Standing on the Little League baseball diamond as a kid, Evan Shaw, director of Multimedia Marketing for Ohio athletics, would have loved nothing more than to grow up and play the game professionally. But according to his mother, Shaw showed talent in another area of sports.
He would say
'When that ball left the pitcher's hand I can tell you what that ball looked like from the vantage point of the pitcher first baseman...' He just had a good eye for a camera Liz Shaw said. He was a lousy baseball player and I think that's why
he kept seeing things. He was imagining if he was on the field ... where he'd be setting his camera up.
Evan Shaw followed his talents, and was recently awarded an Emmy by the Ohio Valley Region of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Sports Videography, a result of his work filming the Ohio football team during the 2008 season.
Shaw's exposure to film began at an early age, traveling with his parents as they filmed The Great American Music Co., their PBS television series about American folk music - Liz refers to her son as their roadie during that time.
I got to travel around quite a bit and be on set and see what it was like
but I didn't like it
said Shaw. I had to be quiet
carry stuff ... I wanted to be a fireman or a baseball player or something like that.
Shaw credits his involvement with WOUB when he was an undergraduate at Ohio University's College of Communications as the catapult to his start in film and television. A former captain of the Meigs High School football team, Shaw found his niche in sports videography working on Gridiron Glory, WOUB's program about high school football in Southeast Ohio.
It was a way to continue in sports without having to go to two-a-days
said Shaw, who also won an Emmy for his directorial work on the show before graduating in 2007. The hands-on experience I got there
I couldn't get anywhere else.
Shaw, who has received four Emmy nominations total, enjoys filming the Bobcats because of the atmosphere surrounding college sports.
I like the tradition of college sports
being out with the bands
tailgating
