做个好记者不容易

8月3日 北京 晴

虽然青奥会的历史很短，之前只在新加坡举办过一次，但作为东道主的中国还是很重视这次活动。中央电视台组织了青奥小记者团，我有幸成为其中的一员。七月末的一天，朱老师带我们参观了央视大楼，并给我们讲解了前几批小记者的采访活动及其表现。

我在小学的时候参观过BBC的大楼，BBC大楼的占地面积和这里不相上下,但明显没有中央电视台的大楼有气派。中央电视台这座楼可以称之为北京的地标性建筑，它的造型独特，又是重点新闻单位的办公楼，不免吸引了诸多评点与围观。踏入大楼，没走几步就看到了许多电梯，旁边的朱老师开玩笑说：“由于大楼造型独特，上下楼极为不方便，坐错电梯就会从一个裤腿跑到另一个裤腿，像玩密室逃脱一样。”

到了青奥会的办公室后，我观看了前几批小记者的采访短片，发现从事新闻采访真的很辛苦。他们遭遇过采访对象拒绝采访的情形，更有甚者有的采访对象直接离场，他们还遭遇过视频拍摄得不清楚等种种问题，不过他们每次都有解决方法，让老师和同学刮目相看。不过，令我印象最深刻的是：看到工作人员一遍又一遍地剪辑视频，然后审查时再提出问题，再去编辑。小学时在BBC有当主播读稿子的经历，已经觉得对着提示器一字不落地把稿子读好很具挑战性，没想到那只是冰山一角。我不禁感慨：电视上出镜的人光鲜靚丽,原来是经过无数人的努力换来的。

The Youth Olympic Games has a rather brief history. The first Game was held in Singapore, and this time, China is holding for the second Game. CCTV started a reporting program for us teenagers to interview the athletes at our same age, I am lucky enough to be a member of it.

Before the program started, I had a tour of their building. CCTV’s headquarter is Beijing’s landmark for its unique designs. When I was younger, I went to the BBC’s headquarter in London, it was as big, but not as cool. Elevators are one of the unavoidable elements of the building. Due to the fact that it’s crooked, it’s very inconvenient to go up and down, you have to take different elevators every once in a while.

Finally, after numerous elevator rides, we reached the office. After watching the trial interviews of other reporters, I’ve found that it is really hard to be a reporter. Those reporters are at our own age, some of them got rejected, and sometimes athletes would leavethe stadium before they could finish the interview. They’ve ran into all sorts of unexpected situations, but they were able to deal with those, for someone my age, it’s quite impressive.

I’ve had the experience of being a news anchor back in primary school, staring at the teleprompter and read those words clearly and fluently was not easy. I’ve never thought the directors and the editors have much more difficult jobs. They have to watch whatthey’ve filmed over and over, then the directors would give suggestions and the editors have to change it accordingly. As it turns out, the glamour we see on screen takes tons of hard work of all kinds of people. Being a grown-up with a job is not easy at all.