{"id":6583,"date":"2017-07-27T15:21:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:21:06","slug":"cmu-student-records-announcements-for-the-canada-summer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2017\/cmu-student-records-announcements-for-the-canada-summer-games\/","title":{"rendered":"CMU student records announcements for the Canada Summer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CMU student Jason Friesen recorded PA announcements for the Canada Summer Games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you attend the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg this summer, chances are good that you\u2019ll hear Jason Friesen\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n

This past spring, Jason recorded announcements that will be broadcast over the PA systems at venues throughout the games, which start tomorrow (Friday, July 28).<\/p>\n

The announcements endorse the companies and organizations that are supporting the games, and also let spectators know things like where they can buy merchandise and how they can connect with the games on social media.<\/p>\n

Jason, who completed his fourth year at CMU this past April, has some prior recording experience, thanks to taking the Media Workshop class with David Balzer, Assistant Professor of Communications and Media at CMU.<\/p>\n

The class teaches students how to research, write, and record interview segments for broadcast on the radio and internet.<\/p>\n

Jason worked with Balzer, recording engineer Darryl Neustaedter Barg, and Canada Summer Games Host Society media relations consultant Monique Lacoste to record the English version of the announcements at the studio in Mennonite Church Manitoba, which is located next to CMU\u2019s Shaftesbury campus.<\/p>\n

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CMU students Emily Hamm, Jason Friesen, Thomas Friesen, and Canada Summer Games Host Society media relations consultant Monique Lacoste pose for a picture in the recording studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recording the announcements was a fun experience, Jason says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like a different level when it\u2019s going to be broadcast in venues across Winnipeg and people from across Canada will hear it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really makes you focus on what you\u2019re saying and how you\u2019re saying it, that you\u2019re doing it right and doing it in a way that grabs people\u2019s attention while they\u2019re at these venues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason, who is majoring in Communications and Media, is an avid sports fan and a member of the CMU Blazers Men\u2019s Volleyball team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching sports, you always hear these announcements going over the loudspeaker,\u201d Jason says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat will be me now, I guess. It\u2019s a dream come true in some senses\u2014not one I had set my mind to, but it\u2019s neat to take advantage of (the opportunity).\u201d<\/p>\n

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CMU student Thomas Friesen has spent the past year working as one of five sports and venues coordinators for the Canada Summer Games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The opportunity came about as a result of Thomas Friesen (no relation to Jason), a CMU student who has spent the past year working as a sports and venues coordinator for the Canada Summer Games Host Society.<\/p>\n

In addition to coordinating the venues and volunteers for the volleyball, golf, basketball, and triathlon competitions, Thomas\u2019s work has involved producing the content that will be broadcast over the PA systems at the games. (Read more about Thomas’s experience working for the Games here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Like Jason, Thomas is majoring in Communications and Media. He took the Media Workshop class during the winter 2016 semester, which sparked his interest in getting CMU involved when it came time to recording the announcements he needed for the games.<\/p>\n

Thomas knew that working with David, Darryl, and Jason would result in a professional recording.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust to get CMU involved in that way seemed like a great idea,\u201d Thomas says. \u201cThey did an awesome job. They sound great. It\u2019s pretty cool to think we\u2019ll have (a CMU student) being the English voice of the games.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Canada Summer Games will include 16 sports and 250-plus events featuring more than 4,000 athletes.<\/p>\n

Over 7,000 volunteers were recruited to make the games possible, and more than 20,000 visitors are expected at the events.<\/p>\n

The games start this Friday and go until Sunday, August 13. It\u2019s the 50th anniversary of the games.<\/p>\n

For Thomas, a lifelong sports fan who has played soccer and volleyball with the CMU Blazers, working for the games has been a dream come true.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the best things about it is just working with people in sport,\u201d Thomas says.<\/p>\n

He adds that the passion he\u2019s encountered from his supervisors, colleagues, and the volunteers is palpable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably the coolest thing,\u201d he says, \u201calways seeing that passion everywhere we go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you attend the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg this summer, chances are good that you\u2019ll hear Jason Friesen\u2019s voice. This past spring, Jason recorded announcements that will be broadcast over the PA systems at venues throughout the games, which start tomorrow (Friday, July 28). The announcements endorse the companies and organizations that are supporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156,170],"tags":[54,186,881,871,131,872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}