four.

It's day four - things are still going well at the station. I'm learning a lot, meeting some really interesting people and getting to do some unexpected jobs!

I have been assisting/shadowing reporters every day so far, listening to how they interview, writing scripts and watching the end product. Today, I followed a reporter and cameraman to West Kelowna to cover a press conference. I've always been interested in camerawork and editing, and got the opportunity to stay with the cameraman.

In a turn, I got to actually shoot some of the story! It was about homes, leases and insurance, and all the shots were static and called "wallpaper" but hey, I got to hold and use the awesome cameras! Here's the video:



I was shown how to do some interesting fades (moving one sign from being in focus in the background to the focus on another sign in the foreground) and tilts to spice things up a little bit. I know it's not too much at this time, but still fun on day four!

One week almost done, a few more to go!

ears.

I've spent my whole life trying to figure out where I got this "creative" and journalism gene from. My parents are both in the math and sciences (one an engineer, the other a nurse), my brothers were both good at everything school-wise. I barely passed grade 10 geometry, cursed biology and have never touched a physics text book. Give me Hamlet, and I'll be happy any day.

If you look at our family portrait, I'm the mixed child. Where my brothers each take off of a parent, many people say that I look equally like my father as I do my mother. Personality wise, there are days where I'm saying things that I know Mom would, or see a picture someone took of me wearing the same expression as Dad.

So where did this artistic thing come from?

I think my grandfather, Papa.