Jake Severson
jsevers5@uwsuper.edu
Being able to work the UMAC Indoor Track and Field Championship in Feb., for COMM 330, was a great opportunity to get experience in the field.
I started off working the camera filming the Women’s Hammer Throw event, which was quite easy for me to do as I have prior experience with digital cameras. This is an important aspect of the trade that will come in handy later if I go into journalism and need to film something for a story.
The most important aspect and part of the opportunity that the class got was going onto the live stream and taking part in the commentary for five minutes. Xavier and I talked about a few different topics, mainly baseball and what I want to do with my degree, which I really do not know. I have concluded that if I do not have a job that I’m satisfied with by 30, I’m just going to take out a loan and open a bar, but there’s a lot of time to reflect on that.
Overall, I do think that the iFanTV experience was a good starting point. Not for just me, but for everyone else in the class. It’s something that is very engaging, and sports are something that most of the class has been around our whole lives.
I do think that it was a great idea to commentate the meet, and I am looking forward to doing more stuff in that vein of things in the future.
