September 23rd - 26th

Monday, September 23rd :
10-11 am  I helped set up portraits for yearbook. I met Dion at 10 in the Comm building and we took all the equipment and set up pieces to his car then drove over to the collegiate room where we unloaded and set everything up. This was my first time setting up so I learned a lot about the different parts of equipment ad how they work together.

10:40 am I went to the studio and helped with the news show. I sat at the switcher and made sure we recording whenever we were supposed to be. I also got to watch someone on the teleprompter. I have done both of these jobs at my other school but it was a little different.

1-3 pm I went back and helped with portraits. I did some roping (trying to convince people to come get their picture taken!) and I also took a lot of the pictures. Portraits these past two weeks has been my first time ever really taking pictures and not video. I really liked it.

Thursday, September 26th :
12-1 pm I did portraits again. I was the only one who could make it to this shift to take pictures so I did all the jobs: roping, making sure people filled out the sign up sheet, and took the pictures.

Total hours this week: 5
Total for semester : 9

9/16 - 9/20

Thursday September 19th 12-1 pm I did portraits for yearbook.
I was going to have more hours doing this however a lot went wrong and we had to cancel portraits Monday - Wednesday and even parts of Friday that I was signed up to do. I learned that in order to have projects like that to work you need a lot of planning and knowledgeable, committed team members.
Hours this weeks: 1 

Another hour...

9/15/13: I wrote my second local news reader. I realized it's hard to find news that relates to the Lakeland and FSC community that doesn't involve crimes. I found an interesting story about different groups right here in Lakeland Florida that are helping fight against children's hunger which is something that means a lot to me. I learned that writing about news doesn't always have to be only talking about theft, murders and rapes. It can also reach out to the community to help others.

I have been attending the Interlachen meetings and hope to do some work in the next few weeks with them.

Hours this week: 1
Total : 3

Practicum hours thus far....

9/7/13: I wrote a local news reader for the news show about an upcoming attraction at Sea World. Although it wasn't aired because we didn't have time  Idid learn what a reader was and how to write one efficiently. I also realized maybe I like news writing a little more than I thought I would.

9/9/13: I helped with the first news show. I got to see all the different sections we tape, and briefly learn about different pieces of equipment. My specific job was camera. A few issues we had to deal with was making sure the zoom was efficiently making whoever was being filmed look not too close or not too far away, make sure their hands didn't look awkward in the shot and make sure the background was not a distraction. With everyone's opinions and input we worked together to make the different sections look great.

Total hours: 2