A Thematic Sharing Session of the Campus TV Station(1)
On March 21st, the Starriver High School TV Station invited four outstanding senior students from Grade 11 and Grade 12 to hold a thematic sharing session. This event aims to help members of the campus TV station improve their professional abilities in news reporting, mood adjustment and interview hosting. Integrating their own empirical experience, the four senior students shared skills from diverse perspectives, bringing an instructive and inspirational session to all members. At the beginning of the sharing session, WuYuxuan from Grade 11 focused on two core features of news writing: headlines and consistent style. She emphasized that intriguing headlines can attract more readers' attention, while a consistent style is vital for improving the professionalism of the manuscript, and the two characterisitics are complementary and indispensable. We can combine campus characteristics and skillfully use rhetorical devices such as antithesis, rhetorical questions and suspense by deliberately withholding information. In addition, she stated that it is necessary to clarify the tone of the manuscript regarding the writing purpose. For example, the opening ceremony should be objective, concise and accurate, while the art performance should be elegant and literary, allowing readers to feel the relevance and standardization of the manuscript. Through contrasting campus news examples, she made a comparative analysis of the differences between manuscripts with plain and appealing headlines. This enabled the students to comprehend how a consistent style can highlight the professionalism and authority of news reports, and establish a robust foundation for news writing.
Subsequently, Ren Jiahong from Grade 11 shared his insights on the structural conception and preparation for news manuscripts. In the preparation phase, he recommeded news reporters to first clarify the prominent theme and expected audience, collect and interpret materials concerning the core event, and then build a clear writing framework to avoid chaotic content and ambiguity. He concluded his speech with a quote from Thomas Mann: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people," illustrating that the process of writing is inherently arduous and valuable. He encourages the students to confront these hardships and to continuously refine their skills through practice.
Since emotions such as nervousness and anxiety may arise during work, Geng Jiahao from Grade 11 introduced the concept of "mood elevator", providing inspiration for the students to adjust their mentality. He told the students that it is vital to actively adjust inner emotions and transform negative emotions into positive motivation. First, it is necessary to identify emotions, timely detect negative emotions such as nervousness and anxiety, and remind yourself to consider before acting. Afterwards, we should bravely accept and embrace these emotions, not resist the occurrence of negative emotions, and confront our own psychological state. Ultimately, we should adjust negative emotions voluntarily, transform negative emotions into curiosity and interest, and quickly adjust our mentality through positive self-suggestion to devote ourselves to work with a composed state.
Finally, Zhou Ziyue from Grade 12 introduced how hosts prepare for interviews and obtain meaningful, sincere stories. She said that a successful interview requires not only fluent expression and articulation, but also adequate preparation and efficient story revealing abilities. During the preparation process, it is crucial to understand and genuinely appreciate the interviewee's background information and interests in advance, design targeted interview outlines, and balance basic questions and in-depth questions. For the process of interviewing, it is necessary to learn to listen, capture changes in the interviewee's tone and expression, ask follow-up questions appropriately, and guide the interviewee to take the initiative to share authentic feelings and unique stories. Transforming a serious interview into a cordial communication can better narrow the distance with the audience.
During the session, the four senior students shared all their experience, combining professional knowledge with practical skills through real cases in their own practice. The members of the campus TV station and interacted actively, sharing their insights and communicating with the senior students about the difficulties they encountered in their work, creating a warm and harmonious atmosphere. Inspired by this sharing session, the members of the campus TV station will continuously improve their professional abilities, devote themselves to campus media work with a more professional attitude and full enthusiasm, launch more high-quality campus news works, and participate in the vigorous development of campus media.

