Keeping My Cool

My second week of my internship is a funny memory. I have been agitated for the most part and the other smaller part, I have been excited to the max.

THE BIGGER PART

I'm an agitated, not so cool and scared person especially to spur of the moment experiences especially with live production. So for my second week of internship I was tasked to operate the teleprompter on a live newscast, entitled minuto, wh

ich airs from 9 am to 2pm (every 30 minutes). I was really scared. I wish I would be dead the moment I sat down on the computer to operate it. The anchor of the show, Mr. Audrey Gorriceta, is very nice with me always telling me to stay calm and enjoy the experience. But it didn't worked out. I made a mistake once (though very minimal) but it scared me more. hahaha. If it's not so embarrassing to pee my pants, I would. I couldn't understand myself because it's a very mundane fear. But swear, if I have to choose between operating the teleprompter and helping in delivering a baby, I would choose the baby. That's how bad my fear is. hahaha. But i'm aware that's it's very stupid.

Anyhow, I got over it a little because I quit wishing something bad would happen to me so that i don't have to operate the teleprompter. Plus I have friend-interns who are much willing to do it more than I would.

THE SMALLER BUT EXCITING PART

I went to another coverage. But this time it was a big one with all the TV networks and the biggest newspaper and some small newspaper companies too. The press con was about the new

DENR head, Sec. Paje. It was a very nice experience being there with the other reporters. The newspaper reporters know a lot of things so they asked most of the questions. Ms. Elena Luna, the

reporter from NBN whom I'm with, shared some tips on how to treat a news story visually and how to choose your angle. She also shared

some experiences with me about the senate beat.

I learned a lot of insights from Ms. Luna. She made me think of my news angle and then she asked me to write about it. And then we have fun shooting her stand-upper. But I'm also aware of the limitations of their story especially because NBN is a government agency.

I really love going with the reporters in the field because experiences like this show me how is it in real life. I know I'm really not into live production because I always need to think, to plan and to consider things even for a little while.

(images are from blackwingdiaries.blogspot.com and http://totalgadha.com/tgtown/soliloquist)