KTVU Visit Reflective Essay
The trip to KTVU was a great learning experience for me. I saw and learned so much, I’ve never been in a place like that before. I was really happy that I was able to go to and explore KTVU like that. I expected a lot of what I was going to see because before we went on our trip, we did a lot of research on the place. But I was still very surprised at what I saw over there.
One thing I expected going on our trip was that the work place was going to look like the news stations on television, really big and people running around everywhere. It was actually very small rooms just big enough to do the show, and there were barely any offices and people working. It was also really quiet. I didn’t see a lot going on other than people working a lot.
I don’t think I would want to work in this type of career because of all the work the people have to do. I learned that the Graphic Designer has to do a whole bunch of work with very little time. One of the people said he would have one deadline that would be about a day, and sometimes he would get deadlines that were due within 30 minutes. I’m a big procrastinator so I don’t think I would do very well at that kind of job.
High school courses that would help prepare for any of the careers at KTVU would be multimedia and journalism. I don’t think there is a class a MDHS where I could learn how to read off of a teleprompter fluent and fast, other than English class, but everyone has that. I also don’t think there is anything on reporting to everyone what the weather is going to be everyday.
One of the things I saw that interested me were how big the cameras were, and how they moved around with only a remote. Another thing that interested me was how easy the anchor woman made it seem to just go up and say her script so fluently and fast, knowing a whole bunch of people were watching. I don’t think there was anything else that I didn’t see that I wanted to, other than more people.
I really liked this field trip because I saw and learned a lot. I learned a lot from everyone over there that talked to us. I was very interested to see everything over there. But overall, I don’t think I would want my career there.
