Sorry its been a while since my last post. Im sure you have all been awaiting my return, but fear not. I am back now, with vengeance!
Anyhow, I will now continue to proceed in keeping you up to date with my posts throughout the next academic year here at John Moores just as before.
University has started and I am more than ever exited to begin a new journey through the media world. Summer was long and quite frankly, it dragged a little. I worked full time at my Uncles restaurant trying to scrape together as many pennies as possible (which, in fairness I did). I also applied for work experience for Channel 4 where I would work on a drama called Utopia. Much to my luck I was asked 'when can you start?' literally. So I began a work placement early in September for a week where I assisted the Camera Operators and Director. Initially I thought I would only be a runner making tea and coffee, running erin's that kind of thing, how wrong could I have been....
I was told pretty much straight away to rigg up the camera to the monitors and fetch different pieces of equipment to set up. The equipment was very different to what I have used previously therefore and so I found this rather hard however I just carried on asking questions all day, this might have annoyed them but I thought hey, Im on work experience! It was an extremely fascinating week as I have never worked on a real film set before, however the hours were long. 12 hour days and by hour 9 I was starting to flag a little, however I carried on and powered through. I found the week to be a little sexist I must say. 4 women including myself to the 30 odd men in the crew. If I couldn't lift certain things as they were too heavy, I would get laughed at which annoyed me, but I shunned them thinking how ridiculous they were. Men...
The work was physically exhausting as I was carrying extremely heavy camera equipment all day, I even had cuts on my shoulders from the bags after it! But all in all, it was a fun and eventful week. I learnt how hard it really is to work on a set and how strenuous it can be. Thanks Channel 4! It looks great on my CV!
So the first week has commenced at Uni, and I have to say, this year seems a lot more exiting than last. We are using After Effects again but to a higher level and super imposing ourselves into photos, such as I want to be super imposed into The 1950's horror film poster 'Attack Of The 50 Foot Women'. We are researching in the module Digital Media Cultures and how media has evolved through the years, working in a brand new million pound TV Studio (my favourite module) creating our very own TV Programme and learning research techniques used in the media world today in Applied Media Research.
Even though it has only been the first 2 weeks, I have already learnt a lot regarding the new TV Studio and its set up with the equipment and using the Vision Mixer. I have also learnt how to use Qualitative research to an industry standard by setting out a questionnaire about marking a university degree to potential students, collecting results and then analysing that data and seeing how the public react to such research.
I realise the work from now on will become a lot harder, but bring it on I say!
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