We knew from the beginning what story we wanted to tell: the story of what it is really like to start over in a new athletic program. We wanted to tell this story to the best of our abilities, and in order to be successful at this, we knew would have to dedicate all of our time and energy. Once we, as a group, agreed upon what story we planned to tell, we began to reach out to a wide array of interview subjects and gathered their individual stories.

At the beginning, when we first started the creative side of this group project, we were at a loss as to where we start, what kind of footage we would use, etc. However, we were certain of one thing, we wanted to make a multimedia piece that would actively engage any viewer, no matter their age or interest level in NCAA regulations.We wanted to achieve the aforementioned goals while creating a package that was clean and easy to follow. We wanted the focus to be on the story being told. We began to sort through our footage, noting and storyboarding from footage that fell under the category of what we thought could be interesting.

We were blown away by certain quotes, made by Katelyn Loper and head basketball coach Kelly Graves, during their respective individual interviews. There was a certain level of energy that we took away from these interviews. We learned that the topic of transferring was an anxiety ridden yet exciting process. We decided that we wanted a viewer to be aware of this from the beginning so we selected a song from creative commons. We chose this song to layer in the video because we believed that it build up a certain level of excitement and would make the visuals pleasing to a viewer. We decided that we would begin our video with an excerpt of Kelly Graves speaking about what he thought the reasoning behind most transfers were. We used b-roll of his athletic office, him working, and his athletes during a basketball practice. The combination of his audio, images, a-roll, and b-roll created a convincing package that helped us lead into the next aspect of the multimedia project.

The next few minutes of the package introduced the viewer to a University of Oregon women’s basketball player: Katelyn Loper. A red-shirt senior who had previously transferred in from Hofstra University. We used footage of her working out, around her teammates, and other shots in order to present the viewer with an idea of what her life was like. The only problem we ran into was securing footage of Loper and what her life was like at Hofstra. We wanted to include pictures from this part of her life because it was a major part of her story.

We kept our video at just under three minutes. We did not want to overwhelm a viewer. Overall, we were all pleased with the way our package turned out. We created a package that was visually interesting and pulled a viewer in. There were a wide array of angles and footage. All three of us truly believe that we reached our original goal: we told a clean, neat, and visually interesting story through a multimedia package. We hope you enjoy our piece.