4/19/2012

Well, I'm back from my trip


Well, after my week long absence I'm back! I was gone for a week because I was attending a course in a different city and we didn't have internet up there so I wasn't able to make my post. The course was an introductory course for a film school that me and some of my friends wanted to attend next year. Also, since we were in a different city, the four of us that were there stayed together in the same motel. So it was just like we were flating together, we each took turns cooking, doing the dishes and we made sure that we all made it to the course on time. So it was kind of like going to university of week.

                           Me and my flatmates (that's me and the far right). Wow this is an awkward photo

The course itself was fun, even though some of the things that we were taught there were things that I had learned in my film class at school three years ago. I found the camera and editing work kind of dull but the studio work that we did, was awesome. That has this huge studio, with these old T.V cameras that they let us use (they had better ones but we were just there on a course so got to use the crappy ones) and the walls and floor were painted this weird green colour for some reason. Probably as a massive green screen or something.

                                       The studio we worked in

On the last day, we did this news type show. It was all shot live, the point of the show was to give us a feel for what an actual live television show would be like. We were each given separate jobs, some people did the presenting, others were interviewed and some people worked the cameras.  The job that I was given was the floor manager. I was in charge of telling everyone in the studio what the people in the control room wanted. It was probably one of the more stressful jobs. I could hear everything that the people in the control room were saying, so it was difficult to concentrate on what was happening in the control room and in the studio at the same time. Also, the people in the control room were other students on the course like myself, so often they didn't know what they were doing. So at the start I would end up giving orders to the people around me while the people in the control didn't know what they were doing and I was still trying to get used to my job as well. Once we all got used to our jobs though it was pretty fun, even though it was kind of tiring.


I think that what enjoyed most, was living with my friends for a week, even though all that we did for a majority of the time was watch T.V. Hell, we didn't even watch anything good, most of the time it was just really crappy shows that we would usually never watch (mostly from the discovery channel for some reason). We spent most of our T.V watching time just riffing on bad T.V shows (if you don' know what riffing is, it's watching a movie or T.V shows and making fun of it as you watch), one of our favorite shows to make fun of was "Man Vs Wild". It got to the point where we were actually looking foreword to watching "Justin Bieber Never Say Never", I honestly never thought that I would enjoy that movie, but we found a way. We even had our own strange seating arrangement, two people would watch from the couch (even though it could sit three), one person would watch from the chair next to the couch and the last person would watching from the stairs. Oh yeah, our motel had an upstairs, it was friggin awesome! You could even watch T.V from them!


                                          Where my friends were watching T.V from one night......

                                        Where I was watching T.V from that night


                                        Worked surprisingly well

So anyway, I had a good time and we all enjoyed ourselves. I'm planning to that film school and I can't wait for uni next year. It was a good week and we all really enjoyed ourselves.

So anyway, have an awesome guys
DFTBA

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