Monday, 14 November 2011

Catch up...

I am such a bad blogger! I am ashamed that I have neglected to blog recently but I shall catch you up on all my exciting antics! I fear you will have to be patient with me as I get to grips with the notion of blogging, I have never been one to keep up to date with diaries or even keep them at all. Well only time will tell if I am up to the challenge...  

Start of Unit 130
This was the first week of our new unit, we each started our specialism mine being camera! I’m going to be doing 4 weeks of camera followed by 4 weeks of sound. It was split like this because too many people wanted to specialise in camera and not enough in sound, I am quite glad that I will get to do 2 as I did feel it was too soon to specialise.

This first session of camera with Pete Langford was really fun we looked at dollys, tracks, jibs and steadycam. I’d had an induction into steadycam back in second year but I had never used it myself after that and I couldn’t really remember how to use it. I leant a lot in this session and am really excited to see what we will be doing next week!

We also started lots of different seminars this week such as Editorial with Hannah Sim, which I really enjoyed and I think I am going to learn a lot from. We are going to be developing ideas and writing treatments on them, these will come in really useful at job interviews.

Our online PDP seminars with Alex di Savoia have continued and this week we were looking at using twitter and stuff to network and promote ourselves.

We started new screen writing seminars with James Henry in this we learnt all about the three acts and how every TV programme, movie etc has the same format. This is going to come in really useful when coming up with ideas and writing for 3 minute wonders.

Media law with Anne Pentecost has proven a lot more interesting that I expected it to be and I think I will really enjoy learning about the law in media plus it will come in very handy in the future!



3 Minute Wonders (3MW)
Mel has told us this week that we need to come up with ideas for a 3MW. I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to come up with one myself, I’m having complete creative and imaginative block at the moment which is proving to be very irritating but I am sure I  will think of something, only a couple will actually be made, I'm pretty sure mine won't be one of them!

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