Final

This semester in practicum a learned a lot about resources, I was able to recruit students on projects that were either my own or I was involved in. It allowed me to be able to do more in a shorter amount of time. I also learned from this process that it is always; A. good to give the person the information/direction that they need at first and to then leave them alone to allow creativity. B. to always check/set everything the way that I want prior to shooting or editing and to minimize the bad footage collected. C. to acknowledge and comment on good work to empower the individual thus allowing me to further separate myself from the equation. D. to remain polite and thank everyone a lot so they know I appreciate the effort. E. Be the first one working to inspire the rest into action. In conjunction with that I have also become a better communicator. This helped with the above listed as well as for setting interviews and finding stories.

I learned that I need to re-introduce my week to week planner back into my life so I can know when I have to present articles. I sharpened my film angles probably because I shot LOTS of footage. I did do some stills for Interlachen but not much they were in yearbook creation mode this term and I was more material gatherer. So the vast majority of my hours came from Wellness TV, there were a core group of individuals that came together to make this show happen. WTV is understaffed hopefully its move to the communication building will bring awareness to this show. We had just enough people to have one group work on a package for each show but not enough to ever get a break. I had to bite my lip and get with it at times for this show but it all worked out. I became one of the full time anchors during this semester of shooting and was comfortable with that. From reviewing my performance I made adjustment like talking slower and opening my eyes more as well as avoiding unnecessary or awkward movements. I felt as if I improved with this role over the coarse. One time we did a live to tape show for WTV on the gym and I had no problems being sociable with the interviewees and the interviews went well.

I found strengths in people and have allowed working opportunities to flow in the direction of those people’s individual strengths as well as revealing where people didn’t know they were strong. Allowing each person to do more with less and stream lining as many projects as possible. The most common being the unwillingness to take the lead. Most just didn’t realize they don’t have to ask if it’s right, if it’s right. Also people for the most part want the direction to be given to them so they may perform the task so I would make people tell me how to complete the action so that they stop coming to me because they probably think I’m stupid but I don’t have to hold hands so it’s a win for both sides.

The vast majority of what I learned was techniques in cooperation with others to complete task. All the technical stuff I wrote about last term and nothing technical was really knew.

Have a great summer Bradford J