Journal Week Eight -Assessment #4 - Eighththth time in the studio - Interviewer

Well, it was with feelings of, "9 is really quite early" and "I can't believe its not butter", and lastly "I can't believe this is already the end of my first uni semester", I walked into the studio (about 1 minute late). Bruce was all like, "Yo yo my brotha you be trippin interviewer style". From this I gathered I was the interviewer. I was glad because I really hadn't had much sleep (I did have breakfast though Pat) and wasn't feeling my best.

My favourite thing about this show was that we did something we had never done before - we were told there would be a surprise, but I never expecting a plane crash, death, paris hilton (unfortunately not paris hiltons death) and live crosses. It certainly added excitement and a whole lotta fun to Hello Riverina, which was great because as I'm sure we'd all agree, it can get slightly repetitive, especially the 'Daddy, Daddy, come and look' song. Grrrr..... damn ernesto pineapple. So, what are my thoughts on the last assessment, and the last day of semester one?

THIS WAS THE BEST AND MOST FUN SHOW EVER!!!! OMG LOLXOR LMAO IT WAS SO COOL!!! PLANE CRASHES! LIVE CROSSES!!

It was totally awesome!

Everyone performed so well, we really were on the ball and we had lots of fun, and in the end produced the best effort we ever have and with awesome results! The show was awesome!

Journal Week Seven - Assessment #3 - Seventh time in studio - Stage hand

Ah.... well..... where to start. I was a cable basher/stage hand, which I thought would be a cushy job that was a bit boring, slow, and wouldn't require too much effort, but..... it didn't go that good, because as it turns out I was wrong. A stage hand must always be doing something, and as soon as they finish doing something, they have to check camera cables positions, make sure everything is right, move it if its not, and then move on to doing another job. It is a very busy role to be in. In my opinion, the two hardest jobs a stage hand has is cable bashing, especially when cameras have to do fast, or complicated moves, and also angling the cards for the cameras so they get the best light possible (it can be hard to hold the card constantly still).

Well, my performance was ok in the record and there weren't any problems, but before that in the final rehersal, right in front of Bruce, while I was helping one of the camera persons, one of the other camera cables I was watching fell out of its cradle holder thingy and the camera person on that camera moved the pedestal and ran over the cable.

Twice. (right in front of Bruce)

Then Bruce got medievil on my ass, oh the shame. My main thoughts (in order of size to me) are "OH MY GOD I SUCK AS A CABLE BASHER" and secondly, "That was a good show!"

Journal Week Six - Assessment #2 - Sixth time in studio - Sound Assistant

I was the Sound Assistant, and I liked it. At first I think being in that room can be a little bit intimidating, due to the size and apparent complexity of the desk, but really what you have to do in a show like Hello Riverina isn't that difficult, but like all things in the studio, it's best to give it your full attention and make sure that you're doing everything that you can and be as accurate and fast as you can be while doing the job well. I tried to watch what the person on sound was doing, so if ever I do get a chance to be in that role, I will at least have some idea of what to do when I start. I think the most important things to do is to make sure you know what channels things like the boom and lapel mics are on, and to make sure that you put them at the right volume level, and to make sure you fade up and fade down the right things at the right time.

I've always liked music and sound stuff and hanging around the desk is cool. Granted, I did have an easier job because I was the assistant, and the soundcard doovalakki broke or something so I didn't have to chuck in any cool SFX, but I still reckon that we in sound coped well and did a good job.

The show overall, I think it was good. I think there were one or two minor mix ups, but I think it was really good.

Journal Week Five - Assessment #1 - Fifth time in studio - Camera

First assessment.....

I was nervous, very nervous - as Damien could tell you....

Then it happened, I was given the role of camera man, CAM 1 as it were. Well, my back was and still is wrecked so in practice I was finding it really hard to move the tripod around. People started getting a bit frustrated with me because I wasn't doing the moves as fast as they would have liked me to do, so I told them about the back situation and in the end I swapped onto CAM 3 which had less movement, so that was good, although afterwards I had to lie down and give the 'ol back a rest.

This was the first time I really did any in shot movements with one of the tripods, I was told to 'ped' across in one of the shots in the interview, and I did find it a little bit tricky at first, but I got the hang of it in the rehearsals.

I think that we all performed really well and it was a good show of 'Hello Riverina'. I did think that the last run before the record was better than the actual record, especially with me. This was probably due to nerves I guess... maybe luck... I'm not sure, just things like my ped movement seemed to be rougher in the record then previously, which was a little bit disappointing, but oh well.

Overall though I think it went well