I've got less than a week until my capstone presentation and I am so nervous. I got some stuff accomplished this week, but not as much as I had hoped. I will be finishing up filming today and tomorrow and start putting everything together hopefully tonight. I have an idea of the way I want this to turn out and that will help out tremendously with editing.
The editing is what's making me nervous. It won't take me long to finish, but I'm so nervous about presenting it to the Chamber. What if they don't like it? What if I get a bad grade on my Capstone? What if I don't graduate? These are all things that have been running through my head the last couple days and it has been driving me crazy. I am confident in my skills as a videographer/editor but I've never been under this much pressure before.
This past week I watched some of my classmates' Capstone presentations and that helped me out a little bit, but I'm doing something completely different than anyone else. The one that really stood out to me was Terese Marszalek's documentary. It was very well done; it was such an emotional journey and I was crying almost the entire time. I would like to congratulate her and I can only hope that my presentation will be as good. I know our projects are different, but the feedback she got was all positive and that's what I'm looking for in my presentation. I guess I'll find out my fate next week...
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Crunch Time
The time of year has arrived when everyone has begun counting down the number of days until summer break is official. I have 4 major projects to finish before the year is up.
1. Capstone: The most important project that I need to finish is my Capstone. I've some footage shot, but I need to go do more. That is my goal this week. I also need to get in contact with the people that are in charge of the mission conference to try and get pictures to put in my video. I have all the ideas I need to get this project done, I just need to sit down and get it finished. I only have 2 weeks until my presentation and I need to have a run-through before then. So the big goal for this week is to make BIG progress on my video.
2. Documentary: The next project that needs to be completed is my documentary for my Mass Communications class. This is a group project; we went and interviewed our family last weekend and things went really well!! We have one more interview to do and I think that is being shot this week. Then we have a whole week of class time to work on putting this together. So we will use that time to edit everything together.
3. Resume Tape: I need to do this not only for a class, but also to have it for job hunting purposes. I'm really not sure what I want to do with my life, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared. I have all of the stand ups I want I just need to find the right stories to use.
4. E-portfolio: This is another thing that needs to get done for class, but also for job hunting purposes. I have most of the material I need to complete it I just need to get things organized and put together.
Now that Quilters is finished and with golf wrapping up this week I will have much more time to concentrate on getting all of my work completed. I only wish this would haven happened about 2 weeks prior.
1. Capstone: The most important project that I need to finish is my Capstone. I've some footage shot, but I need to go do more. That is my goal this week. I also need to get in contact with the people that are in charge of the mission conference to try and get pictures to put in my video. I have all the ideas I need to get this project done, I just need to sit down and get it finished. I only have 2 weeks until my presentation and I need to have a run-through before then. So the big goal for this week is to make BIG progress on my video.
2. Documentary: The next project that needs to be completed is my documentary for my Mass Communications class. This is a group project; we went and interviewed our family last weekend and things went really well!! We have one more interview to do and I think that is being shot this week. Then we have a whole week of class time to work on putting this together. So we will use that time to edit everything together.
3. Resume Tape: I need to do this not only for a class, but also to have it for job hunting purposes. I'm really not sure what I want to do with my life, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared. I have all of the stand ups I want I just need to find the right stories to use.
4. E-portfolio: This is another thing that needs to get done for class, but also for job hunting purposes. I have most of the material I need to complete it I just need to get things organized and put together.
Now that Quilters is finished and with golf wrapping up this week I will have much more time to concentrate on getting all of my work completed. I only wish this would haven happened about 2 weeks prior.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Deadline Pressure
This week for my BC Journalism 2 class I had to complete a deadline project. This was a package that had to be shot, edited and dubbed to tape in one day. I decided to do my package on Relay for Life. I knew this was going to be an emotional day before I got down there, but the day didn't go nearly as well as I had hoped. I had a vision of this package before I went to shoot it and it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.
I got down to the track about an hour later than I wanted to, so by the time I got down there I had missed the Survivor's Lap and there was only one survivor we could find. I asked her if she would be willing to do a TV interview and she seemed a little hesitant. She did the interview but it wasn't anything spectacular. It was hard to do because I knew she wasn't very comfortable talking about things. But I do have to give her respect for doing the interview.
The next challenge I came across was what kind of B roll to get. There wasn't a whole lot going on while we were down there so I got a lot of shots of people walking. I got them from different angles and such but I just wish I would have had more time. I really wanted to get the luminaries and the fireworks to put in the package, but because the package had to be complete by 6 pm I couldn't get it.
