Jan. 17, 2008

This morning our group meet in the TV studio and logged out tape. We have some really great sound bytes to choose from. Before class I got a head start on some of the final assignments. I started the self critic as well as the job assignment. During class the lecture covered resume tapes and how to get an entry level job. Your resume tape should include a montage of stand-ups, news packages, and some samples of your anchoring. Jill showed us two examples of resume tapes, one was her own. Then she example to us what market numbers were. They are based on the population of the area that a newscast shows to. They can change from year to year. The higher the market, the more money you make. We all have another chance to do the local news analysis for KPLR, since there was a hockey game on last night. But since I had to work tonight, I'm going to do KSDK again in the morning. We went to the studio to shoot the news. It was LIVE today which was exciting. I ran the teleprompter. It went really well. Tomorrow, we get to edit our own packages, which will be interesting. I hate editing, so I'm not really looking forward to it. But I am eager to see how the package comes together. I still need to write my package script for tomorrow, but it's getting late, so it will have to wait!