Seniors Advice to Freshmen

This past week, Team 007 put together a new news package. The package can be seen below. In this video, we questioned senior students at Roger Williams University and asked them what they wished they knew when they were freshmen. Some answers were funny and some were quite interesting.

Problems during shoot:

Our team ran into some problems at the beginning since we couldn't get very many women to appear in our video. We edited the video so that the two women who did give us some comments were split apart to create an allusion of more females in the shoot. Another problem we ran into was the wind. At Roger Williams University, we are located right next to the water and the wind is often fairly strong. It created some difficulties in our interviews and when you watch the clip you will hear some of the students being cut off.

The other problem we ran into while editing was how to probably do the transitions. We tried to make them as short as possible with still allowing the viewer catch the number on the screen. It could have been better but it suited its purpose.

What we learned:

Our team has to do a better job of blocking out the wind. Whether it be surrounding the microphone or using rubber around it, something has to be done. Also we thought it would be interesting if we did a unique closing, but it made our team look like amateurs. These are supposed to be professional news stories and this one was not up to par. Finally, we learned some techniques in this editing cycle that will hopefully help us with our next video.

If you want to view these videos on Youtube, search mcovill0511 or RWUdigitalmedia, the videos as well as blooper videos can be seen on Youtube.




In case you can't view the video these were the ten tips by the seniors:
1. Make good friends with the RA's.
2. How to sneak beers past the RA's.
3. Don't come to school with high school girlfriend.
4. "Don't be a fool, wrap your tool".
5. Get involved.
6. Spend less time napping.
7. Health services sells condoms six for a dollar.
8. ( Joke response )
9. Don't slack off and keep your grades up.
10. Be yourself.