Showing posts with label james. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

a long long day, pt 1

part 1:
1007 hours.
tape striping, equipment checked, breakfast cooking.
megan picking me up about 1300 hours.
ok enough of the sillyness...
doing our filming today. megan is picking me up at 1ish and fiona afterwards and off we go for a day of filming excitment! first we are going... somewhere, to do some vox pops quickly, or as quick as you can do vox pops, then at 3 o'clock we are filming our first contributor, then about 5 we should be filming nikita and her brother, all of this in bristol, then after leaving nikitas we will be heading to warminster to film nathan and stu sometime around 7ish. oh a long day, then its back home to view and log rushes. da di da di do!

Thursday, 1 January 2009

The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Show

No this isnt a plea to you to join the religious fanatics waging war around the world but more a quick review of a programme i came across.
Now this programme is nuts, i would call it a reason for the abolition of public access television in the states.
normally i would not watch this tosh and discard it as religious propaganda, but having watched a few clips of the show and realising that this has more than your usual US televangelistic bull about it. The presenter who runs the show really seems to get into his character, albeit which ever puppets rear he has shoved his hand up.
I dont know if this is still running in the states though so who knows how relative this really is.



Now onto something more serious, i dont know how many people in our class have been keeping an eye on the industry and how it is running at the moment but a lot of television production companies are facing a bleak year or two ahead. Now some people may be worried, some may not care. i personally came only say that the one thing we can do is to go ahead and get our degrees, as hopefully this 'blight' will reduce the amount of crap telly on the air and bring back proper television shows. Come the end of this 'wave of destruction' that we are facing, not only inside our projected job field but also across all other business and commercial sectors we will probably be facing a lack of skilled individuals as people already doing the work we hope to get when leaving uni may well have moved onto pastures anew and there may well be the gaps that we need for us to do what we want.
(this was inspired by an article in the Media Guardian and Charlie Brookers Screen Wipe, both from some time before christmas, Happy New Year)

Thursday, 16 October 2008

First Post

Welcome.

This is my first post on this blog.

Been a while since ive blogged, my punctuation may not be up to scratch upon here but whos to care at the moment as we havent even been through this at uni yet.
Mike if your reading this hope you like it for the moment. Let me know if you want more punctuation on here.
Anyway, sat here after editing the Cojack interview which should be available on Mikes page in the coming hours.
Anyway enjoy the coming nonsense that may pop up on here too.