Jewel interviews Alyssa

[mcannon1]

 

[BruisedOrange]

Not being critical, but asking a sincere question: Am I just suffering from old guy hearing, or was Alyssa's voice hard to distinguish over the music?

To my ears, her voice was in the same frequency range as the music, and at a similar volume, so that no matter how many times I played it, some words I just couldn't distinguish.

So, yes, there are captions. In gray. Placed over the gray background of the floor. Has "form follows function" been displaced by postmodern sensibilities? Asking sincerely.

All of which leads me to wonder, who is editing and producing these videos, and why isn't UTAD providing some videographic oversight to complete the educational aspect of the experience?

These interviews are such a good idea promotionally for building relationships with the fanbase, and as experiences for the student-athletes. It seems out of character for UT to let a good concept fail on the execution end of things.

I guess in the back of my head is that old concern about whether our girls are getting the same quality of treatment as the guys' teams might.

 

[brittannica]

Not being critical, but asking a sincere question: Am I just suffering from old guy hearing, or was Alyssa's voice hard to distinguish over the music?

To my ears, her voice was in the same frequency range as the music, and at a similar volume, so that no matter how many times I played it, some words I just couldn't distinguish.

So, yes, there are captions. In gray. Placed over the gray background of the floor. Has "form follows function" been displaced by postmodern sensibilities? Asking sincerely.

All of which leads me to wonder, who is editing and producing these videos, and why isn't UTAD providing some videographic oversight to complete the educational aspect of the experience?

These interviews are such a good idea promotionally for building relationships with the fanbase, and as experiences for the student-athletes. It seems out of character for UT to let a good concept fail on the execution end of things.

I guess in the back of my head is that old concern about whether our girls are getting the same quality of treatment as the guys' teams might.

The font color for the captions is not very accessible. They should consider using like a black blocked background in the future if they want to use gray or white font for the closed captioning.

 

[glv98]

Getting Jewel Spear, as much off the court as on, was one of the previous staffs best accomplishment. She's a gem.

Love getting to know the newbies, I'm just learning who's who.

 

[VolBall09]

Not being critical, but asking a sincere question: Am I just suffering from old guy hearing, or was Alyssa's voice hard to distinguish over the music?

To my ears, her voice was in the same frequency range as the music, and at a similar volume, so that no matter how many times I played it, some words I just couldn't distinguish.

So, yes, there are captions. In gray. Placed over the gray background of the floor. Has "form follows function" been displaced by postmodern sensibilities? Asking sincerely.

All of which leads me to wonder, who is editing and producing these videos, and why isn't UTAD providing some videographic oversight to complete the educational aspect of the experience?

These interviews are such a good idea promotionally for building relationships with the fanbase, and as experiences for the student-athletes. It seems out of character for UT to let a good concept fail on the execution end of things.

I guess in the back of my head is that old concern about whether our girls are getting the same quality of treatment as the guys' teams might.

It’s not just you, I can hear her, it’s the sound mixing that is messing it up though. You have the low background noise of music and basketball sounds, the players talking and then a light beat track added over the top.

Makes everything sound garbled. They either need to filter out the live background noise or skip the track. Both makes those shorts hard to watch.

I agree the captions are tricky too.

 

[BruisedOrange]

So, yes, there are captions. In gray. Placed over the gray background of the floor. Has "form follows function" been displaced by postmodern sensibilities? Asking sincerely.

LOL at myself! It was gray because I kept the cursor hovering over the screen!
But even without the cursor, it's the problem of putting captions over an area that is both very light (floor) and very dark (the players' legs). Either white or black letters are going to disappear somewhere.

The better solution would be to place the captions in the upper part of the frame where the background is consistently light. Plus, it's also nearer the players' faces.

Even though architect Louis Sullivan said it way back in 1890-something... our eyes know it's still true: Form follows function.