Breaking out of the shell

I finally came out of my shell, what I mean by that is I finally did some on air work. Thursday I pre-recorded Titan Town sports which I anchored for the first time. It was a little nervracking to get all the highlights and full screen graphics for it but it turned out pretty darn good. The one thing that I struggled with the most was voicing my highlights, for some reason I just couldn't get them to sound good. In the end they sounded pretty good in my ears but I let you be the judge of that. I stumbled through the volleyball and soccer readers but it was only a few words that just didn't want to come out of my mouth right. I feel this was a great eye opening experience for my self. I learned that I can do on air stuff with out being so nervous and that I can show some of my personality on air. Also on Thursday night I was a on the floor reporter for the Mock Convention. This was another reason why I anchored Titan Town sports. I wanted some type of practice in front of a camera before I went on live television. My responsibilities for the Mock Convention was to find people on the floor and ask them funny questions and obvious questions such as what are you dressed up like who are you voting for and so on. I was under the assumption that I would only have to do one interview, well it turned out I was doing four interviews. I got very nervous when I saw on the rundown that I had four interviews to do. My first interview went alright except you would think I was doing a 100 yard dash because I was flying through my questions, mainly because I was nervous. After that everyone told me to relax and just be myself. So it was time for my second interview and I had it all ready to go and I am in the middle of asking my interviewee a question and the microphone gets knocked out of my hand by a big beach ball! I almost lost my composure and flipped out on the kid who hit it but I realized the show was live and I went back to asking the question. Lucky the microphone wasn't working so I had to do the interview over again and it went awesome. I have never been so relaxed on air before. I was listening to what my interviewee was saying and I had follow up questions. I had a lot of comments on how well I did and that made my next interview go great because I knew all I had to do was relax and listen to what my interviewee had to say and respond. Now I feel I could do anything on air because of how well the whole day went with Titan Town sports and being a floor reporter. I really came out of my shell and I am ready to do it again and again.