"Xiao Nie, let me collect the tapes for you. You are slow in writing. Find another computer and write the manuscript first."
Bai Haidong raised his wrist and glanced at the time, then personally helped Nie collect the tape.
The camera used by Nie is Sony's DSR-150p. This camera uses backward DVCAM tape, which is similar to an audio tape, but much smaller.
Unlike those cameras that use flash memory or hard disk media, tape camera images cannot be copied directly. They can only be connected to a video capture card using a video cable, and captured and recorded using professional non-editing software such as Grass Valley's Edius and Adobe's Premiere.
Nie Cai had to collect news as long as it took to shoot it. Someone also had to keep an eye on the machine to prevent problems such as tape cassettes, blurred screens, full disks, over-collection, etc. It was very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Although Bai Haidong is the producer of the column, he volunteered to help Nie Cai collect the tapes just to allow Nie Cai to free up time to write the article, which shows that he attaches great importance to this news.
"Okay, please, Director Bai."
Now it was a race against time, and Nie Cai did not refuse. Taking advantage of the time to collect materials, he immediately turned on another computer and started writing.
The S County TV station does not have the power to broadcast the central station on its own, and can only transmit it through the subordinate Z city station. If it is later, it may not be able to catch up with the broadcast tonight, and the timeliness is greatly reduced, so there is not much time left for Nie Cai. It’s only a little over an hour at most.
"Attention Tonight" belongs to the people's livelihood news, which is different from the rigid style of current affairs news. At best, this kind of people's livelihood news expresses the situation more lively. At worst, it is done casually, but no matter how casual it is, the news The basic structure of the manuscript still needs to be paid attention to.
For example, the five elements of news are the five W’s of news, which are the five basic elements that news reports must have, namely when, where, what, why, and who. In terms of structure, most news has an inverted pyramid narrative structure. First, the host will start with the topic in the introduction and tell the audience the most important things about the news, or conversely, set up suspense in the introduction to attract the audience to continue reading.
Nie Cai did not come from a major in science. He graduated with a major in computer science and was very fluent in writing code. However, he had been working at S County TV station for more than half a year, and he had just mastered the threshold of news writing. He even occasionally complained about poor press releases. Bai Haidong pushed back and rewritten.
"This news is so rare, I have to write it down properly... Don't let me ruin it!"
Nie Cai opened Word, took a deep breath, and immediately began to formulate ideas in his mind.
But Nie Cai stared at the computer screen for a minute, but he couldn't even formulate the first introduction.
There is no way, the more nervous I am, the more stuck I feel, the more blank my mind becomes, and there is no way to effectively conceive of the manuscript!
As time passed by, Nie Cai became more and more nervous. He could only hold back the sentence "There was a thrilling scene at the S County Commercial Building this morning..." and couldn't write any more.
"Nie Cai, if you can't do it, just use my manuscript?"
Yu Ran stuck his head out, looked at Nie Cai's computer screen, and said gloatingly: "You are not a professional, and you are so slow in writing, you might as well let me do it, so as not to ruin such an excellent piece of news!"
He came back earlier than Nie Cai, and has now written the first draft. Moreover, although Yu Ran usually does nothing, but after all, he was influenced by his father who was the deputy director of the station and forced him to study journalism. Here, In many aspects, he is indeed much better than Nie Cai.
"No need, I can finish it in a moment."
Nie Cai refused him without even thinking.
Teamwork is not uncommon among reporters. It's common for you to use my lens and I to use your manuscript. But Yu Ran's look just now aroused Nie Cai's anger.
"What should I do! Can we only use Yu Ran's manuscript?"
Nie Cai was distressed and looked up at the time. The hand had already passed 4 o'clock, and time was getting increasingly urgent.
"Oh, I was only busy shooting news. I didn't expect that writing would be difficult. Isn't there any other way..."
When Nie Cai was distressed, suddenly, at this moment, a voice appeared in Nie Cai's mind. It was the voice from the super news system!
"Didi didi... do you want to spend 3 news points to upgrade the press release writing assistance module?"
Hearing this voice, Nie Cai was immediately startled!
"Press release writing assistance system? Only 3 news points?"
This press release writing auxiliary module does not appear in the upgrade list, but compared with those upgrade modules that often cost dozens or hundreds of points, this system is simply worth the price of cabbage.
"In order to encourage reporters to cause greater social repercussions and gain more news points, this upgrade module is at a special price!"
As if understanding Nie Cai's question, the system's voice explained.
"Of course loaded!"
Nie Cai nodded quickly. His current shortcoming was in writing this press release. Let alone 3 points, Nie Cai was willing to redeem it even for 30 or 300 points!
"The module is loaded successfully, and the news database is being searched. 7298 similar news articles have been found, arranged according to similarity..."
Following the sound of the system, a flashing cursor suddenly appeared in front of Nie Cai's eyes.
Those were the titles of press releases one after another. Nie Cai had never heard of the place names of these press releases, and he had no idea where and when they happened.
But the content of these news is the most precious. Nie Cai just glanced at it and saw dozens of news about people who jumped from buildings and took hostages, which was almost the same as the content of Nie Cai's news.
And even with Nie Cai's skill, it can be seen that the writing level of these news is extremely high, and they are all masterpieces!
In fact, when Nie Cai just finished typing a paragraph, there would be several examples for Nie Cai to choose from, it was almost like having a plug-in!
"It turns out that this so-called press release writing assistance module is searching for high-quality news from history. With the help of these news, even a person with only a superficial knowledge can write the best press release!"
Nie Cai was immediately overjoyed. Although he graduated from a prestigious university, he majored in computer science and had nothing to do with journalism. He usually wrote slowly and had to be revised repeatedly by the producer.
But with the help of this writing module, Nie Cai felt as if he was writing the press release today with a spirit and smooth flow. Paragraphs of text kept flashing in his mind, which was even smoother than writing programming code. It seemed that writing was for him. It's just an instinct.
"The manuscript has been written. Director Bai will help me read it."
The crackling sound of Nie Cai's keyboard was like firecrackers. In less than five minutes, he pushed the keyboard, took a long breath, and said.
"Did you finish it so quickly?"
Before Bai Haidong had finished picking the tapes, Nie Cai had already finished writing the manuscript. This surprised Bai Haidong, who was familiar with Nie Cai's manuscript writing skills.
"Did you finish writing? I want to review this manuscript myself. Let me check it."
Station director Wei Jianguo suddenly spoke up and walked over.