Ryan Alexander Rose was born on October 10, 1984 in Missouri City, Texas just outside of Houston. At the age of 5 Ryan and his family moved to a small fishing village on an island off of the south coast of South Texas. The fishing village, Port Aransas, was Ryan’s home for K-12. While in high school Ryan was very active in athletics playing 4 varsity sports, basketball most importantly. In addition to sports Ryan was involved in Music such as band and Piano as well as many different volunteer activities with churches, Interact club (High School Rotary), and Student Government Association just to name a few. While in high school Ryan completed over 1,000 voluntary community service hours. Before the end of his Junior year, Ryan had picked his college of choice, the Univeristy of the Ozarks. They accepted Ryan before the start of his senior year and he enrolled shortly after graduation from PAHS.
Ryan with University President Dr. Rick Niece
Ryan graduated from Ozarks, with honors in May of 2007. While there, Ryan was involved in all forms of media available; he was a producer for KUOZ Channel 6 News the University’s news station that was broadcast to the campus, community, and surrounding areas, a radio show host on KUOZ 100.5, a reporter for the Mountain Eagle Newspaper, a photographer for the “Aerie” Ozarks yearbook, and a play-by play and color commentator for the University’s Men’s and Women’s Basketball and Soccer games as well as a paid PA Announcer.
Ryan and Tiffany
In 2007 Ryan accepted the Media Pastor position with an Assembly of God Church in Van Buren, AR.
Ryan is the Director of all the Multi-Media activities and ministries for the church. From the audio and video production during services to the editing of mission trip documentaries, producing church promotional materials, or working with the Youth Pastor on special projects Ryan is heavily involved in all of the churches ministries
Ryan also trains a media team of approximately 20-25 members to use Mackie and Sennheiser Sound equipment, Canon, JVC, and Sony Cameras, Echo-Lab Video Switching, Martin Lights, Easy Worship Computer Graphics and Confidence Monitor Presentation.
Prior to serving in ministry at the church, Ryan worked for a Christian International News Network based out of suburban Chattanooga, TN. While there, Ryan served as the Studio Engineer, Producer, and Webmaster.
While still in college at Ozarks, Ryan worked as the Special Assistant to the Director of Video and Media services. This position allowed Ryan to daily shadow his supervisor and gain professional knowledge from hands on experiences outside the classroom. These experiences were not afforded to any other students and allowed Ryan to become more advanced in knowledge with regards to broadcasting technology and video production which has led to Ryan advancing to leadership positions quickly right out of college.
in the industry i understand is difficult but when you want something you have to go and get it yourself, well i am a first year student in University of Johannesburg South Africa and i am doing BA Audiovisual Communications and my question to you Ryan is did you experince any harships trying to get into doing the degree how did you manage to overcome those problems?.
E-mail me at ryanrose@journalist.com if you have any other questions. It is good to be in your first year of college, that is when you can do the most to propel yourself in your college career and ultimately your professional career. The number one thing I can tell you to do now at your stage is this:
Put as much effort, time, energy, and love into every opportunity you have to get experience in broadcasting. Any chance you have to go watch someone film, help someone film, help someone edit, do a project for someone, write a story, etc… do it.
The reason I say this is because that is where you learn the most and create a foundation for your very own work ethic.
In college I was a producer from my sophomore year until I graduated, another close friend of mine and I were producers that entire time, and we took advantage of every opportunity that presented itself to us.
Among directing, anchoring, film, editing, writing, and reporting stories for a newscast, my friend Evan and I learned how to do every other job that exists in order to make a newscast happen. In addition to that we did video production as well. We made numerous music videos and professionally styled promotional videos for our univerisity, churches, weddings, and more, we also each made two short films and actually filmed, edited, directed, and produced a hollywood style music video for a rising band.
I am not saying all this to say, “look at me, I’m awesome” I am saying it to make a point, and that point is the more you do the more you learn and the better you get. So my advice is learn and do as much as you can while you are in college, because once you get a job, the training wheels come off and it is real life from there on.
Now hardship wise in my degree there were just a few, but nothing big, just disagreements here and there, or instances where I made a mistake and was called on it. There will always be misunderstandings and frustations with those who you work for, are learning under, or even work with, and those who work under you. However the most important thing you can learn is how to treat people and maintain your composure in confrontations, misunderstandings, and disagreements. If you can keep your head, stay calm, and maintain composure, you can accomplish just about anything you want as well as display your maturity and professionalism in a time where you may be getting scolded for a mistake.
There was one time my wife and I were denied a scholarship because of our religious beliefs, and things like that are going to happen. If you want to know more about that instance send me a question in an e-mail, I will answer.
The most important thing I can tell you is to be yourself, be dedicated and passionate to whatever you REALLY want to do, and take every opportunity you have to learn and gain experience and take it for everything it is worth.
God Bless you and I hope you become a powerful producer of video and Media products out of Africa!
-Ryan