Tuesday April 13th: Uploading Content for Social Media

Today, I updated more information on the KOCT Facebook Fan page for all fans to stay connected with the content that KOCT wanted me to put on. I also tried to network to a various amount of other business located in Oceanside to gain more fans. The overall objective of using this type of Social Media is to promote to a younger audience. The fans have been exponentially rising, and with some success of fan interaction, I believe our goal of gaining at least 1,000 fans is not impossible.

For access to the Facebook sight Click Here.

Tuesday April 6th: first video shoot.

Immediately after I entered the office, I was put in charge of putting png bugs on a live video shoot for a debate about Oceanside being a charter city or not. I created labels for the individuals on screen, and putting the appropriate labels when conducted to do so by the head producer. I also worked the camera to film the debate on certain shoots. It gave me a good experience on the production techniques that are used in the professional setting.

Thurday March 25th: Productivity for Social Media

The day consisted of finding more friends for the social media network. From the initial start of the facebook page, the KOCT network station had only 23 fans, after I have conistently updated, managed and compiled content to put on KOCT, the number of fans have increased from 23 to 296 fans and is growing at an exponential rate. I also edited more videos for to stir up fan interaction on youtube as well. The original goal for the station was to promote to a younger audience for KOCT.

Tuesday March 23rd: Uploading Band Spectrum Pictures for Facebook

I finally got the chance to take the completely rendered video files from the producer's hard drive and post them on facebook and youtube. Also, upon the producer's request, I also had to establish a twitter account and add as many businesses that would be interested in associating themselves with the KOCT brand. It was a long and arduous task due to the faulty internet connections and slow download and upload speeds. I then offered to take the videos and add them sooner on facebook and youtube on my free time.

Thursday March 18th: Compressing Video files, Managing facebook account

Today's task was to compress video files for the web, and stir up discussion from fans via Facebook by altering content to allow interaction online. Some problems occurred when exporting the files by Quicktime with regards to the compression time needed to download them to the web.

For the link of the facebook website page please click here

Tuesday March 16th: Uploading Pictures for Facebook

The office time consisted of locating behind-the-scenes photos from the image bank at KOCT of cast members, production assistants, and directors in the action of completing a shoot. My director wanted me to promote the behind-the-scenes photos in order to let the public see what the production team goes through for every shoot. I also wanted to stimulate the facebook page, just so KOCT can gain any type of interaction with fans.

Friday March 12th: Video Shoot for Oceanside Museum of Art

I was very excited over the idea of being involved in the shooting of the event titled "Art after Dark" at the Oceanside Museum of Art for KOCT. Art after dark is a yearly event that is more geared towards the younger generation. With a 25 dollar admission fee, 20 dollars for OMA members, a person that is 21 years or older can drink wine, eat food, and enjoy the latest in contemporary movements of art. I helped out by carrying equipment, casting random people for interviews, and setting up equipment for the cameraman and grip. It was an overall great experience to see the process of transforming a random video into one for a publicly televised broadcast.

Thursday March 11th: Exporting Videos to for Web Applications

Today, I managed to encounter a numerous amount of problems with the rendering effect needed to process videos with png files for the web. It took an average of thirty minutes to process each two to three minute videos for the web. Instead of exporting the final-cut pro web clip videos by means of quicktime conversion, I exported them all using quicktime only cutting down the time needed to process each video. This day was rather short because the whole studio was preparing for a video shoot tomorrow at the Oceanside Museum of Art.

Tuesday March 9th: Adding "bugs" and more editing

Today's experience consisted of putting "bugs" on the finalized edited videos to mark them as KOCT official videos for the web. Bugs are labels an editor can put over a piece of videotape to mark them as their territory. Along with putting such markers, I also had to edit in frames of text, stating "For more information, visit www.KOCT.org" after each edited clip.

Thursday March 4th: Finalizing Edits/Innovation of questions.

I finalized the last part of the video edits for the band spectrum series, living legacies, and KOCT informational video to be watermarked and put on Youtube, Facebook, and MySpace. I also had to innovate any thought provoking questions or overall tactics to try and get the public to contribute their thoughts on the subject matter given by means of updating the Facebook Status page. I was also present for first live shoot at the station.

Tuesday March 2nd: Editing more video with FCP 6

Today at KOCT, I applied my knowledge of logging in and out points via FCP and batch capturing certain highlights of video into a montage of video clips. My lead director, gave me directions to edit 3-5 minute video clips that would be later uploaded onto the web by means of Facebook, Myspace, or Youtube websites. The whole process shed light on the painstaking process of video editing in order to meet satisfactory standards for professional television broadcasting.

February 25th: Second Day-Editing Video using Final Cut Pro 6, establishing a core audience.

This day consisted of editing 3 to 5 minute clips from taped shows for future postings on Facebook, Youtube, and MySpace. It gave me the chance to learn how to "batch capture" footage which would be later be edited in detail. I was also given administrative status on KOCT's Facebook page to send out friend requests and establish a fan base consisting of north county and other San Diego regions.

First Day: February 21st 2010

The first day as head of social media for KOCT was an introduction into what my goals and objectives are from the company itself. I took a personal tour of the station and had the opportunity to see different types of equipment KOCT used on set and on location at their video shoots. I also had to think of thought-provoking questions to get people's attention and post them on Facebook.Afterwards, I had a meeting with the lead of website/multimedia specialist at the station on how are we going to collaborate and promote the underlying premise of the station of building community in the city by means of social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace).