The first week of my inter

The first day of my internship, I exited and was

scary at the same time like going to the unknown, I
had no clue what to expect. And my mind starts to
think of an idea of what it might be like but as
far as experience, my head was thinking and asking
many questions did those people going to welcome
and help me or going to leave me hanging in there.
After I arrived at my internship site, the first
person I meet was Matt news director, after I
settle down and get all the paperwork done and
access code for the door, he introduces me to
people on the stations section by section starting
by the editing room, sales people, master control
room and finally took me to studio room. Honestly,
I find everyone was helpful and friendly, and that
makes me feel a little bit calm.
On this week I was capable of learning the daily
operations of a newsroom, understood the director
and the producers' work and learned that a lottery
graphics create every day, also the sport graphic
and bumping after each block. It was an enjoyable
learning experience for me.
I applied the knowledge of the learning that I
taught at Salisbury University, which shapes up my
arrangement and advances myself, to get additional.
All through on this intern, I need to advantage a
few comprehensions about communications, media
production, and broadcasting news. I watch impacts
that I enthusiasm for this field and capacities
that I will convey with coming changes and me to
up. Also, it helped me ultimately perceived what I
need to do in communications as an occupation. This
internship will comprehensively explain what I add
as far as anyone is concerned through this entry-
level position and how it reflects me in my desire
to achieve my occupation objectives.
I find out the station gets a lot of story tips
through the phone from people. They’re always a new
story happening. It goes through different people
to be approved then the reporter and the
photographer will go out to cover it, When the
story is researched, interviewed, and filmed, it
sends to the studio to be edit and create a final
script, the last step to send it over to the studio
to be on the show.
The producer is the one how approving stories
scripts and anything else that is required before
the show goes live. The producer attends during the
live show to keep up with the time, and decides
whether to skip stories or not, giving the time for
the floor director to hand cue the Meteorology for
the end of the weather block and the show. The
basic cue is one minute, 30 seconds, 15 second and
wrap (to wrap I have to rolling my finger on the
air couple time and let the Meteorology see that).
I used to get confused about the concept of
floating the story that means the story is not
going to apply for this block or it cant be use in
the this show because of the updating news. I was
able to manage floating the story, learned how to
know which story is next and which camera and a
shot are going to be next to cue the anchor.
Producer is always updating the anchors with new
information and makes sure that the show is running
smoothly. Then after the show, everyone gathers on
the studio crews, and anchors to talk about what
mistakes happened during the show, and what need to
be done in future to improve the show.
I realize after my third week the Studio Director
had different roles and tasks to complete his job
before going live on the show. When I get to site,
I found the director working on multiple things
like editing the run down by a sign in the story
and the camera shot to anchor or creating lottery
graphic, sports graphics, weather graphic, or
checking the sound for Pkg and SOT or tracking the
NXT bottom on the audio board for the out side
reporter before going live on the show to make sure
the shot and the sound is fine, They always busy
doing some stuff.
During my internship with WMDT 47 ABC Station, I
was able to experience A few different positions. I
gained experience as a prompter, floor director,
Controlling the audio board, assisting the director
with finalizing the show. I managed the settings
during the pre-recording and post-recording phases.
I was editing the sound for a show as well as
managing the communication between the floor and
studio room. Until this internship, I had not
realized how prevalent connection between each
functional area. Without effective communication
both on and off the air, chaos could quickly
consume production both behind the scenes as well
as within the show. Before I arrived at my
internship, I believed that the employees just
worked on their pieces of production. Everyone
looked very busy and rushing around getting things
done, working on TV. I have learned this is a fast-
paced environment. What I experienced was very
different. Everyone understands that all parts must
keep up with the fast pace they must assist each
other to make sure the show is successful.
Though everyone does work quickly and focuses on
their parts of the Process, everyone treats each
other respectfully and works as a team to get the
job done. Everyone treats each other like family.
They even shared that same kindness with the
interns, and it made me feel like I’m part of that
family. I am considering that was only a short
period. Though there are many obstacles that I
overcame and things that I am proud of from this
internship, there are things that make me mad of my
self. I feel like I can ask more questions and I
could do more.
