Video Production Students Tour TV Truck

Students from Lynn Franklin's Intro to Video Production course recently took a tour of an HD video production truck. This mobile studio was in Norman to telecast the OU-Kansas football game. During these games up to 22 ESPN Sports personnel will work in just one of three units assigned to a game. Students had the opportunity to ask questions of producers, directors, playback, audio, and other ESPN staffers.
Trucks of this kind work year round to create television content for NCAA sports, NASCAR, NBA, NFL and a host of other events.
Similarly, OU B&EM students have a unique opportunity to see professionals work due to their presence on the OU campus for a variety of sporting events. Some students actually worked during the game in paid positions for ESPN.
During a football game like OU v. Kansas, ESPN will employ 40-50 personnel for the one-day shoot. Prior to the event, personnel will set up cameras, FAX the production unit and all equipment, ingest content to be used during the on-air portion of the production, and create certain background features.

OU Student Creates Videos for ESPN The Mag

OU Broadcast & Electronic Media graduate student, Alex Shumate is now producing for ESPN, The Mag.com. Shumate auditioned for the spot along with a host of other college students and got his shot at producing weekly videos for ESPN The Mag.com.
Shumate's own sense of humor and distinct video style make each video unique and funny. Looking at Sooner football fans and their traditions makes for interesting web video and some of them are hilarious! My favorite is 'Norman to Seattle', check this link http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3583383 by clicking on the photo in this post. Be prepared though to see a group of Sooner fans who just can't let it go...... Good luck to Shumate and his Sooner Nation faithful.

OU Nightly Live in Norman, Tulsa, and OKC!

Again, beginning this month, OU Nightly, in conjunction with TV4OU, Sooner Vision, and Cox
Communications, is being broadcast live in Norman (Cox Cable 4 (TV4OU), Cox Cable 7 (The Cox Channel)), Tulsa (Cox Cable 3) and in Oklahoma City (Cox Cable 7). This show is seen in all of the Cox systems throughout the Tulsa metro and Oklahoma City metro and includes, Moore, Yukon, Edmond, Broken Arrow, Jenks, Sand Springs, Nichols Hills, The Village, Bethany, and a host of other communities. Previous to this interconnect, OU Nightly was only seen on about 30,000 screens in the immediate Norman area. With the addition of Tulsa and Oklahoma City, OU Nightly can now be seen on about 500,000 screens. Talks are in the works to add additional TV4OU programming to this schedule making for a one-hour block, nightly on the Cox Channel in all of the communities listed above. Check http://tv4.ou.edu/ for scheduled times and dates and watch TV4OU for updates on future programming additions.

TV4OU Takes 1st Steps Toward HD

OU's Gaylord College today took delivery on HD cameras and VTRs to begin the transition to HDTV. Sony HDV gear arrived today and included cameras, VTRs and monitoring. Students will begin this semester to produce HD content using this gear along with FCP editing.
Watch for some of these programs at http://tv4.ou.edu

Good Internship Hunting?

Here's a place in Dallas (actually Addison, TX) that hires interns year round... Listen to what they have to say about the benefit to their operation...
AMS Production Group - Internship Program - JobingVideo

TV4OU Live on The Web!

Watch TV4OU LIVE! Anytime! Anywhere! Watch TV4OU live from your computer. All TV4OU content is available 24/7/365 at http://tv4.ou.edu/fourplay.html. This streaming service allows folks everywhere to watch The Set, OU Nightly, OUr Sports Pad, TRT30 and many other TV4OU productions. Catch it now!!!!

Go Jill MTV Choose or Lose Reporter

Follow Jill Penuel during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Jill's working with MTV's Choose or Lose program to help provide in-depth coverage for this year's campaign. See Jill's reports & follow her activities at http://think.mtv.com/jillpenuel/.

Award-Winning TV-The Set

Some stills from 2007 studio sessions of The Set. This music show has some of the hottest bands and solo acts around performing live. Series creator, David Burkhart, has won numerous awards for this show produced at OU's Gaylord Hall TV studio. Here's a behind-the-scenes look...

A Friday Newscast - Tech Side

Another Friday rolls around to find an energetic crew ready to help create another episode of OU Nightly. Here's some photos from a recent Friday broadcast. Watch it live at http://tv4.ou.edu/fourplay.html