Channel News Nanyang (CNNY)

whoooooohhh! :) happyhappyhappy to announce that we won a GOLD award for SDMA! :] we sure had fun... just look at the pictures and u'll know... such a relief to know that all that effort put in last year was so worth it!~

The mini-mediacamp went well too! :] great job everyone!!!

so i guess that'll be 2 victories squished into one action-packed day today! Juz wanna say a very big "THANKS~" and great job!!!! give urselves a good pat on the back!~ *pat pat* haha...

for the J2s, up and coming is our block tests... chiong and overcome this mini-hurdle kays! after that'll be prep for the REAL thing for cca...

hehe. no stress. keep going!! jia youss!!!!

and for J1s, enjoy urselves for now this wk!!! :]

take care ppl...

:)rachel_

hellos to all. :D

Since Leap Year happens only once a year, I feel the need to update the blog to commemorate this special day. Haha.

As I promised, the details for 5th March's Primary School Sharing.

First and foremost, the groupings.

Group 1
Xingli (in charge of Camera)
Huyang
Avril
Hong Chen
Michelle

Group 2
Felicia (in charge of Camera)
Siew Chwen
Cailing
Sze Xia
Yeeting

Group 3
Shelia (in charge of Camera)
Huiyi
Yi Hui
Li Dan
Shermaine

Reporting time: 2.3opm (right after Assembly)
Venue: 05-60 (LEP ROOM)

Do not worry about your stomachs as LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED. So I expect everyone to be punctual and WILL NOT tolerate any latecomers, unless Assembly drags after 2.30pm. The Excos involved will be excused from Assembly to rehearse their presentations.

Theme for Sharing Session
Primary school students touring NYJC's CCAs.

Further details
Filming: All groups will go to ALL venues, filming the various CCAs we have planned for them to visit.
Interviews: They will interview their fellow schoolmates/group mates about their feeling towards the tour.

heyheyy!!! (:(:

great job everyone on getting more J1s for cca bazaar! :] we have 35 more in the new list, with 11 GUYS in total! yifang, you can put your mind at peace. we all did a pretty good job on publicity.. let's all continue to set a good example for the J1s!

5th March's one big big thing that's coming up! :) J2s by now would hav confirmed groupings alr to lead all the kiddies for the mini mediacamp... a pity that the enthusiastic J1s (shermaine's 'handsome's) can't make it for this one... :/ anyway ppl do clarify your doubts abt scripting, editing or camera handling, and most importantly, do your best and have fun that day!~

second big event's the School Digital Media Awards' ceremony! :] so glad our hardwork paid off! great job, PETS ppl! at least we're winning something (hopefully something big)! and we're all wondering if the press interview means something too... so yeppp pple keep your hopes up! can't wait for the results!! :):)

cya gals (and guys) soon!

:)rachel_

Hey people!

Just want to wish you guys a HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! ^^ Play hard this holidays yeah?

Lots of Love,
Shermaine

to the j1s,
i think you guys are really enthusiastic!!
especially the group that i followed for the mock shoot.
you guys are really high and very lame.
haha.
hope you guys have enjoyed.

and lastly,
to sze xia, avril and yihui,
thanks for staying up late with me in cnny room to capture, edit & export!
we guys have hell loads of fun doing the one's finalists' video.
& SC people said thank you.
haha.
yeahs, so let's have more fun shooting the real thing on monday!

(:
i am very happy.
Lihui.

Dear all,

I know you will dread to see this, but it has to be done one day. And so, I have decided to sacrifice precious mugging time to put up this post.

As you know, this semester will be our last time together as a CCA, and everything that we do now will be reflected in our SGC. So we shall all put in our best effort for the production, alright? (You don't actually have a choice, do you. Haha.)

Here goes...

Group 1
Michelle
Yeeting
Siew Chwen
Felicia

Projects:
Friendship Week/Valentine's Day (Chinese) - 11,12,13,14,15th February
The Drum Hunt (English) -25th April

Group 2
Rachel
Hong Chen
Xing Li
Li Dan

Projects:
Lin Qi Yuan talk (Chinese) - 18th January
CCA Bazaar 2 (English) - 27th February

Group 3
Li Hui
Sze Xia
Avril
Yi Hui

Projects:
The One (Chinese) - 25,28th January, 4th February
Sports Carnival (English) - 29th March

Group 4
Shermaine
Ee Jia
Hui Yi
Shelia

Projects:
Chinese New Year (Chinese) 6th February
English Drama & Choir Night (English) - 18,19th April

Group 5
Li Lin
Jasmine
Cai Ling
Hu Yang

Projects:
CCS Drama Night (Chinese) - 29th February
Synergy (English) -12 April (tbc)

hello everyone!!:):)

the student council has finally finalised our venue for the CCA bazaar this wed, 9th Jan.

