Last night, I went to a UNH hockey game vs. Boston University, one of the Wildcats' biggest rivals. It was a critical game for me to go to because the next home game would be on Friday, December 4, which would be cutting it close to my presentation. I was so desperate to getting into the game, I had to pay $26 because the student tickets were sold out. Although, I thought it was worth it because I talked to two BU fans that gave me some good input what it is like to be a real fan.
I talked to two insane UNH fans, Mike Elliot and Mallory Goudin before the doors open. They are at the Whittemore Center a couple of hours before the doors open and when they get into the game, they get the fans all riled up before the game and during the game. When I asked both fans of why they go to the games, they looked at me like I was asking a stupid question. But since they are such big fans, that is their plans on Friday and Saturday nights.
The opposing I talked to, Suzanne Power and Chuck Nixon are both super fans for their BU hockey team. They are married, but I did not get into the last name part. They both went to the university for their undergraduate, but they followed the team even more when they graduated. Suzanne told me when she first went to BU, she did not know anything about hockey. But once she started going to the games, she became obsessed. She went to every hockey game, home or away, no matter what day it is, what the weather it is, or even the team they played. If BU is playing, she is there. When it comes to Chuck, when he went to BU, he went to some of the games, but he was not obsessed about the team until around 1994-1995. The couple are very proud fans. Whenever they get out of work on Fridays or Saturdays, they gear up into their BU hockey gear and go to the games, no matter where it is.
Both of them are very impressed by the UNH hockey fans. Suzanne said that the fans at UNH are very intense and they love their hockey team. She also said that from what she has noticed, they are the most traveled fans she has ever seen. In Chuck's perspective, he thinks that UNH has great fans and that they are very nice people.
I felt that I got a lot of key quotes and reasons why they go to the games. My next objective is to talk to the people that work at the ticket office and sell the tickets to the UNH fans and get their input. Maybe I can even get pictures of people getting their tickets. I also took more pictures at the game, they consist of the main people I talked to and some more dimensions of the Whittemore Center. I finally have the main characters in my story, now I just got to do the editing.
My work in Multimedia and Advanced Reporting in 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Sounds like you tracked down just the right people, Justin. Hope you were able to isolate their voices a little more from all the noise in the stadium. Sorry to hit on that so hard in class, but without understandable audio, or even audio that you have to struggle to understand, I don't think the project can work. Look forward to seeing how you work in the new interviews.
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