This summer I plan to take a course on screen writing for the documentary institute. I'm very excited about this course. I have a strong interest in documentary film-making. This course is going to give me hands on experience in producing, filming, writing and editing a documentary. I find documentary films very interesting. I am not a big fan of other movies as I am in documentary films. You get to explore different topics you wouldn't be able to explore otherwise from this experience. I hope to potentially pursue a career in broadcast journalism, but this may give me an idea of going into film.
Later this summer I plan to begin my internship at WSYX/WTTE-TV's in Columbus, OH as a news intern. As a news intern, I will be in charge of of working with the producers to write the 11:00 news scripts. As well as those responsibilities, I will be out in the field working with a reporter when there are live shots, or helping to gain information for live shots when needed. I will also be working on the phones, checking beats, and listening to police scanners for shootings, fires, accidents. I will be responsible for assigning stories to reporters to go out if I hear something happening on the police scanners coming into the newsroom. I love television news more than anything else. One I have a stronger appreciation for television news. I believe you actually get to see the story much better by watching television than reading it in the newspaper. The reason I say this is a news report is followed by sound bites, the visual video which is evidence of the story. You have no idea but a newspaper may fabricate things. There is no proof sometimes if the story is accurate from what you are reading. People say that in television you only get sound bites. But that is true for newspapers too. A quote is a sound bite in reality. There is no difference. A television newsroom is also very exciting, because news typically comes first there. In television if there is any breaking news, they are first to broadcast that news unlike a newspaper that is published once a day.
I talked with a producer at NBC4, and he told me that in television news people are relaxing and happen to watch the news. When someone is relaxing they don't happen to be reading a newspaper. It happens to be over coffee. So television news has a form of entertainment to it- even though the news could be sad at times.
Later this summer I plan to be in New York City for two weeks in August with my family.
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