Chapter 17 (1/2)

“Xiao Se, I’ll help you with the video editing

to give youspeed is

quite slow”

Hai Dong gathered the camera tapes

after looking at his watch

Se Cai’s Sony Dsr-150p used

obsolete dvcam tapes They were similar in properties to the old cassette tapes

but were smaller in size

Unlike newer models which

utilized flash drive or storage cards, the video files in such camera couldn’t

be directly copied It needed to be first converted using professional

video-editing software like edius or adobe premiere

The conversion process was long and

tedious It required sos,

incomplete conversion and the like

The fact that Hai Dong as the

program producer volunteered to help Se Cai with such a menial work showed how

much he set store by this news and Se Cai

“Alright Thank you, Director

Bai”

Se Cai thanked Director Bai for

his gracious help and flipped open a laptop to get started on his writing

County S Tv Station wasn’t

proh to be able to directly send their news to the central station,

they had to go through the station in province city Z The detour ate into the

time Se Cai had, which was about 1 hour

Unlike other current news

prograht=””>’s beat was society and lifestyle In other

words, they didn’t have a strict for as the

news followed the accepted 5W1H structure

The common structure for any

news article could be distilled down to this 5W1H They are What, Why, Who,

When, Where and How They can form either a pyramid or inverted pyramid structure

to lead the readers and viewers into the details of the nehile keeping them

hooked

Se Cai was skilled at writing

codes but it was a co script Multiple

times his works were rejected by Director Bai because they were too amateurish

“This is such an important news…

I shan’t fail now!”

Se Cai took a deep breath as he

opened Microsoft Word Sadly, there wasn’t even a news outline in his mind

Se Cai’s fingers hung helplessly

over the keyboard, he couldn’t even form the introduction

He was struck by writer’s block

The more he panicked, the more his mind wandered! He couldn’t focus!

Se Cai stared nervously at the

computer screen after he forced out the sentence, “A nerve-wrecking scene

unfolded atop County S’ co…” He was stumped

“Se Cai, if you can’t perform

under pressure, here, use my script”

Xu Ran poked his head out to

stare at Se Cai’s blank screen and drawled gleefully, “After all, you don’t

have any journalisht

as well use mine to save the news!”

Xu Ran came back earlier than Se

Cai so he had an ah he

row up under the influence of his father and

had a degree in journalism