Talent Interview

In an assignment titled, "Someone Talented", we were to find someone with a particularly interesting talent and report on them. This package was more about visually stimulating camera shots rather than news reporting like we had done in the past. For this piece, Team 007 decided to interview Hilary Wehner, who is an extremely gifted clarinet player for the Roger Williams University Pep Band. She also held a major role in composing and writing the Roger WIlliams University Fight Song. Take a look at this video to see more about Hilary and also hear her wonderful musical talent.





Unfortunately, Team 007 suffered while putting this package together. Due to demanding and conflicting schedules, Max was forced to interview Hilary on his own, and also edit the film. Due to these circumstances, our final product suffered as well. However, like James Bond, Team 007 doesn't stay down for long, and we are ready to bounce back and give our next news package "1007%."

Senior Wishes

For our next news package assignment, we were given the topic of "seniors." This was a very broad assignment, so coming up with an idea was a bit challenging. Team 007 and I decided on the idea of "Senior Advice to Freshman: Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was a Freshman." We decided to keep the same rolls as last time, and I was once again the producer and reporter, while Ben Camobreco played the roll of the camera man, and Max Covill edited the project.

For this news package we chose a beautiful sunny day at Roger Williams, and set up our video camera in the quad between the library and the School of Business. We stopped people who we knew were seniors (and jumped at a few who we didn't know) and asked them the question, "as a senior, what is one thing you wish you knew when you were a freshman?" We got a great mix of answers which included everything from where you can find condoms on campus, to a warning on how fast school flies by. We were even shocked when I asked one senior what he wished he knew, and his answer was "you." I was very thrown off by his answer and obviously began to blush quite a bit.

We interviewed about 14 people, so we could pick our favorite ten responses, and looking back on the completed video, I wish we replaced the clip of me getting hit on. It was very funny at the time and I thought it would add a whimsical feel to the movie, but i think we should have saved it for the "Blooper Reel" instead. Another critique of our news package was with my sign-off. Again, to keep the movie light-hearted, I decided to do a 007 pose when I said "Team 007." We shot two different sign-offs, one with the pose and one without, and we felt that to go along with the fun feel of the movie, we would use the pose. Looking back, it did take away from our professionalism, and should have tried to keep it a bit more serious in places like that.

Team 007 again worked very well together for the assignment. We have been listening to our criticisms in class, and we are taking it all in, and hopefully our movies will continue to improve.

Construction Chaos

Professor Scully broke our New Media class up into groups of three or four people to work on news packages for the rest of the semester. My team consists of Ben Camobreco, Max Covill and myself. For our first assignment I took on the roll of producer as well as the on-camera reporter, Ben was the camera man, and Max was the editor on Final Cut Pro. Our group chemistry was very nice because we were all able to fall into our rolls easily.

For our first news package assignment, Professor Scully asked us to report on Something happening on the Roger Williams University campus. My team (which we named Team 007) decided to report on the construction that is taking place all around North Campus. We chose this topic because it is something that every Roger Williams student sees every day, and the detours and blocked roads lead to a very messy commute to campus.

The current construction that students are seeing now is the underground foundation being put into place for a new dorm that will be located in the area that is currently the tennis courts. Other plans for campus renovation include new north campus classrooms and new tennis courts. The entire project is expected to be completed by the Fall of 2009 and will cost roughly 89 million dollars.

I am very happy with our finished product. For our first news story, I believe we all did a very good job. I especially like our B-Roll which shows images of the construction in every area. The weather was a bit nasty when we decided to shoot my stand-up, but there really wasn't anything we could do about that, but next time we will check the weather report and try to shoot on a nicer day.