As someone who grew up with PBS as their babysitter, it took me the first two days of my internship to get out of fan boy mode, realize that I’m getting school credit for this, and gear my mindset into contribution mode.
[This station is beautiful and always smells brand new every time I go into work!]
Hiki Nō is the nation’s first statewide, student-produced television show, which features stories in various communities where the school is based. Hiki Nō is also the only show on PBS Hawaiʻi, which produces a new episode weekly.
I’m currently shadowing the assistant producer/editor of the show, Nikki Miyamoto, who is a master in the craft of broadcast editing. She not only edits the show, but the promos as well as all of the web content associated with Hiki Nō. I’m learning that editing shows for broadcast are an entirely different beast compared to editing for projects that I’ve bee involved with in the past. There are parameters present for broadcast edits such as having certain length of black screen at the beginning as well as a title screen, which also follows a particular format as well.
I’ve also been assigned to work on a #specialproject for Hiki Nō dealing with pronunciation; correct pronunciation of the showʻs name, “Hiki Nō.”
Leslie Wilcox, the CEO of PBS Hawaiʻi, has made it a point to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on the mispronunciation of Hawaiian words. The kids are pronouncing hiki nō as, “hickey-no” as opposed to the correct way which is, “hee-kee-no---.” Although this is something that doesnʻt directly relate to my concentration, Iʻm finding this to be a fresh experienee for me to find ways for people to pronounce words correctly. To be clear, I am working on a visual way to relate this information for future students and teachers of the Hiki Nō program.
