Wednesday, October 04, 2006

TV Course

So we've been rolling the tape and taking a few shots of nothing while people on the street tell us to bugger of and quit filming them and then straight after try to get your number. So what's up with that? Any whoo wah. We had fun in the sun and it's amazing how different the pictures you take look different in the lense. Our next lesson was lighting. i think we got to understand some of the concepts but whether we did a good job or not in actually executing the task that we were given (three point lighting) is another question alltogether. So this week we are looking at editing and we are using Adobe Premier. Thought we'd be using Avid Pro but apparantly it's better to be aquainted with the former in order for it to be easier to use the latter. So, it's not a bad rationalisation but it would have been great to use what the pros use but one step at a time right? TV's good though, it really makes you think on how to conceptualise stories according to time frame, scope and medium used for the story telling. It's a good challenge. The downside however is that I got flu which means I'm tired all the time. Not good for production. It's also raining, continuously! I love rain and all but not when I'm sick. So it's back to editing in a few minutes.