KPLR

The first thing I noticed about this news station was the color that seems to always be the first thing I see. The colors were light blue and the set to me was stylish. The anchors that I saw were Rick Edlund and Melanie Moon. Rick was wearing a blue suit with a light blue shirt underneath and a red and white striped tie. Melanie was wearing a red suite jacket with a white shirt underneath. I always look at the jewelry that the female anchors are wearing but I did not notice Melanies.
The reporters that I saw in the first ten minutes were Mat Gamewell he was wearing a black suit green tie and a white undershirt. The live shot took place in a hospital with a patient. The second reporter was Theresa Petry she was wearing a all black suite. Her live shot were police officers and police cars.
The first stories that I remember were about the police officers not being paid enough. The chief wants a 5% raise. He fears that he may loose good officers if they are not paid more. City officers make less than county and chesterfield. The city has more crime to deal with so there is no reason that they are not paid more. They feel that St. Louis would benefit from this raise.
The second story that I remember was that horrifying report on that abduction and rap of the seven year old girl. Tony Miller was the reporter and the stand up was outside the courthouse. They are trying to decide where the sex offender should be sent to a prison or a mental facility.
I enjoyed watching the news it seemed that they got right to the point and let us know only the import issues. Yes I will watch this channel again.
KPLR CW 11

Jan 17, 2008

In class yesterday we went over all of the assignments that are due today. And let me tell you that this was alot. One of the assignments was the TV job assignment we had to find a job on INBA.net. Some of the questions that we had to answer were the Station name and location with hyperlink to the station’s website, the job title and description, Market Number, using the TV Job’s market list, find what market number the television station is in. The News Director’s first and last name and a few more questions were are we willing to move here for this job? Why did we pick this one over other open jobs? What interests do you about this one in particular? Another assignment we went over was the self critic. This was a two and a half page assignment that had to answer these following questions.What did you think of this class on the first day?How did you feel your first time on-air? what was shooting a stand-up like? What did you learn about putting together packages? also What do you believe you have improved upon since this class began? What will you continue to work on after this class? hat do you feel your strengths and weaknesses are when it comes to being a reporter or an anchor? This was a fun paper for me to do because i got to look back at all the things that i have learned and accomplished in just a short amount of time. After going over what was all due we went over to the TV studio for a live taping which i must say that i thought everyone did a great job. I am very sad to see this class come to an end but i am greatful that i have learned so much in this class.

TV Jobs

WREX-TV-Rockford, IL
Job Title and description- reporter/fill-in anchor who is aggressive, is creative, is highly motivated, loves to break local news stories, comes to the table with story ideas daily, is a team player, can handle the pressures of deadlines and breaking news in a competitive fashion; must be able to go live, with experience is a plus.
Market Number-132 news director Maggie Hradecky
Yes i would relocate for this job it is not to far from my family. I chose this job because i feel as though i could be aggressive and be able to break the local news with emotion have love doing it.

KSNF-TV-Joplin, MO
Job title and description-seeks a morning show co-anchor who can bring a sparking on-camera presence and interview skills to the show, and can interact well with the other co-anchor and forecaster.
Market Number-145 director Jim Jackson
Yes i would relocate to Joplin. When you are looking for any job as a anchor or reporter you have to be willing to relocate. The job seems like it would be a good job. Being a morning anchor seems interesting to me and that is why i chose this job.

KNOP-TV-North Platte, NE
Job title and description-seeks an entry-level reporter/videographer who has shooting, writing, reporting and editing skills, and the ability to do smooth live shots; will learn to produce.
Market number-209 director Jacque Harms
Yes i would relocate. Getting a job as an anchor can be difficult and i know that you have to start out in a low market and almost all anchors are reporter before they become anchors and that is why i chose this job.

