Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Jolly Good, Old Chap

Here in the newsroom, we have several interns who are given various projects to work on. We try to help them learn the process of producing news reports for radio, from start to finish. This includes coming up with story ideas, interviewing newsmakers and experts, editing digital audio, writing and voicing a story.

Last week, one of the interns finally produced a complete story, with her voice tracks recorded and edited together with sound bites. She asked one of my coworkers to listen to her story and critique it. My coworker happily complied, putting the headphones on and hitting play. She immediately started laughing and said "um, why did you record it in a British accent?!"

The intern proceeded to explain that she thought a British accent would be impressive and help her get a job in the industry.

As my coworker gently pointed out to her, "you're...not...British."

2 comments:

Me said...

That's hilarious! I guess in this job market, you try anything you can to stand above the crowd!

Mimi said...

HAHAHA! Was the accent any good?