Jan. 31, 2011

Today at Anna's meeting for the Southern News Network we went over what she expected from the show.  She wasn't very pleased with this week's work and from now on it will be 30 minutes for written work.  She is going have us learning different things each week which is awesome!! I am very excited for that.  Colleen is going email everyone revisions on the script so that we have a better understanding.  We are going to start doing packages and maybe adding in sports with another anchor.  I think that this is going to be great experience and now that we know what Anna wants we are going to make this work.  I am sure going to try to learn what is what so that I can make it work because this is something I am very passionate about.


Hours: 30 minutes
Total: 10 hours, 30 minutes

Jan. 29, 2011

I covered the block party yesterday and it was so much fun.  I got a lot of work done until the sun started going down.  Jess wanted me to fill the memory card and I tried.  The lighting was great for most of the time.  every now and then the shutter would slow down and the pictures would be blurry but then I would change the apature and it all worked out for me.  I wanted to get some work done for Consuelo but I have no clue how to use the equipment so Monday I will help her.


Hours: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Total: 10 hours

Jan. 27, 2011

I was able to train somebody for Interlachen!  Her name was Juliana I think.  She's brand new and since I am taking Patrick's position next year, he monitored me and filled in the gaps for me.  It was a good experience for me especially since Juliana's first language isn't English.  I had to repeat myself (which helps me remember everything that Patrick was filling in).  She goes on her first shoot soon and I am going to shadow her to make sure she does everything right.  Also I wrote another story for Anna and emailed it to her.  I hope that since I sent it in so early she will email me back if there is a problem with this story.



Hours: 2 hours
Total: 8 hours 30 minutes

Jan. 24, 2011

Today was a great learning day in the studio for me.  Us underclassmen really didn't get to do anything, we got to watch how it was all done.  I thought it was really cool to watch Dakota on the camera, I want to learn how to do that.  Or run the teleprompter.  I was a little sad that in the first take, the story I wrote was in the script but after that it was out of it.  I can understand why because it was about an event that happened Friday night and it led into an event happening in February.  I am going to write another story and hope that I can figure out what was wrong because Anna didn't email me back.  But I really learned a lot about how the show runs today just by watching.

Hours: 1 hour
Total: 6 hours, 30 minutes

Jan. 21, 2011

I am really glad that I did not have to video tape the Derek Hughes performance like I was suppose to because the lighting was so terrible.  Instead Cynthia told me to take pictures of the performance.  With the ISO at 1600 I still had barely enough light for anything.  And I am also glad I didn't have to video tape it because his last trick was a little risque.  That would definitely not have made it into the yearbook.  But I was really looking forward to learning the video camera and maybe next time when we don't have to worry about copyrights I will.  I also wrote an article on him for Anna's show and emailed it to her.  She never emailed me back so I hope that that's a good sign.  I can't wait to see how we are going to shoot this show!

Hours: 2 hours
Total: 5 hours, 30 min

Jan. 19, 2011

I am so excited for the new semester!  Yesterday was the last day for portraits (finally!) and since we were short on people I set up the portraits mostly by myself until Jess and Haylie got there.  I was able to remember just about everything from last semester.  I am pretty confident that I can do anything with the camera when it comes to taking pictures so I want to focus more on my writing and video skill this semester.  Anna's meeting today made me so excited for this news show that's going on.  I think that we will have so much fun.  She said each story is equal to one hour credit for this class and that's going to motivate a lot of people. I am just excited to get to go to the studio and work.  I want to know everything there is!


Hours: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Total: 3 hours, 30 minutes

Jan. 13 2011

Hey Bradford!  I'm starting early with the hours!  Yesterday I helped out with the portraits for yearbook.  I couldn't help setting up because I had class but for the last 2 hours that the pictures were being done I was able to help.  I thought it was funny how Haley, Cynthina, and Austen were like "Now that you're here we'll get people!"  When I helped Cynthina with a picture I found out that the exposure was set wrong and some people's pictures came out really bad and exposed.  I hope we can figure out how to fix it.  I set the camera settings to where they needed to be.  I helped break things down and I was a little rusty but it came back to me after a little bit on how to do everything.  It was a successful 2 hours, we got 20 pics.

Hours: 2 hours
Total: 2 hours