Monday, February 18, 2008

International Crew

Today I went out with Robyn and Adolpho to interview on the issue of the largest beef recall in American history.

This is my second day in KWTX, but my first day to come out with a reporter for interviewing. Although I was doing a weekly feature story program in China, which also involve interview part a lot, but the whole process was a little different from what we've done today, with a news perspective. The biggest difference is the time, since quick and efficient move is highly expected and strictly required when we are making the interview package for news. We usually spent a whole day in interviewing and shooting video when we were out for the feature stories, and another one or two days in writing stories, editing videos and other production work before finally got into broadcast part. But all of these should be done in several hours if you are doing a news report, although the amount of work would be less.

This leads to a relatively efficient interview that I appreciate most. You need to get into the point real quick, which requires your preparing ahead as much as you can, and having the ability to dig enough on what you want at the same time control the rhythm of the talk.

Interestingly found our crew is really international when we were introducing ourselves: Robyn is from Zimbabwe, I am from China, and Adolpho originally was from Mexico, although he has been to U.S. since two years old.

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