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EagleVision
is a student-run, daily television news
broadcast from the Biola University Mass
Communication department. Every weekday,
we broadcast to televisions across Biola's
campus and around the world via the Internet.
Biola’s
television news service, EagleVision,
keeps students, staff and alumni up-to-date
with weekly broadcasts of campus events.
Broadcast Journalism students are given
the opportunity to actively contribute
to EagleVision, allowing them to gain
practical experience in writing, reporting,
announcing and producing electronic news
for global Internet broadcasts. EagleVision’s
on-campus television outlets at located
at the Bookstore and the cafeteria.
“If
you have a Broadcast Journalism emphasis,
working with Eagle Vision will help to
prepare you as a field reporter or news
anchor. For those interested in News,
you will greatly benefit from the behind-the-scenes
activities of newsgathering and writing.”
EagleVision
student
Hollywood
Red Carpet Premiere’s
Last
year, EagleVision students were presented
the exciting opportunity of covering the
Hollywood red-carpet premiere’s
of three theatrically releases films –
RADIO, THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS, and THE
LORD OF THE RINGS. Studio Task Force Member
and movie critic, Holly McClure, offered
her press passes to the Mass Comm students
allowing them to take her coveted place
on the red carpet. EagleVision’s
students made the most of their golden
moment by skillfully interviewing the
lead actors and filmmakers at the star-studded
event.
Read
one students account of her Hollywood
Red Carpet experience…
Our
“Radio”Movie Premier Experience
By Brea Simpson
 The
five broadcast journalism majors at Biola
University were in the production center
patching the day’s episode of Eaglevision,
the campus news show, to the two television
monitors outside the cafe, when Craig
Detweiler strolled in.
“Does
anybody want to cover the ‘Radio’
premiere in Hollywood tonight?”
he asked. The red carpet was being unrolled
for the film that was based on a true
story, about the inspiring relationship
between a high school football coach and
a mentally disabled man. Holly McClure,
the woman who usually covered these events
for the TBN, couldn’t make it.
Sure,
I had a book report due the next day on
a book I had only read half of, but I
found myself saying I would go. Interviewing
people was what I had been preparing to
do for the past 27 units of my education
and what I wanted to do in life after
college. Granted, I had never actually
covered a serious event like this before,
but I hoped that years of watching E!
Television would pay off. Oh yes, the
book report would definitely have to wait.
I
found a crew in a few minutes with the
help of Dr. Detweiler. Production majors,
Matthew Mayott and Nathan Morgan joined
Craig Detweiler and I around a telephone
to call Holly for information.
“This
is exactly how everything works in this
business,” Detweiler said as he
dialed the number, “you fly by the
seat of your pants.” We got the
information for the event at 1 PM and
needed to leave for Hollywood by 4 PM.
The
next three hours were a rush of excitement
and nervousness. I researched the movie
and its cast online and came up with questions.
I called Holly for help on what to ask
and what to wear. Meanwhile, Nathan and
Matt were checking out practically all
the equipment in the equipment room. When
they finished loading up my car, we looked
like we were a part of the “Italian
Job”. As I drove, Matt was on his
laptop in the front giving instructions
to Nathan about using the very expensive
Sony camera we were to film with.
Despite
the traffic, it was getting lost that
kept us in the car for the next 2 hrs.
We must have called everyone we knew back
at Biola to help us find our way. Finally,
we arrived at the Academy at just about
the same time the stars started arriving.
We grabbed our equipment and charged.
“Are
you guys the Christian channel?”
the woman who lead us to our spot said,
covering her mouth as she whispered “Christian”.
We looked at each other and said yes.
That was the first time we experienced
the certain attitude Hollywood has against
Christianity that we learn about so often
in our classes.
With
5 minutes to spare, we found our spot
on the red carpet just before the first
celebrities arrived. When I talked to
Holly, she said to have about three questions
ready if I managed to get some of the
actors to talk to me. However, at this
premier, the actors, the guests and the
director showed up in front of me waiting
for me to ask them thought provoking and
engaging questions. What do you ask Tara
Lapinski at the premiere for “Radio”,
a movie that she isn’t in? How do
you go about asking someone a question
when you have no idea who they are? These
were the frenzied questions racing through
my mind. Our friends next to us, ABC7,
had a nice little cheat sheet with pictures
of everyone and who they were. I gave
up trying to look over their shoulder
when their cameraman kept grunting at
me.
The
interviews went well. Yes, we had some
technical difficulties such as our light
going out and each camera battery only
lasting for five minutes (at one point,
Matt had to sprint a few blocks back to
the car to grab more batteries). Yet,
all in all, we managed to get some great
stuff.
Alfre
Woodard, who plays a teacher in the movie,
told us why high school students will
be changed by the inspiring messages of
acceptance in “Radio”. Riley
Scott, a young actor who plays the top
football jock who at first antagonizes
Radio, shared the on and off set manners
he learned from great actors such as Cuba
Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris. We heard how
the cast and crew spent many nights in
rowdy folksy pubs and their mornings in
church listening to gospel choirs. The
director, Mike Tollin, shared how Radio
teaches the people around him about love.
And Cuba Gooding Jr. taught us a little
about his art of acting and how physical
roles, such as portraying Radio, make
him feel alive. Very inspiring messages
from actors in a business that is thought
of as a brood of vipers.
We
were only at the event for about 20 minutes
but we agreed it felt much longer than
that. We spent the rest of the night getting
lost again, dining at McDonalds, and laughing
while going over the events of the night
and the valuable lessons we had learned.
Back
at Biola, we couldn’t wait until
the opportunity to do something like this
would present itself once more.
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