Blog post 4

I made, I did it. Today life long aspiration has been archived. It's odd to consider what these things mean to you once you are on the other side of the goal. Today I directed my first television show for broadcast. Watching it will be embarrassing but I hope that will subside with time and as my skills grow I will be able to look back and think of how far I have come since today, and even in the three practices that we have had up to this point.
I am so proud of the team I assembled. I may be directing and making the final calls but I couldn't do it without each of them. My own personal A-Team. They are enough to make me feel superfluous. Equipment failed, cues were missed, we started late, and two guests left before their segments. Somehow it all came together and we even got out on time. Two shows were filmed and we managed to time them both out perfectly to 26 minutes and 25 seconds. It felt like a miracle, but it wasn't a miracle. It was all of the reason that I chose the people I did, proving themselves to me, themselves, Roy our boss, and even Roy's bosses. We have a long way to go, and the show is choppy and could use a certain amount of post-production work, but damn it we did it. I can't believe that we were given the chance, and I can't believe that we did it.

Pregnancy

Take two:
When Lilian Garland came back from her maternity leave to find her job filled, it was like a slap from the 1950's.

With 55 million women in the work force knowing that their job will wait for them is not just an issue, but a necessity in the modern work force...........................


Take one:
The way the glass ceiling was crashing down around Lilian Garland was enough to make her wonder if it was 1950 again.
Juggling a career, and a family has not gotten easier over the years. Recently when Garland was granted maternity leave, her employer ,California Savings and Loan, failed to hold up their end of the bargain.
The new mom's job had been filled in her absence.

Japnese Internship

So the class wandered off campus for a rare college field trip. We went to check out a bronze Japaneses memorial commemorating the Internment of America Japanese during WW2.

I have been studying the Internment this whole semester in Professor Gotliffe's class, Mass Comm 136. I found the wall to be an accurate reflection of the things we have talked about. They showed the squaller conditions and the barbed wire, but the artists also let us know that there were still many aspects of a normal life going on within the camps, like: cub scout troops, art classes, and baseball in the field.
When we talk about concentration camps everyone thinks of the holocaust and those morbid black and whites that they showed us in 8th grade history. It's nice to see that she made sure to differentiate the experience of the Japanese internees from Holocaust victims. While they were both horrible, they are miles apart.
My favorite picture there is of a group of huddled soldiers hovering over a helmet while a japanese soldier cooks some sort of soup in it. This is supposed to be the 442nd armed battalion, the Japanese effort in Italy.
I think the wall is a nice reminder and even a pretty good crash course in the subject. In that sense it's more effective that even the likes of the Washington Memorial.

Individual blog #3

I have a whole new perspective on television. Yesterday I directed my first full length mock episode of the show that I am working at at KICU Action 36. You look at the director spot and at first it may look like all he is doing is telling people to switch from camera one to camera two, but oh no no no no.
At first I felt overwhelmed with the number of different things going on. Not only did I have to demonstrate good judgment and a proper sense of timing, but I had to be on top of ever single department. I was hold four conversations at once as I listened to the one going on in the TV studio next door to the control room. I was monitoring the CG and calling for it, I was talking the tape operator through a mini-disaster while I was compensating for the disaster. There were tape failures, equipment failures, and just a general lack of training present but with my ragtag crew working with me we put together a damn fine show and I am pretty sure that we are breaking new ground. I'll have to look it up to see what president there is for college students to suddenly take over an actual TV show.
Next week we go for real. The pressure is on because it's now time to put up or shut up.

Individual Blog post 2

I think college students need more help. It's hard to say a blanket statement like that because not all college students do, but anyone who is not one of the children of our countries 2.8 millionaires might be a little screwed financially. I personally have four jobs and I still can't really make ends meet. I don't know, maybe it's just the jobs that I choose. There never seems to be enough hours to make ends meet. I wonder if this is an epidemic among college student where most of us are under-employed. I have no idea how many college students have to work, but working and going to college kind of sucks. What can you do though.
Obama and Clinton are both suggesting that students be allowed to give two years of civil service to help pay for college. I think this is probably a step in the right direction. I don't know how they intend to pay for the program but any help is appreciated. It just really sucks that the alternative to not working is building up your debt; because everyone knows that the best way to start out in your professional life is $30,000 in debt. Nothing in life is free but we might be screwing ourselves as a country by making college so expensive and forcing a lot of people to drop out. I don't know the answer but it seems like it used to be easier, or maybe past generations just made it look easier.

Blog Post #1

Today was a fantastic day. I had my first day as a television director. I got the the studio at KICU early an waited for everyone to show up. I assembled the team myself and watching them one by one show up to cPublish Postome together to do something that we all have been working towards was the realization of a goal that I had no idea that I would meet. My friend Matt who got me my first job as a sound guy at live shows was to my left running sound on an actual television show while I was standing with a collection of monitors shouting orders to everyone to jump from one camera to another or to run the b-roll, or trying to catch the sudden moment that manifested. When all was said and done I held a post-production meeting. I got to turn to a really great group of guys and say to the hoard of green newcomers "Congratulations Bill, your a Law."

Copy Edit the World

Today I was reading an article titled: VP: Iran May Have Resumed Weapon Program and in the article I found this line:

But Cheney that that while the NIE said Iran had a program to develop a nuclear warhead, it remains unclear if it has resumed that activity.

The full article can be found here.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VGJH980&show_article=1