Work Experience at Channel Seven: Day Four

Work Experience at Channel Seven

Day Four: Thursday, December 6, 2012

This morning began at the surprisingly bright and early hour of 4am. If I wasn’t getting up for something as exciting as going out on location with Edwina Bartholomew for Sunrise I would probably have hit the snooze button close to half a dozen times but nope, I was up wide eyed and excited at exactly 4am. I had received a twitter message from Eddy saying that there had been a change of plans and not to go in to work that early and that she would call. So I got ready for work and scrolled the social networking world. Eddy soon called and informed me that the morning still had the go ahead and to head into work as soon as I could and we would head out to yesterday’s fire in Lane Cove National Park.

I arrived at work and found Eddy doing a live cross reporting the 2DayFM Royal Prank to a network in London. Once she was finished we made our way down Martin Place and to her car and then we were off. After googling some things along the way and once we had arrived, Eddy wrote some notes and briefly prepared what she was going to say on air for the 6:30am cross to Sunrise for Nat’s news. I was amazed at how she was able to turn a couple of minutes of googling the appropriate police, fire and weather websites into a well detailed, professional and informing news update live in front of the nation. She is a truly incredible reporter.

Edwina Bartholomew reporting live for Sunrise

Eddy moved locations slightly to change up the visuals and did another couple of crosses throughout the morning. She even gave me the opportunity to have a practice run, pretending that I was doing a live cross reporting on the fire. I did horribly, but it was really great to have that opportunity and be put in that position with all of the right gear and everything. Eddy gave me some tips on how to practice speaking on the spot and to slow down when I’m talking. Once Eddy had finished the last live cross to The Morning Show we made our way back to Channel Seven.

It was about 9:45am I think when we returned so I went straight up to greet Karen and Jules and asked them if they had any work they would like me to do. Jules had been saving me a few jobs throughout the week so she assigned me to clipping more of the Sunrise and The Morning Show promotions and making a few phone calls. I had the pleasure of letting someone know they had won $10, 000 thanks to the Sunrise Cash Cow! I called someone else on behalf of The Morning Show as they had also won a prize valued at $10, 000 but they didn’t answer so I left Julie’s name and contact phone number for them to return the call.

Once I had completed all of the tasks Jules had assigned to me Karen contacted the IT department and had them create me my own channel seven log-in and email address! I then began browsing the Sunrise soapbox for any potential stories for tomorrow. I printed a couple out and showed them to one of the producers where he then assigned me to researching and compacting a list of the best radio pranks of all time – in light of the 2DayFM Royal Prank Scandal. I spent an hour or so compiling a list and watching YouTube videos of radio pranks before the producer came over and let me know that they story wouldn’t be running anymore. They had been given approval to run another story – about the Packed to the Rafters house being on the market - so they wouldn’t need the radio pranks list anymore.

By this time it was about 2pm and Jules and Karen didn’t have anything more for me to do, so with that, Thursday, day four of work experience, was complete.