Monday: Event day! This means it was up around 5:45 to be at the Newseum by 7 AM for an event hosted by National Journal. This was probably one of the more interesting events I have been to because we had Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius on hand to discuss the health care bill which had numerous aspects take effect this week. She discussed what the Affordable Care Act is supposed to do and answered a few questions from the audience. Once the event was over, I headed back to NJ and burrowed downstairs with Final Cut to edit the video and export the files. That was a headache to an extent but I learned how to squeeze and compress audio and video files.
Tuesday: Terry Michael morning. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we will likely be having class with program director Terry Michael who will be giving a lesson in politics. The topic for Tuesday's class was American Political Parties... this was right up my alley because I had spent all last semester studying them. I sounded like a know it all in class, but who cares. He talked for a couple hours about things I pretty much already knew, but then I headed downstairs to a ton of work. More video and exporting for an event that took place that morning and was not able to attend due to class. I also learned how to use Brightcove and publish things online... or at least I hope I learned how to do this... will see if I can do it again next week.
Wednesday: I would call this the day of Final Cut Hades. Everything that could go wrong with a video seemed to go wrong. We could not get things to load properly and the exporting process was made even more difficult when it would not export at the correct aspect ratio. Ahh, it was extremely frustrating. But I was able to note that I would likely be stuck at work late and the people at my housing complex fixed me a late plate for when I returned home. Thankfully.
Thursday: Another Terry Michael morning, but this time we had a guest speaker: Nathan Gonzalez of the Rothenberg Report. We learned about the Congressional Campaign Committees, and we learned a bit about the prediction of races and how they determine which ones are going to be close. He was really helpful in giving a picture of what these groups do for their candidates. Afterwards, I headed downstairs to work for magazine day. This is the day when NJ is produced and all the content has to go up online. It is a long afternoon because the content is not usually ready to go online until about 2/3 so that means that we are pretty much at the mercy of the editors or whenever the writers finish. The hardest part is making sure that graphics get put in correctly and that links and photos are properly published. On days like that, we dont get to leave the office until after 7 PM many times.
Friday: This is a much less hectic day and everyone is just ready to get out of their for the weekend. Our publication is somewhat unique because we are all about politics and very little happens on the weekend. So we are pretty much a M-F operation. I like that stability. Today, we finished up exporting videos and cleaned up some videos that needed further editing. We also were given training on the new system that will be coming out later in the fall. It looks quite impressive and we are slowly going to be getting up to speed in the upcoming months. That took up most of the afternoon and then I also prepared some pages for next week's events.
There is a big Workforce Conference next week that will likely have people working some longer hours...
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