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Behind the scenes: producing BCS videos after the game

davemorris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:31:36 +0000

Last night, Oklahoma lost to Florida 24-14 in the BCS National Title game in Miami. David Jones and Paige Dillard met me in the OPUBCO Studios about 10 pm to watch the final mintues. The Oklahoman’s Mike Sherman sports editor came down to the 7th floor from the 8th to tape three segments.

I had three videos pre-produced: graphics and script. Paige pulled photos from The Oklahoman’s staffers in Miami ready for our videos. Jones prepared the studio for the three shoots.

We knocked out the first video, a post game show that lasted about five minutes talking about the game.

Then we rearranged the sets and taped two segments – one about Sooner coach Bob Stoops and quarterback Sam Bradford.

We finished taping around 11:30 pm. We record and edit using Final Cut Pro. We encode the FCP .mov files into .flv files using Adobe Flash Encoder. Exporting and encoding is by far the lengthiest part of the production.

We left the office two hours later after posting the videos and editing NewsOK.com and NewsOK.tv to properly display the videos.

NBA in OKC: Team name TBA

davemorris — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:47:38 +0000

One of several videos we produced today in the OPUBCO Studios, Mike Sherman and Mike Baldwin talked about tomorrow’s press conference to announce – officially – the team name of the OKC NBA franchise.

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5 Questions with…

davemorris — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:10:48 +0000

Mike Sherman, sports editor of The Oklahoman. Baseball’s Mitchell report was released today. Mike Sherman provided analysis from an Oklahoman’s perspective.

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5 questions for…

davemorris — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:26:21 +0000

Mike Sherman, sports editor of The Oklahoman… about Matt Holliday, Bob Stoops, Bedlam, Zac Robinson and the Sonics.

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Gundy, Carlson driving NewsOK (hello Paraguay)

davemorris — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:45:32 +0000

First of all, you may have experienced problems getting NewsOK to load this week. You won’t be surprised the Mike Gundy-Jenni Carlson situation is the reason. We’ve had serious traffic from people everywhere.

Let’s break it down:

The top referring Web site to NewsOK is ESPN.com. CBS Sportsline and CNN SI are also in the top five.

Yesterday was the highest trafficked day in NewsOK history. Today will top that before 5 p.m.

Users from 152 countries have visited NewsOK this week, including one each from Fiji and Paraguay. Allow me to personally say thank you to both of you. We love you.

The top viewed video on NewsOK was Jenni Carlson responding for the first time on camera to Mike Gundy’s press conference. We thank Jenni and Mike Sherman for their time.

But the real thanks goes to you the user. Thank you for visiting NewsOK and sharing your comments and dialogue. Keep it clean, but keep it coming.

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Jenni Carlson responds to Mike Gundy

davemorris — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:03:29 +0000

The Oklahoman’s columnist Jenni Carlson and sports editor Mike Sherman went to Stillwater today for the Oklahoma State football press conference. Both spoke with Mike Gundy, who blasted Carlson on Saturday for her column.

So we asked Carlson and Sherman to go on camera at NewsOK.tv before other media.

Check it out. And we posted it on YouTube, which is something we don’t usually – but should – do.

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High School Huddle

davemorris — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:37:04 +0000

Worked on a script and production of The Oklahoman’s High School Huddle over night. We went into production today. Should post it tomorrow.

The Oklahoman’s sports editor Mike Sherman and deputy sports editor Mike Koehler wanted a high school sports show produced. Ryan Aber would go on camera with me to discuss the prep football scene each week.

And the 2007 season kicks off Thursday. Not much time.

So I wrote a quick show. 5 minute total running time. Backtimed it: Edlamfootball.com is our new site devoted to Edmond North, Edmond Santa Fe and Edmond North football – so there’s 45-60 seconds. We could use a Dave and Angi commercial – another 15 seconds. 2-3 minutes with Ryan talking about the season, with a True or False segment. We would use music under the entire video. Then we met with Bryan Thomas and Billy Davis for opening animation, full screen graphics and lower thired. David Jones created a nice studio setting. Tanner Herriott worked on lighting. Jacquelyn Farris ran teleprompter. Kyle Roberts oversaw the elements and will edit.

We’ll see the finished product tomorrow. We’ll improve production and the look in the coming weeks. But for a quick turnaround (one morning) it went really smoothly and simply.