Video Project #2

Video Project #2

Different Types of Pitches

There are many different types of baseball pitches that are used today in the professional baseball league. There are roughly around 12 different types of pitches and below you will learn what they are and they move when thrown correctly.

There is the Four-seam Fastball, Two-seam Fastball, Cutter, Splitter, Forkball, Curveball, Slider, Slurve, Screwball, Changeup, Palmball, and lastly the Circle Changeup. Below is a list of what each pitch does individually and how they are used to strike batters out in the game.

Four-seam fastball - Maximum velocity and should have best command. This is the most important pitch because everything else works off of it.

Two-seam fastball (a.k.a. sinker) - This fastball does just that, it sinks. A very good pitch for inducing ground balls.

Cut-fastball - Holding the ball slightly off center, it will run away from the arm side. Usually a few mph slower than a four-seam fastball. Good for jamming hitters.

Split-finger fastball - Strictly an out pitch. Dives down hard at home plate, many times getting missed swings.

Change-up - Slower than a fastball, but thrown with the same arm action. The arm speed is very important in getting the maximum effectiveness. This pitch helps control bat speed.

Curveball - Most often a strikeout pitch. Dives down as it gets to home plate. Many times the velocity is as effective as the movement, because it's usually much slower than a fastball.

Slider - In between a fastball and a curveball. It's harder than a curveball with less downward action. The slider has a smaller break with a tighter spin. Many times you can see a small dot in the baseball as it's coming toward you.

Knuckleball - A pitch that has very little or no spin. It's very difficult to control and catch. No one knows what it will do usually, which makes it also hard to hit. A very hard pitch to throw.

Forkball - Thrown hard while held between the index and middle fingers at varying depths. Usually tumbles and drops violently, often diagonally. Known as an out pitch, but also can be hard on the arm.

Now that you have learned each and every individual pitch, its time to go outside and give it a try, before you know it you might be good enough to join the professional baseball league. Thanks for reading!

Video 2 Idea

For our Video 2 project Tom and Duffy will be filming on the theme of baseball. We are going to have our roommates participate in a demonstration on how to play baseball and have them give us there personal opinions on how to play and have them show us the basics.

Also, depending on if Spring Day has the dunking booth this year we are going to test their accuracy skills and have some fun at the same time.

Filming: Duffy and Tom

Editing: Duffy and Tom

Interview/Audio: Zach Rodriges, Nick Aresco, Adam Donnelly

Video Project

"> For this video project Matt Drew played as a hockey goalie while Duffy took different types of shots at him using a floor hockey ball.
In this video we used two different types of video to get the best shots and points of perspective to show the viewers what its like to play hockey from the eyes of the goalie.
While watching the video you can see Matt Drew watching Duffy go back and forth and taking shots at him. This gives the viewer a good look at how fast the ball is coming at a goalie and how quick the goalie must move in order to stop the ball from going into the net.
If you were to watch a real professional hockey game you would come to find out that the pros can hit a puck up to 100mph. Now we not be playing on the ice, but you can hit a floor hockey ball up to about 80mph. Now this is very quick, and makes the job as a goalie very difficult. This is why it is very important that no matter if your playing ice hockey or floor hockey you should wear some sort of equipment for protection.
After talking with Matt Drew for a while, he gave us some personal insight on his thoughts of being a goalie since he himself has been playing hockey ever since he was a kid. He told us, "Even though playing goalie is fun, that it is a hard position to play and that it take a lot of talent and dedication to be a professional hockey goalie."

Video in Newspapers

I went online and browsed around BBC News. From first glance the home page is filled with many slideshows of pictures, and then if you brows down a little farther you can find a lot of videos. Compared to iReport it is to complicated and hard to brows around and find anything. There is a lot of stuff going on and hard to navigate, while on iReport it has big pictures with their headlines. The videos on BBC News were all different lengths. Some of the smaller stories were quick 2-3 min videos while some of the bigger stories were anywhere from 5-20 min. Overall I believe iReport is a better site and is more user friendly unlike BBC News, so if I was going to choose between the two to look up something I would choose iReport over BBC News.

Review on iReports

There are a few things that I found to be very interesting about iReports. The first thing is that it allows regular people to report the news with the possibility of getting it on air. Second is that it allows people to post things that not all reporters would be able to cover.

When thinking about it not every reporting company has the money to send there reporters across the world to get a story, but with iReports the can send out assignments and people who are already in a different country will be able to cover the story and then put it up on the site, which then can be used by cable companies.

A big benefit would have to be that stories are being covered by people other then reporters and being used by companies. Also everyone including me has the chance of possibly getting their story aired by CNN.

I believe this is a cool idea and has the potential of growing into something huge that anyone can use and help everyone around the world get the news out better and quicker.

Hockey Slide Show

Photos-Tom

Video-Duffy

Audio-Duffy/Tom

Hockey Slideshow Write-up

Duffy and I focused on hockey moves, also known as dekes or dangles. Some of the most famous dekes have been done. The dekes in the photos are some through the legs. These are some of the best ways to score in floor hockey.

Dangles, dekes, and stick-handling are all moves made to embarrass the opposing player by using stick handling to get past them. They are usually done by advanced players usually.

Some of the most notorious dekes were done through the legs. An example of this would be Pavel Datsyuk and Patrick Kane dekes.

These dekes are some of the finest, but they can help fine tune a player’s ability to stick-handle. Once a player learns how to stick handle they can move on to more advanced moves. A great example is the one handed Peter Forsberg dangle. He did this dangle during the 1994 Olympics to help seal the victory over Canada.

Each dangle is specific for a specific time, such as the Forsberg dangle was specifically to target the opposing goaltender. This will increase the chances of the player scoring and getting more goals to add to their statistics. Other dangles are moves to get around defensemen and forwards. These dekes are usually holding the stick out in one hand, and also sometimes a through the legs kick pass to yourself.

Most of these dangles are self passes or moves to evade the defense; they are usually some of the best attempts in order to make a great attempt at a shot on net.

Dangles, dekes, and stick handling are some of the most important parts of the hockey game. Make sure to look for them during a hockey game, while you are watching one of course. They are one of the most exciting plays and can sometimes make the player look foolish (on defense, or if the player who tries to make the deke gets checked to the ice).

Dangling, deking and stick-handling is one of the most crucial parts of a hockey game, as it is supposed to keep the opposing team from knowing what exactly you are going to do.