FInal EOC

I will admit, in the beginning this class kind of scared me. From thing I heard from other students and reading the workload, I was slightly intimidated by the idea of this class, especially because it’s my last quarter and I already had so much work I had to do. Between tweaking my demo reels to get to a point to make the school happy, my other 2 hard classes, and this class, I was unsure how I would keep up with the work. Especially when I get really sick in the middle of everything. Getting to a point were I couldn’t even crawl out of bed took a real toll on my standing on how close I was to being done.

Non-the-less I was able to pull through. I was able to pull everything together to get all my work done. Some things may have lacked a little, but I finished it. Granted I still have a few finals to do and get ready for graduation next week, but the class that scared me in the beginning of the quarter, ended up being a class to help spark and form a great idea.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, everyone gets them all the time. But finding an idea that has so much potential, so much to offer not only to the people paying for the serves but also for the people working. That is always the hardest part of learning how to create something. Even better is learning how to create something and understand how to use it.

With a better understanding of business plans, and how business works, I feel the class was effective. Being able to put down in words a great idea is hard, let alone create a full business plan to make it work is harder. I still have some tweaking to do, but now I know where I stand and what I want to create. I also now have a plan that with some fixing could be perfect to help find the funding for the new creation. 

Week 9 Photo Challenge: Producing

For my Producing Photo Challenge I want to stress one main thing about the term producing, producing could be anything from finding the money to finding people or even helping create content when needed. Pretty much your only true job is to make sure the work gets done. Either by phone, in person, or on the computer, you are always doing something; even after the work is done you are still working. It’s a long job that stresses a lot of people out. When everyone else gets to go home for the day, you are sitting there watching dailies until 2 in the morning and waking up at five or six to get back to work.

Now with all that said, I was going to take a new picture for this challenge, but decided to look through some old ones. I choice this picture because it was my first time trying to produce a news style segment. I was completely out of my comfort zone and just focused on trying to find the means to get the segment done. It was a major challenge that I found stressful. The main reason was producing for news is not the same as producing for narrative. Basics of the jobs are the same, but the way of executing is different.

During the time of the picture I was handing out jobs while I was making sure we had enough material to cover our segment. We were actually short by two stories and I had to create them without much time before shooting. I kept giving orders and making sure everyone was doing their jobs while my eyes were fixed on finding the right stories and figuring out where they need to go in our segment. It was a very stressful day, and pointed out to me how hard that specific job can be. Gives me more respect for it.