A Documnetary .. Really?

After many grueling months of head slamming and brain crunching from more then just me my capstone theme has finally emerged. I have had 3 proposals. For me coming up with two proposals was hard enough not to mention the fact of getting discouraged. I was hung up on a few issues such as life long goals and things of that nature. while it is an important part of my college career I was honestly just thinking about it too hard and too much. There is a time to to make certain aspects o your life hard and this did not need to be one of them. So after much ado i have finally figured it out. I am blending several interests into one. I am a history fanatic when it come to wars and WWII.I just love to read about it and learn about it. I needed something to hold my enthusiasm if I was going to spend an entire semester on a project. I also need to be very passionate about it as well. So i sat back and though about it and realized that i was really passionate about supporting the Troops and honoring veterans. I also do not think enough people realize just what they do for our country. with our soldiers and our veterans there would not be the America that we know today. So I decided that supporting troops and World War two needed to somehow be apart of my capstone. What else need to be incorporated into my capstone was a event. If there is one thing that I absolutely love to do it is plan events. on campus I have been VP of special events or have planned one of the organization's biggest event of the season. I am also the Special events chair for the student government so if there is anything that needed to incorporated into my Broadcasting Capstone. My professor was nice enough to stick it out with indecisiveness until the end. finally he suggested a documentary. I though that is pretty interesting and We figured out that i should do one on troops and veterans. So my capstone for 2008 will be called "Colliding Times". It is a documentary which parallels the life of a World War Two veteran and a Iraq soldier of veteran. It will address the differences and similarities between the two lives including romance, war front experience and much more. I am so very excites about my capstone i feel that it is going to be something that I can look back and be proud of. Knowing the i can put a documentary together all by myself and sill work for the greater good always please me. That is another place where I got hung up on my search for capstone.. I wanted something with meaning. I have spent so many years going through motions learning but never really letting an of my projects have an impact on mys for the people around me. For my senior project though, this was something that would be looked at by many. While it may be something out of the ordinary it is something iw ill enjoy and truly be happy to get a message across. And with a plus note I can plan en event. On the date of my Premiere i can plan a small shindig for those that are coming. It will be a lovely thing.

The Best Show

I have seen many Thursday nights dedicated to "the County Line"(Westminster's News Program). Every Thursday at 7:30have pm many Broadcasting students gather to produce our news program. We have been doing the show for many years and we a pretty set pattern down. There is always room for improvement of course but this last show i think was absolutely perfect, or at least very close to it. It all started off with the packages. They were strong and clear and overall just well put together. The readers we used this week were interesting and relevant to the community I thought as well. Maybe it was a just a good week for the news world, I'm not sure but everything just kinda fell in our laps last week. One of the bigger parts of the show that worked outstandingly well was the producing. One of my friends was producing last week and it was his first time. He was a bit nervous but i was impressed with that work that he did. He utilized his AP's and made sure that everyone was on track with stories throughout the week. He put a nice rundown together for the crew to follow for the show. The crew was a nice conglomerate of people as well. I was one for the last ones to come in so I ended up as prompter girl but everyone seemed to do there job well. The floor director cued people on time. The cameras were smooth and did have any problem moving to there spots ans such. The audio went well. Even sports went smoothly! No stalls or graphic problems or anythign I was quite happy with it. The anchors looked and spoke wonderfully. Of all the shows to go very well i was glad that it was our last one for the year. Now only was it our last show but it was also the senior send off show which was nice. We have such great talent graduating from here. If I can do half as well as them next year then I will feel like I have accomplished something. There was one slight problem as I recall at the moment. There was a slide show of the seniors and for some reason the sound did get on air. We had it in the studio but the audience couldn't get hear it. I Would really like to know how that happened. But either way it was a wonderful show!