What I learned this Semester

           I have learned more about broadcast in the past three and a half months than ever before. Some of things I learned specifically were the importance of news values and how it enables you to write the most effective story, how to write in broadcast style (and how it differs from AP),  and how to produce a five minute news cast.
          Through out the semester I realized that the more I learned the more confident and comfortable I felt. I enjoyed taking a skill from each one of my classes and applying it to our weekly news show. I also enjoyed being able to watch the news on TV with a different perspective. I also feel like this semester truly prepared and equipped me for my summer internship interview with ABC. I am extremely grateful for that. My only regret is that I didn't get interested, serious and involved with broadcast sooner.
         One of my goals for next semester is to make MOCS Talk a more realistic news show. I want the environment and flow to be as authentic as possible. I plan on having scripts written well ahead of time and utilize more writers from practicum. I also want to have a run down prepared each week before we tape and have the producer standing by watching our time. I also want the show to be one take and ONE TAKE ONLY! These changes will allow everyone to get a feel for what "real life" news is like.
        One other thing I really enjoyed this semester was making weekly packages. The more I do them the better they turn out and my broadcast writing class really helped me with that. Now I know how to write an appropriate and accurate script and how it should be properly structured. That was actually my favorite part of the whole semester. I felt like an actual reporter going through the B-roll and and logging my shots and SOTs. It made me think outside the box like an actual reporter in the field would. The only thing I really wish we did was bring in our own footage to put together. It would have been great for the final to go out and shoot our own B-roll and log it ourselves and then go through it and write out our scripts. It would have been great to go through the process beginning to end to get the full experience. I would have found it challenging, but fun! (and we could have watched everyone's packages on the final day of class and critiqued them.)
         All in all, it was a great semester. I am so excited about anchoring and co-producing next year's news show along with Rachel Belli. I think together she and I will work well together  and the changes we make will only make MOCS Talk better! I also plan to take the lessons ABC teaches me and apply it to my projects in the future.

Weeks 3/24, 3/31, and 4/7

For the past three weeks I have helped in shooting the morning news show. I worked with Robert to set up audio and lighting and I also ran the camera. I also produced a news package for next week's show. It's covering the new Lakeland skate park that is being built at Lake Bonny park. It will be the third largest skate park in florida once it is completed. Team Pain is behind the construction. They are a group of builders who actually skateboard themselves so they know exactly how to make it the most effective park.
 hours:
3 for the news show
2 hours shooting
1 hour writing
2 hours post production
total of 8 hours