Final Project

For our final project we will be visiting WWLR and speaking with members of the radio station. Some of our goals will be to have a story on their fundraiser where they sold t-shirts, a slide show with Natural sound of someone hosting a show in the radio station, and an accompanying map to illustrate the coverage area for the station and a podcast review of one show.

NEK Video Project

Natural Beauty does not go unappreciated, even by the electronically stimulated generation, when you live here in the northeast kingdom.
You may have to look around for them, but there is plenty of beautiful sights right here near Lyndon State College. Places such Burke Mountain, Lake Willoughby, and historic Darling Hill Road may be some of the most beautiful places not only in the area, but in all of Vermont.
LSC students take the time to enjoy these sights while they have the time up here at school.
“I just love the fresh air,” LSC Senior Kyle Gould said. “It’s nice. We don’t have a lot of people and traffic and stuff that creates a lot of poor air quality like you have in cities, so it’s just nice. ”
62% of students here at LSC are from in state. The other 38% may not have been immersed in the Vermont beauty that the northeast kingdom has to offer.
Burke Mountain, located in East Burke, is the northeast kingdom’s very own ski mountain and resort. People from all over the world travel to see the world-renowned trails and resort that LSC students travel to daily during the winter ski and snowboard season.
“I love being able to go to Burke on a fresh powder day,” said LSC Senior Caleb Noble, who hails from Massachusetts. “There’s nobody at the mountain but you. It’s quiet, it’s beautiful, and there’s nobody around and you just kind of be one with yourself. It’s just a beautiful area.”
Along with Burke Mountain, the world famous Kingdom Trails see millions of visitors every year. The trails cover many miles that LSC students get to ride along during the few warm weeks of the fall semester, and the few warm weeks of the spring semester.
“I love the over 100 miles of mountain biking trails,” said Noble.
With so many places to see, many students prefer to be outside more than they are inside. They find that it is more relaxing, soothing than inside their dorm room.
“The air’s cleaner, its just a lot nicer,” said Senior LSC student Joe Biega.
“There are a lot of hills for physical exercise. For someone like me who used to like to do hills in cross-country…they’re always a good thing to keep your strength up.”
Whether you have just one more semester or many semesters left here at LSC, make sure you get out and enjoy all of the beautiful sights and sounds of the northeast kingdom.

Video Project

For our video project, we're going to be creating a video package of the northeast kingdom. Our sound sources are basically going to be wildlife and natural sound. It will have narration about specific areas that are well known.

Flag Football Soundslide

Lyndon State College Intramurals

The Lyndon state flag football league is one of the hidden treasures for students searching out a Sunday activity. With a small sign up sheet posted near sue Henry's office, word of mouth has continued to fuel and spark interest of many students that are a part of the Lyndon State College community.
The league was based off of the ever-popular AMS flag football tournament. The league was integrated nicely with a full schedule of games for Sunday mornings from 8 to noon. Intramurals Director Sue Henry was able to assign work-study students to referee the games as well.
The game is played with 8 players on the field for each team. The league became more realistic this year by changing the first down rules to be more similar to football; it was changed from a two-completion rule to gaining a certain number of yards from the line of scrimmage. Both of which had to be done within the four downs allotted.
The game is played in two halves of twenty minutes each. There are no fake plays on the extra point either. If the team says they are kicking a field goal they are obligated to kick and cannot throw or run the ball in. With the season quickly concluding, and eminent weather threatening to cover the field in snow, each team knows it is playoff time.
Playoffs are played in a two game per week format for two Sundays in a single elimination style. The final game is the championship game. With the intramural field designated a construction zone, the athletic director allowed the teams access to the soccer field.
Something appreciated by all players, "it’s awesome to be able to play since the school doesn't have a football team and now that we're on the varsity field it brings games to a whole new level." Ed Horan, a junior whose is in his third of playing, explained.
Sue Henry also offers many other intramural options. There are other league options such as basketball, floor hockey, and volleyball.
Along with their league intramurals, there is also a weekly intramural sport offered during the weekends. It is held on Saturdays and ranges from dodge ball to table tennis. Residence halls on campus compete against each other to win the intramural championship.
Intramural activities are meant to be non-competitive and to promote exercise on campus. You can contact Sue Henry at Susan.Henry@lyndonstate.edu for more information on all intramural sports around campus.

