Post-Debate Frenzy

In early October, the General Debate ended and numerous Committee, conference, and council meetings restarted or continued. These non-Debate meetings occur throughout the year, in addition to various studio messages, photo opportunities, interviews, delegation statements, etc throughout the UN complex.

I continue to be stationed in the Media Ops Centre, where we monitor video recordings of all high-level meetings, as well as maintaining any studio recording or ENG shoot. Also, I am one of few staff that operate master control for the global UNTV channel. Everything really has settled into place and I am really creating my niche in the media management aspect of the UN media departments.

One pretty cool project that was just started this week is the retrieval of "ancient" video recordings - from the 1960s and 70s, for an NBC Olympics feature. Since the meetings was on film, these records are archived at some facility in New Jersey; once we obtain them, we will ingest and transfer into HD-ready for the NBC broadcast in February.

Long Month of August and September

Damn... these past two months have gone by ridiculously fast! Everything about my "new" position (as a Media Production Technician for the United Nations broadcast department) is awesome; I am constantly learning new techniques and skills, meeting more and more inspiring media professionals, and ultimately have a fun time. In addition to working full-time at the United Nations, I have found some time to pick up freelance jobs and continuing to expand my resume with more production experience.

Every September, the United Nations General Assembly holds its annual General Debate - featuring all 193 member states setting its agenda for the coming year and begins discussions on such matters. Our broadcast crew is already swamped with extensive amounts of video requests for each State delegation arrival, all the speeches, and various special events. I personally have been monitoring all the Debate recordings, editing and exporting each speech for their respective delegation.

General Debate 2013 is occurring the week(s) of 24 Sept thru 1 Oct