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! :)
The Vow
14 years ago
