ASSIGNMENT ONE:
PROVIDE THE INFORMATION BELOW

Name Leon (Liu Yang )
Mobile phone 13581640593
Email youngliu@mail.com


Career goal: Becoming a film maker

What do you want your job to be in 20 years?

Designer, Creative director

In 5 years?

Animation Designer

When you graduate?
2008

Are you interested in a career in journalism?

Not really, I'm not good at writing.


How can this course help you reach your goals?

It's very good to learn a lot of things. Media people need to know what's happening now and express their thoughts.


Goals for this course: I think I'll be very happy if I can improve my spoken and writing English, and I also want to know how I can use my English in Communication.

Are you interested in producing for this course:
Yeah, But time is limited, I have a lot of work after class. If possible, team work is more suitable.

Podcasts?
Video segments for YouTube?
Newspaper or wire stories?
A Blog?
A regular news broadcast?
No

Guests:

Would you like guest speakers from any particular professions?
Of course, that will be nice

Experience:

Please briefly describe any work you have done in the news media.

How many television packages have you produced at this school? (Please include links if possible)

Do you have any production skills necessary to run a news broadcast? Please list.

Actually, I really love TV media,not news, I have experience in translation, TV program making, and Animation Designing. I'm working for Creative animation studio, making TV pakages videao for TV station now. I think I have production skill but not in editing and writing news.

News Habits:

Which foreign and Chinese newscasts do you regularly watch?
I ususally watch phenix,if a TV is reachable.

How familiar are you with foreign news broadcasts? Can you watch them at home? Over the Internet?
I know somthing about ABC and BBC, But they're not legally reachable for ordinary people.

Please list some strengths and weaknesses of foreign news broadcasts compared to Chinese broadcasts.
They are more interesting and more free.
What newspapers and news Web sites do you visit regularly?
Yahoo china.
South Weekend( a perfect newspaper in guangzhou).
Baidu
Do you read the Washington Post and the New York Times? (Hint: You should)
ASSIGNMENT TWO

Please paste the broadcast script you wrote in class on Sept. 10 based on the news wire report here.

Security forces kills seven militants and a formor Taliban official has been captured.
That happened when insurgents obstructed the distribution of emergency aid to thousand of villagers who are in flood-hit area southeastern of Afganistan.
However, Food and supplies for 137 family has been distrubuted as of Tuesday, four days after the flood.
Since May, more than 900 people have died in violence across Afganistan, including a Afgan policeman who was accidentantly shot outside a military Base. He was wearing a civilian clouthes and armed at that time. A British Ministry of Defence sopokesman say.

ASSIGNMENT THREE
Please paste the Obituary assignment here.
There's a man who expericed countless success and failures, but never give up his dream. He once worked as jounalist, Animation artist, TV program producer, and a movie director. And whatever he'doing, he put great enthusiasm and energy. That's why he never out or power. This day is his 75 years old birthday, Happy Birthday to You. We believe that this is just the beginning of your career, and you'll try and make new sucess to prove you'll never get old.

ASSIGNMENT FOUR
Write three pitches that you and some classmates can actually produce with the time and resources available to you.

1, The overhot house price in China. In Beijing, ShangHai, GuangZhou, The house price is growing faster than people's imagination. Real estates are always the breaking news for Chinese and all the investors in China. But's there's half of people who are coming out of Beijing. How can they live here?


Also think about the big stories in the world, and look for a Chinese connection. Are there Iraqi students here? Does China have an Islamic insurgency? What do Chinese students think about the US presidential race? Who is in charge at the Palestian Embassy here now that the Palestinians have split amid civil war?

Your pitch should include the names of the people you plan to interview, and the shots you plan to include.