Week 4

The fourth week back preparing for wicked after the holidays has been very informative. Firstly, ill go through some of the things i did during the holidays. Proabably the biggest change during the holidays was that the idea for my insert was changed. Instead of doing it about the waterbombing helicopters at heliair i decided to do my insert on the junee licorice and chocolate factory. There were quite a few reasons i had to change my insert but probably the main reason was organising everything to shoot because the lady who i was goong to interview was never in the same place for a long time. Most of the holidays i spent trying to contact her and when i did get on to her and found out her schedule i realised that it was almost impossible to organise. The idea was good it was just a bit too hard to follow through. I wish that i had realised this earlier then i could have spent more time working on my new insert. The junee licorice and chocolate factory was a great idea for an insert because kids love licorice and chocolate and all the food they have out there is organic which goes good with the green theme of the show that its on. so most of my holidays was spent working on my insert which probably wasnt the best time management. Anyway, the first week back was informative because we had a producers meeting where we handed our scripts to camilla and also got a chance to look at other people scripts. Another thing we did was look at some of the past kids shows from 2004 i think which was good to see what we should strive to achieve. Class was also good because we got to see more past kids shows. Probablt the one thing i thought was really good was one of the commercials done which was the stop motion blutack man. i thought it was really good. One unfortunate thing was that i was sick on thursday and still a bit sick friday morning and i had to address the class about my show. I think i did fairly well. I told everyone a breif overview of my show and managed not to collapse or fall asleep in the process so that was good. The studio session was good because i got to get some more practice in on the vision mixer and also to some staging. I think im getting a lot better at vision mixing but the one very important thing i learned that you may have noticed is to check that firstly, that if you want to fade to black, the mix button is on and if it isnt on and the wipe button is on and you dont notice just hope that person before you didnt leave it on star wipe. One thing i know is that ill never make that mistake again. Staging was easy because the camera i was watching didnt move much but i was still looking for things to do but couldnt find find anything. Also, over the weekend i organised a shoot for my insert and got an extension on the due date because my editor is going away for a while which is good because it would have been rushed and probably not to good otherwise.