Tvp107 12/10/07

Well this has hands down been the most shit week I have had at uni so far. It has been the only time I have cried in public in over a year and all over being fired from a VOLUNTEER job without a reason in which I HAD DONE THE WORK!!! So yes I was not very impressed at all - and just for the record I still have recieved NO VALID POINT as to WHY we were "replaced" the person doing the firing in question then would not meet without someone there higher up to back her up even when we said we wernt angry and that we were all grown ups and that we only wanted a decent reason to why - we were even prepared to take on the job once again even after all the kuffefel that should never have been there in the first place if we were given that reason and a decent apology neither of which have yet been supplied and I doubt that either ever will.
Both my 'partner in crime' and myself still plan to hand in all our paperwork for the design and shooting concept of the opener for marking as we were doing this out of good will and hopefully for some extra marks if good enough yet we were rudely interupted only a few days before shooting when we were behind schedual already - not our fault though as we were informed to wait until we had a new concept for the home set as we were ready to shoot the opener for the fridge concept end of last term and 2 days before shooting the designers changed their minds. To come up with an entire concept package and be ready to shoot in the time of 4 days given that the home set was nothing and inspired to the amount of zilch and then to be fired and in the same 5 minute conversation be told "were all a team and in this together" and to hand over my work eg storyboards and studio time etc.. for someone else to use I found both blatently rude and unacceptable - Yes we would be all in a team if this was a proper production in the real world and we were all getting paid to make a masterpiece - but we are not we are at uni and what the person in charge in this phone call did not realise is that we are getting marked on this and if marks aren't good enough some of us dont get scholarships which means an end to our existance in this course in which may lead one day to a promising carrear n which we are getting paid and we are all in the same boat - in uni if we were all to get one mark and one mark only as a team mark - as in if everyone preformes and gets the job done well then everyone in the class gets a HD not just her if it goes well. personally I have lost respect for the individual in the way they handled this unnessesary situation in both a professional manner and a personal one. I will not let that affect my work with this person yet my liking of them is less because of it. As for Friday I was CCU and DA - Marcus I understand that when you direct you are very precise but for example when mim told you she was not a very capable camerman and you got annoyed with her for trying her hardest to pull off some of the most tricky moves you had going on the floor - not nice - also though this week I filled in on peter G's picnic show rehersal for first arron who was ment to be on boom until Kate turned up to take over and then realised boom was broken and then i filled in james spot as sound assist with jarred as he was a tad emotional at happy hr and let his sorrows drown a tad. And then I filled in for Alex Brown who had to run off to hockey as FM. The show was going ok the only thing I noticed that was annoying me about marks directing was that he is quite an unkind director he dosent thank people hardly as much as he should and gets quite edgy and peeved easily when he is trying to direct something difficulty and it isn't conveyed properly though his camera mans moves. sharp would be the appropriate word i think - but he gets the job done effectivly so hay other then that - no massive probs with that show. Not that its really my place to comment since im not even on that shows crew list officially but as an observer they were just a few things i noticed. Oh just for the record I know this is late I have no computer atm - and also for the notebook - I missed 2 classes because of the number of time I got shifted and shafted in the sissor-lift classes - so wasent impressed at all about that which means im not 2 weeks behind in animation which means there is no way i will be able to get ahead enough to get out of those 3 classes in which we have scholarship training which means there is prob no way in hell ill have a chance at getting it. Also for a note I think gemma and mercus etc... those 2/1st yr proddies who have had more experience should have to run as a 2nd year as even you bruce acknowlage that they have had more experience and training then we have. just as a general note. I think thats all for now so now im going to go bury myself in preperation for the turmoil that will become of this week - c.willems
ps hope this meets the standard requirement for writing bruce and makes up for some of my lesser weeks when i just had nothing to comment on.

TVP107 week 1 term 4

hi - today we did the cooking segment run though exercise first up i was an actor (5TH TIME!!!! GRRR) and then 2nd run though I was FM (YAY!!) normally when im in the afternoon group you can tell a lot of people just want to get out and go to happy hr and the energy is lacking but this time you couldn’t even tell it was arvo - everyone was excited and happy to be back and stuck into it. I think everyone is getting really psyched up about kids show now all the crap of paperwork and segments and inserts and commercials are out of the way mostly. And in the meeting that morning it was good to here that people are really going to try and push this thing hard – who cares if we flop a bit for it at least we will have tried stuff the other years haven’t tried in past years which I recon is really cool. There were a couple of things that people needed to work on - Mim you need a bit more confidence in your abilities you can do it you just need to know you can – if you stuff up you stuff up no massive thing everyone does it occasionally. Nathan YOU ARE A DISOBIDIENT TALANT!! But I love you. Pete and Marcus you both did heaps well at directing from what I could see. WELL DONE BOYS! Jason on 2nd run though even though you didn’t know that Marcus’s head set was turned off you handled it well although you should probably get your assistant to check that next time ( I now you didn’t have an assistant this run though) you still problem solved and handled it well - Lauren you need to be consistent with your time calls to whom ever is FMing you tend to call 2 mins then nothing till 30 seconds – we need a 1 min call ,you also tend to skip 30 seconds and go straight to 20 seconds other then that you did fine you can do the job its just we only have certain times to convey what’s going on to the talent through hand signals there is no 1 min 30 or 20 second hand signal – Steve you should either be applauded or shot for the use of star wipes and the amount you used in the 1st run though – gutsy!
see you next week guys ps cams good job on finally getting home set.