This morning, a group of my classmates and I walked practiced running a live newscast for our Broadcast Journalism class.
I am just going to put this out there right now, it is way tougher than it looks on television.
As someone who is used to watching the professionals do it on television, I just assumed that it was as easy as they make it look. Everything runs seamlessly and mistakes are so rare that it seems like a huge deal whenever the do.
That was not the case with us.
Sure, we kept things going pretty well as we rotated through all the jobs associated with a newscast, but we also made a lot of mistakes. My self included of course.
Being the director was obviously the toughest job, as our instructors said it would be as you are in total control of everything and a slip up by you throws things into chaos.
Other tough jobs were audio, switcher and anchor.
There was one job that really shocked and was easily the biggest surprise of the day. I will give you a hint, Sylvia Kuzyk.
Yeah, thats right. Weather. It's hard!
Everyone basically gives the weather guy (or gal) a rough ride and they are stereotyped as the dumb one of the group. It doesn't help of course that there are a lot of brutal weather men out there but I will certainly be giving them a lot more respect from now on.
From memorizing your high pressure patterns to finding something to say about pretty mundane stuff to learning how to pivot properly so you don't point to Montreal while saying Winnipeg, presenting the weather on news is far more than just telling the audience about sunny skies.
I'll leave you with an example of what can happen if the weatherman doesn't do his homework. Talk about a natural disaster...
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