Practicum Hours December 5th

I helped Dion with a package that he was doing for Trice's class. The topic was international student's traditions that differ from the US traditions, and what christmas meant to us. He set up 6 interviews in total, me being one of them. I helped him edit one of his interviews.

1 Hour

Practicum Hours Thur December 6th

I came to the studio and helped set up for the southern sports network. We had planned to interview Tracy but there were only 3 of us including myself so we had to work with what we could. I operated both cameras, Joran directed and John was the interviewer.

After the show I stayed behind with Jordan and helped her log and capture all the footage. We started to edit the footage that we had until I had to leave for class.

2 Hours

Practicum Hours Thur December 6th

I came to the studio and helped set up for the southern sports network. We had planned to interview Tracy but there were only 3 of us including myself so we had to work with what we could. I operated both cameras, Joran directed and John was the interviewer.

1 Hour

Final Paper

Looking back on my first semester at FSC as a freshman I had a completely different idea on what career it was that I wanted to pursue after I graduated college. I had a dream to be a TV host, to work for a big reputed company and interview celebrities, be on location at the red carpet, and live life in the fast lane.

   Now I am a senior and as my future career is becoming less of a dream and more of a reality, I find myself asking, what is it that I really want to do for the rest of my life. Throughout my four years of being a communications student I have done a number of jobs in California. I started out as a shy intern for a large production company right in the heart of Hollywood, I would run back and forth completing errands for people, from coffee runs, to photocopying hundreds of scripts, rundowns and schedules. Over my four year course of doing this it made me realize quite a few things. One, was that the glamor of Hollywood wasn't all that it had appeared. Hollywood is brutal, people are mean, and you really aren't as talented as you may believe. FSC is tiny, being a big fish in a small pond was easy, but the minute you are amongst thousands of people who want what you want, but are 100% dedicated to it, makes you realize nothing comes without a LOT of hard work. On a positive note, I also learnt that this lifestyle, working 14-hour shifts and being constantly on your feet is something that I loved to do.

   During my work experience in California, I made quite a few connections along the way and due to this I landed a job running the BET awards pre-show. I felt like I was really out of my depth, as I was used to being given orders, not being the one giving them. This job is what made me realize what it is that I wanted to do. I worked so hard on this show, hardly sleeping and constantly e-mailing, doing research and setting up meetings. People were asking me for advise, and following my orders. The project become my own and I enjoyed every second of it. This got me thinking about event planning.

   The requirements of an events planner is that they are responsible for all aspects of planning a meeting or special event for an organization. Responsible for all amenities and accommodations at the event as well as any associated contact negotiations. You may require a bachelor's degree in an area of specialty and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. This job relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, performs a variety of tasks and works under general supervision. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. You would typically report to a supervisor or manager. 

   I believe that with my experience I have obtained over the last four years, from working in CA, I would suit this job well. During my time as a PA I was responsible for everyone's itinerary to the event. This included 27 members of staff that were being flown in for the event, therefore required a lot of organization and preparation. I also feel familiar with the concepts, practices and procedures within this particular field. I believe that I am a very creative person and can have a clear vision of what I want an event to look like and how to make that happen. I also like how this particular job role usually reports to a supervisor or manager because I would not like the stress of running my own business. This job allows me to bring out my creative side and leadership qualities without having the weight of a whole company and it's employees.

   According to some research that I did, the bottom 10% of salary in this field earns $40,861 a year. However, the top 90% of this field's salary can be up to $100,000 a year. I have my heart set on working in NYC or LA for this and believe with a lot of hard work I can be in the top 90%.

Practicum Hours Dec. 5th

at 3pm today I went into the studio with Tony to help him finish up editing his basketball package. Despite having the minor set back that we had to log and capture twice due to missing video, today's editing ran very smoothly. I helped tony with cutting the film down to the footage that we wanted to use, and labeling it so we could find it easily. I don't normally do this because I don't have that much footage to work with but this helped him cut the time down. We stayed in the studio till 6 pm and got it all done in time for dinner.

