Author: MEGAN JEON

Pitch: I approached my idea from the way we how engage with the society or the community. Especially during the pandemic, a lot of people have the feeling of isolation. Along this time, YouTube has become the largest platform which encourages people to have a level of familiarity and helps with building a community. Based on the function of YouTube like this, my story will be about how YouTube means for the people who don’t have many followers on their channel. Why they keep creating the videos? Is there any reason besides the dream of millionaire?

Intro: I interviewed a beauty YouTuber who has been creating the beauty contents for 5 years. Even though she has only 42 subscribers, she keeps uploading her contents for some reasons.

*Edited based on comments from last class. (Add some pictures on the slowest part, edit texts at the end, and did some color corrections)

Pitch: I approached my idea from the way we how engage with the society or the community. Especially during the pandemic, a lot of people have the feeling of isolation. Along this time, YouTube has become the largest platform which encourages people to have a level of familiarity and helps with building a community. Based on the function of YouTube like this, my story will be about how YouTube means for the people who don’t have many followers on their channel. Why they keep creating the videos? Is there any reason besides the dream of millionaire?

Intro: I interviewed a beauty YouTuber who has been creating the beauty contents for 5 years. Even though she has only 42 subscribers, she keeps uploading her contents for some reasons.

Host intro: According to the U.S. Travel Association and Tourism Economics forecast, the economy could lose 5.9 million travel-related jobs by the end of this month due to COVID-19 crippling the travel industry. Megan Jeon spoke to people who owns the tourism business in New York about their difficulties from shut down of non-essential business.

AMBI: Nat sounds of keyboard typing.

AMBI: Room tone (LAYER UNDER TRACK)

TRACK: I’m here with Bryan Valdes over the phone call, listening to him speak as he sends the cancellation mails to his clients. He is a New York City tour guide who works doses much his business throughout the Viator.com which is one of the largest tourism booking platforms.

ACT: Valdes: Since the middle of March, I have tons of cancellations and re-bookings. So far all of my guide sessions suspended to the middle of June and it’s still not clear whether I can recover from this or not. I mean the future is as ever uncertain as it’s ever been for me and..

TRACK: He says uncertainty is the biggest concern that he has right now.

ACT: Valdes: I am uncertain where the world is at right now, and how we are going to fight with this pandemic, and I am uncertain if I ever be able to provide my family in the coming weeks, I am also uncertain if my kids will be healthy or my mom and dad are should be under a watch because of their age..

TRACK: Also Airbnb host Jason Hsiao is facing tons of cancellations.

ACT: Hsiao: Honestly, It’s very horrible. Because as you know Brooklyn is one of the highest dense population of affected people with Coronavirus, so there is no business here for me. Every single day people are cancelling their booking, and practically I’m making no money.

TRACK: Airbnb has announced that they will pay the host 25% of guest reservations for check-in between March 14 to May 31. However, Hsiao says it is far from enough to cover his income.

ACT: Hsiao:That is not realistic. That is not going to help us throughout income or throughout bills for people especially who is living in New York.

TRACK: Many airlines have slashed most flights to New York City. The lights went out on Broadway because of the crowd capacity rules in place to combat the spread of coronavirus. Times Square, where usually about 330,000 people pass a day, left virtually empty. The shutdown had a ripple effect on people who depend on the tourists and local crowds who visit this area. For Baruch College, this is Megan Jeon.

I want to cover how COVID-19 affects the tourism business. Since New York is one of the most famous city to travel in the world, I want to focus how people, working in tourism industry, are suffering from this ongoing issue right now.

I am going to have an interview with Airbnb host, photographer specialized in tourism snap photography (honeymoon, couple, family who travel to New York), and local guide (not sure about him yet).

I have found that some people are facing a financial issue due to the huge amount of cancellations. I want to hear their thoughts, and concerns and want to deliver these interviews by adding statistic research.

Mother’s Sigh  by Megan Jeon on Exposure

New York City by Megan Jeon on Exposure

For my photo essay, I want to capture my friend’s life in order to express the message that we need some policies for the international student’s pregnancy. My friend delivered a baby about 5 months ago, however she could not have a maternity leave due to the student visa policy. Unfortunately, school in the United States cannot provide the short break to any international student unless they have studied for 3 semester straightly in the same educational institution.

By showing her daily life as a mom, and a college student, I want to point out this problem.