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All State Football and lobster

davemorris — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:13:16 +0000

The Oklahoman will unveil its All-State High School Football team in a couple weeks. Each of the players taped a brief Q&A with Ryan Aber this afternoon.

So we had 20-25 high school kids in football jerseys, shuffling in and out of the 7th floor, while three ladies waited patiently in our green room for a 4 pm taping of Parties Extra with Helen Ford Wallace. To talk lobster.

Kanela Huff, Pam Smith and Rawsie Boyles are here today to tell us about Pam’s birthday party which is always at Kanela’s home and Rawsie cooks the very fabulous lobsters which are served with all the condiments.

And the ladies did talk lobsters and parties. Helen does a great job moderating these interviews. She brings the spirit and the enthusiasm into each interview. And she’s prepared.

I think the audience can always tell when a host is prepared and if a host is interested in the interview. Helen is always prepared and interested.

And early. Which was a bit unfortunate today since we ran long with the football interviews.

So she got to watch the Jenks and Union football players talk about their seasons and where they plan to play next year. Ryan did a great job with each interview, rattling off their stats and asking specific questions to each player. All while Helen and her girls “partied” (or reminisced) in the green room. I hope the water was tasty.

High School Huddle: All-State Football teams

davemorris — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:45:44 +0000

Ryan Aber from The Oklahoman and I have been doing the High School Huddle show during the football season in 2007. Now we have reached the end of the season. So we coordinated a final High School Huddle for 2007 with The Oklahoman’s All-State Football teams.

The sports staff called in all of the players and the coach of the year for photos, interviews and quick video interviews.

Below is the intro, and here is the page we built for the player interviews. Kyle Roberts did an excellent job with the graphics and editing of the videos.

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High School Huddle: Playoffs

davemorris — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:21:45 +0000

Ryan Aber and I recorded a couple videos for this week’s High School Huddle: Classes 6A-3A and Classes 2A-A.

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High School Huddle: Playoffs preview

davemorris — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:32:34 +0000

Ryan Aber and I taped three episodes in an exhausting run of High School Huddles today. Numerous computer failures kept us in the oven (studio with bright lights) for an extended period.

Class 6A

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Class 5A

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Class 4A and below

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High School Huddle folo

davemorris — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:29:47 +0000

I blogged about our High School Huddle efforts a couple weeks ago. We’re about to tape our third episode tomorrow.

The Oklahoman’s Ryan Aber has done a really nice job of filling in the blanks. He’s good on camera, comes prepared and we typically knock out the segment in less than 30 minutes. Sometimes the set-up is the hardest part, people!

Here are segments one and two… Good studio set-up by Tanner Herriott. Good editing by Kyle Roberts. That Dave should work on his performance, though…

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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.