Location Activity
Lauren Robertstad
Mass Communication
On December 7th, 2007 my blog group and I went to the local television station for a research activity for our Mass Communications class. We arrived alongside other group members and were guided on a tour throughout the station and giving brief descriptions of what it is like to work in an environment like the one we witnessed at the WBAY television station.Our tour guide was a very friendly gentleman that was in charge of the department. He first showed us the news room where many cubicles were set up and many journalists were scrambling around rapidly researching and finding the news stories of that day. They were essentially picking and choosing what we as the viewer were going to be shown.
The second stop on our tour was the editing room where there were two men sitting and dubbing things on to tapes and files and putting the show in order so that when the anchor was reading the news it wasn't just him the whole time talking. Some of these files were interviews of locals who had seen or heard something and we're giving their take or story on it and and some of these files were shots of news conferences of political figures who had spoken that day.
Finally we were taken into the news room. All of us were really surprised at how small it was. There was the weather center and then directly next to it was the news desk were you see the anchors speaking and then slightly in front of that was a green screen that the weatherman stands in front of to point out certain fronts and storms that are coming in.Overall this was by far my favorite activity of the semester. Not only did we get to meet the anchor and the weatherman we got to get pictures and we were even on the news! The last 30 seconds of the show were open for any content and so the anchor had us all wave and he introduced our class and said that this was proof to our professor that we were there. It was awesome!
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