This past week at my internship has been relatively slow in terms of news and covering stories.
On Friday, Heisler and I didn't actually end up going out on any shoots. The reason for this is because the week before we had recorded interviews and B-roll for HD dashboard cameras on police cars. But right when we finished getting all of the footage for that piece, we got called to the Shippensburg fire which happened the week before and ended up covering that instead. So this past Friday instead of going out on a shoot, Amanda wrote a package for the police cameras story and Eric put it together.
Then, I put together my own package for the story that entire day which came out pretty good. Eric put one together, too, which was actually used for the 5:00 evening news. But in terms of editing together packages with nat pops, interviews, b-roll and easily transitioned pieces, I'm getting very used to using Adobe Premier Pro and I'm happy that I've come so far from the first piece I put together. It's like things are becoming second nature to me now in small ways and I'm able to analyze what I'm doing right and doing wrong while creating attention-grabbing scenes.
On Sunday night I had my shift with Deryk and we went out for a live shot at 3:30 a.m. in the pouring rain. We ended up only doing one live shot then coming back to the station to do look-lives (shots that are pre-recorded then used in order to make the viewer think the shot is actually live). After that, we spent about an hour or so going over his past packages and he showed me a ton of things about how to make a story interesting with both shooting and editing. It's insane how much one person can really know about photojournalism but Deryk has been doing this for 20+ years and he definitely knows his way around a camera.
That is essentially what's been going on the past week with my internship. I'm doing my first live shot with another intern on Friday by myself and I'm definitely a bit nervous, but it's a good kind of nervous. I also applied to CBS 21 as a Production Assistant and am trying to get an information interview set up with them so they at least know my face. Anyway, until next time, thanks for reading!
On Friday, Heisler and I didn't actually end up going out on any shoots. The reason for this is because the week before we had recorded interviews and B-roll for HD dashboard cameras on police cars. But right when we finished getting all of the footage for that piece, we got called to the Shippensburg fire which happened the week before and ended up covering that instead. So this past Friday instead of going out on a shoot, Amanda wrote a package for the police cameras story and Eric put it together.
Then, I put together my own package for the story that entire day which came out pretty good. Eric put one together, too, which was actually used for the 5:00 evening news. But in terms of editing together packages with nat pops, interviews, b-roll and easily transitioned pieces, I'm getting very used to using Adobe Premier Pro and I'm happy that I've come so far from the first piece I put together. It's like things are becoming second nature to me now in small ways and I'm able to analyze what I'm doing right and doing wrong while creating attention-grabbing scenes.
On Sunday night I had my shift with Deryk and we went out for a live shot at 3:30 a.m. in the pouring rain. We ended up only doing one live shot then coming back to the station to do look-lives (shots that are pre-recorded then used in order to make the viewer think the shot is actually live). After that, we spent about an hour or so going over his past packages and he showed me a ton of things about how to make a story interesting with both shooting and editing. It's insane how much one person can really know about photojournalism but Deryk has been doing this for 20+ years and he definitely knows his way around a camera.
That is essentially what's been going on the past week with my internship. I'm doing my first live shot with another intern on Friday by myself and I'm definitely a bit nervous, but it's a good kind of nervous. I also applied to CBS 21 as a Production Assistant and am trying to get an information interview set up with them so they at least know my face. Anyway, until next time, thanks for reading!