Lyndon State Men's Basketball Team-Video Project One

The Lyndon State Men's basketball team played their first game of the season against the University of Quebec at Montreal. For the last five years, they have been able to play an exhibition against a Canadian team, which has helped them figure out where they stand, said Coach Joseph Krupinski.

Krupinski has assembled a team that he considers to be very athletic. The team lost four starters from last year who were graduating seniors. He began assembling this year’s team by taking stock of the men who were returning, and finding new men that would be a good fit for the team and piecing the two together. In players, he looks for men with good character and good athleticism, equipped with the skills they need for the upcoming season. There are many things that the team is better at this year, and also many things that they need to work on, said Krupinski. Krupinski admits that he never knows whether or not the team will be ready going into a game, but the teams practices went well. 

"I've always felt that our teams here definitely compete hard, and play together," Krupinski said.

Krupinski said that the team overall is not very tall, which can sometimes be a disadvantage. The team’s average height is only about 6 feet tall. While that can be a struggle, some of the key advantages that Krupinski believes his team holds is there speed, quickness at the guard position, and ability to get to the basket. The team needs to work on passing, standing around less on offense, approve their ability to box out, and work on their rotation, said Krupinski.

"We have a lot of areas to improve, it's too early in the year to not improve," Krupinski said.

Krupinski does not know what to expect in the upcoming season, saying that each one is its own journey, but they are hopeful. With so many pieces it will be tough to figure everything out, he says. He is planning on continuous improvement during the busy season they have ahead of them, liked every team plans to do. Overall, Krupinski would like to see the team find its identity, "something for them to hang their hat on," like each team does. Maybe it will be their pressure defense or the ability to get to the basket. Krupinski looks forward to figuring it out. 

Video Project 1-Topic

The topic of our first video project will be the men's basketball team. In the video, we will be focusing the story around the teams first game, while out accompaniment will be focused around the team they have created this year.

We plan to use video from the game and interviews. The sound sources we will be using is the natural sound from the game, and the sound from the interviews with a player and the coach.

Team Assignments:
Video-Rachel Veitch
Interview & Sound-Camille DeLongis
Editing- Rachel and Camille

Video in Newspaper

The PostStar is the online version of a newspaper that serves my town, and surrounding towns, in Warrensburg, New York. It offers many things, such as news, opinion, sports, life, entertainments, community, obits, and what I find to be the most interesting-blogs and multimedia.

The site has individual tabs for both blogs and multimedia. The multimedia page offers videos, photo galleries, and more. I really like this, because in this day and age, people are very visually driven.

Some of the  videos are pretty amateur, while some are done much more professionally. I think it would serve them greatly to develop that part of their website more, so they have more consistently professional videos.

The videos are usually pretty short, but some are longer (three minutes or so).

The subject matters are sometimes interesting, including memorial day projects, but some are boring, such as a graduation ceremony.