3 HOURS

Practicum hours Dec. 5th

I just finished up an interview with Dion for his package on international student's Christmas holiday traditions.

0.5 Hours

Practicum Hours December 4th

After editing my package Tony came in to start working on editing the film when shot at the basketball game. We had obtained so much footage that it took a while to log and capture. After it being complete we realized that we had only logged the audio as tony had it on the settings from his podcast so we had to go back and re-log and capture the whole thing. We started at 3 pm and wrapped things up for the day at 6 for dinner.

3 HOURS

Practicum Hours Tuesday Dec 4th

I finished editing up my package and adding all of the extra b-roll shots I took. I dropped off my package in Austin's drop off box.

2 hours

Practicum Hours Dec. 3rd

I helped Tony shoot the basketball game today against Armstrong Atlantic. We get there at 7 pm early to set up and shoot warm up shots. We covered all angles of the gym and at the end of the game we did two player interviews and a coach interview.

3 hours

Practicum Hours Dec 3rd

Yesterday I made note of all the shots I needed for my b-roll and at power hour (5pm) I drove down to the lake with my friend and got some shots of her meditating by the lake while the sun set. I also go a lot of b roll of the surroundings, people running, the gym, etc.

1.5 hours

Practicum Hours November 28th

After my interview with the counseling center Dr. I came back to the studio and started to piece together my package. I took notes regarding the B-roll I still needed to get and recorded the script.

2 hours

Practicum hours Nov. 28th

Last night at 9 pm I had scheduled an interview with Allyson Hovda, a senior who will be graduating after next semester. I had already written out a guideline of questions.

1 hour

This morning I had an interview with one of the doctors from the counseling center. Prior to the interview I prepped a list of questions. The interview was very long as the Dr. had a lot to say on each question. I found my questions to be more than adequate but also found the conversation very flowing and I obtained a lot more information than originally expected.

1 hour

TOTAL: 2 hours

Practicum Hours November 27th

I am currently working on a package for the Southern News Network on how to deal with the stress of finals and for graduating seniors the stress of graduating on time with the right grades.

Today I went out and shot all my B-roll. For each location and shot and wide, medium and close up shot. From past experiences I have learnt that the more footage you shoot the easier it is to piece the package together. Before I shot my B-roll I wrote out a draft script so I got an idea of how I wanted the package to look.

I also scheduled two interviews, one with a Dr. at the counseling center and one with a graduating senior.

My interviews are both scheduled for tomorrow.

Hours: 3

Practicum Hours

Last week I helped out with the intro to broadcast class with them filming an orange juice commercial.

We checked out the cameras and used TUTU's cafe to film. I was in charge of the two cameras we had, making sure that they were in the right position and we went around and filmed each person individually saying their part.

Total 1.5 hours

Practicum Hours Commercial

Last week I filmed a commercial for a PR class. They asked for a comm. major to help out with filming and editing. I took my Olympus Penn camera which has a HD camera because it is amazing quality and light and easy to carry around.

We went to two different bars before we found the right area for lighting and surroundings to film. I directed the whole commercial and we did about 7 run throughs of it, making sure that I had enough footage for editing and that it ran smoothly.

As soon as we were done shooting I went home and immediately started editing the footage. This took quite a while because there was so much footage to go through and I had to make sure that it was all pieced together in the right sequences. After getting the footage in order I then added music and some special effects.

Total 6 hours.

Here is the link to the commercial :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiLsSxAoJSg

Reel practicum hours

This semester has really been important for me to focus on what I am going to do after I graduate. With that in mind, in order for me to be able to take away everything I have learnt by being a comm. major I wanted to start working on my showreel to be able to take with me to potential employees. The last few days I have been really working on the hosting side of my show reel. My friend who was operating the camera came with me to various locations around naples and helped me film interviews, a mixture of stand ups and memorized pieces to camera.

On Sunday October 7th I arranged an interview with the store manager of best buy and we talked about the I Phone 5, how the sales were, if best buy were selling the product, etc. The whole interview itself took 45 minutes including setting up.

