Sept. 29, 2011

Last night was totally awesome.  Three new people went out to shoot the soccer games and I barely had to help them. Brie was a complete natural, she went right up to the people and asked where she was allowed to go and what other restrictions were there.  She didn't understand the camera at first but by the end of the game she had used a memory card and a half.  I think she's a print communications major which makes me have hope she'll stay with yearbook.  For the men's soccer game Hendrick and Matt came over.  Matt was a sports photographer for his high school and just breezed through everything once he figured out the settings compared to a Nikon.  Hendrick was a little confused and less confident but he'll learn. He seemed to enjoy it.  All in all I am very satisfied with how they handled everything, all three were very professional on their first shoots.  I haven't edited the photos yet but I have uploaded them.  I had to, between the games and portraits we used every memory card.  I am super excited!

SNN finally did our first show!!! (You know, you were there.) Things were a little confusing not being able to hear them in the headset but we got it figured out.  I'll write more stories this time so the show isn't so short.

Hours: 8 hours
Total: 42 hours

Sept. 26, 2011

I have spent a lot of time today catching up on pictures but I am stepping back for the rest of the week from Interlachen because I am falling behind in classes.  I need to get those all caught up first.  I still ran the meeting and taught some more people the camera, I even posted the notes on facebook.  But I was able to study in the lab today while I was doing it.  Also yesterday for Bid Day I got pics of the girls running to their new sisters.  It was raining so Sami helped me out with an umbrella.

I sent Anna a story for SNN today.  I'm not sure how many stories she has but I'll volunteer to help out if she needs them.

Hours: 5 hours
Total: 34 hours

Sept. 19, 2011

Today I got to show Dion how to set up for portraits.  I was a little rusty but we figured it out mostly.  The hair light got us.  I never knew that we use three point lighting for portraits.  Photography has really helped me understand what we have been talking about in Intro to Broadcast.  Shelby and Raven came by but I had to leave before I could really help them.

The exciting part of today is that Cynthia wants me to edit something for WTV!! Fitness with Sarah is a simple package to learn on she said so that's what I'm going to do.  Our first episode is 19 minutes long, we've got to shorten our packages.  Learned a lot today about that though.

Hours: 3 hours
Total: 29 hours

Sept. 16, 2011

Last night I took pictures at RecFest and the Coffee House. I went with Austen and he shot video.  I also did my voice over and watched Michelle edit our package, her package, and the bloopers.  I also edited pictures taken by Olivia, Charlie, and Ariel.  They are all promising new members so I am very excited.  Olivia gets good angles, need to go out with her one more time shooting.  Charlie did great and I am super proud of his angles and events he got.  Ariel is the same too, you can see the art major in him come out in his pictures. Bob set up the Interlachen account so that I can start transferring pictures so I think Jess and I are going to spend a day in the office just doing busy work.  Can't wait to see Wellness TV!


Hours: 3 hours
Total: 26 hours

Sept. 14, 2011

Yesterday it only took three takes to get my stand up right.  Well I had it right each time but I look best the last time.  Olivia helped me discover my nervous tick is biting my lip.  Olivia and I interviewed Jess and I interviewed Big Dave.  Unfortunately Big Dave's audio didn't come out clear so hopefully tomorrow I can shoot him again.  Today to make up for it Luti did a super fast interview with Cynthia and me.  Dakota is going to let me edit this package with Michelle because she's busy. I'm super excited. 

I showed DIon the basics of editing photos.  There's something about him that makes me want to train him to be the photoeditor.  His pictures came out great and I'm proud.  Out of all the people I've trained, I think there is only one person that I think might need me to go with them one more time.  I caught up on the pictures.  I am happy with everything right now.

Hours: 3 hours
Total: 23 hours

Sept. 13, 2011

Well Sunday, Olivia and I found out that there is some unwritten rule that if you are a couple on campus you leave for the day.  Trying to get broll for Wellness TV was hard!  He had to stage most of them.  The one scene we didn't have to stage is my favorite of a guy and girl practicing lacrosse together.  Just too cute! I had Olivia stand in front of the camera and I zoomed in on them.  Olivia is great with coming up with ideas and talking to people, she's very helpful.  Today we're going to shoot the student interviews and the stand up. I've never done a stand up before so I'm a little nervous and not sure where to approach it but practice makes perfect.

Last night after the Wellness TV meeting Cynthia showed us a basic final cut pro use and I had no idea photography was going to help me this much.  I understand everything so much better now with a year of photography under my belt. I don't think I have a package to work on for the next session but I'll tag along and help whoever needs it.

For the Interlachen meeting I took charge and laid out everything we needed.  I am good at getting people to sign up for photograpy but I need Austen to help me show that video is good too.  I finish training this week so that makes everything better and I can start helping with video.  I am very proud of all the people I have trained so far because they get it.  Its not as hard as last year trying to explain everything.  But editing pictures gets lonely, I do miss having the company of Patrick because every session he taught me a little something new.  I need to find someone to take my spot for next year so I can start training them.

Hours: 4 hours
Total: 20 hours

Sept. 9, 2011

Last night at the Dave Barnes concert I got great pictures!  Not going to lie, I totally pulled out my old press pass and used it just in case we needed it.  I met up with Dakota, Michelle, and Danielle so that yearbook, the Southern, and we said the school's channel (wink, wink Dakota) so we could get exclusive footage.  We didn't get an interview as hoped but we did get to meet him and take lots of pictures.  Poor Dakota, her tape ran out of room.  I worked with Dakota for 2 hours and on my own for one. I got to help Danielle learn the camera.  If she didn't have so much going on with the newspaper I would totally recruit her for Interlachen, she has a wonderful eye for shots. A little shy at first but she could be a great photojournalist and I hope she will be one.


Hours: 3 hours
Total: 16 hours

Sept. 7, 2011

Today we had a "moc" session at SNN so that the new people could see how we would run things.  The new teleprompters look so cool!  I can't wait to use them.  Lauren and Luti are going to be entertaining to watch.  All our stories were written so that we could read what exactly we need to write.

Also I asked for a challenge and I think I definitely got one today in the Interlachen lab.  I thought I had killed the Mac.  Thank God for Bivens!  I needed to upload pictures and I hit the wrong button and filled up the (wrong) drive.  You really need to be on your toes when things like that happen. So now I will forever be checking myself at least twice.  I was able to upload the pictures finally (all 300, thanks Dalton!) and edit them for the most part but now I have a lock on my account and can't really do anything.  But its all good, finally gave me a learned experience I needed.

I went to Anna's shoot for the AOPi but didn't really do anything so I'm not going to count the hours.  I just roped people into interviews.  Dion was there and helped Anna a lot.  We have a lot to gain from the freshmen this year and I can't wait!

Hours: 3 hours
Total: 13 hours

Sept. 6, 2011

I have to get an idea of what a managing editor does so that I can get year book going.  I have trained two people so far and I am so happy that I won't be the only person doing pictures.  I need to get things rolling so I can have a life outside of the lab.  All pictures are caught up now that I know how to batch.  Just got to get Bob to make a folder on the server for me since my access is denied.  Sami is cleared for pictures and now Charlie Liu, a new guy to yearbook, and I are going to take pictures at three events this week.

Wellness TV is going to be so great! Olivia and Dakota are going to be in the same group as me.  I really think that our first package is going to be awesome!  We've got to get an interview scheduled but other than that we are so ready!! This is gonna be a great year!  We're doing long distance relationships and hopefully we'll here back from a professor soon so we can go shoot.  Cynthia and Michelle are supposed to show us how to use Final Cut in a little workshop they're putting together.

Hours: 4 hours
Total: 10 hours