....that's when I make my debut as co-anchor of the ten o'clock news. I've gotten accustomed to my live reports now. I still get nervous but not as bad as the first time. Anchoring is a bit different though. I'm live for 30 minutes every night. Scary. I've done some practice run throughs and I'll be doing some more this week. To be honest they've been a little rough. I can read the prompter just fine and I sound like a news anchor if I do say so myself. But I get nervous up there and my mind just sort of freezes up when something goes wrong. They've been making things go wrong on purpose to see how I react. It's not pretty. I look like a deer in the headlights. But it's necessary I guess. I suppose I'd rather be more prepared for a disaster when it really happens. Here's an example. I never thought I'd have a problem with all the banter your news anchors like to engage in. Well, when you're nervous and worried about when you're supposed to talk next, and the director is barking demands into your ear, and your co-anchor is talking it's hard to remember what they've even said. So on a practice run through my co-anchor finishes her script, turns to me and says something off the cuff. I have no idea what she's said. All I know is that we're supposed to toss it to weather and she's just asked me a question about the fog or Christmas or little puppies. I have no idea which, because I wasn't really listening. So I stare at her, stare at the prompter and look dazed. It was rather embarrassing. But at least it wasn't live. It's also important to keep the paper script in front of you on the right page. I've got to work on that. They stopped the prompter on me and my script was on the wrong page. So I had no idea what to say. Blah, blah blah. The list goes on an on. All I know is that I'm scared. But I'm excited. I'm excited beyond words. I get to be a news anchor. I smile when I think about it. Sorry for all the news talk. I'm sure it bores whoever reads this. But it's more of a journal to me anyway.
Lincoln
3 comments:
you're going to be fantastic. i'm already acting as your publicist. our fudge provider told me he's in bozeman and i told him he had to watch the news cuz you were on it. and he asked me what station and i said, "there's more than one?"
I don't have a producer or a fudge provider. Humph. Isn't it kind of in fashion to act goofy on the news? I say always bring up puppies at some point during your newscast. It can be your signature.
You could always start babbling like Steve Carrell in "Anchorman". That'd be awesome.
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