Ok so let me tell you about my first day @ work exprience (yesterday). Lets start at the beginning here we go:
So yesterday I woke up early got dressed and eat, and made myself pretty for my day @ Parliament House. We got to Parliament House at about 9ish even though I started at 9:30am but my mum and I ended up waiting for the guy for about 15mins, when the man finally came he signed me in and I said goodbye to my mum :)
We walked up to the Gallery (Press) and my w/e man gave me a tour of all the other stations that were in the press gallery like 7, WIN, SBS, ABC and all that. Then I walked into the sort of office to where they worked, now it wasn't like a big massive studio or anything or like a really busy office, it had a smal studio which had chocolates and drinks in the corner of it and that was where they do Live Crossovers to here in Canberra which was pretty cool, there was also this massive computer like thing with all these cables in another part of the office which I think is for like sending stuff to Sydney adn doing live stuff. and they had 3 editing rooms which I got to sit and watch how they edited all the videos which go to air and etc.
All those things were on one side of the suite office type thing on the other side was the office desk type place where they all sat and wrote stories, edited scripts, and each desk I noticed each had one TV next to it not like a big one but a mini one and they each played different TV stations and there was one big one in front of the table I was sitting at so they could watch when Ten news was on.
Anyways I met most of the people that work there, e.g. Cameramen, News reporters (the people u see on TV!!), Scriptwriters, Editors and etc. After that there wasn't anything for me to do or see, so I sort of sat around for a bit reading the newspaper then there was a job to go outside into the courtyard type thing to go film a piece for TV which was pretty interesting and cause the reporters have a certain voice for when they're talking to the camera so it was weird to hear them talk normally lol.
Then we went back inside and I watched them edit the peice and send it off for the 11am news it was pretty cool to watch it on TV when I just watched it being filmed. Then I sort of just sat around for an hour because there was nothing for me to do, then I went to go get lunch in their nice big caffitera (?) and I bought a turkey sandwhich with a coke. Although I had to eat quickly cause we were gonna go out to the city to go film some children with their parents and some small businesses but there weren't like any kids with parents lol and none of the businesses wanted to be filmed so then we went to kingston and maunka and sill nothing so we went back and I watched the guy edit it.
Then there was an interview with some minster lady (I dunno her name lol) but she didn't really answer the questions she like started talking about something else then the report asked the same question in a different way and it was sort of the same lol. Then on the way back to the gallery
KEVIN RUDD WALKED PAST ME! It was pretty awesome even if it's only
Kevin Rudd but still the
Prime Minster of Australia that's pretty big =D
After that I just sat watching everyone else do work til I went home @ 5pm, so overall my day was pretty cool I liked it journalism is difinetly something I'd like to get into but maybe not political journalism but you know journalism.
I'll tell you about today tomorrow cause I don't think I'll end up finishing it before I have to go to sleep and I need to cramp in some homework so
BYE!!!
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