Slug & Lede

The audio piece for the Colts’ fans in Houston was not what I anticipated it to be. The piece does a subpar job of describing or visualizing what Colts fans are like in Houston, and trails off quite a bit at the the end. However it is an uplifting piece, it just has a confusing title and doesn’t focus much on the Colts fans.

The strengths of the piece are the music and the entrance of the Colts. They inserted the music in there to get you ready for the colts to come out, which I thought played well with the slide show. There’s also a clip of a lady yelling “The Super Bowl champs are here” which let the Houston fans know who was in town. I thought both of these played really well into the audio and should have been the stepping stone into the rest of the piece. Also I think the idea of showing the fans before the game with some interaction, and followed by the game and how it progressed was a great idea. I think the orginization of that went well.

The weaknessses of the piece seemed more prevalent to me than the strengths. The video was very confusing because it is supposed to be a piece on the Colts fans in Houston and was almost anything but that. Instead, it starts out with Houston Texan fans, trash talking colts fans and beating what looks to be a colt Peyton Manning pinata. Even though that could have been a great transition into some footage of Colts fans, it seemed to focus more on profiling Texans fans than Colts fans in the beginning.

After that we finally get some Colts fans, who happen to be the only Colts fans featured in the audio piece,  it goes right into the Colts entering the stadium and focuses on the Texans fans booing the Colts. This still has me wondering when they will show the Colts fans. I think the piece definitely needed more interaction betweeen Colts fans and Texans fans, and if anything should have focused on the Colts fans in Houston, because that was the topic. As far as the actual editing of the audio, it was a decent job. They could have transitioned into the game a little bit better, but i did like the idea they had. I think visual media is necessary for this piece, and while i think an audio slide show is good, I think a longer video segment is what is needed.

Overall it was a nice piece with a great idea. While I think the piece was very inspiring, it was also a little confusing. The title of the piece leads me to believe it is going to be about Colts fans in Houston. Again, it seemed almost anything but that. I think the clip they did get of the Colts fans in the beginning, and some of the game pictures fit in very well with the piece, and they should have shown more of that.The piece definitely needs more audio and visuals of the Colts fans, however I liked where they were going with it.