VENUE: it'll be behind the (left) staircase (if u're facing the field) at the atrium area.
TIME: 3-5 pm [but please don't run away at 5... we need to clear up...]
MEETING TIME: they haven't told us yet.. but if im not wrong, we're dismissed early (about 2??). have a quick bite and chiong to do ur jobs! take note... everyone's gonna have something to do! :)

YOUR JOBS:

we're given 2 tables, 2 benches (frm canteen). we need girl(and a few men)-power. lilin and hongchen's group will be in charge of getting this done. report to the student council board and sign in our cca's name before you take the tables and chairs. :) we're obstructed by the round tables too, so that needs to be shifted somehow. lilin, check with council on where to place those round tables ok?

strong gal michelle, please get your group (if not enough can kop from others) to be in charge of getting the equipment down from the CCA room. equipment meaning...

-the cameras with a few randomly selected tapes (jasmine pls try to get just one small DV cam): 1 big one (that's all we have for now), one small one.

-the tripod (take 2 in case one *er-hm* happens to be faulty that day)

-condenser mic and mic with mic-cube.

-the files we cleaned last wk, put the brochures inside. (open it when u're talking to a junior and SHOW it to them. mic, sher will pass you guys the brochures).

-the souvenirs

-the black CNNY board that we use for studio purposes

-anything useful you see in the room that can be used for publicity

[that's as much as i can think of for now]

shermaine's group and my group (since both grps may have nothing left by then) will be in charge of taking down the useful stuff we have on our noticeboard, decorate the tables of our booth, and the fixing up of technical stuff. think we're gonna need help from other ppl on that too. just for both of us to look at: we need laptop and mr cheng's equipment. :)

very impt!! **all you people who went to mediacorp and took pictures, please send them to jasmine, who's collating them into a powerpoint which we'll be showing on our screen.

last, but definitely not the least, please bring along a BIG, WIDE, CRAZY smile on your face that won't scare the J1s away but will welcome them to join us!!! be enthu okay?!! :D don't shy. and try to catch as many as possible. the key is to get their names, class and CONTACT NO. ... a paper will be provided.

hmm.. what to talk about?? aiyohhh got so much to talk about...
1) what's Channel News Nanyang about
2) what we do
3) what you can expect when you join
4) what's so good about us

and more...

and yes, the pull-factor would be the mediacorp attachment. please mention that not many schools have this special privilege. :)

do let them explore the equipment that we have. eejia, yeeting (can rotate ppl)-- in charge of protecting the equipment esp when the J1s are handling it. talk about the interesting things we learn during the training sessions.. and how we get to go out filming as a team and stuff like that.. and that we even have our own special cozy room at the CCA block!


okay. so much for CCA bazaar. :) don't feel stressed ok? we're all doing it together! so have fun recruiting ppl!! :)

rachel_

heyyy CNNY!!!

got the news?? one of our DV campus videos are in the finals!!!

tune in to channel 8 6.30pm TODAY to catch it!! pls vote!!

i'm proud of you guys (and so are the seniors)!! so keep it up! (:

btw, i'm really encouraged by the number that turned up for spring cleaning. :) it was really nice to see everyone (although all were squished into our little cca room). now it's pretty cleaned up! and thanks to the ppl also who re-designed the cca brochure!

will update this blog soon on the impt calendar dates for first semester... it's gonna be a busy year ahead for us, j2s. :P let's all jia you for the upcoming cca bazaar!!! (:(:

rachel(:

hey cnny. (:

it's amazing how time flies.
only a few months ago,
our seniors were still battling with a's,
while we, those who participated in sva, were still very much uncertain of whether we will be able to do a good job.

now,
the j2s are carefree enough to throw away all their books, (let's be happy for them, it'll be our time to rejoice in just 11mths time, lol.) while i am proud to say that both groups have managed to produce rather pleasant documentaries that won't bore people to death.
kudos to us.
all the way from conceptualizing to filming, to editing, and lastly exporting, it's seriously tough.
but we did it, YEAH! :D
& also, not forgetting to thank zuosheng, lewis, shuning, jiawei and all other seniors who came by and gave us a great deal of help.
you're all greatly appreciated.

alright, after all these big THANK YOUs, it's down to serious work.
everyone, let's work very hard for next year, be it cnny or our studies.
2008 is definitely gonna be hectic,
but do turn up for cca,
it'll be fun fun fun for all because we will be

1. preparing for open house.
2. helping out THE ONE with their participants' videos.

eh, for more details, do ask rachel or shermaine.
haha. shirking off responsibility.

yea, so don't sian diao whenever cnny is mentioned.
there will be no more theory-based trainings but more of hands-on next year!

cheers to cnny. (:
have a great holiday and be back fully recharged for the ever-busy 2008 bah!

btw, randomly,
this is my first post. lol.

Lihui.

Hey people! How's your holidays coming along? Yeeting & I are currently at E-News Department, Mediacorp. Yep! It's our attachment week! :D

We're going to see WILBER PAN in 2hours time! Aren't you excited for us?! Hah :D Anyway, we're quite bored now that's why we're online & updating the blog to prevent it from rusting.

YES WE'RE REALLY BORED RIGHT NOW AND WE WANT TO INTRODUCE A VERY NICE CHINESE BOOK TO YOU GUYS! :D (CLICK ON THE TITLE IT'S A LINK)

《梦里花落知多少》

P.S: You can read it online. See! Save money!!

