During this whole semester, I learned a lot from Comm465’s class. First of all, I think the four video shooting assignments was a kind of challenge for me because I was not really good at writing a script and making a strong storyline. So what kind of story should I chose was becoming a kind of hard thing for me, especially when I did the project3 by myself without partner. I need to do all the things including borrow the camera, contact the people that I want to interview to make sure that they accepted my interview and finally editing the video. I feel that all of these things was the most big challenge for me during this semester, but it absolutely worth it because I learned a lot from that.
The second thing I want to mention it was the blog. We did eight weekly story ideas and our project reflection on our blog. I think that the weekly story idea was very useful to teach me that how to create a good news. Because at the beginning, I usually don’t know which story should be a good story and how to choose a story from our life because my weekly story idea always has a comment with “related to the PSU story”. But after I did fourth story idea assignment, I gradually know how to select a story from our life and how to let my story become more newsworthy.
Professor Bu was a great teacher and he taught us a lot of skill about how to be a good journalist. I feel that his PowerPoint lecture was really useful because I can find everything that I want when I facing the trouble. The lecture’s content and the example he gives it to us such as the TV script was very comprehensive and useful. I always can find everything I want on the Angel. He also gives us a lot of suggestion about our career life. He invited his student who was now working at ESPN to come here and talked about how to find a job that you want and how to be a good journalist in your future life. I think all of these things give me a lot influences and let me determined to be a good journalist in my future career work life.