CNN iReport Critiques

The first CNN iReport Critique I am doing is:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-694324

This first one was just a photo accompanied by a small blurb about the photo.  I like the idea of these because they can bring a lighter side to the news.  The small child and dog in costume are quite humorous, and many people also enjoyed it.

The next one I critiqued was:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-697352

To start, this one had problems loading, where I had perfect internet speed.  Once it started, there was no tracking or explanation of what was going on.  The title said "Siam bracing for possible floods, but that's not exactly what I saw in the video.  This story was not what I expected, or very good in general.

The last one I will critique is:

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-697283

I had some mixed reviews of this video.  Although I could barely see the fire and I did not understand what the person was saying, I thought that the idea of this video was a good one.  Any user can upload their video, so in theory, CNN could use this video if it were a fire of an important place or something of that nature.  The quality was lacking, but the idea was good, so I actually liked this video.

Overall, the ideas and theory of this part of the website is good, but it is still lacking execution.  It needs some policing and some more rules of guidelines before it can take another step to the next level.

Audio Sound Slides Project

Audio Slideshow Project

For our project were going to do an audio slideshow of a flag football game. For our sound source were going to interview one of the players and have him talk about the game and his thoughts. Our intended audience would probably be anyone thats into sports. Its in interesting story because flag football is not a division three sport. The guys are just doing it because they love the game.

Sound Slides

Sound slides are a great way to share a story visual without having to use a video camera.  You can still show the visuals you want the viewer to see, and have them hear the soundbites that they need to hear in order to create feelings for the story.  Sound slides can share a different story in ways that a video cannot.

The first one I viewed was found when I typed in award winning sound slides.  It can be found at http://www.brianmanzullo.com/home/bmanzullo/multimedia/soundslides/paralympic/

This sound slide was a little different than some, and it was amazing.  It was an all natural sound piece where there was no tracking by a reporter.  The sights and sounds were great, and you could feel like you were there.  There were also some soundbites that gave you a better feel of what it would have been like to be there.  This sound slide is one of the best I have ever seen.

The second sound slide project that I found was not as serious of a sound slide but was still very good.  It can be found at http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/soundslides/hokie_bird/gallery.html

This one used all tracking, mainly because it would be difficult to interview a mascot.  They could have added people's thoughts on the Hokie bird.  What they did do great is matched action shots where they matched what the person tracking was saying with a photo of what the Hokie bird doing.  Sometimes a goofy and funny sound slide project can be used this way, and it can still be good, like this one.

The last one that I found to critique was on a girls basketball game done by ESPN.  It can be found at http://www2.hoopgurlz.com/slide25/index.html

This one used only soundbites to talk to some of the girls from an all-star high school girls basketball game.  They used pictures of the girls who played in this game to match with their voices when they were talking.  This one could have used some tracking becauuse I was a bit confused as to what it was about in the beginning.

One photo gallery I found was on the Miami Herald website.  It can be found at http://www.miamiherald.com/photogalleries/#navlink=navbar

The photo gallery usually has many pictures from almost all of the stories that go onto their website.  They take all of the photos and put them up in their gallery for everyone to see.  There are captions for each photo that describe what is going on.  Each photo can not only be purchased, but shared on social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.  Sharing the pictures is another way people can spread the word about their photo gallery and it is a great tool to use if you need photos.

One last sound slide that I found was one without any audio.  It can be found at http://vimeo.com/12643770

This one was interesting because it involved more reading instead of listening.  The pictures were not all self explanatory and it was difficult to understand what the project was about.  Almost every time there was a new picture, I would have to pause the sound slide and read what the caption said in order to understand what was going on in the photo.  There's a reason they are called "sound" slides, and that's because they are a lot easier to understand with sound.