The Trials and Tribulations...Another Week

Well, here I am.  Just as I said two weeks ago, I'm sitting in the same spot:  typing away at my desk, glancing outside every once in awhile to notice the rising sun.  This seems like it may be a tradition.  At least for now.  I honestly enjoy getting some sleep and resting before I write a blog.  It definitely helps me wake up.

So, I put the final touches on my new story/package last night.  My third package is finished for Broadcast 2 class.  I am much more fulfilled to watch my 3rd package compared to my last one.  This week, my story is on the "Miracles for Kids" Radiothon hosted at the MU Health Care Hospital.  Although I wanted to do another story, this event just so happened to be occurring in a timely manner, so I decided to snatch it up.  Last week, my 2nd package was about homeless shelters and how the occupancy is rising at the shelters.  I tried to turn the story into a feature; however, as everybody in class witnessed, it was a train wreck.  My largest problem with that story was that I tried to cover too many aspects of the story.  Instead of focusing my story and trying to tell the major things about one homeless man's life, I tried to tell it all.  As I said, my classmates were able to see this is my weakness.  The story telling is just so sloppy because I have so many things I throw into the equation, it's confusing and vague.  That story was one of the few that after I watched over and over, I continued to dislike it.  Why? I could see all the faults with every viewing experience.  That's a feeling I hope never occurs again, because it makes your work look bad.  It also makes you look like you don't know what you're doing/talking about.

So, moving on since last week, I've gotten much sleep and concentrated more on broadcast class.  I had two exams in the middle of last week and I spent most of my time studying and preparing for those exams.  Needless to say, my work decreased in broadcast class.  I even found myself last week going out to shoot the footage and not really thinking about the video until later in the week because I was completely in exam-study-mind-set.

Therefore, I feel much more happy with this week's story.  The hardest part about this week was actually shooting all the footage.  I shot my story in between my classes, and I made it work.  I wasn't late to any of my classes, and I wasn't late to any of my interviews.  Lucky?  Of course.  I did plan ahead, but still, that was very lucky on my part that everything went so smooth.  I thought about Peterson's Law - "Murphy was an optimist, everything that can go wrong WILL go wrong."  While shooting went well, I just had to worry about writing and editing it all together.  How did that part go?  Tune into lab, today at 1pm...but for those of you that can't, it's better than last week.

Well, I will return to my perch in another two weeks.  Until then, I'm going to enjoy a doughnut, some ice cold water, and a view at the lovely sun on a beautiful Friday morning.