sooooo lets talk about college.

i love it.




on mondays i have uncle stan.

(clarification, we call our teachers 'uncle <insert name>' because they're awesome and we have small classes so we all know them very well)

on mondays i have uncle stan. he teaches us television operations which lets us learn how to use the switcher, the CCU's (camera control units), the VTR (video tape recorder), the audio board, Inca Inscriber , camera pedestals and other less fun stuff, like the prompter and the bulkhead and really complicated stuff like the CER (central equipment room).

on tuesdays i'm with uncle randy. he teaches us audio and video post-production. definitely one of my favourite classes because i get to edit and create soundtracks for old clips and make foley sounds and we even talk about mics and anything related to audio (my passion!).

we also have uncle peter. he teaches us electronic field production or EFP for short. peter warren has invented many things for the television industry, but his most popular would probably be the warren dolly. he's a total genius and he loves working in the industry and i love how passionate he is because it keeps me motivated.

on wednesdays we have michel. he 'teaches' us studio production. we don't call him uncle.
on wednesdays we have two half hour shows to produce. SO much prep goes into these shows. we basically have a whole week to prepare two shows. it's quite hectic. anyway, it's more of a self directed learning class, so he only shows up while we're taping the shows and at the end when we screen them so he can critique them.

after michel we have dan. he teaches writing for film and television. we also don't call him 'uncle' because it's only an elective class.
he wrote a popular kids television show "the raccoons". it is highly possible you will only know of this show if you're canadian, so don't fret. it was a wicked kids show though :]
i've learned a lot about scripts and how a show idea comes together. next semester we get to write a whole movie script, so i'm really excited about that. i already have an idea in mind!

i don't have class on thursdays.

on fridays i have leigh chapple (left) . you might know her from such things as the 11:30 news on CTV ottawa. yeah, she's the news anchor on the late news on CTV in ottawa. so thats cool too. she teaches news production. it's only half a semester (my class got the second half) so we had our first class last week and this friday will be our first news show. so i hope that goes well, even though i can't stand the news.

and thats basically my week, except now imagine that every spare moment i have is spent editing, doing homework, prepping shows, and going out on shoots. i love it though. it's absolutely amazing.



once i graduate i'll be moving out too. which is ace, because i've never had a bedroom to myself. i've always had to share with my younger sister.


also, i'm in love

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