Interviews/Interactions with Electronic Media Professionals

For my second interview, I spoke him a close friend of my dads. His friend's son, Brian Haug, currently, works on NEP's utility schedule for the 2010 Golf Channel season. Recently he worked on the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for Canadian firm, Broadcast Services International (BSI), as part of BSI's cable crew. BSI was contracted by Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS) to provide cabling expertise at the largest Olympic venues: Alpine and Whistler Olympic Park, the ski runs at Whistler Creekside, and the cross-country, biathlon, and ski jumping venues in the Callaghan Valley. He started by working logistics for NBC Olympics, Inc. A close friend of his family approached him towards the end of his junior year of college with the opportunity to go to Athens Greece and work in support of NBC's broadcast efforts. He had no knowledge of broadcasting prior to the arrival in Athens. Logistics was simple enough: inventory control, asset management, shipping and receiving. This is a direct quote from him, "Power will continue to shift into the hands of the consumer as we distance ourselves from ad supported media. This means consumers will dictate more and more how they interact with the media, namely: what they access, how they access it, when they access it, and whether or not they take an active role in contributing to it. Consequently, data mining is going to be a huge segement of the industry moving forward. Marketers will sift through tons of metadata to develop targeted campaigns directed at the wants and needs of groups of individuals." His advice for students is to be not afraid of getting involved with anything related to your field of study and to try things outside your comfort zone. One thing that he told was to just pick up a camera and start shooting anything. The more you record, the more you will learn the use of lighting and your editing ability.

nterviews/Interactions with Electronic Media Professionals

For my first interview. I actually interviewed my cousin, Bobby Fleming. I've known him since i was born and it wasn't until I started college that I knew his job was in the communication field. He works for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His job title is an Audio Visual Technician. His job entails maintaining, operating and designing conference rooms. He contributes to the installation of video production work, contructing fiber optic networks and phone bridges. He first started out in a cooperative industrial education program. What sparked his interest at first was that he started as a stage lighting technician. We worked his way on to TV sets controlling switch boards and the lights. He went from a master control operator to an engineer. His job with Oak Ridge now he loves. All good things to say about his job and not a single complaint. He enjoys seeing first hand break throughs in the newest conversational sciences and nano material research. All of the technology that his company comes up with is designed to make the way we live more efficient. His advice to students is to start internships in television stations. They're always looking for new employees. The pay is a little low but the experience is well worth it. It's a great learning experience for anyone starting out in the communication field. As for when you get an internship, he advised to show good effort and initiative. For his job he suggest to look at AV Technology magazine. It is a good asset to his job and advertises new products for aiding him in his job.

This is the companies website. It includes produced videos by the company to show what they do. http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/video/video.shtml