A forty minutes discussion for sharing previous experiences with Step Up new trainees 2009 was held today at BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane as part of the first session of this year's training scheme.
What you have gained mostly out of the experience
The online trainees I have met today are so enthusiastic to get to know what they will gain out of the process.
I talked quite a lot about my Step Up 2008 experiences, including both of the theoretical side of the scheme and the practical session, which also including production fortnight.
They were also very curious about how the mentor and mentee experience will help them to develop their skills.
From my personal point of view, to build up good relations with your mentor will obviously help your future career, especially those people are the ones who have already put their feet into the media industry.
And more importantly, it's part of the networking process. In such a huge and prestigious organisation like BBC, knowing how you are going to approach these media professionals and how to make friends are essential.
I have also explained to them how I have produced two of my stories published on BBC london Website, and what other essential skills I have learnt from the process, such as pitching story, conducting interview, getting access to the BBC internal learning resources, learning how to use content management system.
Thursday 30 April 2009
Tuesday 28 April 2009
David Dunkley Gyimah - one of UK's first video journalists
A piece I have translated for David Dunkley Gyimah, publisher of Viewmaga, Who's currently preparing for his lecturership at Peking Uni. for the upcoming summer school.
Videojournalism Today "Videojournalism is an advance on television news production - a shift away from the predictable approach television has stuck to doggedly since its inception.
现今的录像新闻是一种最先进的电视新闻产品，它是可预测的电视新闻作品的另一种形式，(而电视新闻从其开始产生时就在顽强的克服自身弱点）。
It is next generation television: story telling in which you are not be bound by the many constraints of traditional news production" That says one of the UK's leading videojournalists and trainers, a multiple international award winner and viewmagazine.tv publisher David Dunkley Gyimah.
录像新闻是下一个时代的电视新闻：它的新闻制作不受到传统新闻制作模式的限制 － 英国录像新闻记者领头人和录像新闻制作指导，多个国际新闻大奖获得者， viewmagazine网站制作者 David Dunkley Gyimah 说。
An accomplished media professional, over his 22 year career.
David has worked for the BBC, ITN Channel 4 News, ABC News and Channel One - the UK's first video journalism station.
David是英国媒体领域的杰出人士，在其22年的职业生涯中，他曾先后在英国电视广播公司， ITN4频道新闻，ABC新闻和一频道工作，其中一频道是英国首个录像新闻电视台。
Videojournalism Trainer David has used his acclaimed style of videojournalism to train 1000s of journalists from around the world e.g. the Financial Times, the Chicago Sun Times and the UK Press Association - where he helped write and launch their VJ programme.
David 运用自己被广泛公认的教学模式已经训练了全球上千余记者，这些记者大多来自于：英国金融时报，芝加哥太阳报，和英国媒体协会。其中在英国媒体协会，他协助并且创办了录像新闻节目。
David, a 2009 jury member for the UK's prestigious Royal Television Society, has presented for The World Association of Newspapers and Apple Inc to name a few..
David 是英国享有盛誉的皇家电视协会2009年评判委员会成员，他曾先后为世界报纸联盟，苹果股份有限公司，以及其它一些权威机构开设（关于录像新闻的）讲座。
The UK Prime Minister's brother Andrew Brown [then a poltical editor] and UK top TV News presenter Jon Snow say David is an original.
政治新闻编辑Andrew Brown 先生，英国布朗首相的弟弟，和另外一位英国著名电视主播 Jon Snow都曾评论到David的作品极其具有独创性。
He is currently working on Barack Obama: 100 days, a video to accompany an original classical compostion by one of the UK's most talented composers.
目前他正致力于奥巴马总统“100日”的录像制作 -- 为配合英国一位才华横溢的作曲家的原始古典创作的录像作品。
You can find out how to hire David as a consultant or trainer your online, multimedia and Video journalism projects by visiting his site here (ENTER).The site is in English.
如果您希望与David合作，邀请他担任您的顾问以及指导贵媒体的网络，多媒体， 以及录像新闻，您可以通过登陆他的网站：http://www.viewmagazine.tv/ 查询到他的联系方式。网站语言为英文。
Videojournalism Today "Videojournalism is an advance on television news production - a shift away from the predictable approach television has stuck to doggedly since its inception.
现今的录像新闻是一种最先进的电视新闻产品，它是可预测的电视新闻作品的另一种形式，(而电视新闻从其开始产生时就在顽强的克服自身弱点）。
It is next generation television: story telling in which you are not be bound by the many constraints of traditional news production" That says one of the UK's leading videojournalists and trainers, a multiple international award winner and viewmagazine.tv publisher David Dunkley Gyimah.
录像新闻是下一个时代的电视新闻：它的新闻制作不受到传统新闻制作模式的限制 － 英国录像新闻记者领头人和录像新闻制作指导，多个国际新闻大奖获得者， viewmagazine网站制作者 David Dunkley Gyimah 说。
An accomplished media professional, over his 22 year career.
David has worked for the BBC, ITN Channel 4 News, ABC News and Channel One - the UK's first video journalism station.
