Last night I was looking forward to posting something about the rest of my day yesterday but the network was down. But anyways after my blog yesterday afternoon we went into DC and went to the Newseum. Now the Newseum was new news to me, ha get it? Lame attempt at a joke late at night. Well I hadn’t hears of this museum before even though I was just in DC a month or so ago. This Newseum was our first stop in DC and rightfully so.
The first exibit that I saw was my favorite one, the FBI exibit. Besides sports journalism, invesitgative reporting is my favorite type of writing. These journalist risk their lives most of the time to find criminals ans their story, I think it’s very amazing. What made my interest peak a little was that just a week ago I went and saw Public Enemies, the story of John Dillinger it was a pretty fantastic movie. But how this related to the FBI exibit in the Newseum is that the first thing you will see is the story and artifacts of John Dillinger, which hooked me in right away like a good lead in an article. After all the FBI was started partly because of John Dillinger, so it was only fitting to have him start it off.
In this exibit of all these different criminals, some new some old, they had many artifacts and the story of each situation. They also had a model of the car that the DC snipers used to take many innocent lives a few years ago. Even tough it was a smaller exibit it was very informative like a good journalist article.
I liked this part of the museum so much that I choose it as a background for a speak on camera thing that they had in another part of the Newseum. What they have is a blue or green screen and they have cameras with teleprompters like news cameras and you pick a background for an on-location type thing. There were about 12 of them to choose from and I was tempted to pick a sports one which was the Nationals ballpark but other people were choosing it also and I wanted something a little bit different. So I chose the FBI exibit and the person in charge had me stand on an x then look into the camera. There was then a 14 or so second count down on the telepromter and then onceuthit zero the show was on. I got into character and started to read the 30 second piece from the script. I felt that I did very well with it and the very sweet older lady working everything asked me if I had done that kind of thing before and I replied with a simple ‘no mam’ because I had not before. She the really flattered me by saying that I should do that kind of thing for my job. I always thought that I kind of wanted tone a sports analyst or reporter for a tv show but I never knew if I had thy kind of talent for it.
Many things have gone on the last few days bit the blog has been down for the last two days, I might share some of the experinces but I might not have the time to share all of them. I also bought the video of me reporting and will try to upload it some time this week.
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