Southern News Network

Unfortunately, we were unable to tape a show this week because Anna felt our stories were not complete enough for a high-quality production. Our meeting took place today from 10:40 to 11:15 am. We disucssed topics for next week show, and Anna and I have decided to coperate together and do a package on an overview of "Week of Impact." We are scheduled to get broll during "Kick Off" at 5:00 pm and the first blood drive on Tuesday at 5:00 pm. Anna lowered everyone's hours to 30 minutes per story because of the low quality, but Anna told me after the meeting was over that my stories were very good, so I still get an hour for each. It pays to work hard!

Total hours to this date: 11 hours and 45 minutes

Dr. Smith Interview Questions

Today I worked from 1:00 until 2:00 pm writing interview questions for Dr. Patrick Smith. Dakota and I have decided to interview him, as well as Dr. Mackie for our package for Wellness TV. I sent the questions to Dakota so that she can look them over and make changes as she sees fit. I will be giving Dr. Smith his questions tomorrow so that he can look over there and prepare some answers for his interview on Tuesday at 11:15, which Dakota will be conducting since I, unfortunately, have Elementary Statistics at that time.

Total hours to this date: 9

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Wellness TV

Today Dakota and I discussed our Wellness TV project from 4:30 pm until 5:00 pm. Our topic is whether or not people tend to exercise and eat healthy more or less when they are in a relationship. We have decided to interview Dr. Smith, a psychology professor, and Dr. Mackie, who teaches interpersonal communication. We will also to a random survey of students to see how they feel about the topic.

Total hours to this date: 8

Southern News Network and Cooking with Bivens

Today was our very first taping of the Southern New Network. Anna decided to use my story about James in the show, so I get an hour for it. Hour or no hour, I am very excited that my work was included in the very fist show! My job during the taping was the work the sound board. John Luti showed me which mics were hooked up to where, what levels the mics should be on, and how to adjust the mic levels if they were too high or too low. Then throughout the taping, I listened to Coleen while she anchored the show and monitored her microphone, making sure that the mic wasn't too low or too high, and alerting the producer if I heard additional background noise being picked up by Coleen's mic. It was a different job than I am normally used to, but it was exciting to get to learn how to use such an essential piece of equipment. The show trial taping and final taping lasted from 10:40 - 11:30 am. For the last half hour, Justin Bivens held a meeting about his cooking show that he wants to get started. We bounced around ideas for the first show, and decided to promote the campus channel by having our first show be a movie night theme and using the movie "Eat, Pray, Love," which is played often on the campus channel. Our food would be sandwiches, we were considering some kind of sub, and popcorn. Our meeting lasted from 11:30 until 12 pm.


Total hours to this date: 7 hours and 30 minutes

More FSCTV

Yesterday, Bivens and I worked in the studio from 2 until 3:00 pm. We got some new movies for the TV channel, so Bivens showed me how to put in the new hard drive, upload the videos, and then schedule them in with the rest of videos. He was able to keep his hands off the computer and let me try it myself, such a brave soul! Hopefully, I'll get the hang of it before Bivens graduates so we can continue improving the channel.

Total hours to this date: 5 hours and 5 minutes

Ana's New Show

Today I went to the studio to meet with Ana and the rest of the crew who will be working on her show. We met from 10:40 until 11:10. Ana explained that we would be shooting every Monday by 10:40. Each of us is to right 1 to 2 stories and turn them in to her by Friday at 4:00 pm. We discussed topics today, such as the Magician that is coming this weekend and Justin's favorite topic, Chick-fil-a Friday. I have decided to write a story about James, the Communication student who passed away this past week. Ana explained that each useable story will be equivalent to one hour. Sounds good to me!

Hours to this date: 4 hours and 5 minutes

Wellness TV/FSC TV

Our very first Wellness TV meeting was on Friday, January 14, from 10:00 am until 10:35 am. Consuelo mentioned this semester she was thinking of introducing a chain of command. This way, if she is out there will be someone who can handle things until she comes back. I think that this is a great idea, because when Consuelo was in her car accident first semester, it did feel like things were falling apart. We also talked about having the possibility of having permanent anchors and editors. I have decided to audition to become a permanent anchor. Why not at least try? Bivens has taken it upon himself to teach me everything I need to know about FSC TV, so today I met with him in the studio from 1:00 until 4:00 pm. He showed me how to edit the power points that role on FSC TV, take them down, and put them back up, he showed me how to play a movie or a broadcast project on the channel, how to properly name the files and schedule them, and he went over a brief demonstration of all the parts of a Studio Camera, and added in his own belief that he feels a manual zoom lens, like the ones in the studio cameras, is better than an automatic one, but much trickier. John Luti was working on his own project in the studio and he filled in the gaps that Bivens may have missed. Ana also came in during this time and I shared with her my story idea for her news show. I will be meeting again with her and the rest of the crew tomorrow at 10:40 am. 

A busy semester is ahead of me, but I'm so excited to get started! 

Hours to this date: 3 hours and 35 minutes