Field day

Today was field day. Our package was about the first bowling alley that was smoke free. Brunswick bowl was on of the first bowling alleys in St Charles county to become smoke free. This bowling alley is located in St. peters, Mo off of exit 79 right after the mid rivers exit. So we were off to a bad start we went all the way over there and realized that we left the audio equipment at the LU TV station. This cut off about 45 minutes our time. So we drove back and got everything that we needed. We started out interviewing Don the general manager of Brunswick bowl. He was one on the best interviewees that i have ever done. He had lots of great quotes for us to use in our package. After interviewing him we interviewed two other employees of the bowling alley. we interviewed the bartender who is a smoker and we asked her how she felt about is becoming a smoke free facility. she said that it didn't bother her to much the only thing that she wished was that it would make it more better for the employees who do smoke. After that we took tons of b roll of the game room the restaurant and the kids that were bowling. We also took a break to have a bit to eat and i must say that the food was really good. after our snack we did our stand up outside. today was a really fun day for us we had a great topic and a great group to work with. I am really happy with this class and even though there is a lot of work to be done i will be sad to see this class end.

off to FOX 2

today in class we took a trip over to the fox 2 news station. We met over in our LU TV studio and then i rode with Jill over to the studio. This was a nice ride over there me Jill and Sakshi all got to get to know each other a little bit better. All of the people were so nice. They were all willing to answer any and all of our questions. And the best part was they had this really cute coffee machine that makes each personal size cup of coffee for you.When we got there we went in to the room where Julie Beard has her j term class. This is the room where they write there blogs. After that the other students did their interviews and did a tour of the studio. We all went into the news room and captured lots of pictures. this day was a lot of fun and i am so thankful for this opportunity. I am really enjoying this class and all of my other students. i came into this class not knowing anything about anchoring reporting or making a package. I love all of the other classmates even though they all have experience they have made me feel very comfortable and if i didn't know or was unsure about what i was doing they were all willing to help.

Jan 14, 2008

Today in class w discussed the packet the reporter and The Anchor. We talked about our tone, energy, pitch, stress and inflection. And what all of that meant. We all took turns reading from the packet. We talked about how to be good to our voices. For example some of these things were eliminating a few things like alcohol, going to the bars, spicy food, nuts nicotine, caffeine and a few other things. We also talked about a few things that you should add to make your voice better. Those things included hydration, abdominal breathing, warm-ups, and sleep. After that we talked about developing credibility such things like being sociable, competent, extroverted, composed and a good character. We also went over a few anchoring tips. Then we talked about clothing. They said to keep clothing simple. EVERYONE should wear make- up even men make up should look natural not caked on. Jill went over a few tips with us. Like color in your brows, and using MAC studio fix foundation. Also she said to use a white eye shadow to define the eye more. After we talked about make up the boys came in with a few relaxation and warm up routines. One of them talked about pretending like you have a huge piece of gum in your mouth and this warms up your check muscles. Someone else talked about saying 1,2,3 3,2,1 in different tones to get your voice ready for the lowest tone. After that we were all suppose to head over to the TV studio to tape the news but I got a unexpected call from my sons school and had to pick him up. I hope it all went well.

KTVI

Haley Buckner
KTVI Review
Jan 15, 2008

The first thing that I noticed was the HD it seemed so high Tec. Lots of dark colors. I also noticed that they didn’t sit at the anchor desk the only time I saw was when they were doing the anchor lead in to the weather. The anchors that I saw I saw were Sandy Miller she was wearing a white shirt with a black vest over it with a gold necklace.
The first reporter that I saw was John Brown. John was wearing a brown coat with a white shirt and blue tie. He was reporting outside near the highway. The second reporter was Shirley Washington. She was wearing a pink sweater with a white turtle neck underneath it. And the third reporter that I saw was Sean Conroy. He was wearing a black coat with a brown shirt.

The first story that I remember was the gas prices and the and about the Ram truck how they are losing their sales. I also remember the part where they talked about the Ram truck cattle drive. The live shots took place at the cattle drive. The second story was about the gas prices. They talked about how the gas prices are going up and nationwide prices are around $3.07. The live shots were at a local gas station. The third story I saw was about the I-44 shut down. They talked about how even though there are 5 lanes open the lanes are smaller and drivers are going more than 90 miles per hour on the highway. Police say drivers think that they can get away with going this fast because there are no off ramps, but police say that is not the case and will still pull you over. The live shots took place at the highway along with the stand-up.

