joshua wilsher

Channel 8

Doing a days shadowing at Channel 8 was interesting. This morning, like every other day, the reporters and photographers (camera people) met in the boardroom and a list was made of all the news worthy events taking place in the area. Most consisted of overnight shootings or stuff related to the forecast of servere weather later in the eveing (which never came). Each reporter picks what they want to work on, grabs a photographer, and heads out into the field. I went with a Kevin and Leslie for the 1 hour drive to Purdue Universitry to report on new research by a professor about bullying of gifted children (funny, I don't remember that happening to me). So we got the interview and then went to a nearby middle school where we interviewed the principal and got some shots of kids. We then headed back to Indy where Leslie wrote her script and recorded the voice over. Then Kev and I edited the package with the shots we had got, as well as some file footage of Columbine (the shootings were, apparently, what spawned the research). The 2 minute piece ended up on the eving news at 5.32pm.

The station primarily produces news and weather with a number of these shows throughout the day. The rest of the time they are getting their stallite feed from CBS. Each market in the country is ranked from 1 upwards, depending on how many homes the channel beams to. New York City is at the No.1 spot, LA no.2 and some little county out in Colorado the smallest, being at the 200th plus spot. Our market, which serves central, eastern and western Indiana is at the number 25 spot. So it's a relatively large market.

Totally unrelated photo of me feeding Jaws in LA

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 11:24 AM