Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

Libby,
Good work. The short (<5 min) format works well for me. Sure, the production values are 'quick & dirty' but that's OK for now. Ultimately clear audio is very important, so either a great unidirectional hand mic (watch the TV folks to see how to do that well) or some lapel mics. Video quality is not as important - what you have is more than adequate.

The editing is just fine, you tell the story with what you have.

Strive for a well-characterized format that others can follow easily enough, so shows made by different teams all look like they weren't made by radically different people. Reproducible is the word I'm thinking of.

As for where to post it, YouTube seems just fine, but that's a detail for later.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

I like it!

Personally, I think Fantasy FIRST would be an interesting offseason topic--but it could be a little tricky to do.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

For it being a very dry run, I thought it was well put together. I think you would have to go to some crazy lengths to cover big projects.

Literally, it'll be hard to get out to Southern California from FIRST Place just for an interview.

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I have a not-so-constructive criticism: my ears have never taken kindly to articles being shoved onto things that don't need articles. Just like how I don't use "The Google", I'm not in "The FIRST", it wasn't the IRI.

I feel like I shouldn't be including this, but you should have witnessed my reaction when someone said "The Google" at a school presentation this year to fully understand the gravity of such a pet-peeve. I have had it on my mind ever since then, causing me to cringe every time it breaks out of my subconscious.

I have a problem.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

This is awesome, I enjoyed the fact the content so far wasn't focused on just the robots. I watched most of the IRI webcast, but I didn't get to see something other than a match most of the time. Thanks again!

Anyway, will these projects be FRC or competition oriented or would it also include some non-competition aspect of FIRST?

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

You may have a point, but from my understanding, it is "The Indiana Robotics Invitational" and therefore, "The IRI". I could be wrong though.

I'd love to be able to cover some non-robot stuff as well!

Again, this is community-driven so YOU all let ME know what you guys want to see!

Thanks for all your great replies!

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

I liked it :) But Kevin (I mean Yngwie and his brothers) was (were) on there so who wouldn't like it.

I admit that I refer to it as simply IRI (no the), but you don't "go to Indiana Robotics Invitational".

edit: i type slowwww

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

I would like to see as much behind the scenes stuff as you can get. Interviews with volunteers, talk to the teams, etc.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

Yeah, but you go to IRI.
Like I said, it's mostly me having an irrational problem. I tried to not bring it up, but it just happened.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

Libby:

If you would like, we could do a 5 minute segment about the happenings at Ramp Riot and then send you the video. Lots of teams from PA, NJ, NY, DE, and MD attend, that we could interview.

Just let me know what you think.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

I have to be with you on this one, that bugged me when I read it too. It doesn't make sense if you consider acronyms as just a shorter way of writing the same thing. But IRI, while effectively the same thing as the Indiana Robotics Invitational, is a different kind of word/phrase (the acronym is a proper noun while the phrase is a bunch of adjectives describing a regular noun) and deserves to have sentences formed around it, not what it is replacing.

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Also, just in case some of you are English majors, I forgot and made some of the English terms up.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

That would be great! There's a chance I will be there, and Katie (my current camera crew) will definitely be there... but anything you can get me would be AWESOME too! The more content the better.

Everyone, really! My email's in my signature. Get in touch with me if you have content. I WANT to be busy, here. :)

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

I really don't want this to turn into a grammar debate but I think you are wrong here.

If I were to tell you what country I lived in wouldn't it be incorrect to say " I live in USA"? by the same account it would be wrong to say "I competed at IRI", though that is the way I would say it. I think Libby is correct in saying The IRI.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

Now that off seasons have been brought up, I think that a part of this whole new website should be about off seasons. Though there are many off seasons around the country, I think that just doing the major ones will do.

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

James is absolutely correct. The proper way of phrasing an abbreviation is to phrase it as if you were saying the full version. Hence the correct statement is "I'm going to the IRI." Now, over the years people have come to take IRI as its own proper noun, as opposed to an acronym; and hence been phrasing it as such ("I'm going to IRI"). Although this has become accepted within the FIRST community, it doesn't make it correct.

$0.02 CDN

Re: Let's Talk FIRST! Pilot
 

And that is $0.0212 US so take it seriously.