The “Celebrity Forum” in tomorrow is the final forum in this semester. Today is my last time to be an assistant to prepare the activity. In advance, I contacted each relevant person to check the schedule, and think about all the possible situations and solutions to solve the problems. From 3 to 4pm, it just took us only 1 hour to complete all the work, including furnishing the room, testing all equipment, and prepared the drinks to celebrate the end of the semester. No accident happened, it was a perfect day!shed
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It takes a long time to prepare today's “Celebrity Forum”, because I had to coordinate the experts’ schedule. The presenter, Mr. Chen Zhiming is former director of Comprehensive Department of CCTV Sports News Channel. He is also the pioneer and leader for international public signal production of sports even in China. Mr. Chen described the basic principles and characteristics of TV public signal production from the point of view of popular, and shared his experience, observation and unique thinking. He took the Beijing Olympic Games as an example to introduce the multi-feeds production process and the unilateral broadcast process. This is a field that I used to work, but I learned more details and the story behind the program. Today’s “Celebrity Forum” lasted for more than 3 hours, and all the participators enjoyed it. But the preparation process just took only one morning. I have been quite familiar with the whole process, and the students have done their job well. I had a deep communication with the professor Xue Wenting after the lecture. I told her what I felt and learned after the period of internship. It is not only harvest knowledge, but also learned how to coordinate and manage a small project to me. Experience can only be used as reference, is not a plan. This is the most important lesson today.
The preparation process was dramatic today. Based on the two previous experiences, I contacted the manager who in charge the media room through the phone 3 days ahead deliberately and repeatedly confirmed the schedule. In fact, everything went fine that we followed the previous preparation procedure. Problems occurred in the last minute when we would leave. The expert has a video want to broadcast on the forum, and the media room had the equipment to play it. I “think” I just need turn on the machine tomorrow and everything will be fine. But I decided to test the equipment before we leave. However, the device did not work in the last minute. As a result, we had to contact the serviceman came to fix it. But he could not find the problem. Finally, the serviceman replaced the whole set of equipment to solve the problem. Experience can only be used as a reference, and the problem may appear at any time. To predict the potential problems in each section is a kind of ability to manager. When the problems occurred, solve it! Today, I talked with Professor Xue Wenting about the expert candidate who will present the in the next “Celebrity Forum”. Student whose major is sports journalism, they are not only learn editing ability, but also to learn the relevant knowledge of sports program production process. Unfortunately, unless they find internship opportunities in TV station, it is barely to get the choice to participate in the production of TV programs to the students at school. Even they as a internship editor get the opportunity in the TV station, their job is also hard to related to the production process. Students need this kind of knowledge or experience to understand every link of sports news production. Now, it is a good time that the 2016 Olympic Games will be held after two months later. My mentor hoped to invite the industry expert who is familiar with the sports news production process, and has a wealth experience in the production of Olympics. Finally, we decided to invite Mr. Chen Zhiming, the former director of CCTV Sports Channel, he was also a pioneer and leader in the production of international television public signals in China. At present, he has retired, and his daily work is to be a counselor for TV station, and engage in teaching in school. During his 32 years career in sports report, he has been involved in numerous reports of mage international sporting events, including the Olympic games. He also created the first sports talk show "Sports Salon" in 1995 in China. No doubt, he is the best person for this forum.
Today's “Celebrity Forum” was my second “try”. With the previous experience, the preparation process was very smooth. I just adjusted the job of the students due to their different internship schedule. After the communication and previous experience, I knew more about each student’s strengths and personality. I think I assigned them to the right position that they are good at. It is necessary for people who can do their best that they really want to do. I think that the observation, understanding and listening are the essential ability for the people who wants to be a manager. The lecture was held at 7 to 9:20 in the evening. For this lecture I invited the Mr. Su Xinxiang who is the famous sports writer in China, and also used work for the Chinese News Agency. He made a topic, "Sports story: Is not as unconventional", to share his concept about "out of sports to do sports" and his thinking on "how to achieve the ultimate thinking of sports story" with teachers and students. Mr. Su Xinxiang, who is a reporter, has great personality, he retired 6 years ago, but he still writing for different columns in the newspaper. He believes that as a sports reporter who must be follow the moral and law firstly, but also need critical spirit. The reporter wants to use "big angle" and "big eyes" to look at the sports, it means to see the essence through the phenomenon, then to find the story behind the news. Sports news reporter should not just report the game, and winning or losing. Those stories behind the game are the really value of the news. Doubting the question, presenting the viewpoint and digging the connotation, it is a good sports reporter should do. To do the sports story supremely well that is the reporter’s mission and to seeking it unremittingly. Although I had the experience of the first preparation of the “Celebrity Forum”, but It took my more than 3 hours in preparation process. A big campus, it had take 15 minutes to walk from the office to another media room. Because it was Monday, the school's routine meeting made me have to change the appointment time for the two times with the responsible person who in charge the media room. The job of preparation began 2 hours late than the original schedule. Fortunately, the students have been helping me, and we were finally ready for all the equipment before the room closed. Today's experience has taught me two things: first, any established plan that may have potentially changes because of an accident. Second, do not forget to prepare the “plan B.”
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