THE LAST POST

TV2 has been one of my favorite subject for the semester and I'm serious. I know it's been giving me some hard time too, but overall it's quite enjoyable. Especially the moment when you heard a lot of people clapping vigorously over our self-made doco. It was just worth it.

For the first half of the semester, the course was pretty much okay because all we did is mainly sit in the class, develop ideas, and did some test run on the equipments. Some of the practices really help to understand the equipments but I just think we need more time on practicing. It was quite hard for me to regain memories of how to what from the previous TV1 course. Though, the dossier was very useful, that's why to be honest I gave up going to few last the lectures and decided to stick to the dossier instead.

The second half of the semester was full of editing time and counseling. The TV2 staff were very helpful within this period. Thank you Robin and Paul for the suggestions and critics, it helps really.

To put it simply, I think TV2 course is less tensed than TV1. We didn't have to worry about plots, or odd cutaways or else. However, I realized that without those kind of guidance it was pretty difficult especially on making decisions. I was in great contemplation for the last few weeks only to think about whether I should use subtitles or voice over. But thanks to the staff guidance, I could finally overcome my own dilemma.

I really wish I could do another TV course, I feel like I developed enough through TV1 and TV2 but I really want to do some more experiments on film-making.

Thank you Paul, Robin, Christine & Liam! It's been fun! :)

Screening!

DOCO IS DONE AND SUBMITTED! YAY!

I went to the screening. It's my first time to go to TV course screening because I didn't go to the last semester's one. Sad, I know.

Anyway, along the screening I enjoyed pretty much everything. All the TV2 students picked up some good stories and it's presented in such a good way.

Although one of them really caught me in awe, it's the Kaleidoscope. I heard rumors about a group who flew to Sydney with TV equipments just to interview 2-3 people there. For me, it sounds awful enough, I mean our group drove to Bundoora and it was quite a tiring journey.

Anyway, the doco was about synesthesia. Turns out one of the doco-maker is my classmate on the different subject.

The opening was very nice, very creative using those hanged colorful words.

The thing that impressed me the most is the use of graphic. Using graphics to explain what is synesthesia? Awesome! I was thinking how would they describe synesthesia to the people who is not synesthic. Using the smoke efects and stuff. It was awesome. Just, awesome. They inserted bits and bits of the making so people know how are those effects made. I think it's a good thing. Now we know how to make that kind of smoky effect by ourselves. It might be because of the theme of the doco itself but using a lot of color is rather catchy for me instead of a monoton black-and-white-themed doco. In short, they did a great job on how to explain and visualize what is synesthesia to the audience.

The source of information about synesthesia itself is pretty reliable since they interview both synesthic people and a professor from Sydney.

On the other note, I'm just glad that our doco's screening went smooth. Phew! :)

Editing, editing and editing. It's like I can't really live a day without a dose of doco editing. Yeah.

Last week was the rough cut screening. We got some good advices from the other group. Somehow I feel like it's not working anymore, our doco. Maybe I've had too much of it that it's getting... you know.

Anyway, we screwed up some parts of the video but luckily it's fixable. We're still on the process of figuring out what was Galuh trying to say at the second round of shooting because we didn't use any interpreters on that day. I think me and Albert will make good interpreters after we're done with this doco. Woot.