March 30, 2012

I know its been a long time since I've blogged but I've been doing a lot of work. Interlachen is done with the exception of 5-7 students' names. I spent the night in there Wednesday fixing every mistake we had. It was a nice 7 hour night. I'm going to go back later today to get Bob to approve of it. I'm gonna start my package for Wellness TV next week and Dion's going to help me.


Hours: 7 hours
Total: 69 hours

March 9, 2012

The yearbook is almost completely done! I say it'll be finished next week. I am so proud of the staff but especially Dion and Lizzi. They have worked so hard and it shows. Austen on the other hand hasn't and the video yearbook was due a month ago. I can't get him to show me or Bob so as far as I know nothing has been done.

For Wellness TV I shot Fitness with Sarah and again the mic cord didn't work. The audio is decent for not having a mic but it still could be better. I showed Dion how to edit on Final Cut Pro. I figured it would be an easy enough package to learn on. He caught on instantly. Once he's not so shy, he's going to be good in this field.

Hours: 8 hours
Total: 62 hours

Feb. 23, 2012

Yearbook deadline is in a couple days and Bob just gave us access to the server so its crunch time. I spent 14 hours in the office yesterday. Dion came by for five or so hours, Leah came by for an hour or so, and then after dinner Lizzi came by for a few too. I had the lab full of people working. We have campus life pretty much done, same with athletics. I had to create duotones for the front pictures, place pictures, edit pictures, edit copy, and layout pages. We should be totally finished tonight if we work like we did last night. I am so proud of the effort and excitement Dion is putting into it. I know he'll understand all the camera stuff by the time he's in intro to broadcast.

Hours: 14 hours
Total: 54 hours

Feb. 16, 2012

I have been in the Interlachen office a lot but I forgot to blog the hours. I just wanted you to know that there has been a lot of work being done. Since Saturday I have worked on the yearbook for for 12 hours getting all the pictures done and fixing some big mistakes. Olivia put our group shots on facebook so we can't use them anymore. I have try get this fixed by Sunday, our picture deadline. It really is upsetting. Also last night I took Dion to his first theater shoot which lasted 5 ridiculously long hours. He's learning for next year for the photo editor position. I feel that he maybe was a little too nervous to do it because he took over 900 pictures. I let him go through all mine and his so that he can get some experience with stage lighting and more familiar with processing pictures.

Hours: 17 hours

Total: 40 hours

Feb. 5, 2012

This week has been a tough week for me personally with a lot of things going on but I still managed to get a few hours. I had to take pictures of the Comm teachers, the psych club, and the leadership staff of Wesley. During the week we had a camera scare because the cameras were both unaccounted for a one point. Found them and turns out that the same person who had one of the cameras is the same one that had the WTV one when we needed it too. I'm not going to let her check out a camera anymore. Nya has stepped up and has been doing great pictures and is really up for learning. I'm proud of her. Same with Dion. Soon Dion will learn the how to do play pictures and working with the lighting and what not.

With WTV this week I interviewed three people and shot broll by myself. I had to do the stand up by myself and asked my friend to hit the play button once I was in place. My partner fell through on all the shoots. She came by to get the camera after that and shoot broll but I never saw the camera again. Unfortunately the package wasn't done on time. Everything is edited and fixed, I just need to plug in the broll to cover the jump cuts. It took longer because the computer crashed when Michelle tried to do something and it erased my work. She was having a rough day that day but she showed me the lower thirds and everything she changed and it looks good.

Hours: 8 hours
Total: 22 hours and 30 minutes.

Jan. 26, 2012

Last night I had Dion go with me to the basketball games so that he could get a feel for the field house and how to take pictures in there. It was bad at first, he was really nervous. When he got comfortable (and let me change the settings) he got some really great pictures. I am super proud of them. Between the two of us we filled up a memory card with both men's and women's basketball. I told him to get crowd shots and to stalk Mocsie for pictures. I let him have the easier side at the beginning of the men's game since he had the harder one for the women's. Overall he's a great photographer so I know he'll have great video angles once he get the confidence to do it. He's a lot like I was last year.

This morning I had free time since one of my classes was cancelled and I went through and edited almost all the pictures that had been building up. I finally found the religion pictures! I was so happy! I did find out that some of the ROTC pictures are missing but I think I can find those.



Hours: 4 hours 30 minutes
Total: 14 hours 30 minutes

Jan. 23, 2012

Got a lot of the busy work for Interlachen done today. I think I really like having office hours, it makes things easier. There is absolutely nothing happening this week to take video and photos of so it was a brief meeting with pizza. Means I will be able to catch up the last pictures. I need to go visit Wayne and see if he's willing to help us with department pictures. Dion really stepped up and helped me a lot today and said he was going to help with the pictures that need processing. Austen is starting on the video rough draft. I think it was a productive meeting.

For WTV I actually had an idea that was decent and I want to see it all the way through. I know that I need to approach the way I do a package different so I really want to make this one good. I have so many ideas and Olivia's okay with anything she said. I am really excited to do a healthy eating package and I usually avoid those.

Hours: 3 hours
Total: 10 hours