inside Rhodes

I have returned from my five week adventure from New York City! There’s no way I can sum up this experience with a few words.

I have spent the last month living in Brooklyn. You know, I was very surprised at how different Brooklyn really is than how it’s portrayed in movies.There are not any drive bys or gang wars in front of my apartment. I actually felt pretty safe walking the four blocks to the subway back to the apartment. Brooklyn is a pretty trendy, hipster spot and I loved it!

I was also taking broadcasting classes five days a week, and roughly ten hours a day at the New York Film Academy. This course not only made me discover that this is what I want to do, but introduced me into this new generation of digital journalism, or “DJ”. Ha that’s funny telling people I want to be a DJ. Anyway, digital journalism is another level of… well let’s call it… a one man band. The reporter writes, shoots, and edits all of the footage to be posted on-line or on television.

When it comes to technical things I have never picked up a real camera before in my life, but that was completely okay. I learned how to work it with my instructors always ready to help and after school study sessions.
The journalism side was teaching myself how to write in a way college has told me not to write. In better words, . I was taught to not write as if I’m not advertising anything, but talking to a friend. I want my audience to understand and feel as if iIm in their own home.  Keep words simple and to the point.

Now, like I said these were 10 hour classes and they were not a breeze. There were many days I had been in the editing lab for hours after class, my writing not being accepted because of errors, and trying to compete with the other 20 people who aspire and have as much drive as I do to become a DJ. It was very overwhelming.

I miss New York so much.