hmm… stressed?
1:40am @my room. The second week is almost over, but technically that’s the first week that I have the real taste of my new schedule. I used to have all my classes on MWF but this term TTh will be my busy day. I underestimated a bit the amount of work I have and went on too relax at the beginning of the week. I need to re-adjust it.
One highlight of my classes that worth mentioning is the non-fiction production (aka documentary) class. Not only I am excited throughout the whole 2 hours lecture about different techniques, my brain keeps spinning for ideas after the class. And more ridiculously, during my economics class about developing countries, I was constantly thinking about framing, lighting, editing, color and audio while I was watching the UNHR video… I am thinking too much. I want to make a good film; I want to practice shooting a few hours a day; I want to develop speed editing and effectively story telling; I want to tell a good story; I want to make a good film. But at this point I want to do too much.
Yes, calm down again. I noticed today during lunch how fast I really ate and how restless I looked like. I decided to make myself tea. I made myself sit down, finish/(try to enjoy) it, before start multi-tasking again. It worked.
On the note of multi-tasking, I know maybe that’s one reason I like documentary: I have to constantly adjust framing, focus, iris, audio level, white balance, also keep an eye on the environments. That’s quite a awful lot of work at the same time.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Nietzsche says that you must create an education that you will eventually destroy, and in the process create a self-grammar in terms of your trade. In your case it’s video editing. I understand that you’re tired of this “land-swimming” where you know that you will ultimately learn more if you actually go out and shoot things, but you need to surender to the confines of the classroom. Keep with it a bit longer, the hands-on stuff is for when you get an internship, remember, you’re still a student. It bothered me to come to terms with that, and maybe that’s the advice that you’ll give me in a month’s time…w