Work Journal 4

On Monday, our crew continued our editing work. We held a meeting to settle the technical problems we met during the editing procedure. My director presented new software skills which can make special effects, motions. These skills definitely helped us a lot. But I am confused by one notion: how should we select if there was conflict between reality and aestheticism. Remember what we did was not journalism. My director told me we can select aestheticism, since documentary was like filming production. Sometimes, the audience placed their attention on how beautiful and gorgeous the images they were seeing. Of course, there was also one promise: that was all special effects made by you should be based on actual information and actual images.

One Tuesday, we reported the baseball game in Dodge Stadium. This story reporting taught me lots of valuable information.  The first one was: as a professional journalist, your shooting angle was your first consideration during the reporting work. You should select the most ideal place and the best angle to do interviews of the stars and their coach. Of course, sometimes, they were too busy to accept your interview, but you should not give up striving. The other thing I learned was the sound from the game scene was very important during the editing process. It could make the ambience more attractive, especially for the fans of that game.

On Wednesday, we made our talking show in the studio. Our Guest was a pianist name Chen Rui Bin. He was a very famous and influential piano player from Tai Wan. He held hundreds of performances around the world, ranges from The Golden Hall of Vienna to Broadway. His music accompanied many people on their growing process. He shared his Art Journey with the audience. From that show, I realized how important the anchor was during such shows, he or she should be at least a social man who possessed sophisticated communication skills, and knew how to adjust the ambience of the filming scene.

From Thursday to Friday, we continued our editing work of the documentary. What made us really happy was we completed one part of them, and the rough editing of the remaining was almost done.