It's time for a little context on who I am. The About page gives you a little, but you haven't really seen where I get to volunteer and what I get to do.
That, and it's hard to take photos of a video game. So let's get into it!
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The heart and soul of Troy's journalism department. Well, more like the skin and skeleton. |
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Troy University has one of the best journalism degrees in the nation, and it all happens right here: Wallace Hall. The campus newspaper, the Tropolitan, is printed here, but I'm involved with the other half of the program. The 21st-century half. I help produce TrojanVision.
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Look at all those awards. Look. |
We're a campus news program that puts out three shows a day from deep within the bowels of Wallace, and we're pretty darn good at it. I'm not one of the anchors (yet). I am one of Jeff's "minions," the bearded, tv-show-logo-shirt-wearing legion of AV technicians who man The Booth.
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This is where the magic happens. |
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This is where other, related magic, still qualifying as "the" magic, happens. |
We run graphics, sound, teleprompter, cameras, video, you name it. The anchors have by far the most glamorous position, but they don't do half the work. Not even close.
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But just look at that desk. You want to sit there. You know you do. |
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Plus you get to stare at these cheery guys for thirty minutes at a time. |
The student volunteers at TrojanVision (and we
are mostly all volunteers) get together every day to put on a half hour of informative local, national, and worldwide news. At any point someone could decide to press the wrong button and screw a given show up beyond repair... but that generally doesn't happen. Usually.
So next time you hop by Troy campus, look under the library. There's a whole TV station hiding down there you never knew existed!
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Not like we can blame you for missing it. |
You can catch a livestream of the show every weeknight at 5:00 Central time at
troytrojanvision.org. Look for "Casey Garvin" in the credits. And possibly behind the desk. Maybe. I might need to shave first.
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