I Edit.
The craft of television storytelling: For eight years now I've seen myself as a student of the craft. An instrument in bringing the stories of our lives from the world to the screen, keeping the details completely intact. My belief is good television is in the details. How things are photographed and how they're edited make the difference. Without the tight shots, well composed medium shots, establishing wides, and meaningful sound life may as well just be shot from a camera mounted on a wall, like in the corner of your bank. Such a simple concept, but it's often lost.
My story from beginning to end is less about the detail in credentials, I've been Emmy nominated, won a few NPPA Quarterlies, and Annuals, Chaired the Quarterly Editing contest and currently I coordinate the Quarterly Editing Contest. I've worked a couple places, I've had the best mentors and I know how to make a few computer boxes sing with music. Even if it is just bad karoke! The greatest detail in my life is remembering how to feel and I try to bring emotion across in everything I do from home to the newsroom. The greatest details are friends and family followed with sunny days, mountain air and beach sand. The list grows and changes all the time. Understanding how it all applies personally and how I can apply it to people and stories and news and nine o'clock and life and love and pictures and sound and computers and newsrooms. You get the picture.
I try to learn something new everyday. I'll always be a student of life and television. I hope I’m a good student. I've learned to be technically proficient, be interested and treat each story as if it were my own. The most important thing is passing on what I’ve learned. I hope being a good student translates to being a good teacher. The most important lesson, keep an eye on the details and remember what it feels like to be human.