The woes of a tv journalist
my first day at work and i got the biggest shock of my life.
ok, maybe not the biggest, but definately wasn't very pleasant.
Well i dun wanna put it that way either cos i got to do (and watch and learn) some pretty amazing stuff.
Ok so this was really one of those best and worst days thing. i start with the bad stuff (which always feature prominently in my blog anyway thank yew)
the people at KOMU weren't the friendliest bunch of people on the earth. at least not to strangers...or new comers. I swear there was this girl who stared at me pretty fiendishly. And ahhhh....everyone is like so preoccupied with their own work, or their own self, or their own happy little world, that nobody has the altruism to throw some concern my way.
aw C'mon i'm just a poor lil international student who's scared on the first day of work!
Ok, and then the whole day i was shadowing this reporter, who was apparently having one of the most extreme reporting shifts ever, and didn't get to eat or drink anything on the way. he was so busy i swear i didn't see him use the bathroom the whole day. So you bet it was tiring. for me oso! I think he was really spent by all of that at the end of the day. cos it was like a pressure cooker literally and along the way i tot he was kinda psyche and nervous, and had to work with such a tight deadline. I couldn't do that for nutz man.
and not to mention we had a 12 hour shift today. 8 to 8. Actually it was more than than, 13 hr maybe. sucks. but it didn't feel that long cos he was so busy and stuff. But i got kinda bored watching. ahah.
and it was soooo cold. ffffffffff. i almost die-ed out there. where got place in the world so bloddy cold one, the stupid wind chills.
Snow is like good if it's not cold. ok bullshit!
How for the good part of today. (drumroll)
For one, Jason is a bloody good journalist. I truely believe that from the bottom of my heart. He's professional, careful, confident, and good with AVID XPRESS !!!! and not to mention he can drive, which of cos is one skill that i would love to haf. wAAAAH i feel like a 3 year old kid...can't drive!
okie...KOMU is not very rich and most of the reporters are students, so they pretty much do everyting themselves. If i wasn't shadowing jason today he would be pretty much doing everything from shooting, interviewing, filming his own stand ups, write his own scipt, edit his own vid, and drive his own van. WAH LAO is the two words. Ok since i wasn't much help he pretty much did all that. gosh.
avid isn't something i excel in and now i'm really panickin. since i'll probably need to edit something in like half and hour. seriously i don't know if i could even get the program started in half an hour. Si liao. wAAAhhh (wail). but jason is seriously good at it, well he has to. seriously i never seen someone edit something and voice it over soo fast. maybe oneday i'll be as good.
anyway...that was a distracting. i was going to say that he did 3 live shots today, you noe like live from a location, the anchor intro you and you go live liddat. so i gotta see the live truck and all that stuff.
the story was headline news
so that was my first day. we'll see wat happens on the 2nd.
missing home already....
ps. ok, thanks for getting to the end of this horrificly long and boring post. You're a real fren. But i know how bad a blogger i've been recently, you must understand the self censorship sia...i've got another better blog though.(wink) mail me.
ok, maybe not the biggest, but definately wasn't very pleasant.
Well i dun wanna put it that way either cos i got to do (and watch and learn) some pretty amazing stuff.
Ok so this was really one of those best and worst days thing. i start with the bad stuff (which always feature prominently in my blog anyway thank yew)
the people at KOMU weren't the friendliest bunch of people on the earth. at least not to strangers...or new comers. I swear there was this girl who stared at me pretty fiendishly. And ahhhh....everyone is like so preoccupied with their own work, or their own self, or their own happy little world, that nobody has the altruism to throw some concern my way.
aw C'mon i'm just a poor lil international student who's scared on the first day of work!
Ok, and then the whole day i was shadowing this reporter, who was apparently having one of the most extreme reporting shifts ever, and didn't get to eat or drink anything on the way. he was so busy i swear i didn't see him use the bathroom the whole day. So you bet it was tiring. for me oso! I think he was really spent by all of that at the end of the day. cos it was like a pressure cooker literally and along the way i tot he was kinda psyche and nervous, and had to work with such a tight deadline. I couldn't do that for nutz man.
and not to mention we had a 12 hour shift today. 8 to 8. Actually it was more than than, 13 hr maybe. sucks. but it didn't feel that long cos he was so busy and stuff. But i got kinda bored watching. ahah.
and it was soooo cold. ffffffffff. i almost die-ed out there. where got place in the world so bloddy cold one, the stupid wind chills.
Snow is like good if it's not cold. ok bullshit!
How for the good part of today. (drumroll)
For one, Jason is a bloody good journalist. I truely believe that from the bottom of my heart. He's professional, careful, confident, and good with AVID XPRESS !!!! and not to mention he can drive, which of cos is one skill that i would love to haf. wAAAAH i feel like a 3 year old kid...can't drive!
okie...KOMU is not very rich and most of the reporters are students, so they pretty much do everyting themselves. If i wasn't shadowing jason today he would be pretty much doing everything from shooting, interviewing, filming his own stand ups, write his own scipt, edit his own vid, and drive his own van. WAH LAO is the two words. Ok since i wasn't much help he pretty much did all that. gosh.
avid isn't something i excel in and now i'm really panickin. since i'll probably need to edit something in like half and hour. seriously i don't know if i could even get the program started in half an hour. Si liao. wAAAhhh (wail). but jason is seriously good at it, well he has to. seriously i never seen someone edit something and voice it over soo fast. maybe oneday i'll be as good.
anyway...that was a distracting. i was going to say that he did 3 live shots today, you noe like live from a location, the anchor intro you and you go live liddat. so i gotta see the live truck and all that stuff.
the story was headline news
so that was my first day. we'll see wat happens on the 2nd.
missing home already....
ps. ok, thanks for getting to the end of this horrificly long and boring post. You're a real fren. But i know how bad a blogger i've been recently, you must understand the self censorship sia...i've got another better blog though.(wink) mail me.
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