It's 6am on the first day of graded newscasts. Why I'm awake, I don't know. Something woke me up about 3am. I haven't been able to fall back to sleep. I'm going to run out to Wal-Mart and get some baby powder for my head. (My shaved head shines like a mo-fo under the studio lights.)
I'm already prepped for my weathercast (and with more details and bullshit to talk about than I'll need).
The one cool thing about the weathercasts is that it's three minutes of glib adlib. I have a few graphics with details on them, but it's up to me to explain it in a way that any of you could understand. If I can squeeze a definition of a technical term in...I'll certainly try. Today's discussion is going to be focusing on "northwest flow" aloft and why it often means a stormy pattern is in store for the Upper Midwest.
I pray that today they'll have the right tape (all our graphics and imagery are on tape which I'm superimposed over via modern technology). Yesterday, the playback deck crashed *with* the weather tape in it and I was forced to adlib over wrong graphics, so I just went on like I had the right graphics and explained like I would if the maps were right. I just had to add more locations to paint the mental picture for the viewer.
I'm looking around for a "weather/enviromental" story so that I could possibly do a report again today. I had two weather-related stories today and it worked rather well.
Class is 8a-3p and it's very tiring as we are going non-stop right until the last "we're clear" of the newscast. It's a ton of fun however so it's all worth it. A year of being on the radio has given me the confidence to be on camera and also to deal with any technical difficulties with aplomb and just keep going.
I think I'm getting a lot more out of TV Workshop this year than I did last year.
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