This past week at my internship was definitely interesting to say the least. Again, I went out with Amanda to cover a story on the dangers of drunk driving during the super bowl and how EMTs are to respond to such situations during the Sunday night event, taking into consideration the rain, snow and possible sleet to lay ice on the ground. For this story Amanda, Durso (the photographer for Amanda) and I went to the Cumberland County EMT building in order to get an interview with one of the staff members. We started off by calling ahead, arriving, then getting some B-roll for the footage of the event to use for the 6:00 news package.
While Amanda was speaking with the EMT, Durso was busy getting camera footage of flashing lights on the ambulances and other trucks used to go on-call for certain situations. After the footage was taken, Durso recorded Amanda speaking with the employee and getting key information that could be used for the story package at 6. We got to the building around 4:15 and were up and leaving by 4:45, so it was a rather quick and painless process of getting all the information in tact and stuff like that. Then the best part arrived...
I did my first stand up for my broadcast reel! A stand up is basically me speaking on behalf of a story and trying to be as conversational as possible and doing so in front of the camera. This was my first time doing this and to say the least I was pretty nervous to step into that glimmering night spitting from the intimidatingly large camera lens. But after four or five messed up attempts, I got one sentence in to use. That by itself was pretty rewarding! Anyway, that was that and we left back to the station.
Then the live feed was done at the station by one of the other reporters (Amanda is recovering from a cold and has a broken up voice, or else she would have done it herself) and we went back out to get some opinions of people on the streets of Harrisburg. We couldn't get an interview with anyone so we stopped into an Aruga's and they were kind enough to let us film our package in there (it's free publicity, why not, right?).
We interviewed some people in there and then were off to the station again. This time, though, the video package was to be used for the 11:00 news and was going to be more in-depth and include the smaller package that was used for the 5:00 news. Durso put the whole thing together in about 45 minutes (which is incredible if you think about all the small details that need to be addressed in the process). Then that was basically it for this week's internship because I missed the Sunday night shift due to the poor weather conditions on the roads and highways at 12:00 a.m. that night.
While Amanda was speaking with the EMT, Durso was busy getting camera footage of flashing lights on the ambulances and other trucks used to go on-call for certain situations. After the footage was taken, Durso recorded Amanda speaking with the employee and getting key information that could be used for the story package at 6. We got to the building around 4:15 and were up and leaving by 4:45, so it was a rather quick and painless process of getting all the information in tact and stuff like that. Then the best part arrived...
I did my first stand up for my broadcast reel! A stand up is basically me speaking on behalf of a story and trying to be as conversational as possible and doing so in front of the camera. This was my first time doing this and to say the least I was pretty nervous to step into that glimmering night spitting from the intimidatingly large camera lens. But after four or five messed up attempts, I got one sentence in to use. That by itself was pretty rewarding! Anyway, that was that and we left back to the station.
Then the live feed was done at the station by one of the other reporters (Amanda is recovering from a cold and has a broken up voice, or else she would have done it herself) and we went back out to get some opinions of people on the streets of Harrisburg. We couldn't get an interview with anyone so we stopped into an Aruga's and they were kind enough to let us film our package in there (it's free publicity, why not, right?).
We interviewed some people in there and then were off to the station again. This time, though, the video package was to be used for the 11:00 news and was going to be more in-depth and include the smaller package that was used for the 5:00 news. Durso put the whole thing together in about 45 minutes (which is incredible if you think about all the small details that need to be addressed in the process). Then that was basically it for this week's internship because I missed the Sunday night shift due to the poor weather conditions on the roads and highways at 12:00 a.m. that night.