A new year, a new set of objectives in the RCA Sports Broadcasting Institute. There is a twist this time around, however. Our group duties revolved around broadcasting one of the biggest local games of the year: Salem High School vs. Heritage High School in a region basketball showdown. The game is expected to be packed, and it also has huge playoff implications. In addition to our personal work on it. Georgia Public Broadcasting is also expected to broadcast it as well. We’re pulling out all the stops: there will be photographers, sideline cameras, livestream, you name it. This rotation was exciting for me because this was the first time I would do a newscast, with Teleprompters and camera angles and weather reports. However, all of that nostalgia faded away rather quickly. Within the newscast we had to have certain types of videos. Luckily for me I was only assigned one video to produce. Within two class periods I had my script written and approved by my teacher, and I asked him later that second class day if I should go ahead and shoot my video, and he said no, and that he wanted me to wait until my group was done with their scripts so we can shoot all of the min one period. I went along with it. Keep in mind as this is happening everyone else in doing the scripts they were assigned. The next period they finished and were getting their scripts read by our teacher. Here comes the demoralizing part; he said they were, as Charles Barkley would say, “turrible”. He even posted the link to a video of Barkley actually saying it. So instead of shooting the videos we needed, we ended up spending two more class periods rewriting the scripts we messed up on.
As much as that experience made me upset, it provided me with some valuable lessons. One thing is that you should get your work completely done, because someone else could need your help. I honestly had no idea that the scripts were going to be that bad. Even after the teacher burned the scripts, if I had my video done I would’ve been more able to help my group.
Another is trust the process. The first sign of trouble I saw was that instead of doing the two-column script that we were taught to do, they all tried to write it in paragraph form on a separate document. I still did the two column script, and mine was approved quickly. They tried to cheat the process. To get the best possible results, you can’t ever cheat the process.
As much as that experience made me upset, it provided me with some valuable lessons. One thing is that you should get your work completely done, because someone else could need your help. I honestly had no idea that the scripts were going to be that bad. Even after the teacher burned the scripts, if I had my video done I would’ve been more able to help my group.
Another is trust the process. The first sign of trouble I saw was that instead of doing the two-column script that we were taught to do, they all tried to write it in paragraph form on a separate document. I still did the two column script, and mine was approved quickly. They tried to cheat the process. To get the best possible results, you can’t ever cheat the process.