Discussion

1. What are the secrets of a good actor?

2. Which style of directing is the most effective? Give your reasons.

3. What is the meaning of the phrase "All the World Is a Stage'?

Project Topics

1. Styles of directing.

2. Stagecraft in a theatrical production.

3. Theatre as a team process.

Lesson 6. People in television Quiz

1. How can you get into TV industry?

2. Do you know any rules to prepare yourself for a career in TV journalism?

3. Who is your favourite TV reporter/presenter?

How I Became a tv Cameraman

When I was a teenager I used to watch a lot of historical documentaries and daily news. All these important people making big decisions or soldiers and police running around in a dangerous area. Then I realized there was another group of people there and they were the journalists and specifically the cameramen. When a person sets foot on mountain top... there is a camera there. When a person studies a remote jungle village... there is a camera there. When a earthquake ruins a city... a cameraman is there.

After learning much about radio and TV broadcasting operations in my first of 3 years at the university I got a part-time job in our local TV station as a weekend videotape editor for the news department. My boss gave me two weeks of training with some of the senior guys and told me if I did well I could get more hours and then move into shooting.

After about a year of part-time editing I was allowed to shoot on a long holiday weekend. I left college after my second year because of poor marks in one subject. So, I didn't get my diploma but I did get much more experience in a newsroom as well as shooting/editing commercials, local programs, etc. After another year or two I was fulltime and continued to get many of the good assignments that help to keep the day to day job exciting.

One of those assignments was to follow a Canadian missionary in Burundi and Zaire help Rwanda refugees. We spent about eight days with him as he oversaw the operations along the Rwanda border. When I returned to Canada I knew that I would no longer enjoy local news. When you travel around the world to cover a piece of history it makes the local city council story or house fire seem very dull. I soon started to look around for a more exciting location. I applied for one job as a production cameraman at a San Francisco station but lost to a local guy.

About five months after the Africa trip I was looking through my papers and came across some names and numbers of TV people in Nairobi. One was the manager of a local video production company... perhaps he could put me in contact with someone who needed a shooter/editor.

So, I called this guy in Nairobi, explained who I was and what I was interested in and he says "Great! We're looking for someone." So, I fax my resume and call back a few days later. "When can you start... we've got a German producer that wants to do a piece on the Ebola virus in six weeks?". Five weeks later I was there, eight weeks after that I officially quit my Canadian job, and now seven years later I'm married and shoot and edit for CNN all over Africa and occasionally the Mid-East and have never regretted taking such a big jump into the unknown.

To this day I'm still interested in current events and different cultures. That is what keeps my day to day job very exciting.

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