Tuesday was my very first day working in CBS 5 "Eye On The Bay". I arrived the station around 9:15am that day and went to the 5th floor, (I believe that's the top floor of the CBS 5 building, the CBS 5 Newsroom and studio are on the 4th floor) when I arrived to the EOTB office, I met other interns there. Justin, Ray, Honeybee and Danielle. About ten minutes later, they all packed up and ready to go, where were they heading to? They were about to go out and assist the producers and cameramen in the field. Unlike other lifestyle TV shows, almost every EOTB segment is produced in the field rather than in a studio, like in a restaurant, at a park, or a place that interests people. EOTB is a human-interest TV show. All interns were going out, but one of them had to remain in the office. Unfortunately that was me, and I have to say I was feeling tense at first when I heard that I was the only intern who is in the office, and it was my first day! But later I found out that the pace and the mood inside the EOTB office is not that hectic, although the producers are busy to work on their segment, the pace in the office is generally relaxed.
What did I do on Tuesday? I was doing two assignments on that day. First, I help the show producer Henry Kaiser on researching some old pictures of a few Bay Area restaurants or hotels that have been opened for more than a century. It seemed like an easy work, but it turned out not that easy that I think. Because I had to search the pictures of the past, no the current pictures of the restaurants or hotels, another thing was the pictures should be large and clear enough to be shown on a TV screen because EOTB is produced in HD. I actually found a lot of pictures (I guess thousands) of those restaurants by googling their names, but only a few of them can be used, other pictures were either too small (like a thumbnail) or not old enough (like taken a few years ago). It took me almost 5 hours to get that assignment done. Later, I went to the internet and do some other researches for other Bay Area's restaurants for about 2 hours, and it was 5:00pm! Then I typed what did I do during the day, printed out the working report and put it into the intern folder. My first day of work was finished.
On Thursday, I was working with another intern Justin, who has been interning since last summer. Both of us were in the office that day because we didn't have to go out and shoot. First I checked emails and voicemails at the intern desk, then Justin showed me how to log video using the "CAT DV Pro" application. After he showed me how to do it, I was assigned to log Liam's video footage, A-rolls and B-rolls. First, I opened "CAT DV Pro", then I navigated to Liam's folder and open the folder that contains clips. I watched each of them and grouped the clips by giving them names, then I had to determine whether it was an A-roll or an B-roll, after finishing the sort of the clips, I was about to give each clip a description by watching them all one by one. I have to say that was really time-consuming because I had to watch the clip carefully and give a best and clear description of what I saw on the clip. By the end of the day, I could only finished giving descriptions for 2/3 of the clips.
After working in the EOTB office for the first week, I think even though we don't have that much of heavy duties like the news interns downstairs, it still take us several hours to get them done.
Víctor Lei
What did I do on Tuesday? I was doing two assignments on that day. First, I help the show producer Henry Kaiser on researching some old pictures of a few Bay Area restaurants or hotels that have been opened for more than a century. It seemed like an easy work, but it turned out not that easy that I think. Because I had to search the pictures of the past, no the current pictures of the restaurants or hotels, another thing was the pictures should be large and clear enough to be shown on a TV screen because EOTB is produced in HD. I actually found a lot of pictures (I guess thousands) of those restaurants by googling their names, but only a few of them can be used, other pictures were either too small (like a thumbnail) or not old enough (like taken a few years ago). It took me almost 5 hours to get that assignment done. Later, I went to the internet and do some other researches for other Bay Area's restaurants for about 2 hours, and it was 5:00pm! Then I typed what did I do during the day, printed out the working report and put it into the intern folder. My first day of work was finished.
On Thursday, I was working with another intern Justin, who has been interning since last summer. Both of us were in the office that day because we didn't have to go out and shoot. First I checked emails and voicemails at the intern desk, then Justin showed me how to log video using the "CAT DV Pro" application. After he showed me how to do it, I was assigned to log Liam's video footage, A-rolls and B-rolls. First, I opened "CAT DV Pro", then I navigated to Liam's folder and open the folder that contains clips. I watched each of them and grouped the clips by giving them names, then I had to determine whether it was an A-roll or an B-roll, after finishing the sort of the clips, I was about to give each clip a description by watching them all one by one. I have to say that was really time-consuming because I had to watch the clip carefully and give a best and clear description of what I saw on the clip. By the end of the day, I could only finished giving descriptions for 2/3 of the clips.
After working in the EOTB office for the first week, I think even though we don't have that much of heavy duties like the news interns downstairs, it still take us several hours to get them done.
Víctor Lei
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