Thursday, November 12th 2009

Here I am at school, while everyone else at NSCC is on ' November Break' :(

I did get yesterday off! I like the fact that the campus was closed, because then I didn't feel guilty for not being there.

This morning I went for a walk with my Mom in Point Pleasant Park.. then came to school.
At school I captured my footage for my report. I ran into 12, 000 technical difficulties.. it's hard when not many people are around to help. So for today, I just made sure everything was captured and then I saved it to my external hard drive and I will come in tomorrow and start to edit. Once I get my report edited, the rest is simple... it takes so much weight off my shoulders! I have been meaning to sit down and write for the past couple days but I find I have writers block. I need to just sit down and start scratching stuff onto paper and coming up with something.

I booked out a digital recorder for the night, going to do an interview with a hockey player who plays for the local Molson Canadian League.. for all ages. ( all ages as in.. 20-40)
A lot of players that have been on Junior A teams play in it - as well as their friends, relatives, anyone!

One of my sports stories for this weeks Waterfront Weekly is on the hockey team itself, so I figured I may as well make a radio interview out of it. Radio interviews are hard to get, a lot of people back out on you, or you end up getting sick, or you forget, or Waterfront weekly gets in the way.

I got my internship at CTV! I know, I already work there. This time I will be doing my internship in the newsroom though - which is different from my last internship with Breakfast Televison! I won't have to get up so early :)

Right now I am at school waiting for my drive, I am headed home. Going to clean up a bit, then sit down and force myself to write my scripts.

I also have to call Greengym tomorrow and book an interview with their media relations person... to get a clip for my report on the outdoor fitness facility up the road from school. It's a pretty cool spot! I went there the other day with Steve Berry, ( camera man ) and we shot my footage and got a clip from an elderly lady who was there working out. It was an unexpected clip, because at first no one was there, and then she showed up and said she would speak on camera! (this is rare.. most people hate the camera) So, it turned out awesome!

I have to go right now, going to head home and get writing!

Brynn :)

" The Falling Man "

After watching the documentary on " The Falling Man", I now have to explain which codes it violated in the RTNDA Code of Ethics .. I think.

The documentary was quite captivating and showed a whole new side to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

I belive, when researchers tried to identify the falling man, they interfeared with the 'privacy' code. I believe this because the photo was very graphic.. and left a lot of images left to the imagination - of what happened to the man after the photo was taken. I feel that having the picture published was interfearing with the man's privacy, and rights as a person.

In the journey of finding out who the man was, another code that was violated was definetly accuracy. The media had identified a man, and then said it wasn't him, then attempted to identify him as someone else soon after. They should not have published the first story at all and just waited until they knew exactly what was going on - with no doubts.

I also think that this photo being published violated the respect code.. because, the picture was very disturbing and all of the pictures taken.. a lot were jumpers, and who wants to see that? A lot of people found it very disrespectful and did not understand why the media released it as a huge centerfold print.

All in all, the documentary was very interesting..
I hope I did this assignmeng correctly..

Brynn :)