Monday, May 28, 2012

Newsroom tour (last wednesday)


Sorry for the late update everyone. My life is still busy with senior project and other surprise events. Here is an account of last Wednesday.

I had the wonderful opportunity to tour a local news station. My project sponsor took me to Channel 3 Studio, which has a reputation for being one of the nicest looking studios in the nation. The building is situated right on the lake. It is not very tall or imposing as I thought it would be. Nevertheless, it looked spotless. After passing a security desk, I came into a large room filled with people working at computers. They were putting together the 7:00PM show. My project sponsor is well known in the industry, so she was going up to countless people to say hi and to introduce me to old contacts. Once we were done touring the production room, we got to watch a live newscast inside the studio room. The room is actually an elaborate set built into one side of the production space. The pacing felt much slower than watching it on tv. There was no dramatic music and no rapid layovers and cuts. The newscasters said their lines in between yells from a person following the production schedule. I chuckled quietly at one point as I watched some of the crew making strange faces while one of the newscasters was doing a story on some disgusting topic. I will post photos from the event in a little bit.

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