Making a video about sports fandom was our Unit 3 Assignment
for Sports Comm. For the assignment we had to create a video with a partner
telling fans’ sports stories. Katharina and I partnered up and decided to focus
our video on the student director of Cassell Guard, Chris Jennings. Chris, a
senior, has been with Cassell Guard for three years and an intern in the
marketing office in athletics for two years. We met last April when I was hired
as an intern in the sports marketing office. Since then Chris has taught me the
ropes of the marketing department and I’ve enjoyed our conversations about
basketball and baseball. I wanted to tell Chris’s story because I’ve seen him
prepare for each home basketball game and I know how much he puts his heart
into cheering on both the women and men’s basketball teams.
Kat and I chose to shoot in Cassell Coliseum the home of the
women and men’s basketball teams at Virginia Tech. We used three different
locations within Cassell: the student section, the court, and the team bench.
We wanted to mix up locations throughout the video and give it a natural feel
to the interview. We also used the big heads that the marketing office bought
for the student section in our video. We placed different ones around Chris in
each shot. I enjoyed every minute working on this project. Group projects
usually involve research in the library and writing eight page papers; but this
group project gave me hands on experience interviewing a fan about their love
of sports.