I prepared a stand up piece for before and after the interview as well taking no more than an hour.

After this we went to another location, the range rover car dealership and I filmed part of my reel as if I was taking a range rover for a test drive. This took a few takes as I would run out of things to talk about or get confused as to what message I was trying to portray. This took 2 hours total

On Monday October 8th, I borrowed my dad's harley davidson and did a stand up piece to camera talking about road safety and the importance of wearing a helmet. I had rehearsed what I was going to say, without it being too scripted. Each time I would do the piece it would come out differently and I kept repeating it till I was satisfied that we had at least 4 or 5 good takes. This took an hour and a half.

On Tuesday October 9th, I wanted to talk more to the camera about a product, and seeing as my dad makes toys, I felt like it was fit to talk about one of his new toys that just hit the shelves in Wal-Mart. I included a demonstration on how to erect it, where it would be useful to use as well as price compared to leading competitors. We did an hour of shooting this as well as adding some goofy moments which would later be used in the editing process. This took an hour and a half of filming as well as setting up and working with the lighting and sounds/mic.

Later on that day of October 9th I started to edit all the footage I had captured over the last few days. This is the process that takes the longest time, I wanted to make the editing sharp and quick while capturing my personality. I changed the speed of some clips, added music, lower thirds and captions as well as working on the color of some clips. I worked on this for 4 hours total, as I had a LOT of footage to work with.

Total: 9 hours and 45 minutes

Practicum Hours April 14th

I have been working on my show reel, I checked out a camera and went to various locations and did different stand ups, after I came back to the studio, log and captured my footage and started to edit what I had. This whole process took a while but I found myself really enjoying it.

5.5 hours total

practicum hours (April 6th)

I worked on my showreel for 3 hours in the studio. This was a lot more difficult than i thought because I had to go through all the tapes to find my anchoring part. After that i found it difficult to log and caputre as some setting wasn't correct. I collected my footage together onto final cut pro and cut it with a fast editing pace.

3 hours

Practicum Hours (Feb 23rd)

Again today I helped Kirsten work on her online media midterm which was working on a web page which was on putting all of her stories from the semester so far into one website. I knew how to do this as in NMP we had a producer week where we would gather all the stories from the week and put them onto one website for publishing.

3 HOURS

Practicum Hours

Last thursday Kirsten and I were in the studio log and capturing the mens basketball v. Saint Leo. We also editing everything we had. This took a while but it was useful for me to be there with Kirsten because she was doing this package for NMP and I took the same class last semester so I knew what it was that Bradford was looking for in her package.

4 hours

Practicum Hours

I helped Tony out with shooting the women's tennis match vs. Lynn as I wasn't playing on this particular day. The rain kept coming and going making filming difficult and inconsistent but we managed to get a lot of footage. There were a few things Tony was un certain of when it came to setting up the camera but because of my knowledge from News Media Projects I managed to help him out and make sure everything ran smoothly.

Total: 4 hours.

Practicum Hours

2 hours were spent working on the Southern News, I worked the prompter and had some time on camera one. I enjoy working on the SSN because every week we all switch around and get experience in all areas of the broadcast studio.

2 HOURS

Hours Feb 7th

There were some technical problems with the right computer in the studio, it kept claiming that there were files dropped while we were capturing. We then went ahead and swapped everything over to the other computer it then said that there was no information to capture. This took an hour to work out and get sorted

1hour

Hours Feb 7th

Worked with Krissy for 2 hours in editing her package about Downtown loves the arts for advanced TV.

2 HOURS

Practicum Hours Jan 25th

2 hours

I came into the studio and sat with John for 45 minutes while he wrote out the script for the Southern News network. This helped me a lot because writing seems to be my weak point when it comes to broadcast and watching John write gave me a good example of what it is that Bradford is looking for in broadcast writing class.

The other hour and 15 minutes was spent working on the Southern News Network. I helped out with the tele prompter as well as sound and watching Dakota direct from the switch board.