My experience with practicum thus far as been enjoyable, the people are fun and exciting and I enjoy the fact that we all share a common interest in media production. I have learned much already through the more experienced students and teachers. I have increased my “media vocabulary” significantly, I remember back in high school no one new what to call anything, now I can say B-roll, A-roll, sticks, and for the most part people know what I am talking about. Also I have become more familiar with a news oriented production, which is highly based off interviews so I have been able to practice that side of my skill set, in the past I did more skits and comedy type shows.
I have joined the Wellness TV and Interlocken groups and have been enjoying them. Wellness TV is very professional and it is great to have the help of others to make a complete show. Everyone breaks up in groups to make their package and collectively it all makes a show. It is a lot of fun to see what everyone else did and to enjoy the end result. In Interlocken I have the opportunity to do a lot of photography, which in the past I never really got a chance to do but have always been interested in, so I have enjoyed broadening my skill set. Bob, Bivens and Patrick have all helped me with this new skill and I have found myself comfortable with adjusting the apiture of the camera for night shooting and adjusting the shutter speed for sports shooting. Also if these two things wont make your camera shoot they way you want you can always change the ISO.
Something that I have begun noticing as well is how much I have been learning about Macs. I have to upload, photos, videos, papers, edit videos, and research on the Macs provided. So me being a PC guy it has really been weird but I am now very comfortable with the Macs and actually like using them.
Since most of the stuff I do for school is news oriented, as I mentioned I have become quit good in dealing with people and their “fear” of the media as well. When I conduct interviews I make sure to distract the person from the camera or recorder by placing in slightly out of their sight and keeping their attention on me. This has helped out a lot with interviews, I also smile a lot to make them comfortable and ignore the equipment myself so that they tend to forget about it to. When taking pictures of people I’ll sometimes tell them how good of a shot it was, I’ll ask if I can take their picture and why I want to and people appreciate that which gives me good shots. Sometimes I’ll even show the people a picture real quick so that they know I am showing them in a good way.
In all it is all going really well I am adding to my talents for that I am sure. Now I just need to find the proper outlet for my creative thought, but in the mean time I am going to continue to familiarize myself with how things are done around here and learn more about the skill sets and equipment that make it all happen.
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