Name: 8 IELTS | S01E16 | TELEVISION |
Uploaded: 2020-09-19T02:01:09.000Z
Duration: 43 min 25 s
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Welcome back to 8IELTS and the world of television.

We gonna introduce to you a little bit of the television world.

This is the OB truck and inside the truck we have.

This is anh Dũng, our OB truck technician.

And all of these materials and equipment is really complicated.

I don't understand all of these, but one day I do wish to.

But an interesting thing about this topic is that this is where all the magic happens, this is where the direction happens.

It's one of the coldest places that you can find in a television station.

And it's also at night, this is where all the mist go to, because this is always outside.

But despite the fact that you saw a bit of the technicality of television, today's episode we will be talking about television with a very special guest.

And it's gonna be the human aspect and human experience of television.

So be excited and we gonna give you a tour into our life.

And today topic is on Television and we have our guess that you've been all waiting to meet.

And she is right here shooting with me in this studio.

Thank you. Thank you for having me here on the show.

How does it feel being a guess this time?

Oh God, I think I'm really used to posing questions.

So if I seem a little bit on the spot today, feel a little bit hesitant, it's because I'm always used to posing questions.

I ask questions, you're free to ask questions too if you like.

Ok, first question, you were an environmental major as well as French major, how did your path to television start?

I graduated from school and like all graduate back then, I had no idea what I want to do obviously.

In Liberal Art School in the States, people embrace this image of a graduate going out there to kind of save the world.

Once you get out in the real world, especially for me coming back to Vietnam that time.

It wasn't like I could go out and have a job that would allow me to be like this hero or save the world as in the books that I learnt during college.

So I started a translation job because that's what I knew, I knew English.

That's how I ended up in VTV and television.

And then people started giving me jobs and things that I'd never done before.

It started from the voice and it started “Ok, we need someone to stand in for this person to read news”.

I can't do that, but I did, eventually I did.

You're doing your Journalistic TV; you're also doing a little bit of the broadcast TV.

What is the difference in these experiences?

It's a little different in term of practicality obviously.

When I first started out being in front of the limelight in talking, being able to express your idea fluently and at the same time being very mindful of what audience think,

whether they be Vietnamese or international, those are kind of first challenges.

But overtime, the challenges are to stay and continue to be creative and love what you do.

Obviously, people that I meet, they are the biggest inspiration.

I'm lucky to be able to work in different variety of fields.

Those things give me inspirations to continue on my next show and to continue this path.

Whether the differences in journalistic and then broadcast, obviously, in a lot of the feature that you have more fun in terms of you get to experience more lifestyle or sides of broadcast.

Whereas, with journalistic, I get to practice a lot of what I learnt in school later on, in grad school.

That's kind of the basic of the journalism and journalistic identity, where you try to portray what you see as closely as possible.

Obviously, there're differences between features and news.

A lot of the time when you think about television, especially television in Vietnam, and probably similar around the world in sense of that people love drama.

You know, people like to see all that crazy motions on TV.

And sometimes people on TV, they love that kind of stuff as well.

So are you a drama person or are you not a drama person when it comes to your work?

To answer straightly, I would say I'm not a drama person.

I do a lot of news on TV on a daily basis; I try to keep it as straight-forward as possible, quick and simple, but at the same time very true to the story.

We also broadcast to international audience, so it's also about how the international audience sees Vietnam.

And I see myself having to film real huge truth because that is about portraying the whole country.

When it comes to news, we're very careful.

But obviously when it comes to feature, we try to portray Vietnam in the best of ways, but also in the fun of way, interesting.

One of goals is to get people to come to Vietnam, to know about Vietnam, to know what is going on.

Now that you're a mom, and you're working mom, what's your day like?

Right now it's definitely hard being a working mom.

I definitely have a huge respect for all moms once I turn to mom.

And even more so now as my baby's growing up older and especially more appreciation for my mom.

And all of the hard work that she had to go through to raise me up to be who I am today.

But in terms of my day, definitely I try my best to, you know, see my baby as much as possible.

I'm very lucky to live right next to my work, so I go home as much as possible and try to work once he goes to sleep, if I had work to do at home

But it's going well so far, definitely stressful and it gotta give me so much appreciation for all the working moms out there.

And it probably trains you to be a lot more to recognize your identity and another aspect of the Vietnamese identity, right?

It's an identity that's so close and dear to the heart of so many Vietnamese people that Vietnamese women are strong.

Strong in terms of not only physically strong, but mentally strong to be able to balance all of the things in their life, a career, a family, children and still having great to all of that.

Those are my role models, and my mom is a great role model in that aspect, someone I aspire to become in the future.

I mean I'm not sure I'm doing such a great job now, and it's still so new for me, jungling all of this in one life.

But we'll see how it goes and I have a lot of people who've gone before me to look at and to be a role model too.

Now talking about that, there're a lot of people in universities, in schools, and young working adults who really look up to you as a role model.

And actually, we invited some people here today, to the studio but we're gonna meet them later.

Before you guys have a chance to meet Duong, we're gonna play a game.

And if you already know, we have the IELTS MARATHON and Duong's gonna take for it.

Yes, I took the IELTS once, actually for my graduation at school.

Not the TOEFL for the undergraduate and then the IELTS?

Hey! You're now with us at the 8IELTS MARATHON challenge and of course, with this challenge, we always will have our contender.

And to prepare for the IELTS MARATHON challenge, what have you done?

I don't know. I'm quite nervous and hopefully I do well.

OK. Your first task is basically dig your hand around all of this mess and you're gonna have to be blindfolded.

You're gonna find the passport, you're gonna find the keys and also you also gonna have to find the confirmation letter.

I'm gonna leave you to the first box. Can you feel the box, four boxes?

First box, second box, third box and then the fourth box.

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