The overall impression I got from this station was not very caring it seemed as though they didn’t have any feelings more like robots reporting the new. I don’t think that I will be tuning in to this station anytime soon.
This was newschannel KTVI.

Jan 11 blog

In class today we turned in our individual package scripts and Jill picked the best one to shot. In our group it was Davina package that got chosen. I thought that writing the package was a little bit challenging and I hope that I did a good job. It took me a while to come up with the anchor tags. I really enjoyed our topic. This assignment was challenging for me but it was fun at the same time. I was never interested in news anchoring but after taking this course it all may have changed my mind. After turning in the packages we had a one on one interview with Jill she talked to me about my voice and how to stay at a steady strong tone with my voice and to also not emphasize on certain words in a report. Jill has been very help fun and has taught me a lot so far in this class. After our meeting I went back into the studio and watched the editing process this was also very interesting to me it seems as though this would be hard to do and I would love to learn how to do it. I really love this class and all of my fellow classmates its seems like they all are really good at this and have a passion for this class. So far this is one of my best classes that I have taken at Lindenwood University. I can’t wait to see what I get I am reaching for an A

Jan 10, 2007

Jan 10, 2007
Yesterday in class we went over the proper ways to interview, who are good interviewers and who are the difficult ones. Elderly people children and police are all hard people to interview. We also turned in our logs. I found out that my log sheet wasn’t done the right way but for next week I will be able to do it accordingly. I realized that we all weren’t supposed to have the same logs. We also turned in our KSDK analysis of the TV newscast. This news channel so far was my favorite one because its seems like they had the latest breaking news. After going over the right and wrong ways to interview we took a look at a few funny tapes on u tube. Then we took a stroll over to the TV studio where we taped the news. I love taping the news because it really is such a great experience for all of us. It can be a little difficult but it is so much fun. I think that everyone in this class is doing a great job and we are all learning so much. I am nervous for next week when I have to do the entertainment part of the news because I am not exactly sure what I am going to write about and I want it to sound really good. I love to do the anchoring even though I stumbled through it I think that was just because I didn’t write it myself and wasn’t to familiar with the script

Virginia Kerr

Haley Buckner

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Tuesday January 8 we had a special guest Virginia Kerr from KMOV, news channel 4. She started off by telling us a little bit about herself. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Being a News anchor wasn’t always Virginia’s dream. She started out as a Psychology major and realized in her last semester that she really loved reporting. So she took some broadcasting classes.

Her first internship she ran the teleprompter. Virginia let us know that we needed to send our tapes out to EVERYONE. She told us to start reading the newspaper and rewrite those stories. Virginia also talked about how dedicated you need to be in this job. She stated that she hasn’t been home for Christmas in ten years. She also said that her day starts at 2 A.M every morning. She goes into the studio and starts out by looking at websites to see if she had missed any news while she was sleeping.

Virginia talked to us about make up and clothes she said that she had a meeting for three hours with a hair and make up consultant. She said that make up is not necessary but it all depends on the person. She laughed and said that if she didn’t wear make up she would look like a scary person with lots of freckles.

She said that she started out being a “one man band” she did all of her work by herself. She was glad that she got that experience because it has helped her through out her career. Virginia was very nice and gave us so much great advice. She told us that we should be ourselves. I really enjoyed her coming and speaking to our class. She was very down to earth and very helpful.