One area I wish I had been able to experience, how
to directing the show or working with a reporter to
film outside of the studio. I would have also liked
to learn how to lay down the footage and convert it
into anew clips, asking or show me the master
control role. I was not able to experience that,
and that is a thing that I wanted to do. This field
of work is fascinating to me. The fast-paced
variety of work can be exciting and unpredictable.
I am very thankful for the opportunity to learn
from my mentors. I appreciated learning from the
associates of WMDT 47 ABC station. They made me
feel like one of them. I will continue to learn and
use the experiences and skills I have obtained in
my internship for future endeavors.
 Working as a studio technician is fun, but the
most challenging part I found is working on the
audio board. It has many buttons, switches, and a
lot of multi-Tasking. It's way more difficult at
the beginning. I had to pay very carefully to audio
levels. The fundamental lesson John repeated to my
many time muting the microphones after the anchor
finished his reading. And When the playing the
(PKG/SOT) for the voice over. And unmuting when the
anchor is back on the screen to do that I have to
keep up with rundown, my second struggling on the
audio board when the people talk on the newsroom
some time I can't hear the director order I just
used my sense to unmute the microphone.
Managing the audio board overall is not hard if you
know which anchor has which microphone. Each anchor
has colors in his Microphone. For example, the news
anchor has a red and green microphone. The sports
anchor has a blue microphone. And the meteorologist
has a yellow microphone other have gust microphone
with pink and orange colors. I apply the color the
each anchor and that make it easy form me to handle
it. Also I manage the Facebook Live and music
bottom for the show.
 The other challenging working as the prompter is
not hard but need to be focusing and awake to keep
up the flow, sometimes I need to Paced the prompter
fast and sometimes slowly during the live show to
meet the anchor speed talking.
Sport section is the hardest block because the
anchor talks a lot, skips ahead of the script. On
Friday on 11 pm the whole show is sport except for
one black is news, they having a show called (DSI)
Delmarva Sports Insider, This show throws me off
and makes me nervous, anchors stop reading from a
script and talking their word have a different
conversation. That makes wondering if the anchor
going to read from where he stops or he going to
read the next story. I had to focus very carefully
to make sure I matched with his talking.
What surprises me many times reporters have to go
out in storms or bad weather or middle of the
night? They risk their lives to get news for the
viewer. But still, they have to come to work the
next day and it may repeat the same scenario again.
Doing my internship with DMDT 47.able me to see
things clearly from many different perspectives. I
gained a lot of experience in the media production
field. Working in a very dynamic industry like
media production helped me a lot in understanding
how media and technology ride together as they rely
on each other in many different ways. I enjoyed
working under the news department supervision.
Actions and News never stop, dealing with News that
came from many sources and trying to create the
best frame that can hold the story and make it
acceptable and understandable to the audience
without making any changes on the News was an
exciting part in my internship.
The coming News should follow a very restrict
process before publishing. For example, filtering
the News and making sure the stories are correct
and hold truth by verifying the source, and then
delivering the stories to the studio filmed stories
and making sure they are in the best format. As I
said earlier the News the industry is a very
dynamic field, and in many times things change
quickly without any prior notification, and we had
to deal with it, by dealing with these situations I
gained a lot of experience and learned how to act
promptly and make quick reactions in no time.
One of the things that I gained during my time with
DMDT 47 is building solid relationships with Co-
workers, and by sharing my thoughts and ideas; I
was willing to maintain a vast social network. That
helped me to learn and adapt quickly to the work
Environment.
Honestly, when I started my internship with DMDT
47, I was wondering how I can make myself
comfortable and how I can provide the most during
work. I was much stressed the first time I joined
the team, but after a while, I was willing to make
myself comfortable and adopt the new environment.
My team was accommodating as they provided me so
much knowledge that helped me meet the requirements
for the different tasks.
This internship helped me understand the News and
the Media Production industry in many different
ways; I had the chance to improve my communication
skills, people skills, and time management skills.