My name is Joe Sousa and I am a field producer of a new show tentatively entitled "Alaska Unleashed." The show will premiere on the Discovery Channel's Alaska week later this year. For the next month I will be up in Alaska field producing and writing for the show. A lot of what I do professionally is very similar to the skills and concepts that you guys are learning in Ms. Ventura's class, so she's asked me to do a daily blog documenting my experience doing the program. Over the next month I'll blog about the tasks involved in making a TV program in very harsh conditions under a very tight deadline. I'll also do some profiles of members of the team up here, including editors and camera persons. Finally, I'll probably talk a lot about what its like to be up in Alaska and what makes this such a special and spectacular place. Oh, and of course I'll try to put up as many cool pix and videos as I can.
But most importantly I'd like to do my best to start a dialog with you. I'd love to hear your comments, your reactions, and add to discussion topics that you care about. This is the first blog I've done, so you'll have to forgive me if I'm a little slow figuring everything out.
Tomorrow I'll start off by describing what exactly a 'field producer' does and how the whole team fits together up here. But I'd love to hear any questions you guys have initially about producing TV shows or topics that you'd like me to cover. Do you guys watch the Discovery Channel? What are some of your favorite shows? What is it about those shows that you think is so cool? To you, what's the coolest thing about Alaska?
Like I said, fire away with any questions--that will help me think of things to write about. I look forward to hearing from you. Oh, and check out a moose that came in to give us a closer look!