The real deal

The real deal
Today we went out into the field and shot our package. Our story was about the highway and how people are walking on the construction sites. It all started out we met in the studio at 9 and from there we loaded the car with the equipment that we needed and then we hit the road. It took about 30 min to get to the actual area that we would be shooting and doing our first interview. We started to shot live shoots of the construction workers working and the empty highway. We also shot a few signs and other areas. Then we went on the tour of the highway. And interview Dan Galvin of Gateway Constructions. After this process we went to a local coffee shop and looked for another person to interview. This was kind of difficult because not many people were willing to be interviewed. I think on the 6th person we asked she was said yes. She was a commuter of the highway and we asked her if it has been frustrating with the construction and what are the other routes she takes. This was so exciting i felt very important like i really worked for a local news station. Our story was about the highway and how people are walking on the construction sites. We go t to do a tour on the highway and its progress so far! This whole process was very exciting. After our first interview we did our stand ups this was also a lot of fun!

Special Guest

On Tuesday January 8 we had a beautiful special guest, Virginia Kerr from KMOV channel 4. She gave us really good advice about getting into the anchoring field. She was very helpful. She gave us an introduction about herself where she was from her, first job, how she got into the business and her love life lol. She gave us tips about hair and makeup and also wardrobe. She was such a nice person she made it easy for us to conversant with her. She also told us that it is pretty hard to have social life with this job she said that she hasn’t been home in over for Christmas in over 10 years. She said that her day starts at 2am and she goes to sleep around 7-8 every night. She also told us that we needed to be very dedicated to this job. This was a special treat for us and I am very glad she came to our class. After a few Q & A with Virginia we went over to the TV studio where Beth got to interview Virginia. Beth did an amazing job and Virginia seemed like she was easy to interview. The interview went really well and she was very easy to talk to. After the interview I did my voice over for our package we did in class. I was pretty nervous about this and stumbled a few times. I had to do like 6 takes but hopefully it turns out well. I enjoyed this class yet again today! Thanks Jill!

KSDK

Haley Buckner

Last Night January 9, I tuned it to watch channel 5 KSDK news station. The first thing that I noticed was the colors more dark colors the blues and black of the studio. The anchors doing this newscast were Mike Bush and Kay Quinn. Mike Bush was wearing a grey suit with a blue tie. Kay Quinn was wearing a black suit and a green blouse underneath it.

The first reporters that I saw in the first ten minutes were Rebecca WA and she was wearing a grey suit. She was reporting from the recent burglary in St. Charles. A mother and Son were at home when a black male entered their home the son yelled “How is in my house?” and the bugler ran out of the house. St. Charles police found this suspect named Shawn Williams and shot him the other suspect with him Jack Field was arrested. The live shots took place on the streets and convient store on Droste Rd. and in front of the victim’s home.

The Second story was the I-64 story this took place at the Transportation Management Center. Reporting was Cathleen England. They talked about the accident on Ballas Rd. which involved a pedestrian. Cathleen says to use caution on these roads. The live shot took place on Ballas Rd. They also talked about the survey MoDot has online now to see the reactions of the people and what they think about the highway closings, Tom Blair who works for MoDot says to avoid these roads from 7 A.M to 7:30 A.M.

The third story was about a man who was found dead in a house fire. The neighbors tried to fight the flames with a house fire extinguisher but the flames were too strong.

After that top story it went into the story about Megan Meyers. Her mother was on the Today show talking about this tragic story and how California investigators were going to investigate this story because Myspace originated in California.

All in all I would tune into news channel KSDK because I found it very informing news.

KMOV

Haley Buckner

Last night I tuned into KMOV news channel 4 St. Louis. The first thing that I noticed about this station was that they were live from a fire. The first anchor that I saw was Vickie Newton and she was wearing a white blouse with black buttons. The first reporter the reporters that I saw were Steve Templeton, Julian Grace, John Mills, and Paul Harris. There were three different live shots. One of them was at a live house fire the second one was on highway I-64 and the third was in the MoDot facility.

The story that they continually talked about in the first fifteen minutes was the closing of the highway. They did shots from MoDot and the highway. They talked about how there are alternate routes that you can you. They also talked about how the road aren’t bad at all and how everyone made a big fuss about the closing and so far everything has ran very smoothly.

Again the hot topic of the day was the I-64 shutdown. My overall impression of the news channel was that they were very repetitive about the same story. They were saying the same thing but in many different ways. Vickie Newton did a very nice job I enjoyed her voice and she seemed interested in what she was talking about so that keep my attention.

