Channel 4 News Team Exclusive: Life After College

For our second assignment, The Channel 4 News Team had to ask the Seniors of Roger Williams University the hardest hitting question out there; "What are you going to do after college?"

To answer this, we interviewed four soon to be graduating Seniors Corrie Scozzafava, Alan Goodwin, Dan Davis and Taryne Brown.

After the interviews, we discovered that the common trend is that seniors don't have the answer to that question. Even seniors who have an idea of what they want to do, haven't heard back from employers or haven't even applied yet.

Looking on the bright side however, RWU's President, Roy J Nirschel believes that the reputation of the school is growing with the help of alumni who recruit on campus for their employers.

One thing is for certain, as long as there are seniors graduating from college, there will always be a handful of them whose path is unclear. Enjoy the following movie!

Brittany Costa - Reporter
Jake Dumond - Camera Man
Gregory Walsh - Executive Producer / Editor

My Spring Break

For my spring break, i went to Fort Myers, Florida to see the Boston Red Sox at their Spring Training facility. This was my second time going to spring training, so i knew what to expect and where to go to meet the players.

I went to two games, however, for this post i will focus on the first game i went to on March 14th. We got there at 9:30 am for the 1:05 start time because they let all the fans in early to meet the players. It is usually a hit or miss depending on how the players are feeling that specific day.

The first player to come out and sign was starting pitcher Clay Buchholz. He was called up last season and threw a no hitter against the Baltimore Orioles on September 1st, 2007. (Ironically the Sox were facing the Orioles for this game) Buchholz started signing down the 3^rd base line and as he approached my girlfriend and I, he backtracked for a few minutes. He obviously forgot where he left off, so while trying to return to signing autographs he ended up skipping over us. Unfortunately we did not get him that day but i will have more to report on him later.

Immediately after Buchholz skipped us, rookie centerfielder Jacoby Ellsbury came over and signed three autographs before running into the dugout. Luckily we received two of the three autographs. So that made up for being skipped over by Buchholz.

While everyone was distracted by Ellsbury and Buchholz, centerfielder Coco Crisp came over and threw a ball into the stands. I positioned myself to catch it and it's a good thing i did too because the guy next to me wasn't paying attention so it would have hit him in the head. The nice thing about these warm up balls are that they have been used in previous MLB games, however MLB baseballs are only used for a maximum of seven pitches in order to keep the ball fresh, so they are thrown in the warm-up bucket and then usually they wind up in the hands of the fans.

Shortly after this, Crisp came back out to sign autographs, so I had him sign the ball he threw to me. I wound up getting a great autograph on a game used MLB baseball by the guy who gave it to me.

The Red Sox went on to win this rain shortened game 5-3. It truly was a great day all around. Below is a quick video i made using my Flip Video Ultra. It was great to have on the trip to capture the greatness that is Spring Training. (The song used is "Shipping Out To Boston" by The Dropkick Murphys.)

Channel Four News Team Exclusive: Finance 450

For the second half of the semester, Professor Scully has assigned us to news groups. Our goal is to create five news presentations before the end of the semester. My group consists of Jake Dumond and Brittany Costa. Jake will be our camera man, Brittany has volunteered to be the reporter and Anchorwoman, while I will take on the Producing and editing of all the videos.

For our first assignment we chose to take an inside look at a hands on course taught here at Roger Williams University. Finance 450 is a special topics course that allows finance majors to use a portion of the school's money to create a real working stock portfolio. With the state of the art technology in the Gabelli School Of Business, the 10 currently enrolled students are allowed to pick, trade, and sell stocks in an attempt to make a profit.

Please enjoy our video and do check back for more inside scoops here at Roger Williams University.

Interview with Clayton Roth

Clayton Roth is the Assistant Manager of Event Operations at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Roth, an immediate favorite amongst students, discovered the open position online and flew from his home in Michigan to interview for the job. Upon being hired, he relocated his home to Warren, RI and began interacting with students. After starting his position just under two years ago, caught on quickly and became a valuable member of the Roger Williams community.

His main duties include updating and maintaining Channel 5, the Roger Williams campus TV station, and handling the event planning software utilized by RWU.

Assignment: Interview

For our second official assignment, Professor Scully told us to interview someone in our life. I chose my father John Walsh, 55. He was a glazier, a craftsman of glass, for 35 years and recently retired from the profession.

His main job and duties were installing glass windows and fixtures into the massive high risers and skyscrapers in Boston, MA. He had a hand in building the John Hancock building, the Prudential building, the JFK Library and many, many others.

Show and Tell

For our first assignment in Digital New Media 101, we had to film something that we wanted to show to the class...hence Show and Tell. So after 92% of the class had trouble with their footage and the editing process, we finally got our videos online and on our blogs.

Without further adieu, here is the ROUGH copy of my Show and Tell video from my New Media class at Roger Williams University.



Enjoy...and be gentle.

Video Show and Tell

Hello everyone.

Thank you for stopping by my little home on the net. For our first video assignment, we were told to pick one thing to show off to the class and make a short 2 minute video. I chose to use the Roger Williams radio station, WQRI 88.3FM, as my topic since my regularly scheduled radio show was yesterday (Monday) from 3-6 pm.

I was able to mount my Flip Video Ultra Series camera on a make-shift tripod and do an extremely short confessional. I was also able to walk around and test my steady hand by shooting 360 degree shots to compliment my confessionals.

The raw footage will be compiled during class using Final Cut Pro and will be posted on this blog at a later date. Stay tuned!