Kansas City Regional Training

Seven Video News members dared to wake up before the sun even began to think to enter the Missouri sky to make their way to the Pembrooke Hill campus in Kansas City and enjoy the most entertaining two plus hours of their lives. Okay, so maybe learning the basics about writing a news story and taping video isn't the most exciting thing at 10:30 in the morning after (from what I hear) were some long bus rides, but I think these regional training participates are ready for their state conventions.

Among the participants were:
Hannah Pingelton — Lewis Convention
Katie Lynn — Clark Convention
Nate LaVoy — Clark Convention
Chase Snider — Clark Convention
Brooke Patterson — Clark Convention
Matt Nienaber — Clark Convention
Lori Brusherd — Clark Convention(Springfield Delegation Advisor)

During this regional training, students learned what exactly makes a news story as well as the elements that come together to create a news story, video terminology, and taping techniques. Students also watched news stories from last year's convention and talked about what they'd like to see in candidate commercials this year (you can see examples of candidate commercials in one of the posts below).

Students were also in charge of nominating names for the video news production this year as well as the theme music that goes along with the program. On Oct. 4, the St. Louis regional training participants will vote from the nominations below:

Show Name
— The YIG Report (like the Colbert Report on Comedy Central)
— YIG News Update — "Y-NU, because we told you"
— YIG 360

Show Theme Music
— Bring the House Down — SClub7
— Don't Stop Believing — Journey
— Carmina Burana
— We Didn't Start the Fire — Billy Joel

(I will have these linked as MP3s at a later time so you can listen to these nominations. It's best [and faster] to right click and choose "Save Target As" and save these files to your hard drive before you listen to them.)

After the St. Louis regional training, I will post this year's Lewis and Clark Conventions Show Name and Theme Song — as they will be the same for both conventions. I will also post any latest YMCA YIG video news happenings.