On the day of the trip, everyone was united as one by wearing t-shirts from the University's merchandise store. They were colourful at the same time as they wore the same shirts in different colours. Some were wearing green, some red, some blue and some were even wearing other shirts with a different design. It didn't matter if they were all the same, what mattered was that they all wanted it to be a productive yet a memorable day with one another. Everyone wanted to enjoy themselves. Unfortunately, there were some of among the coursemates who were not able to make it for the trip due to personal issues but the journey goes on.
A bus was hired to pick the students and their lecturers up to get to their destination and back to the University once they are done exploring in the ASTRO building. They hopped into the bus and waited for a little while; ensuring that everyone is on the bus before they official begin their journey for the day. Attendance was taken as well. After a little while, they were all set to go. The bus left the University campus at 9.30pm in the morning; heading straight to ASTRO! In the bus, everyone kept themselves busy. There were some busy talking to each other or to the lecturers, some were laughing, listening to their own music and there were even some dozing off. A new assignment were also given out along the way; to make sure the trip is educational which is a new reason to keep the students exploring throughout the journey for the day. It is also to keep them focus on what they need to find out.
Arriving at their ideal location, the students made their way off the bus before following their lecturers to the entrance of the whole ASTRO campus which was clearerly shown to be big in front of them all. As they made their way in, they were greeted with one of the ASTRO's representatives from the Public Affairs department that asissted them for the whole day throughout their visit. To begin their short tour around the ASTRO facility, the ASTRO representative escorted the students to take a good look at the 4 antennas built; technology that are obligated to the whole broadcasting system in ASTRO as it channels to the satelite that was send above into the galaxy. This was where many question were asked. Many asked about the history of ASTRO and many asked about television. For example, a fellow coursemate asked about how much does the team have to cut out from their local programmes and also international programme.
The trip went on. The students were taught about the television editing and master control room. For example : They were taught that some television programmes are edited within 5 minutes. Students asked questions as well in order to know more about the perspective rooms. The editing room and the master control room was built in a way that there are a lot of screens disaplayed. Different screens displayed different programmes. It could also be seen that the people in charge were working on the inside. Unfortunately, the students were only allowed to look around from the outside as it could disturb or cause any inconveniences to the employees working.
Next, the students made their way to the radio station building where they will get to witness radio broadcasting first hand. ASTRO has many radio channels under them eg. ERA FM, MY FM, hitz.fm, SinarFM, MixFM, LiteFM, etc. The students were divided into 2 groups; tutorial 1 and tutorial 2. Tutorial 1 was the first group to make their way up to the radio channel floor where all the channels are located at on the same floor. Arriving at the specific floor, the students immediately got to witness a radio announcer from MixFM on the job; pre-recording. Going around the radio channels broadcasting rooms, they got to learn about the server rooms and how the producer manages the radio stations. Such as playing songs, segmenting sections, listening to the whole programme etc.
After visiting the radio channel room, the students spent a little time sitting at the lobby. A lot memories were taken as they took a lot of photos together. Laughter could be heard as well. As the clock struck 20 pass 11am in the morning, the students make their way back to the entrance of ASTRO to begin their journey back to the University campus. It did not take them long to get back to the University. It was only a half an hour drive until they arrived. Students thanked their lecturers and begin to scatter away. Although it was a very short trip to ASTRO, the students were able to learn a lot. It was a enjoyable and memorable day overall for the students and it definitely made them look forward to any other field trips in the future
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Writer : Amy, Auyang & Alex.
Researcher : Amy, Auyang & Alex.
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