Semester in Review

Coming from communication and IT, it is something else to be thrown into a completely different style of studying. 

First of all, I like how this is more hands on that I have ever been in my entire life. Learning by doing makes me learn the techniques better. It is always fun to explore the theories after you study their background and use. I like being able to prove my worth in a studio, and I definitively got to do that in the first semester. I was both a Camera operator, and a VT operator several times. I can't say that VT was the most enjoyable thing, but it was definitively an experience. Being tucked away in a little dark and noisy room wasn't my idea of a good TV production, but you learn something every day, and in the end without the vt being on the spot, the whole production would be a mess.

The tutorials I went through, made me more aware of the roles and the high level of respect you have to have towards the equipment you are using. With both Pete and Barry being my tutors, I slowly but steady build up a knowledge for the practice.

A big percentage of the coursework on the coursework on the first semester included a photo portfolio. I found this to be an exciting opportunity to show of my technical skills and combine them with what I had learned from the coursework. The university loan-store had a wide selections of cameras, but what I don't understand is why we were only able to borrow the Canon EOS 7D's and below. The 7D kit gave us as students a chance to explore the differences in lenses, even though the kit lenses were rather basic pieces of glass. 

The Middlesex Now shows were quite fun to make, and quite interesting to be a part of. I had never been a part of a TV production before, so being thrown into the role of being cameraman was scary. I decided to do my best, and ended up failing a bit. But that only made me learn about what I shouldn't do the next time I operated a camera.

Both the deconstruction and the research proposals sounded like quite interesting assignments to do. It gave me an opportunity to explore film more in-debt, but also research the techniques used to produce film and TV. It is hard to choose two films to compare, since there are so many good choices, but I decided to go along with something that appealed to my mind. Also the research assignment have given me an opportunity to search into a very specific interest I have in terms of post-production.