that I ended up running into the studio as ABC news was finishing. I forgot to stick the minidisc in the player, and Alaina had accidentally left my stories in reverse order when she was seperating them. I didn't realize it until the third story. Those are the times when I wish our station ran a little more like my internship - their stories and soundbytes are imbedded directly into a file on the computer and they just walk from the newsroom to the booth, and read off that computer! LOL. The important thing to remember from this situation is that I was strangely calm throughout the whole ordeal. Last year I would have been stressing out completely. So, that's growth!

Career Planning: I've been trying to understand not only what makes a great resume tape, but also just the basics of a tape (what to put on it, how long total tape should be, best first thing to hear, etc). We made an example tape in Broadcast Journalism, but I think there's more to it than what I ended up with there. For my capstone project I want to get mine sent out by mid-November...but I don't have anything to send yet. I have all my material from the past four years, yeah, but I don't really know what to do with it! So I've been talking to people in the business, and Mr. Weaver is sposed to address more details in capstone this week, because I guess some other people are at about the same place I am. I have to really get working on these tapes because the deadline for that is drawing near, especially with Fall break next week.

What's happenin' in the biz: Going along with what Sebastian was talking about a view weeks ago in one of his posts, the article I found here is about ESPN2 debuting it's new spanish-language production of SportsCenter. I found the headline on the Broadcast and Cable news site, but I didn't have an account to view the full story. The show will give latest scores and sports news and information, much in the same format as the English-language show. Lino Garcia is the general manager for ESPN Deportes. Garcia says this is a great chance for the rest of the world to check out the show and see what its about. Much as Sebastian hopes our country will someday do - there will be a focus on soccer and other sports that are not necessarily "mainstream."