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2月18日, 2020—Imagine helping to produce an NCAA Division I basketball game for broadcast while still a college student. That’s exactly the opportunity Marist students have working with the College’s bet亚洲365欢迎投注 Department to produce games for ESPN3 and ESPN+. 今年, that opportunity was kicked up a notch with the opening of the ESPN Teaching Control Room in the McCann Center.

The new teaching control room is significantly larger and features an audio board, 重播站, 图形计算机, 等行业标准设备. 由Meghan Graham的18M指导, 体育多媒体总监, 和工程师马克·菲利普斯, more than 50 Marist students have had a role in producing basketball, 排球, 垒球, 还有水球比赛. 不像移动单元(许多大学使用), this room is large enough to have students working while others observe and get into the pipeline of working broadcasts themselves. 这种结构有利于学习. It also affords Graham the opportunity to move around the space, 全程和她的学生制片人合作.

梅根·格雷厄姆(Meghan Graham)负责广播

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“The ESPN Teaching Control Room is an active learning laboratory for Marist students to take the theory they learn in the classroom and apply it to practical experiences that will help prepare students for careers. This academic-athletic partnership has faculty and athletic staff engaged with a common goal of benefitting our students,体育总监蒂姆·穆雷说. “This is one of many reasons Marist is an attractive option for students who are interested in pursuing careers in sports communications.”

Steve Fenig, ESPN’s Campus Production Coordinator, gives the Marist team high marks. “Marist productions are among the higher end of college productions I’ve observed,” he said. Fenig noted that many schools utilize freelancers to handle the broadcast work. “但在bet亚洲365欢迎投注，这是教与学的一部分. 因为学生参与其中，我的角色更重要. ESPN has certain standards; I provide feedback to schools on that. The Marist team always uses the feedback and keeps making improvements. 很明显，梅根和学生们分享了这些批评.”

虽然她是导演, 格雷厄姆绝对是控制室里的教育家, 帮助学生学习每一项工作. 在这个领域, experience is everything and learning by doing is the only way to go,格雷厄姆说。, 所以她很感激芬尼格的反馈. “Steve is an expert in television production, so I listen to him intently,” she said. “There are always ways to improve whether that’s by adding graphics or trying different techniques. And the students are receptive to the comments I share; they want to learn.”

Fenig noted that Marist’s model—having a dedicated technical person and an overall director in Graham—is a strong one. “马克和梅根给我留下了深刻的印象.”

Dan Oakes ‘21 has grown in his role as a student assistant in the control room. “我刚开始工作的时候, 和其他人一样, began by working the main game camera for the productions because it is the simplest of the cameras. From there, I worked my way through the different camera positions and then into the control room.” For Oakes, the hands-on work has been a tremendous learning experience. “I have learned a lot about how an ESPN broadcast works and how most of the positions work from my experiences in the control room. That’s the main point: for the majority of the positions for a broadcast, 你真正学习的方式是通过经验和重复.”
 

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简麦克马纳斯, 体育传播中心主任, has worked to connect more students with this experiential learning opportunity on campus. “So many of our sports communications students can get real world production experience outside of the classroom through this collaboration,麦克马纳斯说. “It's been a terrific opportunity for them and gives them skills that future employers are looking for.”

这当然是奥克斯的情况. “Last semester I learned how to do replay in the control room which is very tough because it requires a lot of focus throughout the entire game and when I was first learning it and Meghan was explaining it to me I was lost but once I was ‘thrown into the deep end’ and was actually doing it during a live broadcast, I started putting the pieces together and it all started to click.”

Graham and the team in bet亚洲365欢迎投注 are proud of the array of students working and learning in the new facility. The opportunity is open to all but the work naturally attracts Communication and Sports Communication majors. “This work involves a real mix of the technical and the creative,” Graham noted. Students who have worked in bet亚洲365欢迎投注 production have gone on to rewarding careers with the MAAC, ESPN, MLB, 《bet亚洲365欢迎投注》，以及加班.