OMG the footage, structure and details

Between the three of us, we easily have in excess of six hours of footage. I don't know why we started, or suggested the idea of using three cameras, but I think we really wanted to capture every possible class detail. And making sure it's caught on camera. But in the process we made our editing so much more tedious.

I don't know what the other groups are doing, but surely we are the only group who're using three cameras. Paul has been very accomodating and has allowed me to use my camera, which is awesome 'coz I get to roam around the class with it and get good close-up shots of it.

I have no idea how we're gona sift through so much footage and make a 4-7 minute documentary out of it. I daresay we have enough for a 20 minutes documentary even.

I'm also beginning to find it really difficult to have a 'structure' (for the lack of a better word). In the first semester it was really easy as a short film has a start and an end. In a documentary however it's entirely up to the footage that we capture. That also hinges on the subject's willingness to open him or herself to the camera. I'm glad we have such a great class of students to 'study', as they're really chummy and have, after repeated visits, began to warm up to us.

I can't say I'm looking forward to editing, 'coz between trying to find a 'structure' and finding appropriate shots, it's gona be a lengthy process.

Editing

So you see, we don't really spend much time editing in V3 at all. Instead, we like to fool around. Or come to uni dressed in similar clothes. And sunnies. Shit we're like twins.





Clearly, she wears the pants in her relationship. *chuckles at his lame attempt at humour*







Then on other days, Alex decides to form the word 'YMCA' with her hands. The rest of us decided to get in on it.

Television Two & Television Journalism

Almost by coincidence, the only two subjects I have to exert my concentration on happens to be television-related. Which also means, camera-related. That also represents a large part of my uni hours interacting with Paul, who teaches and tutors both subjects. Hi Paul :O

One of the great strengths of a Prof Comm student is his/her cross-subject skills. By the time we reach third year, we'd have spent two years touching on cameras. In my case, I find my familiarity with Final Cut Pro, audio and camera work a boon as my team mate in Television Journalism has no background in it. While she directs, writes the news story and more often than not, learns how to shoot, I work on the camera troubleshooting, editing and sound/vision work. It's perfect. It might be more stressful if we were both Journalism students.

And, after spending two weeks in the Journalism editing suites working on our first news story, I move on to Television Two. The girls Bree and Alex have completely forgotten about the finer details of Final Cut Pro, so it kinda works out well.

I'll be spending the entire semester practicing my FCP skills, and having lots of usage with my camera as well. Which was the exact reasons why I joined TV in the first place.

Stranger things have happened. But I guess sometimes things do work out.

Dinner with three beautiful girls

Completely un-TV2 related. So yesterday, I had dinner with beautiful Alex, sexy Bree and sultry Stephanie over at Bree's place.

Too much food, good company and so many secrets. Oi what we said stays within those four walls ya?

Btw, still love that lingerie you were wearing Stephanie. Ooooh I wana change into my shirt and pants ensemble now.

Camera work in CAE

Alex and I both agreed that the night before the shoot on Thursday 6 September was a rather disturbing affair, as we were extremely concerned that things wouldn't turn out well. We were worried about the amount of equipment and setting up that we had to hook up. Generally, we gave ourselves no reason to be upbeat about the assignment as we dwelled to much on the negatives.

Turns out, the morning shoot was one of the best thing we've ever did since Week One. Paul dropped by - as promised (thanks Paul!) - and helped us set up the equipment and due to the way the classroom was set up, a sound mixer was done away with. That freed up a lot of our burden as sound is a rather complicated state of affair that I personally would not want to be involved with.

A slight setback in the guise of the wrong classroom notwithstanding, the three of us thought the morning shoot was an excellent session.