It's been a few days sinve I have been on here, been really busy with school work and real work. Don't you just love it when teachers all decide to give you big assignments at one time. Seems like they have some sort of top secret meeting to decide when the bast time is to swamp the students with work, guess I should be used to it by now being a senior an all. Tomorrow my group gets to find out how we did on our interview production, I'm thinking we did pretty well considering all of my group members had never done any type of production before we did it. We also get to see how the next group doesand be a part of their production team. I think I'm going to voulenteer as either a cameraman or the audio technician, two fields that deal with what I'm interested in. Hopefully you'll see my name in the credits of some of the top snowboarding films of the future. Speaking of snowboarding, can it please just snow already?
So I think I'm going to try to watch the two films that we have to screen tonight. I have already seen the ring a few times and enjoy it, but it gets worse and worse everytime I watch it, knowing when all the good parts are. The Japanese version, Ringu, which I believe came out before the Ring, is a movie that I have always wanted to see because I have heard good things about it and I wan't to see how it compares to the Ring. It will be interesting to see how the different media related aspects of the film get translated to the American version.

Today was the big day for my group to produce our five minute interview segment in my TV production class. When I woke up this morning I was a little nervous because I wasn't sure exactly how the class was going to go but it turned out great. Before today I had some idea of what it takes to put on a procuction because of my class in highschool, but now I really realize how much goes on behind the scenes. There were different positions for our production, the director, the floor director, the technical director, the CG person, three camera men, an audio technician, an audio assistant, and some other position that I can't remember the name of. I was the technicial director and my job entailed starting the background sound (in our case a recording of an audience clapping), fading it out, fading in and out from black at both ends of the interview and switching between cameras to get the best shot. This may sound simple but trust me it's harder than it sounds to make it come out right. It took our group two tries before recording our final take, in my opinion a great sucess, not to mention our interview was actually interesting to watch. I'm more and more happy each class that I decided to take this class because I can possibly see myself doing something along these lines when I get out of school, Plymouth Rock is going to create a whole bunch of new jobs when it's finished so maybe I can work there. Anyways I better get going cuz I things to do and people to see. Go Big or Go Home...

Back again! So I watched Outfoxed the other day an was extremely surprised at what I found out. I don't know about anyone else but I really had no idea that all of that was happening. I don't really watch the news that much but thats scary to know. Anyways on a much lighter note, one of my favorite forms of media is the TV and what better to watch on a monday night than PATRIOTS FOOTBALL no really there's not much better. Amazing game last night, got nervous for a little bit but we pulled through as we've seen our team do so many times before. Media is a great way to bring people together, whether it's watching a football game, jammin' out to some music, or just hanging out and watching a movie, media can bring people together in a way unlike any other. i.e. cuddling during scary movies hah Tonight seems like a nice night for a fire with some friends in the backyard, some music, some smores, maybe a lil kumbaya and gost stories if we wanna get a lil crazy hah Ayways hope everyone reading this is doing well and a quote from my fortune cookie yesterday..."Nothing's Perfect" keep that one in mind next time you get frustrated..

Thoughts on TV Production

I had my second class of TV production Thursday morning and so far its going really well. I took a TV production class in highschool and it ended up being my favorite class in highschool, probably for more reasons than just the content but regardless I enjoyed it a lot. I wasn't sure what to think going into the class because I had never talked to anyone who had ever taken it or heard anything about it, but my hopes were high. The first class was basically just an introduction day where I learned that I have a couple friends in the class and good a good sense of my professor, Professor Moore. He seems really cool, friendly and great at what he does. He seems to enjoy it a lot and I think that makes it even better becuase he is teaching us about something he loves to do. The second class we talked a little bit about how the equipment and how to use it and made production groups for the semester. After choosing our groups we had to brainstorm for an idea for our first production, a five minute interview segment in the studio. I ended up choosing to be the technical director for our production and I'm anxious to see how it all turns out. I can really appreciate all that it takes to put together any type of media production having seen a lot of it first hand and I am excited and intrigued to learn more and actually create my own media. I'll keep you all (as if there are a lot of people reading this) posted on how the class and various productions are going, until then..."Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.”

Have a monumental day.

Numero Dos

So today was a good day...got to sleep in and only had one class. Tomorrow is going to be even better because a whole bunch of my friends and I are renting an Escalade limo for the night and going into Boston for my friend's birthday, should be interesting to say the least. After finally getting to read the first chapter of the book I began wishing I could travel more. I love to experience new things and this chapter of the book made me realize how badly I wan't to experience different cultures and how they construct meaning through symbols and systems. "Perceptions of reality are constructed and shaped by the language and signs we use" was a great quote to me becuase life really is just a big perception of things that are represented by symbols and signs. Another interesting part of the chapter delt with different cultures and the words and phrases they used to describe snow and rain vs. the words and phrases that we use, the section is on page 13 and the top of 14. Now its off to read some more but untill next time...guess the quote...no cheating

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Finally up and going

So it took me awhile but I finally got all my computer problems fixed and now I'm ready to start off strong in my last year here at BSC. This is my first full online class and allthough its been a rocky start I have high hopes. As you can probably tell this is my first time blogging so bare with me.

I watched Stepbrothers for the second time last night, and allthough it was still funny I remember laughing a hell of alot more when I saw it in the theater, probably just because it was my second time seeing it and the screen was about 100x smaller. I guess this shows that how media is conveyed to its audience can play a significant role in how the audience recieves the media.

Time to tackle the next assignment...until tomorrow... "Boats and Hoes!"