Reporters Phase

According to the intern schedule Mr. B gave to me, I've been entering into Reporters Phase, passing by Producers and Photographers/Editors Phases. However, I didn't really feel the difference, because I didn't really follow the schedule.

Most of the time, I am still doing the same thing: observing and imitating, either producers, reporters or photographers.

Producers, in my opinion, have the least freedom, physically. They need to race with the deadline, by arranging all the news stories into a certain frame created by an AP software. Some people would hate these frame of time and space, but for people who like doing this, they view themselves as artists, enjoying playing with the designing game no less than a frentic boy plays XBOX.

A is a photographer that I like a lot, becuase he is really true and nice, also because his shooting and editing skills are very great. Editing, again in my opinion, involves a lot of sense of art. Dumb people would take it no more than cutting and cumulating, but smart people conduct the videos and audios to play with the story and the audiences.

A good reporter, must be a good designer. He always knows how to grasp you by only one sentence at the beginning, tell you what you are expected to know, suprise you with what you are appreciated to know, and totally refresh you at the end. This is what I want to be.

There are always new things to learn, despite I've been doing the same thing every time. For example, I felt really frustrated when I found a "tech-girl" I thought myself was could not even simply move a video window in the editing software that we are using! Come on... I need to steal more skills from A next time!