By Staff
Covering Hawkeye Sports
Hamilton HS
1st Place
Division 1, Digital Media
Social Media Coverage
About the coverage: The Covering Hawkeye Sports class covered the girls and boys basketball doubleheader vs. Zeeland West on February 5, 2016 at Hamilton High School by using 8-bit graphics as the primary source of information on Twitter.
The coverage truly was a staff endeavor as we had a department of students creating the 8-bit graphics for both games. We also had photographers and information graphic artists working in real-time to create and subsequently post their work to social media. While the photos were not in 8-bit format, many of the in-game animations were made to look the same as Nintendo’s graphics in 1986.