Anyway, this week I've been working with tv and it's been quite some fun. We started of with learning how to record with the right settings. On Tuesday we did some short standups. 30 seconds should be easy but we got some hillarious bloopers. For some reason I had a word that I just couldn't get right. Sveriges demografiska institut (Swedens demographical institute) turned into Sveriges demografiska identitet (identity instead) about 10 times, I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. At the end it went more towards crying as I and my two teammates were freezing but it was quite entertaining to think back at when we were inside again.
The following two days I didn't learn my lesson at all. Both interviewing a politician and interviewing random people in the town was fun but it was terribly cold. On Friday I remembered it, shame that I was indoors the whole time ... It was the sami national day so we decided to do something related to that. I got in touch with the secretary in the local sami association who agreed to let us interview her. Really nice of a 79 years old to let some random students into her home.
Our goal was to make an interview about if she was celebrating today, the sami history and how it currently was being a sami. Apart from getting that information we got a really nice hour of talking to her. (Yeah, she had a lot to talk about, some of it relevant.) She showed us a lot of sami stuff. Some she'd made herself, some from her mother and some very old ones. It was really fascinating to see, as was all the other things she'd collected, stuff from many different cultures. Being 79 means that you've had a lot of time to do things, and it seems like she spent it well. She showed us things from all corners of the world.
As a goodbye she asked us if "We boys wanted a caramel before leaving", that kind of thing that you'd expect an old lady in a fairytale to sing. We said yes and thanked her for it, something that the journalist rules allows us to.
Rule 1 - Never take any gift from any person or company relevant to what you're doing in your work, everything can be seen as bribing.
Rule 2 - Ignore rule 1 if it's an old lady asking, you can't say no to old ladies.
Source - My teacher Åttan.
After leaving her house we realised that she'd said some very good things that work well on tv, but that it wasn't really news, more of a portrait of her. We did manage to get something quite decent together anyway but not nearly as good as I thought it would be, as good as it would have been if this was about her and not the sami national day. I was the one interviewing this day so it was mainly my fault. A lesson I've learned for next time.
Another thing that I learned that day is what I really like in journalistics, and that's portraits. I'm not really a fan of scoops, nor of sports or investigating journalistics. I want to work with stuff just like this, visiting some intersting people and spending some time with them, getting to know them better and learn new stuff through them.
Obviously it's too early for me to state what I want to work with but I liked this more than I've liked anything before, and did it better too. I'm not sure what grade we'll get on the video we handed in now but I am 95% sure that I would get an A if we were supposed to make a portrait of this sami woman. I've got a lot of more things to try out so I'd be stupid to decide now but this sure seems like something I'd really like to work with.
Today I started with newspaper design and I'm fairly sure that I wont be a fan of it after the course either but I'll get through it and learn from it, while thinking more about the future.
The picture shows sami clothing