Practicum Midterm
Dalton Davis
This semester I have defiantly been more involved in Wellness TV. I also am on the yearbook staff but last semester I spent more time doing yearbook stuff so my roles have flip flopped. In WTV I have become the full time anchor of the show so I have been trying to develop my news show personality and people tell me I do a good job so I am happy with this. I also still produce a package for each show, which I do a multitude of things for. I work the camera both tripod work and specialized shots, I perform interviews, both brief and lengthy interviews, I design scripts and write questions, I’ve done everything but edit (cause Michelle has that on lock). Now of coarse none of this I do without help from the WTV staff. One thing that has defiantly changed this semester is that I utilize the Practicum students much more than before. I started looking at the hours I was investing into Practicum and realized I was doing to much, there are poor little Practicum students out there all alone n the word with no hours, so like a momma bird I feed them. Now obviously that’s an over dramatization but I think it is funny. So directing the students to help has alleviated a lot of my responsibilities and brought new ones as well. However this is the way that they must learn cause it is the way I did so its just natural.
In yearbook I have only taken one set of pictures and I am doing a another set tomorrow, so I haven’t had a huge impact there but I did write a paper for Convo for the yearbook and I assisted Austin in getting some people geared up to take video for the yearbook. On the real I didn’t want to do it and it needed to be done so I just started chatting some Practicum students up (the ones who need hours of coarse) and let them have their field day with it. The only other thing that comes to mind on yearbook is Jessica asked me to brainstorm on some event/activities that the staff could do together for next year and I found that pretty easy to do and I think planning some fun events for my people will be a rewarding experience.
In recap of the semester thus far though I feel as if I am in the transition faze of being the go to guy to get things done, to being the go to guy to coordinate everyone else to get things done. And the chain works up the line. The reason for this is familiarity with the system and the younger ones will soon make this transition as well, I still have a lot to learn and I might have even been slacking a bit on my work but its all working out and I am enjoying myself, so I guess I’ll just keep on slipping into the future.
