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IU / television / video / Wednesday — Comments Off on On Wednesdays we share videos
2
Oct 19

On Wednesdays we share videos

Isn’t Phoebe cute? Scroll down right after this post if you missed her Catober debut. You can, of course, see all of the Catober photos at that link as the month continues.

Phoebe loves to be in the room with you, but she’s not too keen on being held. Unless it is on her dime, and then you should put everything down and get ready to have paws in your face. When she does want to cuddle she’s wholly invested in it. Even if she doesn’t like being held, she has become very receptive to our pets. She was a bit standoffish at first, and maybe there was a story there, but even then she always wanted her belly rubbed. So she gets a lot of belly pets. She also loves playing with her toys, and I think she’s trying to tell us right now we should play more. For the most part she only scratches the things she’s supposed to, and she does a pretty good job about not being on surfaces a cat shouldn’t be on. She’s also taken the top level of this very involved cat structure as her own and she likes to roll over and see the world from upside down up there.

Also, we are waiting on her to absolutely lose it on her brother and beat him up. Poseidon is kind of mean to her, but we’ll hopefully get that sorted out soon.

And now for some videos! We’re in award-nominating season right now, and some episode of almost all of these shows is getting pushed forward for consideration. Won’t you keep your fingers crossed with us until finalists are announced in December, or until your hand cramps up, whichever comes first.

This week’s episode of Not Too Late:

If you’re more of a morning person, here’s the Breakfast Club:

And we’d welcome you to the news, as well:

They shot that episode last night. One of the anchor’s entire family was in the studio watching, and it was also her birthday. No pressure, right?

This one is also from last night:

And we are all caught up again. Until Thursday, which is tomorrow. I’ll definitely be behind by tomorrow.

Friday / IU / television / video — Comments Off on Sounds like a productive production day
27
Sep 19

Sounds like a productive production day

Three different trips into the television studio today. One for a simple Q&A recording, then students had their morning show, of course. That episode will come out … sometime between now and then. I think they’re still honing in on their editing system. Somewhere right in there I had to duck into an audio booth, because sometimes you’re asked to deliver all of the finer points of audio production in under half-an-hour.

(You can’t deliver all of the finer points of audio production in under half-an-hour. But I can give you some of them. So you get some, and I will hope they are the right ones and enough.)

After that, Jonathan Banks — of Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Airplane! among others — stopped by to talk about acting. It’s a program they call “Expert Workshop” and it does get great experts. I’m assuming this one will wind up online at some point. Most of them do. Aside from the famous name, this one was special in that it was entirely student produced, which is something I first suggested three years ago, and we’ve been working slowly toward ever since.

I see students produce programs every week as a part of the student television station, for example. There’s no reason other students couldn’t be producing for classroom projects or special events such as the Banks visit.

Here are the two shows the sports side of the student television station produced last night, in fact. First, the show with all the highlights and updates you need:

The Award-WinningTM sports crew also put together this talk show. New host, new hijinks, same fun:

An interesting thing happens every year. They start off and they build a little momentum, and then there’s an episode or two where they struggle with this or that, or a key piece of gear goes on the blip, throwing a wrench into things. Then they bounce back and find a groove they’ll hold all year. That might have been last night. And despite that sort of thing, they still put together two nice little shows. which means that in a week or two they’ll really be rolling.

And you? How are you? Are you rolling into your weekend yet? You should be. Get to it.

journalism / photo / television / video / Wednesday — Comments Off on Hey! News!
25
Sep 19

Hey! News!

I went for another run this evening, and soon enough, perhaps, it will become something between habit and de rigueur once again.

Today I got in 3.1 miles, a full 5K, if you will. And I didn’t run-walk it 50-50. I’m told that, given my particular foot issue the run-walk interval is the ideal way to ease back into things. Take it easy is the strategy, and I’m fine with that. But I did run more than I walked today. It’s a no particular-goal-progression I’m after here.

While still stretching, taping, doing exercises and icing if necessary. So if you see my feet going weird directions, it is probably deliberate.

Probably.

Here are the shows the news crews produced on Tuesday night. First the newsier news show, now with a new intro:

And then there’s the pop culture news show:

Hopefully that show will get a new intro soon, as well.

But, right now, I need an outro.

…. Bye!

IU / television / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on The first of the last new things
24
Sep 19

The first of the last new things

For your viewing pleasure, here are the first episodes of the last new shows semester.

First, here’s the late night show. If you don’t get it, it’s not for you.

Then again, if you don’t chuckle at it, that says a lot about your sense of humor, doesn’t it?

Probably not. That show has specific goals. Specific goals. Consistent goals. This is the third or fourth semester of that show, and they’ve developed running themes and callback jokes and, most importantly, they really enjoy themselves. It’s a creative, entertaining show, if you understand their brilliance.

And here’s the award-winning Breakfast Club. This is now fully a legacy program. All of the original crew and hosts and contributors have graduated. It was the spring term of 2017 when I was insisting that they needed more than a simple idea, and needed a concept, outlines, shot sheets, a show bible, something more than “We wanna.”

They fought hard to make it happen, and it did. And just before the last of the original people graduated last spring they started winning prominent awards. This week they’ve started the cycle again:

And these ladies will be bringing us the news a bit later in the week:

Friday / journalism / television / video — Comments Off on News to be used
20
Sep 19

News to be used

As of today all of the student shows are up and running. The semester’s first episodes of the morning show and the comedy show will be airing on Monday or so, but I have been remiss in sharing the other things that have already rolled out this week.

Here’s the news:

And the vitally important pop culture updates:

Catch all of your sports:

And here are people talking about sports:

It’s a good solid start to the year. They’re going to produce some great stuff as the year progresses.

But now: the weekend. Have a good one.

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