Shadowing

Maybe I want to be a reporter someday. Maybe.

And seeing as I basically have no experience with this stuff, I decided to join CitrusTV, the campus news broadcast station. Before I go out and report my own stories, I am supposed to shadow reporters and basically learn from them.

Today was my first shadow :D I met this one girl named Kaitlyn (in the photo) who was creating a package about the Winter Carnival for the 6:00 show. It was quite fun actually... I watched her interview people at the student union and helped carry the equipment back to the studio where we edited using this super slow software called Avid. People were nice and introduced themselves to me which was pretty cool!

Future reporter? Someday, maybe.

The Studio

This semester is the first semester I get to take a class in my major. HOORAY!! I'M MOSTLY DONE WITH GENERAL EDUCATION! Point is, today I learned how to use some equipment in the production studio.

The class I'm taking, BDJ 265, is a studio production class. We combine with the senior level BDJ 465 class to form a mock news crew. My class is in charge of operating the cameras/audio/lighting/etc. while the seniors collect and broadcast the news stories. Together we form a 4:00pm and a 4:40pm news broadcast every Thursday.

I shouldn't be all that amazed at the studio. After all, what else was I expecting? Yet, seeing the cameras, the green screen, the teleprompter, and the microphones all in action at once... and knowing this cool technology is operated by my fellow classmates--- I felt pretty legit.

Today we learned our role, as every week afterward will be putting on a show. Each person in my class is assigned a position in this mock crew. I play the mighty role of "Assistant Director!" The position isn't as fancy as it sounds... I just sit in the control room and keep the clock running. I set the timers, answer the Skype calls, and push some buttons so that the teleprompter shows what is on the green screen when the weatherman does his weather report. Nonetheless, I'm pretty psyched about this class. Starting now, I learn the rules of the trade :)