I am up in the air about watching this news station again because of how they repeated the same story all with in the first fifteen minutes of the story.

About Me!

Hello my name is Haley Buckner and I am from Decatur, IL. My major is corporate communications. I moved to STL two years ago and I love it so much. It is such a drastic change from where I was born and raised. There is so much to do here and so much diversity culture wise. As of right now I am not really sure what I would like to do with this degree and where I would like to be in the future career wise. I am a very social girl so I enjoy spending time with my friends, boyfriend and meeting new people here on campus. I work two jobs and do some minor modeling on the side. I am very happy in my life right now and feel like the sky is the limit. This year I am excited about taking some courses that relate to my major and seeing if this is really what I would like to do. My favorite television shows are Run's House and America's Next top model. I am also very addicted to all the reality shows out I watch the real world and survivor all the time. My all time favorite movie is The Green Mile, but I love comedy movies and ones that make me cry. I am a single parent of a beautiful six year old boy. His name is Malachi and he keeps me very busy! We love to play checkers and right now he is trying to teach me how to play chess. He is the joy in my life.

So far so good

Class was a little over whelming at first being as though all of this is so new to me but I think it is going to be a great experience. During class we talked about all of the things we were going to learn during these next 12 days. This was everywhere from TV wardrobe, reporting, anchoring, getting a job, to TV make-up. Jill seemed as though this was going to be a lot of work but that we would enjoy it all. We all introduced ourselves and said our majors and what are future goals and plans were. We also said why we were taking this course. A lot of people said it was because they thought it would be fun! I hope that turns out to be true! We also took a trip to the studio to practice behind the camera. We taped live news today and Jen and Tracy did an amazing job. They were both very confident and sounded and also looked great on camera. Then it was my turn to just read a few lines. At first I thought I would let my nerves get the best of me but I surprised my self and was confident. This was a lot of fun everyone in the class got to do it and did very good. This was great experience and I really enjoyed it. I am very excited to be in this class and I think that Jill is a great teacher and very energetic about her work and that’s what make this class fun.

Packages

On Friday in class we learned all about making a package. The process was very interesting to me. I never knew that that was the whole process on how you did it. I learned what each code meant and that you can log on just a scratch piece of paper. The packaging process seems like it is going to be a lot of fun you have to get natural sound shot a stand up get live shots and get a few interview to make it a good package. I am looking forward to doing our own packages I am excited but also at the same time nervous. I can’t believe that I am learning so much in this class so far in so little time. We did interviews and each one of us shot our own stand-ups. This was fun after doing this Jill is going to pick the best stand up and put It into a package. We all worked together on writing our stand up this was actually tons of fun. We ended up using one of my lines and that was exciting that the class liked what I had to say and my ideas. After we were done we went in and learned how to log our video. This was also interesting I learned how to write the code numbers so that when I am editing my video it will take me right to the spot that it needs to be. This was just another day I really enjoyed my self in class! I can’t wait to learn more!

AWWWWWW!

January 7. 2008
In class today we went over how to work on a package and how to write it up. I the first hour or so of class we went over a package and then got into our groups to discuss what story idea we were going to do and who we were going to interview. Our group consists of myself Divina, and Sakshi. We decided that we were going to do the I-64 and how people were walking around the on the construction sites and that is not allowed. This was a good story idea our other idea was to do a bowling alley that has the no smoking policy this is one of the first bowling alleys in St. Charles to do this. Davina works there and said that it will be easy for us to get an interview there and that we could save this one for our next assignment. After our groups we went to the studio where we did the LU TV-26 newscast. We did the entertainment, weather, sports and news. I was the news anchor and let me tell you this was the first time I had ever done this. So I was extremely nervous!!!! I felt like I didn’t do a good job we had to do it over and over again. I hope as I keep getting more practice I will only get better at being behind the camera. Although I was very nervous and didn’t think I did that good of a job I still enjoyed the experience.