My Own Show?

After the success of my first two videos, I was given a big assignment. CNNMoney has several shows/series that they work on. The way they do it, is they edit several of them all at once, and on the day of the deadline, they all get published. I was given a show called "Best Advice." What I was supposed to do here is go through interviews, find a point where someone gives advice, edit it for time (approx. 1-2 minutes each), get it approved and published by the deadline... which was that Friday at 4pm. So I had 2 and a half days to do this.

At first I was overwhelmed, but I remember some advice my mom gave me, and that was to never tell your [potential] boss that you don't think you can handle something. Accept all responsibilities, and ask for help when you need it, but don't say "I can't." I took her advice and got to working. It was at this point I met someone who works there, Anastasia (Nastya) Anashkina. She was the person who had all of the interviews for me to edit. She gave me a list of 6 people: Warren Buffett, John Bogle, Gianna Bianchini, Eric Schmidt, Charles Munger and Jim Rogers.

Several of these interviews weren't available on the server, and I was told I had to "ingest" them. I asked what that entails, and Nastya taught me how to use a device called Sony XD Cam Importer. What it is, is basically new technology that allows you to record High Definition Video (HDV) directly onto a Blu-Ray disc that looks like this:


I learned to ingest media, and I got to editing, and here are the final products (I didn't want to embed them because that would lag this site up moreso than it already is):
http://money.cnn.com/video/fortune/2009/06/19/f_ba_emotion_buffett.fortune/

All of the videos are in that section.

Another responsibility was that I had to get "factoids" for some of the lesser-known interviewees. I had to research these to the specifications that I read on day one for publishing facts.