Last Tuesday night, i was one of the many students who volunteered to help with the
department’s coverage of the primary elections. I was looking forward to it because i had
never helped to cover an election night before so i was interested to see what it would be
like. We all volunteered to do different tasks as part of our coverage, and i volunteered to
do video editing. I hadn’t really ever done video editing before so i was eager to try it out
and see how it goes. I was shown how to do the video editing during the day so that i would
know what to do when our evening coverage began. When our evening coverage began,
they had food for us to eat in the Newsroom, and were quickly getting everyone organized
to go out on the various tasks that they were assigned to do for our coverage. There were
three different teams that were sent out to cover both the GOP and Democratic watch
parties that were held in various locations around the city. The students in the Newsroom
were constantly looking up on the AP Wire to check on the results of the various races, and
announce them. We then did live election reports from the Newsroom to update the results
as they came in. I thought that i would actually get to do more editing than i actually did. I
did get to edit one piece of video that we did as part of our coverage, but not anything else.
We thought that i was going to be able to edit some of the footage that we got from our
teams in the field, but they got back to the school later than we thought and they started
editing it themselves. It was a little disappointing, but at least i got to do a little editing.
Overall, it was a great experience, and i am glad that i decided to
help out with it.
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