The package isn't what I expected it to be, but I think it's alright. It wasn't the time pressure that I was worried about, it was the expectation for myself to make a great package and I'm not sure I fulfilled it.
I got down to the track about an hour later than I wanted to, so by the time I got down there I had missed the Survivor's Lap and there was only one survivor we could find. I asked her if she would be willing to do a TV interview and she seemed a little hesitant. She did the interview but it wasn't anything spectacular. It was hard to do because I knew she wasn't very comfortable talking about things. But I do have to give her respect for doing the interview.
The next challenge I came across was what kind of B roll to get. There wasn't a whole lot going on while we were down there so I got a lot of shots of people walking. I got them from different angles and such but I just wish I would have had more time. I really wanted to get the luminaries and the fireworks to put in the package, but because the package had to be complete by 6 pm I couldn't get it.
The package isn't what I expected it to be, but I think it's alright. It wasn't the time pressure that I was worried about, it was the expectation for myself to make a great package and I'm not sure I fulfilled it.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Finally Making Progress
This week was super busy for me, but I feel like I got a lot of things accomplished. There were three major things that happened this week.
First, I got to interview Emmy award winning media critic and author, Eric Burns. He is a 1967 Westminster alum who came to speak for the Bleasby Colloquium. I was a little nervous at first because this was a big deal! Mr. Weaver came to me and asked me to do the interview because he wanted someone who was experienced and well-spoken (thanks for the ego-boost). The interview went very well and it also gives me another "celebrity" interview to put on my resume.
Secondly, I FINALLY met with Tom McKinley, the president of the New Wilmington Chamber of Commerce about my capstone project! Our meeting went extremely well and I feel so much better about things. This meeting lifted a HUGE weight off my shoulders. Tom gave me numerous ideas for things he wants in this video and that was very encouraging. He also gave me the names of some other people I might want to get in contact with to get more video or pictures from past events. I now have direction for my whole project and I feel a thousand times better about things. I'm really excited to get started on the whole process. Tom seemed really excited about the whole thing as well so that's encouraging!
Finally, I was also responsible for putting together a package for The County Line this week. To be completely honest I kind of forgot about it until about Wednesday night because of the whole Eric Burns thing. After my meeting with Tom on Thursday I was still without a package and it was 2 pm; TCL starts at 7:30. I was going to do a package about the blood drive, but when I walked down there no one was there! So I decided to take things into my own hands and donate blood myself and take the camera along and try to make a package out of that. It wasn't the best package in the least, but it was shot, edited, and dubbed to tape in 2 1/2 hours. The whole experience of trying to put something together out of nothing made me realize that I do have what it takes to survive in this business. It may be EXTREMELY stressful at times, but in the end it really is rewarding.
I still don't know what I want to do when I leave WC. I have 42 days left to figure it out.
First, I got to interview Emmy award winning media critic and author, Eric Burns. He is a 1967 Westminster alum who came to speak for the Bleasby Colloquium. I was a little nervous at first because this was a big deal! Mr. Weaver came to me and asked me to do the interview because he wanted someone who was experienced and well-spoken (thanks for the ego-boost). The interview went very well and it also gives me another "celebrity" interview to put on my resume.
Secondly, I FINALLY met with Tom McKinley, the president of the New Wilmington Chamber of Commerce about my capstone project! Our meeting went extremely well and I feel so much better about things. This meeting lifted a HUGE weight off my shoulders. Tom gave me numerous ideas for things he wants in this video and that was very encouraging. He also gave me the names of some other people I might want to get in contact with to get more video or pictures from past events. I now have direction for my whole project and I feel a thousand times better about things. I'm really excited to get started on the whole process. Tom seemed really excited about the whole thing as well so that's encouraging!
Finally, I was also responsible for putting together a package for The County Line this week. To be completely honest I kind of forgot about it until about Wednesday night because of the whole Eric Burns thing. After my meeting with Tom on Thursday I was still without a package and it was 2 pm; TCL starts at 7:30. I was going to do a package about the blood drive, but when I walked down there no one was there! So I decided to take things into my own hands and donate blood myself and take the camera along and try to make a package out of that. It wasn't the best package in the least, but it was shot, edited, and dubbed to tape in 2 1/2 hours. The whole experience of trying to put something together out of nothing made me realize that I do have what it takes to survive in this business. It may be EXTREMELY stressful at times, but in the end it really is rewarding.
I still don't know what I want to do when I leave WC. I have 42 days left to figure it out.
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