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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Day #4: SWOT

Strengths: I believe that a strength that I've had this week is my ability to work well independently. I've had to do more this week on my own than I've ever had to do in my journalism class. It was a very good learning experience.

Weaknesses: My biggest weaknesses of the weak were my temper and attitude. Putting together my part of the broadcast was much more challenging than I had expected it to be. I am not the person to push through the stress easily. I have gotten frustrated and even teary-eyed, but I am starting to feel more relaxed with our package almost finished.

Opportunities: I have had so many opportunities this week that I am happy to have had. I have most importantly had the opportunity to learn. I have learned so much about broadcasting that I can take to my journalism class to work towards making a better broadcast for our school. I have had the opportunity to work with amazing journalists, and I couldn't have asked for better classmates this week.

Threats: A threat that I have had this week is letting my stress overcome me. There have been times where I didn't want to talk to anyone. I just wanted to go to my dorm-room and calm down. But I can say that I made it and that I'm working towards contributing to the amazing broadcast we'll put together by the end of the week.

SWOT

      S:  My strength was working well under pressure.  When everything seemed to fall apart, my group was able to start up again and finish the project.
      W:  My weakness was my lack of experience.  My school doesn't have a broadcast journalism department, so this week helped me build on my experience.
      O:  I had the opportunity to learn how to operate a news camera and learn the basics of final cut pro.
      T:  The biggest threat this week was the lack of time.  With so much to learn and so little time, running out of time was a major threat the entire week.
     

Day 4: Self Evaluation

S- I believe my biggest strength was experience.  Having worked with cameras and final cut pro before and having done newscasts in the past, I was able to do my job and also help others along the way. 

W- I believe my biggest weakness was communication.  I feel like as an executive member I should have been able to always tell everyone what's going on.  At points it was apparent that my job was not done well.

O- I believe my biggest opportunity for the group was to make the opener.  I'm glad I had the priviledge of editing all of those clips into something that really seemed to make anyone who watched it smile.  It was a great feeling.

T- I believe my biggest threat to the group was that I occasionally may not have been serious as much as I should been.  Often I was trying to crack jokes to lighten the mood for everyone but it may have been a few times too often.  I need to learn to find that perfect medium.

SWOT

S: I believe my strengths are that I can get work done under crunch time, I take instruction carefully and meticulously, and that I step up to the plate to take on tasks that are not easy to do. W: I believe my weakness is that I try too hard to control the situations I'm in and don't allow anyone to help me out. O: I believe I had the opportunity to apply my broadcasting knowledge so far to this camp. It felt good for me to be around people with similar interests and I had a blast coming up with great ideas and applying them out in the field. I really think that this camp has furthered my understanding of broadcasting because it makes you feel like you're in a "real life" setting with real deadlines and real situations. T: I believe the major threat, for me at least, was group cohesiveness. If we did not come together as a team and work those long hours, I don't think we would've been able to get done. However, we bit our lips and stuck it out to the end to see our final product through.

SWOT

S: For me, i am very dedicated, once i start something i don't finish until it is done and perfected. W: My weakness is focusing, my mind wanders around instead of staying on task on what i should do/am doing O: This is my first year in broadcasting and so i have never created a broadcast, i think it is super fun, but very tedious. This camp has been a huge opportunity for me to learn and really get the hang of it before going in this school year because i will really know more. T: I think what is stopping me is the possibility of me not really going anywhere. I love broadcast but so many people are interested that you really have to be super confident in yourself and believe that you can do it.

Day 4: S.W.O.T

Strengths: My greatest strength would be my ability to generate ideas quickly.

Weaknesses: My laziness in my biggest weaknesses.

Opportunities: Being able to live in what might be my future college of choice would be my greatest opportunity. Other than that, being able to meet so many new people and being able to have fun while working on what will be The Best Broadcast Ever was an unforgettable opportunity.

Threats: My only threat from having a horrible camp experience would be my lack of sleep. But on the other hand, I have been sleep deprived since last Thursday (don't ask).  :( 

David Hazinski Bio/Interview

Hailey Harrison- Broadcasting

David Hazinski Bio:
David is owner at Intelligent Media Consultants, professor of Digital and Broadcast Journalism at the University of Georgia. He has been a consultant and trainer at CNN-IBN, Aaj Tak, NDTV, GEO TV, Somoy TV, Star Ananda, Alsumaria, Pink TV, Atlas TV, Puls TV, etc., and correspondent at NBC News. He attended the University of Pittsburg.
If I were to ever interview David Hazinski, I would ask the following questions:
1) What has been your absolute favorite position to work in the Broadcasting/Mass Communications field?
2) If you were allowed one last lecture before the end of your teaching career, what would be the title of your lecture?
3) At what place do you feel you learned more about yourself as a Broadcast major than anywhere else?
4) If you could rewind one moment in time, which would it be and why?
5) What would you call your teaching technique?
6) If you could describe yourself in one word, what would it be?

