MULTIMEDIA (Writing and Broadcasting)
- Feb 4, 2023
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Updated: Feb 13, 2023
“Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Edward George Bulwer- Lytton
On January 23, 2023, at about 9:10 a.m., we had our second meeting and lecture for our multimedia course. Before we started, I led the opening prayer. Our instructor for today is Ma’am Rofhedein Suzon, otherwise known as Rofh. She used to be a news writer at one of the large news companies known as ABS-CBN, and now she is employed at DWDD AFP Radio. She taught and lectured us on the definition of news, the importance of news, the essential qualities of news, the qualities of a news writer, and radio reporting.
During the session, I could relate to the discussion from what I learned about the subject "technical writing" during my criminology days and also our subject in this academy, which is "operational communication," and every report writing subject that was taught to us by our instructor. I could connect to the lecture as I was listening to Ma’am Suzon as she told us that news writing is very different from creative writing, wherein you can use highfalutin words and opinionated contents that you can imagine. In this lesson, I also learned that news writing is no different when you are writing a spot report or an investigation report. Well, the only difference between the two is that police report writing is not published for public view because news writers make reports based on facts in order to convey them to the people through news reporting.
“Music has infinite power to reach the gap between the heart and the soul to create infinite ineffable joy”
– Debasish Mridha
After the lecture by Ma’am Suzon, follow the radio programming by Sir Nicodemus Lipana Echevarria, better known as Nick. Radio programming is the process of organizing a schedule of radio content for commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting by radio stations. We also tackled the two types of radio programs: the news program and the non-news and entertainment program. During the lecture, my important takeaways were the three components of a news program. According to our instructor, the human voice is the most important component in a radio program, especially in radio reporting when the spectators cannot see you but can hear your voice. Thus, people can determine by your voice the reliability and accuracy of your report through the modulation of your voice when you speak. Secondly, music is the soul of a radio. According to Sir Nick, no radio station does not make use of music. "Gulang kasi yan,", he added. Whenever you feel that you need to rest or are experiencing a mental block, you can use the music to your advantage. Lastly, sound effects add realism to a program.
We also had another lecture on radio technical operations. For this lesson, we first had our verbatim knowledge on how to install, operate, and troubleshoot radio equipment so that whenever there are discrepancies or problems with the equipment, we can be called upon to fix them because we already had the basic knowledge. However, this lesson also needs practicum, which will be taught to us individually. We also had a visual familiarization of all the radio equipment and how to operate it.
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