Being in media, and what it has taught me article

Being in media, and what I have learned about it.     

 I always wanted to get into Media growing up, and watching The Roseanne Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.  I liked other shows as well, but those two were the ones I really want to be one. I wanted Oprah to interview me about my family, and discuss my dreams of being famous in media. The only times I was ever on TV as a little kid  was when I went to a St Patrick’s Day Parade  dressed all in green, and the local networks filmed me. As a kid I would write little movies and plays, and family members would be my freelance actors. The stories I would create were just silly stuff, nothing that would change the world. It was fun!  People used to say about me, that boy is going to b famous doing something he loves. Or my grandma would say that that boy is going to make the rich money and I am going to move in with him.

   Then when I was a preteen I made my TV debut with my cousin Brittany when we did a bowling Commercial for a local TV station, which was an ABC affricate.  It was so much fun to learn behind the scenes secrets, three of the information’s I found out is stand still, look at the cameras, and say your line. They also said don’t change anything you say.     It aired the next week early in the morning, and my mom woke me up so I could watch myself. I hated how I looked, I was skinny and boney. Ugh!

 

 I had a video tape of it before my house fire in 1999.   I hope   people saw it, it only aired once.  I wish I could remember the date so I could add it to YouTube. Maybe one day the date will come to me in a dream, like everything else does sometimes.  After that show I was never invited back on the TV again like I hoped I would, but I kept waiting to b discovered. NO such luck!

      And then my dreams came true and I did not even have to relocate to New York or California.  I was watching TV one night and I saw  a TV Commercial  that there was going to be a new school opening up in Columbus for people who wanted to be broadcasters, the school was called The Ohio Center for Broadcasting.   The Ohio Center for Broadcasting had locations in only 3 states around the world, but this would b the first broadcasting campus in Columbus. I wanted to sign up, so I told mom about the school and the next day I scheduled an appointment.    I    heard that classes were set to start on March 17^th 2008.  That night I thought to myself, I am not going to pass up doing something that’s going to make rich and famous.

 

  I got enrolled the next day.  The very first person I met was this woman who discovered Jerry Springer.  She was the lady who enrolled me, after interviewing me with mom in the room to see if I was the right student for the school. My classes were weekday mornings; we met 3 days a week. The classes were 4 hours long. We had breaks between classes and there was a break room, with a vending machine and a soda machine. There was also a microwave.

 My first instructor was a former local DJ named Jack, he taught all of us students so much about his own broadcasting life lessons.  I was shy and kept to myself a lot, but      I met a lot of people.       I graduated on January 2009. I did not graduate with my classmates because I did not have enough intern hours, so I graduated one month later. Looking back I was not always a good student, I used the computer and printer at the school for things that were always for the school and I am sorry I did that. I interned at 3 media networks 2 radio and 1 TV, and that was a learning experience in itself.

 

 Only 2 of those companies r still up and running like they did when I interned for them.  Since graduating, I have been a caller guest on a few shows and I enjoyed doing all of those shows when I did them.  One of the shows I did I feel asked me to come on so they could use my info as their own, and I have cut ties with them. All the others treated vary fairly.  I am still friends with the radio hosts who treated me fairly then, and still do today.  In 2010 My Life and business partner Marc Robinson and I created our company Robinson Ward New Media, and we did a short lived YouTube show that was geared as a news and cooking show.

 

 We filmed it in a duplex that marc used to live in.  We stopped doing it for 3 years, because a kid flooded our kitchen by overflowing our toilet.  Earlier this year we posted my grandma making homemade lasagna, and sauce which is what the last episode before the flood was all about. Now I have taken a break from radio shows, and just focusing on writings.   What I have learned about media? That nothing ever stays the same; it can change at any time. Be careful u trust to let u interview them, they may only b in it for themselves. 

 

The End