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Swimming & Diving To Celebrate Senior Day Saturday on ESPN3
February 01, 2017 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
MUNCIE, Ind. - - Saturday's meet versus Notre Dame will mark a first for the Ball State swimming & diving programs, as Ball State Sports Link will produce the first-ever ESPN3 broadcast live from the Lewellen Aquatic Center.
Action in the meet, which sees both the Ball State men's and women's teams battling the Fighting Irish, will start at 1 p.m. and can be watched online at http://es.pn/2iXUkHA or through the WatchESPN app.
Saturday's meet will also mark senior day for both Ball State programs, with the men's team honoring Tanner Barton, Jacob Eckert, Austin Green, JD Middleton, Mitch Prather and Bradley Ridge. The women's squad will recognize Jessica Extine, Katie Horn, Allie Kolz, Courtney Mudd, Brittany Penn, Kimberly Scott.
For the most up-to-date news on the Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving teams, please follow @BallStateSports, @BallStateMSwim and @BallStateWSwim.
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About Ball State Sports Link and Digital Sports Productions:
The Department of Telecommunications created a new Digital Sports Production concentration in the existing Digital Production option, joining Digital Audio, Digital Video and Emerging Media. The concentration also has partnership with the School of Physical Education, Sport, and Exercise Science through courses in Sport Administration. It also includes courses from the joint Journalism/TCOM News Track.
Digital Sports Production offers skills and applications using digital technology to create sports content for distribution across multiple platforms. Emphasis is given to live event production to ESPN platforms and storytelling.
Digital Sports Production prepares students for careers in a developing and changing sports media arena. Using the immersive learning model of Ball State Sports Link, Digital Sports Production specializes in multiple areas.
Students learn to produce a broad range of content from live remote productions, live-to-tape events, television programs, student-athlete features, Facebook Live shows and social media content creation.
Other facets of the program include Sports Link Radio on WCRD 91.3 FM, social media management and analytics, podcasts and the use of mobile technology and interactivity via the web.
Students in Digital Sports Production gain industry-accepted experience in the following areas:
• Live game, cross-platform productions with the use of Ball State's 40-foot HD production truck
• Producing content from a centralized, fiber control room for ESPN 3 and other platforms
• Producing content with the use of a Tri-Caster 8000 series
• Producing live content for social media platforms (Facebook Live)
• Studio show and feature story production and storytelling on multiple platforms
• Post-production, editing and color grading
• Engineering and broadcast operations
• Archiving and logging footage
• Operation of field and live production cameras, mobile production units
• Operation of replay machines (EVS, Dyno and 3Play) and broadcast graphic systems (Ross Expression, Chyron, Live Text)
• Non-linear editing with Adobe Premiere or the equivalent
• Building and design of graphics and animations in Adobe Creative Suite
• Cross-platform delivery methods, formats, compression and encoding
• Producing sports content for cross-platforms including broadcast, online, mobile and tablet applications
Follow Ball State Sports Link & Digital Sports Production:
[SOCIAL MEDIA] @bsusportslink on Twitter, Instagram & Snapchat
[FACEBOOK] www.facebook.com/BallStateSportsLink
[YOUTUBE]Â https://www.youtube.com/user/BSUSportsLink
[ONLINE] www.chirpcitybsu.com
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Action in the meet, which sees both the Ball State men's and women's teams battling the Fighting Irish, will start at 1 p.m. and can be watched online at http://es.pn/2iXUkHA or through the WatchESPN app.
Saturday's meet will also mark senior day for both Ball State programs, with the men's team honoring Tanner Barton, Jacob Eckert, Austin Green, JD Middleton, Mitch Prather and Bradley Ridge. The women's squad will recognize Jessica Extine, Katie Horn, Allie Kolz, Courtney Mudd, Brittany Penn, Kimberly Scott.
For the most up-to-date news on the Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving teams, please follow @BallStateSports, @BallStateMSwim and @BallStateWSwim.
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About Ball State Sports Link and Digital Sports Productions:
The Department of Telecommunications created a new Digital Sports Production concentration in the existing Digital Production option, joining Digital Audio, Digital Video and Emerging Media. The concentration also has partnership with the School of Physical Education, Sport, and Exercise Science through courses in Sport Administration. It also includes courses from the joint Journalism/TCOM News Track.
Digital Sports Production offers skills and applications using digital technology to create sports content for distribution across multiple platforms. Emphasis is given to live event production to ESPN platforms and storytelling.
Digital Sports Production prepares students for careers in a developing and changing sports media arena. Using the immersive learning model of Ball State Sports Link, Digital Sports Production specializes in multiple areas.
Students learn to produce a broad range of content from live remote productions, live-to-tape events, television programs, student-athlete features, Facebook Live shows and social media content creation.
Other facets of the program include Sports Link Radio on WCRD 91.3 FM, social media management and analytics, podcasts and the use of mobile technology and interactivity via the web.
Students in Digital Sports Production gain industry-accepted experience in the following areas:
• Live game, cross-platform productions with the use of Ball State's 40-foot HD production truck
• Producing content from a centralized, fiber control room for ESPN 3 and other platforms
• Producing content with the use of a Tri-Caster 8000 series
• Producing live content for social media platforms (Facebook Live)
• Studio show and feature story production and storytelling on multiple platforms
• Post-production, editing and color grading
• Engineering and broadcast operations
• Archiving and logging footage
• Operation of field and live production cameras, mobile production units
• Operation of replay machines (EVS, Dyno and 3Play) and broadcast graphic systems (Ross Expression, Chyron, Live Text)
• Non-linear editing with Adobe Premiere or the equivalent
• Building and design of graphics and animations in Adobe Creative Suite
• Cross-platform delivery methods, formats, compression and encoding
• Producing sports content for cross-platforms including broadcast, online, mobile and tablet applications
Follow Ball State Sports Link & Digital Sports Production:
[SOCIAL MEDIA] @bsusportslink on Twitter, Instagram & Snapchat
[FACEBOOK] www.facebook.com/BallStateSportsLink
[YOUTUBE]Â https://www.youtube.com/user/BSUSportsLink
[ONLINE] www.chirpcitybsu.com
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