Back again after only one short day, need to boost up my blogging points before its too late! So I'm pumped for haloween weekend because on Friday the 30th my friends and I are going to see a band that I have been wanting to see ever since I was introduced to them last year. The band is called Black River Sound and they are a family band, I know sounds weak, but they are amazing. I believe that it is three or four sisters and their one or two brothers in the band which is a soulful reggae group with classic, jazz, and hip-hop influences. We will be going to see them at Tammeney(?) Hall in Worchester MA. The following night is haloween and my roomeates and I are having a huge costume party which should be a great time. Still don't know what I'm going to be. The night after haloween is the night I am most looking forward to. My friends and I are going to another concert at The House of Blues in Boston to see Method Man, Redman, and Snoop, three artists that I havn't seen live yet and can't wait to see them all perform.

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So its been numerous weeks now and I still can't get used to this whole blogging thing. I don't know if its just because I know that it is another thing that I have to do or what but the "blogging bug" dosn't seem to have bitten me like some others. When I read other peoples bloggs they seem like they have been doing it for years, but when I sit down and try to blog I come up blank. Maybe its just not my thing to sit down at the computer and share my thoughts on random subjects. I think that it is a great way for some people to clear their head and share their thoughts but I have realized that its just not my thing. Anways, on a better note I saw Zombieland the other day, a comedy/horror flick about two guys who survive a world overcome with zombies by killing them in the most unusual ways possible. I didn't know what to expect when I went in but I thought it was going to be good. Turns out it was even better than I expected. I laughed a lot and I really enjoyed the oddly paired two main characters (Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg) and they way they worked together. On yet another note, I was unknowingly choosen to be the producer of my television production groups next piece. I have to produce a five to six minute news broadcast with my other group members and classmates. Producer is the toughest job to have during a production because there are so many things that you need to coordinate, everone in the control room, everyone on set and you have to direct the whole piece to move along smoothly, a tough thing to do when you need ten plus people to work together as a team perfectly. There is deffinetly a lot more to a production than what you see on your screen, I have learned that first hand.

Kyou mo ganbarou!

Music & Genre

I'm back again after a short intermission. Now I know that we have moved on from the genre topic this week but I was thinking a lot about music today and was considering the different genres of music. When most people think about genres they think about movies, but music has as many and most likely way more genres then movies. Now I try not to be prejudice when it comes to music (my girlfriend is a huge country fan), but there are obviously some genres that i enjoy listening to more than others. Personally I am a big rap and hip-hop fan but I like to delve into many other genres. Alot of people say that rap music sucks and that they all talk about the same thing and the cars and the ice and blah blah blah, but I would bet that 99% of those people havn't even givin rap music the time of day, so to say. If you only hear whats on the radio and all of the sing-along type rap and hip-hop songs then you really havn't even come close to scratching the surfice of the hip-hop world. There are hundreds and hundreds of extremely talented lyricists and MC's in the industry and most of them people have never even heard of. I guess the point I'm trying to make is the same point you can make about a lot of things, don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case music by its genre. Give a new type of music a chance, listen to some stuff that you would normally never listen to and do some research. I gaurentee you will end up finding at least something that you like. Hope whoever is reading this is somewhat inclined to try something new, until next time do me a favor and type black river sound into google and click on their myspace page, you might just like the soulful flow of Black River Sound. Let me know.

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.