Last week, Shayna and I changed things up a little at the TV station by job shadowing the Promotions department. Promotions is something we are both very interested in because this field ties in our love for TV News and Public Relations. When we first got to the station on Wednesday we met up with one of the Promotions producers, Justin. Justin is a really nice guy and easy to relate to because he just graduated from college a couple years ago. We talked to him about his job as a producer and all of the projects he had to cover. Next we hung out in the edit bays and watched as some of the promotions segments were edited. We saw the weekly "movie review" be put together and it was really neat to see how a green screen works and how they add graphics and other fancy effects to make the feature look great. We then went over to the graphics department of promotions and learned a bit about this job. The graphics director was really nice and showed us how he creates graphics for the different news casts and different stations. He definately has alot on his plate now that there are 3 stations in this building, WKBN, WYTV and FOX! Finally the Asst. Director of Promotions, Dave Redig talked to us a bit about our future goals and told us about the big Canfield fair, where we will be manning the tents on behalf of the station. Overall it was an interesting day and I think we learned alot. It was also nice to change things up a bit and see another departments job other than the news room!
