The series of Disinteresting Days

Here, by disinteresting I mean to say the disinterest developed due to the fact that we will be doing a volunteer work and nothing related to media so all those things which were being fed to us seem quite useless and to be honest very irritating as well. But saying so we had the opportunity to get ourselves acquainted with various high officials of Doordarshan Kendra from all  around India, or more precisely mostly from South India, which meant that we got to hear and would be hearing a lot more in the future words like "Anly" in place of "only", "Saaar" in place Sir, "Egg-nest" for "Against" and all other special edition south Indian English terminologies. And well I being a South Indian can justify that kind of a pronunciation comes from the way we treat every other things, in its bare literal form. So basically pronunciation also becomes pro"noun"ciation for most of us. Now enough of the linguistic bashing, that is Prof. Hemant Joshi's work and lets leave that to him.

Coming to the more boring part,Oops sorry the more serious stuff, what were we learning? Well the our coordinators Mrs.Sita Ratnakar and Mr. Vijay Saradhi did talk about the inside stuff  relating to Doordarshan and how the public broadcaster still enjoys the tag of being a pioneer in the broadcasting scene of India. They also roped in officials working in the news wing of the Doordarshan to have some interactive sessions regarding broadcast production,sports reporting and camera techniques. Most notably of them was Mr. Rajaram, a highly experienced camera technician with Doordarshan and he mainly concentrated on the creative aspect of camera handling that is the non fiction genre where you have the creative liberty pushing the aesthetics to the back seat. He talked about the various camera shots one could use in a documentary or a serial which is no way can be used in  ENG (Electronic News Gathering) production. Also he explained to us in detail the need for a bunch of good camera shots when you are sitting in the post production. Various questions regarding camera equipments and camera positioning in a sports coverage were put forth and he also briefed us about the latest equipments used for such coverages like for e.g spider cam.

there were quite a few sessions like this and I would be writing about it in my next post...so keep watching this space

Adios