This past Monday in PR class we had a guest speaker, Jonathan Potts, who spoke to our class about PR. It was informative but was hard to hear him. We got alot of handouts and interviewed Dr. Jabro for our feature story. I am going to answer the blog questions for this week!
A.I am very nervous about writing this feature story! I am new to this with no prior experience. I feel like I got alot of information from Dr. Jabro to write my feature story but have no true plan on how I am going to piece it together! It will be a challenge for sure and that's how I am approaching it. I will be starting my feature story probably on Friday. I will be using Dr. Houser's examples on how he conducted his feature story on Dr. Wu. But I will be sure to instill my own flavor and style to my own! I look forward to this challenge as there is alot of unknowns and unturned stones in front of me!
B. I do not believe I will do exceptionally well on this feature story. As discussed in my previous question I answered I am nervous and very new to this experience. Although I love challenges and facing adversities, I believe that I wont knock this out of the park. Now some may so I am short changing myself, but I am a true realist and have an understanding of my capabilities. If I do end up doing well on this feature story and exceed beyond my wildest beliefs it will be an added bonus! I will incorporate my style and flavor and only hope that it is viewed by Dr. Jabro and Dr. Park as being exceptional! Parts that I feel I will do exceptionally well in are probably my creative thinking and organization. I love to spice things up and keep my readers interested. Organizing is a big deal with this feature story and I know that I will probably piece it well together. I will make sure I commit enough time to it and try to produce a well written story about Dr. Jabro. All in all I feel like my creative thinking and organization will be the two skills that I do exceptionally well on in this feature story. Stay tuned!
C.My biggest concern with this feature story that I don't feel like I will do exceptionally well on will be on depth of the story and factual information. When we interviewed Dr. Jabro, I posed questions that I wanted to ask and got most of the meat out of the questions that she answered, but not all. I also wrote down alot of the my fellow classmates questions and answers that Dr. Jabro gave but not all. I am concerned mostly that my feature story will not produce enough detailed or interesting information that I maybe missed when Dr. Jabro gave her responses to questions. Another concern of mine is grammer. I tend to rush when I write and really fumble around my words and thoughts when I try to convey them on paper. This is my other concern but I have came up with a plan to combat that, and that is to spend more time and proof read like crazy!! Although I don't feel like i'll blow this feature story out of the water and get an A+, I know I will produce a quality product (my paper).
D. When I got to the Chapel on Monday for class I noticed two gentleman who I never recognized before , Dr. Potts and a film crew member (forgot name opps!), standing in front of the chapel. We were informed by Dr. Jabro that the film crew member who be video taping us for a video that they would be showing on TV's in Nicholson for new freshman. I loved the idea of the thought and was pleased to be taking part in the video. During the session in which Dr. Potts gave his speech and we were being filmed, I noticed that the film crew member only took video at one angle and that was the right side of the chapel, as the chapel is split in two with chairs. I did not notice him video shoot at an angle from the left side of the chapel. I also noticed he stood directly behind a student in the 3rd row out of possibly 12 rows. I wondered why he did that and came up with my own conclusion that he wanted it to appear that the whole chapel was packed with students as it would be shown in the video. I also noticed that Dr. Potts seemed nervous and uncomfortable with the environment. I also noticed he said "um" alot and seemed lost of words at times. He did an excellent job with the material he talked about but seemed to run out of things to say. We could of helped him as students and probably asked questions! Other than this it was a great time as I have never been in the chapel before and an experience that I will never forget!
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