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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Mediaclub 3 day camp.

Tuesday,14th june.

First day,we had this session by Mr Peter Khoo,
Vice president and Head,Editorial Projects.
We had an overview of the newspaper industry,which is rather interesting.
And Mr Peter Khoo told us,
that if we were to publish one whole page of advertisement with colour,
it will cost about $30 000.
But,if a whole page of advertisement is just black and white,
it will cost about $10 000.
Singapore Press holding publish a total of 14 kinds of newspapers and magazines.
Next,we had this session by Miss Serene Goh,Editor of IN and Little Red Dot.
Everyone of us were given a total of 15minutes to complete the quiz,
to find out roles that suits us the best in the newsroom.
The example of the roles are :
photojournalists,newshound,editor,publisher,marking and sales.
And that's when we were divided into groups,
and create our own magazines by using our own creativity.
Some of the examples are :
What's the name of the magazine,how many pages and etc.
A moment later,
we had this session by Mr Sujin Thomas,Journalist,The Straits Times.
He interviewed before celebrities such as Kelly Clarkson and Good Charlotte.
And he shared with us many interesting encounters he had encountered,
like avril lanvinge was very rude and replied 'WHATEVER' during phone interview,
and she hang up the phone immediately.
We learn alot from him and i think everyone enjoyed attending his workshop.
And being a entertainment journalist,
many of us envy him that he can get close with many famous popstars in asia.

Session by Mr Peter Khoo,Vice president and Head,Editorial Projects.

It's Lunch time ! :D

Session by Mr Sujin Thomas,Journalist,The Straits Times.

End of day 1

Wednesday,13th june.
Day 2,we had the tour of News Centre.
We went and visited 100.3FM and 98.3FM radio stations,
where DJ Je Augustine was on-air.
According to our tour guide,
it is a rare occurence that non-workers are allowed inside.
It was a great opportunity for budding journalists like us,
to see what goes on in the place.
Next,we had visited the Information Resource Centre,
Singapore Press Holding had a total of 162 years of history,
and one month later,it's going to celebrate it's 163th anniversary.
We were introduced to the image database,
which was on the computer.
The software stores all pictures sent in from foreign and local photographers.
It has almost every picture of every celebrity,prominent figure,
or anybody involved in an article.
It was simply amazing and interesting.
We even view the very first Straits Times Newspaper published in year 1845!
In the news centre,reporters are busy typing out their reports.
And editors are editing all the articles.
But the tour,even though it was short but it was more than just a time filler.
It was a great tour. :D
After the Tour of News centre,
we had a session conducted by Mr Terence Tan,Photojournalist of the Straits Times.
I had learnt that we do not need to put things in the middle,
because we should not squeeze everything in one picture.
It's very boring and it's not attractive.
Different pictures have different communications and meanings.
We need to keep the image simple,but make them interesting.
Instead of always shooting in a straight angle,
we can have an angle of background and foreground.
And put in anything that we can defined in pictures that makes it look attractive.
Last but not least,
we had this Celebrity Interview with affable and good looking MTV VJ,Utt.
And everyone was getting upclose and personal with him.
And that's when girls started to screamed for thier idol,
and some lucky ones even had this chance to get hugged by Utt !
During his free days when he doesn't need to work,
he will hang out with his university friends and go to the beach.
He loves kayaking,volleyball and others.
Utt make sure he will have free days to rest,
because he needs to work for long hours and is very tiring.
He said,
'hosting is being who you are,but acting is when you are acting on the role. '
Being the career that he was having right now,
he is meeting more people and is being motivated by them.
Hosting from MTV to Incredible Tales,
he said MTV is alot more fun and relaxful.
But incredible tales is more serious and getting into the situation.
Utt revealed that one of the cheekiest and naughtiest things that he've done,
is to have stolen Denise Keller's bra to use it as a mask.
He did that as he wanted to scare a little boy.
But things didn't turn out that way,
he was punched by the little boy with the bra on.
Talk about little power.
After the press conference with Utt,
the young journalists all had the chance of getting an autograph from Utt,
or even taking a picture with him.
A rare opportunity it was for them,
you could see the crowd surrounding him.
One of the young journalist went to the extent of pulling Utt’s hair.
Utt, however, wasn’t feeling angry.
He simply mocked by replying that he wanted his hair back.

Before the tour of News Centre.

News centre.

Information Resource Centre.

Newspapers in the 1845.

Session by Mr Terence Tan,Photojournalist of the Straits Times.

Our photo assignment.

The arrival of MTV VJ,Utt

The crowd surrounding him.

Thankyou! :D

A picture with him ! :D

End of day 2

Thursday,14th june.
We had a Tour to Print Centre and see how Newspapers is being produced.
Everyone had a very enjoyable trip.
After the tour,when we arrived at Singapore Press Holding.
We had this session by Mr Pradeep Paul,
Senior Executive sub-editor,The Straits Times.
And we know that editing is not an easy job,
because it is more than just giving a story its headlines or cutting it down to size.
There are Different design element that the sub editors have to do,
like the size of the pictures,the angle,the length of words and many more.
Next,we had this STOMP features talk by Ms Tan Weizhen and Mr Daryl Chin,
STOMP content producers.
Everyone of us found out special features in the website,
and it is set up for youths and teenagers like us.
STOMP was launched in june last year.
A moment later,there were Certificate Presentation and Feedback Session.
Which everyone had been waiting for.
Everyone recieved a Cerfiticate Of Participation.
Yes,and all good things have to come to an end.
Farewell and Goodbye.
I think this camp really bond everyone of us together,
even though we are all from different schools.
During the camp,
we learnt something new and making new friends at the same time.
I am looking forward to december's camp.

Session by Mr Pradeep Paul,Senior Executive sub-editor,The Straits Times.

STOMP content producers.

STOMP content producer.

End of day 3

Jiahao,17yrs old.
Yuying Secondary.

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