Convention's started off with a bang here in Jeff City! Early arrival was uneventful, but productive (we ironed out our green screens for our broadcast later tonight, "Live From Wasilla..." yeah, you betcha!), and Thursday we kicked off to a great start thanks to Governor Hanna Xu and the ever-wonderful Ken Hussey. Today, we're just working on the news and letting YIG take its course.
This isn't to say we haven't run into any problems, however. One of the delegations sent their school with a camera that wasn't compatible: it burned their story straight onto mini-DVDs that our computers couldn't read, and then didn't have a the proper cord for uploading the stories from the camera to the computer. Consequentially, we haven't been able to air their story, but Ben is endlessly toiling to work it out, and they're off working on a second story now.
There was also another issue at 11:30 as we were getting ready to go on: Final Cut wouldn't render the video. So, in the meantime, we showed a video of shorts Ben had already prepared: a spoof of the Grizzly Man trailer called Pussy Man, and a cartoon about balloons hitting a guy on the head. Needless to say, they were a hit, and Ben saved the day. Then the video was rendered, and we went live.
Also, while we were airing the news, we had a DVD in the recorder, but it didn't record. Luckily, we caught it before the broadcast was over, and were able to tape the latter half. Luckily, Ben was on the ball again, and had saved all the news stories to his hard drive.
We encountered our most recent problem this morning, when we went to do YIG Morningside: our converter box wouldn't work! We just scrapped the broadcast, and we're going to get our hands on a new converter box before The Secretary of State Show tonight. (And we'll still do Morningside tomorrow, too.) Our luck must not run out, because converter boxes are only about three dollars! To put that in perspective for you, that's as much as sixteen pieces of bubble gum! YAY US!
But enough about our dreary past problems, and let's talk about the future. At 6:30 this evening, provided we have our three dollar converter box, we'll be broadcasting The Secretary of State Show, with information for yigsters on how to vote and what they should be aware of during tomorrow's elections. Then, after the banquet and ball tonight - where we'll be the two prettiest girls there, of course, gracing the faculty and students of YIG with our presence and beautiful faces - we go live for the second night of YIG 360, and, providing all goes well, "Live in Wasilla." Morningside is on the schedule for tomorrow.
Later, we'll be updating our intro, credits, and news stories for you all to watch.
Signing off, yigsters!
Hannah and Amiria
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