December 10 and December 11

December 10- Business Department, Today me and Sarah conducted interviews with some staff in the Business department. 1 hour
December 10- Music Department- Today we took the music department photograph with all the faculty in the music department. 1 hour
December 11- Interlachen- Today we worked on correcting mistakes and edits on all the pages of the yearbook that are completed on InDesign. 2 hours

Total-4 hours

Final

In my Midterm write-up, I spoke about how the most valuable thing I’ve learned thus far in news media practicum and my education in broadcast journalism was the importance of communication. Though that is completely true and necessary, communicating is not the key to my success as a journalist.

This second half of the semester I have stepped up, and have taken more of an initiative to learn new things, realizing that I will earn my own success by the amount I put in here.

By taking charge, and not being afraid of a new challenge, such as using the HD video camera and going to video tape something just to learn something new. By playing around with this video camera, I learned how comfortable I really am with it.

This half of the semester I decided to not volunteer for things just because my friend’s were volunteering as well, but because I needed to step up and learn new things independently. The beginning of the semester I took photos of soccer games, student portraits, and helped with any of the older students who are in Interlachen. Interlachen is where I have really gotten involved this semester.

Interlachen is where I have put my focus on, because they allow me to take photos, video footage, and write stories for anything student-based that I want. Their flexibility and trust has given me the nerve to check out the video camera, and just go film something. Photography is what my previous schooling was focused on, so that is my “safety net.” By volunteering with more video-based assignments, I realized by breaking away from my nitch, I found something else that I really enjoy.

This part of the semester I also volunteered for more events that aren’t necessarily “school events,” but rather events off-campus that could possibly involve Florida Southern students. Especially most recently around the holidays, I volunteered on nights to go off into Lakeland and film some of the annual holiday events. Some of the events include the Lakeland parade and the annual Snowfest on Lake Mirror.

By taking Broadcast Production at the same time as News Media Practicum I, I also feel like I have had a great advantage. By working with some of the older students in Broadcast, I have really had the hands-on experience of working with video, and editing in Final Cut Pro. These 2 classes hand in hand helped me feel more comfortable with the equipment, but also helped me realize what I want to do with my career.

Coming in to school here, I wasn’t 100% positive if I wanted to be on the print or broadcast side of the journalism world. By taking practicum and broadcast hand in hand, I’m now positive that I want to be in broadcast. I still am not sure what exactly I want to do in my career, but I do know that I am in the right field. I’m positive that I made the right decision of switching majors, and I’m sure I made the right choice in transferring to school here.

December 7 and December 8

December 7- Annual McKay Christmas Tree Lighting.
Tonight I worked on taking photos for Interlachen of the tree lighting. I had difficulty using the on-camera flash and getting good light in the pictures since it was dark out. All in all, it went well.
1 hour

December 8- Today I went into the Interlachen lab and volunteered to do some computer work. I sent out individual emails to each organization on campus, both to the student president of the organization, and to the faculty advisor. It took a while and a lot of the emails were returned, and we had to resolve the issues.
3 hours

December 5, and December 6

December 5- Tonight I shot footage of the annual Christmas tree lighting at the school for Interlachen. I worked with Sarah, and we practiced using the camera settings for night-time.
1 hour

December 6- Today I worked with Cynthia in the Interlachen lab. She taught me how to upload video using their HD cameras.
1 hour

December 2, 3, and 4th

December 2nd- Interlachen - Tonight I took photos for Interlachen at the Gingerbread house event in Spivey.
2 hours

December 3rd- Interlachen- Today I took video of the Communication open house in Room 102 in the Communication department.
1 hour

December 3rd- Interlachen- Tonight I also took photos at the Alpha Chi Omega formal which took place at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lakeland.
2 hours

December 4th- Interlachen- Today I took video footage of Snowfest, the event that took place on Lake Mirror. I'm really enjoying using the HD camera.
2 hours

December 1, 2010

Interlachen- Today we discussed more in-depth what kind of photos can be taken for the Science department candid photos. I signed up for a lot of events in the upcoming week as well.
1 hour

November 10, 2010 & November 17, 2010

Nov 10- Interlachen meeting - Today we went over the new assignments, and continued to talk about the contact information status of getting in touch with the Science department.
1 hour

Nov 10- Portraits- This week we also took portraits for Interlachen. We spent the hour going around campus asking around to try to get more people to come get their portraits taken.
1 hour

Nov 17- Interlachen- Today we went over the new projects for the upcoming week.
1 hour

November 1, 2010 & November 3, 2010

Interlachen meeting- We discussed upcoming events, and got assigned new photo assignments. I was assigned to take photos of the Science department.
1 hour

Interlachen Student Portraits- Today we worked in the President's dining hall and took photos for Interlachen. We spent the first hour walking around campus trying to get people to come get their photos taken.
2 hours