Well besides reading this book (WHICH YOU ALL SHOULD READ), we also learnt some stuff here at Mediacorp.

#01. Do not complain if you get into News instead of CA.
#02. Bring money for cab fare (can be claimed from the boss later on)
#03. Must rush for time so bring BREAD along.
#04. Do no fret when being 'forgotten' by the reporters you're following (how could they forget such cute little girls like us....)
#05. Do not let anyone else (besides the reporter you're with) know that you have no $$ to take cab.
#06. Do not let the other party (e.g. SCDF) know that you have no idea where their HQ is.
#07. Bring cameras to take photos. You'll never know who you're going to meet.
#08. Bring along a jacket/shawl wherever you go because you might end up somewhere cold (omg it rhymes!)
#09. Bring lots of empty bottles. (there are water coolers don't waste your house water)
#10. Be prepared to listen to some handsome/ugly man with a nice/unpleasant voice for hours.
#11. Get ready to reach home at midnight sometimes (okay, actually this only happened to me, ONCE)

That's probably all we've learnt so far. Oh wait, I think there's still one more.

#12. If you want to send a tape back to Mediacorp, tell the cameraman what you want to send back so that there is no tape wastage :D

So... I think that's about it. Most importantly, READ THE BOOK WE INTRODUCED!!!

Lots of love,
Shermaine
& Yeeting (who just laughs at what I type)

hello!~

pls be reminded that the
FINAL TRAINING for this year is:

this wed : 24/10
same time (2.30pm) [most likely, but to be confirmed]
same place (IT resource rm 1)

ciao everyone! cyaaa... (:

rachel_

hello people!!!

hope y'all did your best for promos!! (: time to get back to training...

CNNY training with trainers resumes:
Wed, 10th Oct
IT resource room 1
2pm-5pm (can be earlier or later, depending on diff grps.)

pls do come and try to complete as much of your group video as possible!!

okay that's it for now people, and hope you get back great results on friday!!!

oh and just in case you're wondering what we're actually doing for open house, mr cheng will be playing the videos made by CNNY for the secondary school students to see thru the TV broadcast.. yepp so you guys can slack for friday..

see y'all again soon :)

rachel_

hey people~

i hope the J1s will read this. it's really hard to communicate with you guys as a whole nowadays.

i know it's near promos and all, and i know everyone's really busy... but let's not sacrifice the already very minimum time we have for CNNY each week.

i hope we aren't taking CNNY for granted, cuz as Mr Cheng has said, when we compare ourselves with other CCAs, they train more than we do. our 1 day per week is all we have and i hope we'll all go for it. Mr Cheng was also kind enough to arrange appropriate timings for us because he considered the fact that we have our promos to worry about.

i hope you guys'll come regularly for future trainings. even if it's just a 2-3 hour training, it's essential for us to know what they're teaching us. i don't want to sound like i'm begging you guys to come. but we really don't have to wait for a threat (like during training today) to do this.

as much as you guys want the CCA to be united, i also hope for the same thing. so let's not wait for one another to do something. cuz nothing's going to happen like that. let's just do it together. if there's anything you want to say, just say it. it's been really quiet since we J1s took over. i hope you guys'll be honest with me as i am now with y'all. we can't read each others' minds.

CNNY's not mine, not the excos'. it's OURS. if one person falls, we all fall together. i want us to all be proud of CNNY. but it has to start somewhere more fundamental... like showing up for trainings.

so i hope you guys'll think about what i said. these are just words, just my dreams for CNNY. i hope it was straight-forward enough for you guys to understand... because the impression we're giving to others right now, isn't going to get us very far.

so let's pick ourselves up and keep going now--- it'll all be worthwhile in the end i promise.

i admit it's my fault that i didn't make this clear before. nevertheless, i hope now we'll be more motivated to do our best for CNNY, cuz everyone counts. all 25+ of us.

one thing that struck me today was when Mr Cheng told us that the college holds CNNY in high regard. and i thought, if we ourselves don't, how far can we get?

it's not too late to make things change for the better.

so don't slack or give up, everyone. =) if you feel like you're quite free, get yourself involved in helping others. our duty's to bring CNNY to a greater height. and i'm sure we're able to achieve it together!

rachel_

heyhey---

though the food wasn't fantastic,
and though the weather wasn't exactly on our side,
we hope you guys had fun yesterday during farewell :)

jia you for roving dv ppl!
mr cheng's assigned deadline is only 5 days away...

and for the j2s, jia you for your A lvls!!

thanks to everyone who've contributed to the farewell in one way or another!~:0)

rachel_

Hi
The photos are in reverse sequence.





=)

Take a look... our cca ppl in the news clip.

http://video2.channelnewsasia.com/cnavideos/chineseplayer.asp?skin=Player1.swf&player=chineseplayer.swf&filename=xin_ch_wed02.flv

Snakie

hi everyone,

there's been a change in venue for the J2 farewell. it's no longer at sentosa. instead it's at east coast. we'll update you guys on further details as soon as possible after wednesday. sry for all the confusion caused in the last few days.. :)

take care,
=] rachel_