Play ball

As I said in my previous blog, I am starting out slowly. For the week of September 22- 28, I submitted a reader on women’s golf for the sports show and shot highlights from the women’s volleyball game. For the reader the only problem that I encountered was that I had to wait until the end of the two day women’s golf tournament in order to completely retrieve the necessary information. The footage I shot from the women’s volleyball game was a different matter. When I first put the tape in the camera, everything was working fine. However, when I began to shoot during the game, the screen said “Heads Dirty; Use Cleaning Cassette.” I tried a few things and after recording for 10 and a half minutes straight (whenever I paused the dirty head signal appeared), I thought the problem was fixed. After all I was able to record without any interruption. Unfortunately, when I went to go edit the highlights there were black “stripes” across the images. So at the end, I was unable to get the highlights I needed. What I learned is that, as usual, I need to be better prepared and have more usable tapes at hand. Either that or learn how to clean the heads of the tapes.

1 hour reader + 2 hours shooting = 3 hours

1st blog of the new semester

And so I have returned. After a seemingly short summer break, I am back to working for “hours”. For the week of September 8 to September 14 I submitted 3 readers to the News Show. Although I was told to look for and read stories on The Ledger, I was unable to because some sort of trial period ran out. To solve this problem, I went to other sites (ABC Action News affiliate for Polk County and Bay News 9 for example) to get ideas for readers. For now, I am thinking that for this semester I should start out slowly before getting back to shooting more.


 3 hours