Jace Armstrong – Multi-Media Pitch

  • Your General Topic
    • Baseball transition from Christmas break to Spring season
  • Additional potential angles.
    • How players plan to train during a global pandemic
  • How would you explain the story in ONE sentence?
    • Training over Christmas break for baseball players is vital in maintaining a healthy and successful spring season
  • What are the unanswered questions you hope to explore?
    • How does each player train without the university’s facilities?
    • What is important to them to focus on to be in their best shape for the season?
    • How do they plan to use what they learned in fall workouts for winter break?
    • Is it difficult to stay in baseball shape when the weather is not good to be outside over winter break?
  • What’s the best medium for the story?
    • Video
  • If it’s video: what’s the potential for scenes and dynamic action you can take our viewers through?
    • Showing the workouts done in the indoor
    • Player speaking to camera while other players workout behind them
    • Walking through/outside of facility talking about their work done over winter break
  • Interactive/Social Media: How will you get the audience involved to interact with the story?
    • By clicking on the video wherever it is posted to
    • Possible commenting on the video to give their personal opinion
    • Liking the video and sharing it
  • In each story, who are the characters, and are they accessible?
    • Baseball players/ very accessible because I am on the team
    • Coaches/ very accessible because I am on the team
    • Indoor facility/ very accessible because I train inside
  • Where do you need to go to tell the story?
    • The indoor facility on campus
    • Possibly Larks Park
  • What’s the potential impact of the reporting?
    • Gives inside look at what baseball players do in the offseason
    • More recognition for the baseball team
    • Shows off the hard work athletes put in to perfect their craft
  • Has anyone else done this reporting regionally or nationally? How will ours differ from that?
  • REQUIRED: At least three news stories on this topic or a related topic that helps show what has been done on the story in the past.

https://www.stack.com/a/winter-baseball-workou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lCO3qM0bQ

this is a good example of the action shots/what practice looks like

https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/ncaa/ncaa-sports-news-schedule-changes-coronavirus-updates-all-sports

 

 

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