Monday, March 13, 2006

My First Day at Work

Today I started my first job in US with Thai tv production called IPtv (not Taksin's one).
It is the company in BKT group that do many business things.
The salary is not that high but there are many interesting things to learn,
and I don't think I would get a chance like this in American company.
My responsibility is to design graphic, motion graphic and edit some footages
, logo, end title, for tv shows or news.
For editing, they use Final Cut Pro and AVID..I only know about basic,
so I'm so excited to learn more about them.
I saw some of footages that P'Mam, the one who will train me to edit, was editing.
They just had new presenter. I guessed she is one of Thai girls who grew up in US.
Her Thai pronounciation is a little bit terrible. But the most important thing is
she could not remember or didn't know the job title or position of the guests
she was interviewing.
Her news is about Singha beer tried to promote their product in US by setting up
the tennis tournament in Las Vegas.
She interviewed a few people such as the CEO of Singha beer in America and Paradorn.
Her voice obviously changed to sweet voice when she interviewed Paradorn haha.
I heard my co-workers complaint that she asked some nonsense questions,
but Paradorn even could answer them haha.
Everyday they have Live political show on tv (for Thai people who have boxes to receive the satellite signal)
I was trained to control the sound. There are 3 cameras shooting the presenter,
and the control room is on the second floor. P'Mam was the one who did switching (controled the things that everyone
would see on tv like the title, cutting to the presenter, changing the camera view and cutting to commercial).
And P'Ake taught me to control the sound (that everyone will hear on tv).
There were parts of the show that the presenter had to talk with the people who phoned in
from Thai people who were watching from every states in America.
Some people were very dramatic and emotional (like when they were angry about Taksin or Sonthi)
...so sometimes we had to low down the sound of phone in.
Anyway, as I listened to those phone calls, I think 60% of Thai people in US support Taksin today.

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