The Weekend Beat

Covering the weekend of activity.

Chris came in town for a little bit of work and a little bit of play. We hung out for dinner at Old Chicago Thursday night before he did some recruiting for Kanakuk.

We also got together here Friday night for a night of card playing and shenanigans. Quite fun.

The real deal happened when Chris ran the 400 meters in the Bethel U Invite. He actually ran pretty well finishing in 53.99 seconds.

Nick and I did the TV broadcast for the meet combining with CTV15. It was a learning experience. Man, broadcasting track is a long event.

Here are a few thoughts.

1. Tape field events and let them get a chunk of time in before we start airing them. We were cutting way too much-back and forth-between field events and running and caught some really dumb stuff.

2. Keep the camera's off the anchors except for strategic times. We'll open the broadcast and we'll close the broadcast with 2 other insertions of "us" on camera. Otherwise-find shots-any shots to keep us off camera. It was bad how much we were on camera.

3. Learn more and more and more-and them some about track broadcasts. Explain it like the viewer is dumb. Get back stories-get old PR's. Know old records. Not that we didn't-just know more.

4. Take fake commercial breaks for easier post-production. Since you're just tape delaying the ariing of field events you can intro an event. Like this. Cut to black. Then open with "We're just getting set for the men's 800 meter finals. Stop taping and wait for race to begin. Broadcast the race and diagnose tactics, speed of runners, PR's, records, participants etc. Then close it out. "That was the men's 800 meter finals here at the Bethel University Invite." Cut to black.

Repeat for each event creathing a sort of parenthetical effect before and after each specific event.

Sorry, this isn't very interesting for you. It's serving as a reference for what I should do next time.



On to better things.

Went to the DMV today and still can't get plates changed from WI to MN. I can not stand the DMV. No matter if you think you have everything you needed-and $10,000 to bribe someone you'd still would have forgotten something or need some other form filled, faxed, notarized, dated on the third tuesday of an odd month in an even year at an even hour with a double digit odd time and ending with a mininum of 14 seconds but no more than 18 seconds.

Yeah, it's that hard. Navigate this crap. MN DMV site. Though I don't offically know if it's a good site or not-I think it's horrible. Like the tech class at some St. Paul public school is running the website. It's bad.

Eric (and Em)

I just downloaded the Ted.com application for my Iphone so I can watch that anytime I want now. I believe you told me about that website.

The weekend is now over and I'm sitting here waiting to go to work.

Oh yeah, also-Katy and I joined LA Fitness. I've been running three times in the last week and shot a little hoop today. It's quite nice to have a facility to use. Though-we'll see how long I can afford it for me.