Day 16 - 24

Wow, a lot of time has passed. I’ve been really busy with school work, but I’ve learned a lot. I’ll start with today and try to work backwards.

Today, November 15, 2010, I went with Glenn “Dutch” Wargo to the Double Tree hotel in Chicago to interview US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. The interview was done over speakerphone with a producer in New York, but I was the “attractive young man” he got to look at, as he put it.

Dutch showed me how to do a basic setup for an interview with a boring background, and he taught me the “over under” cable wrapping technique. It took me a few minutes, but I got it down now.

Adam and I worked on a skype station so that Fox can do live shots for The Strategy Room, an online news show for Fox, using a tech cart over skype. This will free up the dedicated fiber lines for the news news shots.

Friday, November 12, 2010 was pretty busy. I got some cupcakes for Bob’s birthday (after dropping 1/3 of them). I did a few live shots and called it a day.

Monday, November 8, 2010 had one big event. Bob Lee and I went to a rally. Click here to see the video.

Friday, November 5, 2010 I met Rod Blagojevich. That’s about all that happened that day.

Monday, November 1, 2010 was crazy busy. The day before the midterm election, I was at Fox from 9am until 10pm. We went to the Mark Kirk convention at a bowling alley in Wheaton, then the Alexi Giannoulias event in Greek Town. Talk about a juxtaposition of events.

I haven’t had a chance to shoot more footage, but I’m in the market for a Nikon d3100! I got my new 16GB SD class 10 card today, too.