Just in case you wanted to know what it was like to watch me on TV in 2011.
This was the tape I sent to John Harris at KAMR in Amarillo, Texas to get my first TV job doing the weather. I put this together during the summer semester at Syracuse while I was there earning my Masters in Broadcast and Digital Journalism.
The clips you see strung together here are pulled from – about – 15 different newscasts during the six weeks of our Capstone at Syracuse where we produced a 4p and 5p news every day.
There was one day that I happened to be on during a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. It was for Trenton Falls, Morehouseville and Gray. I remember that because, well, I’m not sure why. No one forgets their first. Maybe?
Or maybe I’m just strange.
The graphics I used were, generally, basic with little-to-no ‘weather technology’ involved. It was basically glorified powerpoint.
A few of the graphics I made on my own, like the image above, using Photoshop or MSPaint. And then dropped them into AVID Newscutter (a video editing software) to give the ‘illusion’ of looping imagery.
I would work, for like, hours on producing one, single, two or three-minute weathercast.
And that is crazy, considering now producing a similar weathercast would take me all of about 30 minutes.
This wasn’t my first dive into TV, though. I started in TV back in late 2004 as a guest on the Beavers Sports Show. There are – thankfully – no clips of that known to exist anymore. By late 2005, though, I was a regular. And the only clip I know to exist from 2005 I own. And will never be rebroadcast.
But here is a snapshot. With all of my – now gone – hair.
So, Happy Retro Day, everyone! Hope you enjoyed this trip back in time.