David是英国媒体领域的杰出人士，在其22年的职业生涯中，他曾先后在英国电视广播公司， ITN4频道新闻，ABC新闻和一频道工作，其中一频道是英国首个录像新闻电视台。
Videojournalism Trainer David has used his acclaimed style of videojournalism to train 1000s of journalists from around the world e.g. the Financial Times, the Chicago Sun Times and the UK Press Association - where he helped write and launch their VJ programme.
David 运用自己被广泛公认的教学模式已经训练了全球上千余记者，这些记者大多来自于：英国金融时报，芝加哥太阳报，和英国媒体协会。其中在英国媒体协会，他协助并且创办了录像新闻节目。
David, a 2009 jury member for the UK's prestigious Royal Television Society, has presented for The World Association of Newspapers and Apple Inc to name a few..
David 是英国享有盛誉的皇家电视协会2009年评判委员会成员，他曾先后为世界报纸联盟，苹果股份有限公司，以及其它一些权威机构开设（关于录像新闻的）讲座。
The UK Prime Minister's brother Andrew Brown [then a poltical editor] and UK top TV News presenter Jon Snow say David is an original.
政治新闻编辑Andrew Brown 先生，英国布朗首相的弟弟，和另外一位英国著名电视主播 Jon Snow都曾评论到David的作品极其具有独创性。
He is currently working on Barack Obama: 100 days, a video to accompany an original classical compostion by one of the UK's most talented composers.
目前他正致力于奥巴马总统“100日”的录像制作 -- 为配合英国一位才华横溢的作曲家的原始古典创作的录像作品。
You can find out how to hire David as a consultant or trainer your online, multimedia and Video journalism projects by visiting his site here (ENTER).The site is in English.
如果您希望与David合作，邀请他担任您的顾问以及指导贵媒体的网络，多媒体， 以及录像新闻，您可以通过登陆他的网站：http://www.viewmagazine.tv/ 查询到他的联系方式。网站语言为英文。
Friday 24 April 2009
Shorthand struggling
The basic key skills for local newspaper reporters in UK, followed by NCTJ accredited courses are Teeline shorthand, media law, news writing, and public affairs(including both central government and local government's functionality).
However, heard from most of the course trainees saying that the Teeline shorthand practice takes most of their revision time.
Teeline practice
I was wondering at the beginning how does these little, funny and strange drawings work? Fortunately my curiosity and stubborn mind guide me to find Angela, an experienced Teeline tutor who has been working in this field for a long period.
The learning process from the beginning is very tough and most probably I have already described in the previous posts on my blog.
Here I would like to emphasize is that though I spent most of the March and April to be familiar with the outlines and the rules.
The problem bothers me is that it seems as if I would have understood the rules and remembered these outlines, when I write it down during the passage, I'm still stumbling with them.
Even with some of the most common words, such as an, while, I , and they would have been, like the word grouping stuff.
Apart from the above, transcribing the passage is problematic as well, and even it seems I wrote all of them down, while I'm a bit of over the moon and thinks that I'm going to get it.
But when I read it back and transcribe it into the longhand, I found myself not quite sure what all of these shorthand are about.
And the worst thing could be I found out that I have lost the story, then I cannot transcribe anything.
This is really bullshit right?
And what else? More frustrated and funny thing is that there are two or three words in a passage even I do not know - the English I don't understand.
Oh well, perhaps Angela will think Oh dear, what a pity it is, and I will think oh, great, what a challenge it is!
At end of every class, Angela keeps saying: "everyone is going to get 60 per min and as long as you are practising every single day, and you are going to get it."
However, heard from most of the course trainees saying that the Teeline shorthand practice takes most of their revision time.
Teeline practice
I was wondering at the beginning how does these little, funny and strange drawings work? Fortunately my curiosity and stubborn mind guide me to find Angela, an experienced Teeline tutor who has been working in this field for a long period.
The learning process from the beginning is very tough and most probably I have already described in the previous posts on my blog.
Here I would like to emphasize is that though I spent most of the March and April to be familiar with the outlines and the rules.
The problem bothers me is that it seems as if I would have understood the rules and remembered these outlines, when I write it down during the passage, I'm still stumbling with them.
Even with some of the most common words, such as an, while, I , and they would have been, like the word grouping stuff.
Apart from the above, transcribing the passage is problematic as well, and even it seems I wrote all of them down, while I'm a bit of over the moon and thinks that I'm going to get it.
But when I read it back and transcribe it into the longhand, I found myself not quite sure what all of these shorthand are about.
And the worst thing could be I found out that I have lost the story, then I cannot transcribe anything.
This is really bullshit right?
And what else? More frustrated and funny thing is that there are two or three words in a passage even I do not know - the English I don't understand.
Oh well, perhaps Angela will think Oh dear, what a pity it is, and I will think oh, great, what a challenge it is!
At end of every class, Angela keeps saying: "everyone is going to get 60 per min and as long as you are practising every single day, and you are going to get it."
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