Film School

I started in 1992 as graduate assistant in the football video department at the University of Illinois. Prior to that I had no idea what went in to preparing for a football game. In 1996, I became the video coordinator here at the University of Oregon where I have spent the last seven seasons. Aside from trying to explain to my friends what I actually do, and convince my Mom and Dad that I can make a living watching college football games every fall Saturday; the biggest challenge of this position is staying on top of today’s ever-changing world of technology. “Today I would estimate that 98 percent of the Division I schools across the country now have some type of non-linear or digital system where the video library resides on computer hard drives instead of tape.” - Steve Pohl In the late 1980s there was a breakthrough from 16mm film to VHS video. It was a step that eliminated