Final Exam

My first semester of News Media Practicum has made me feel 100% confident that Broadcast Journalism is what I want to study for the next four years here at Florida Southern College. When I walked into the classroom the first day, I remember Dr. Bradford saying that the key to this class is communication and showing up. She could not have said it better. In the beginning of this class, I had very little experience working with interviewing, filming and editing. I felt like everyone already knew what was going on, how to run the shows, use the equipment and had their groups of friends.
Practicum started to feel like a fun job for me. It was something, besides my classes that I was putting a lot of time and effort into. Scheduling my plans around the meetings for Wellness TV, Southern News and Interlachen, my life became crazy. I joined a sorority and fell a little out of touch with my Communication Department family and I immediately knew I had to jump back in.
Over this semester, I learned the importance of scheduling interviews with people, especially experts, because they are usually very busy. Forming relationships with your classmates is very crucial in group shows like these. Through the mentorship of Cynthia, I was taught how to shoot a standup, interview properly, work equipment (such as the beautiful HD camera with the projector) and edit. Wellness TV was the show I worked the most on, mainly because I felt a true passion for it. Having upperclassmen such as Dakota and Shannah taught me such little things about media that had a large importance in the final project.
Southern News Network was a good time for me as well. I learned how to write short, to the point, 3 sentence story blurbs for Anna’s production. It taught me how to be concise and still bring across a good message to the public audience. Watching Justin work the teleprompter, Anna call cut, and admiring Lauren and John made me feel apart of something special. I can not wait to get into the upperlevel classes and learn so much more. I worked on the Interlachen a little bit this semester and hope to get into it more next semester because of my crazy schedule.
Beyond all the experience I was blessed to have received this semester, I found my true home. The Communication department. I learned a lot more about myself and how determined I can really be. My favorite time slot of the week was Fridays at 10:40, where I saw people I truly connected with. Not only were these people my classmates, but they were real. Articles have to be the most unique thing about Practicum. I did not think this class would make me knowledgable about the current Broadcast industry. I knew from the day I was on crutches, when Dalton pushed me on the handtruck to go shoot his Broadcast package, that this was the major for me. You never know what to expect when it comes to Communication kids, and that’s what I love the best.

37 HOURS AND BAAAM

I'm done my Practicum Hours:)

Week of 12/5

Last week of classes.

Monday- Interlachen held our last meeting, we ate pizza and talked about what we'll be working on next semester. THANKS BOB. I went on my first date with Austen. It was fabulous. - 30 minutes
Wellness TV- Our last show was today.. Cynthia gave us bittersweet news, she got an internship in DC but it means she won't be here next semester:( I'll miss her so much. We have alot to do before Friday regarding our packages. 1 hour

Interviewed Michael McEleven for WTV with Kati 1 hour

This past week, I helped Taylor and Kati work on Over indulgance and Saving money over the holidays. We got student interviews, learned how to research and write a script first. Then we shot two other student intervews about how college students make gifts instead of prchasing snce we are all broke. - 5 hours


Total- 7.5 hours

Week of November 28th, 2011

This week we were getting back in the swing of things due to Thanksgiving break. I, had a terrible vacation and feel so happy to be back in my department with my "comm family".
Interlachen meeting @4pm, we talked about the new layout which i'm excited about.
Wellness TV meeting- Michelle took over and we got assigned our new segments for Show 5! I'm always so excited when we get to work on fresh packages.

I sent in two stories to Anna for Southern News Nework- Chicfila and the Clothing Drive


Total- 3 hours

Week of 11/21

AFter our Wellness TV meeting today, Cynthia taught me and Kati how to edit. We edited Fitness with Sarah. Cynthia showed us "jump shots, cutting" and bringing pieces of footage together. We learned about how important the volume level is and such.

Happy Thanksgiving Break!

PS- Bradford was at our meeting today and I learned alot

Total= 1.5 hours

Week of 11/14

Monday- Wellness TV Meeting and Interlachen meetings! I love how Interlachen changed its time so I can actually attend and help out! We watching Episode 4 in Wellness and ate cupcakes. The show came out great!!- (1 hour)

Tuesday- Helped Kati w/ B-Roll for WTV and did the Standup for the Baking Soda package (1.5 hours)

Wednesday- Helped Maggie with the interview for the Financial Wellness package (30 minutes) and Southern News had the first show of the semester!! It was so exciting, Anna did an awesome job. I helped Justin with the camera. (1 hour)

Total- 4 hours:)

Week of 11/7

Monday- Wellness TV (1/2 hour) Our package came out great, I'm so proud of the interviews we shot. We got assignments for Episode 5, cant believe it!1 (1/2 hour)

Thursday- Took photos for Interlachen of GI Theta Chi (1 hour)

Total- 1.5 hours