SWOT

S: Filming, getting the shot shot of Little Mikey Church, and getting stuff done when it needs to be done.
W: The shots of the interviews with the Guardsmen.
O: Helped with the National Guard package and the Open.
T: The framing of the Guardsmen was potentially dangerous because I wasn't happy with it but you have o know how to use what you have and make it the best you can.

SWOT

Tis week, my strengths has been, working good in front of the camera. Throughout the week, I learned a lot from Mrs.Lee. Being a former anchor herself, she his able to share her experiences. i was very committed , when shooting for the myths, "Believe it or Not." Some challenges have been team members, not being able to communicate with each other.

david hazinski

David Hazinski is a professor here at the University of Georgia. He teaches at Grady college, in the journalism department. If I interviewed Hazinski, I would ask "Why did he transform, to having a career in journalism to teaching." I would also ask" Would he ever write a book."

SWOT

Strengths: I have been good at bouncing ideas off of people to help solve problems or think of new ideas for the show. Also, I feel like I have contributed to an awesome package for the National Guard story.

Weaknesses: My interviews for the National Guard story was a tad weak. While they were done on the first day of camp and I had little experience, I feel as if it could have been executed better.

Opportunities: This week, Brooke and I finished most of the pre-production and production in the first two days of the camp. This allowed us more time to help out with other elements of the show and film the dean's press conference.

Threats: While everything is starting to turn out okay, there were some hiccups in the production of the broadcast show. I think this stressed out not only me, but everyone else. The thing that I learned from this, however, is that you have to be ready for the worst because it WILL happen.


Self evaluation

 My strength was my sarcasm , me and nichole were able to channel that into our video to create an entertaining segment. My weakness is that I'm not very good with editing on final cut, if I knew the program better I think I could have made the video editing process a lot quicker. For opportunities , I was able to do something light and fun with my life long bestfriend. My threat was when we had to rewrite our entire script in 20 minutes, but everything worked out well.

S.W.O.T.

Hailey Harrison- Broadcasting

SWOT
This week, I think that our strengths have been in the executive team and the exec. producers. Mrs. Lee and JamesB. have been awesome at directing what each part of the group should be doing throughout the whole process. The individual groups have been committed to their part of the assignment, too.
For this week's weaknesses, there have been a few mishaps with communication (which is something hard to perfect). I think that at the beginning of the week, it was hard for some team members to accept their positions in the assignment, but they eventually realized that this was a team effort and was only going to work out if we each gave our all. Opportunities have come up with each of our segment subjects. Each story is a chance to show new perspectives and give people a chance to hear about something that otherwise may not be covered. Threat is a strong word, to me. I prefer to use challenges...challenges have occurred when stories have been up in the air and team members have been unsure of the segments.

S.W.O.T

S: News broadcasting, interviewing, setting up the tri-pod, and leadership, an typing.

W: My only two weakness are using FCP and writing certain segments. I just feel as i sometimes my writing segments are not as great as everyone else segments.

O: I had the chance to talk and meet well known reporters and journalist. Also, I had an opportunity to interview people in the community who are making a difference in people's lives.

T: N/A

SWOT

My strengths this week have been comedic timing and thinking of funny ideas. My weaknesses have been final cut pro and over the shoulder shots. My oppurtunities have been working with a great partner  with the same sense of humor as me and my threats have been some poor communication.

Jaiah Rodgers Blog Entry Four- "SWOT"

Strengths:
My strengths this week were my abilities to actually put my foot down with my group (even though I had a pretty responsible group, especially my anchor partner Eli). I really feel like since I've learned more with Final Cut Pro and my previous experience with working with the camera, I was also a big help to others.


Weaknesses: 
After a while of hard work, I began to get lazy and tired and lacking concentration.


Opportunities:
I had the chance to actually go out into the field, like a real anchor!


Threats:
One of my threats where having some or no transportation and having to walk by foot which was HORRIBLE. But it's worth it.

SWOT

S: writing, reading, editing, persuading people
W: putting things together, making deadlines, working the camera, handy work, being creative
O: coming to this camp at ugh , going to intern at cnn next year
T: not having money ton be able to pay for all the things i would like to be in

Jaiah Rodgers Blog Entry Three- "David Hazinski"


  • David Hazinski is the principal of Intelligent Media Consultants, head of Digital and Broadcast News at the University of Georgia. He is also the former NBC correspondent.
  • Are you interested in Media or do you have a strong passion for Media and Broadcast to be the principal (or head) of the Intelligent Media Consultants?

David Hazinski

In my opinion, Professor Hazinski seems like a well accomplished man, who has surpassed most of his goals in life. In my perspective, everybody labels him to be "crazy" and "tough". But, I feel like everybody is different. If I had to ask one question it would be, " What is your next goal that you are working forward too?"