Wednesday, April 30, 2008
It's Tuesday here in Oklahoma City and the time now is 10.45pm. I've just returned from my professor's house, which she invite us to. She had a wonderful house and what's more, it's rather a cosy house.
Group Picture of our U.S.A. Class
Door Gift from Professor Karlie Harmon after the House Visit to her Cosy House
Anyway, this is the second week that I am here in U.S.A. Getting quite used to the environment here and the weather here is great now. We were ust lucky that we didn't had any of the tornados and storms. But well, it's too early to judge now as we still have about 2 weeks more here.
Well, this second week we've started with our new module, which is Television Production. I should say it's a fun module, however it's quite a stressful module as we have to absorb super many production terms into our brain and we've got only like a few hours and days to do a perfect job on Friday.
Outside our Studio
So far, I have played on the equipments in the control room behind the studio and it's enjoyable. Everything look so "wow" to me and actually when you know the facts, you will find it quite easy.
Inside the Control Room
Taking Charge of the Camera
Well, don't always think that TV studio is always big. A studio for talk shows and news can be as small as your bedroom. I never bluff you, it's can be that small and a nice news shot can be taken easily.
Being the Director is a stressful and tough job. I like tht efloor manager job as you will be able to exercise around as you have to move around a lot. Am very addicted to the production team in the Television station now. It's super cool.
Today, we've made a trip to the city's newspaper publication centre and the KOCO Channel 5 Television station.
Badges that the Tour Guides Gave
Oklahoma City Channel 5 Station
The newspaper publication centre is really huge. The facilities there are great, expecially for employees. They really treat their employees well and it employees really have a lot of benefits. Singapore company should have done this for all their employees to keep them happy and relaxed so as to be productive. You will be suprised to see a newspaper publication centre which is as big as 2 of the Singapore Business Distripark at Jurong, and it all belongs to the newspaper publication centre "The Oklahoman".
Next after the visit of the publication centre, we went to the KOCO Channel 5 station and tour around their Television Station. It's the affiliation of the ABC station in U.S.A. They have very advanced technology and they uses the robotic cameras, and computer graphics. And that takes away for camera man and graphic manager. We got in between their weather forecast reporting and witness on the reporter reporting the weather and the whole process. But well, it's rather different from the ones that we do in classes as they uses much more advanced technology than we do.
News Table without Talents behind it
Weather Forecast Report Standing By
Robotic Cameras
Inside Control Room at Channel 5
Anyway, we will be going for the "Gypsy Musical" in the musical theatre at 7.30pm and we will have our dinner at the museum cafe before we go for the show. I believe it should be a great show and we are seating at a very good place, the most expensive seat, which cost only at USD49.00. Isn't it cheap? Haha.
Thursday will be our dress rehearsal for the preparation of Friday's actual run. Hope everything will be fine on Friday.
Guess I won't be able to update more stuff till I come back from Dallas on Saturday. So guys, if you need anything from Dallas, do order and transfer me the money asap. And don't forget to email me your orders if you have.
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