British Television
Random Fact: "There is a charity event called Red Nose Day that happens every couple of years in order to raise money for underprivileged children. Manchester, for example, has one of the highest levels of child poverty in the UK."
Yesterday was chaotic in TV Studio. I was directing, but it was hectic b/c the stories were created last minute (the new reporters were suppose to do that and tell me), there were no real pictures (for the preview shots), we didn't have a PA (someone who keeps track of everything) and I didn't have a script to see the timing. However, other than the dialog, the professor said that I did well and that he could tell I was really trying with the timing and the reactions. He said it started off chaotic but that I pulled it together. He's so awesome.
Today, we had a female lecturer and she was pretty neat, except she didn't show clips. However, she did talk about southern shows like "Dukes of Hazard" and "Dallas" and the whole lecture was on Gender in Media (which is what we mostly study in Berea). I don't know, but I think the main professor shows some American shows on purpose so I would have something to relate to. Or, maybe I'm just being silly since they do show a lot of American shows here.
The assistant did come back to class for the seminar (though 20 minutes late) and today wasn't his day. The overhead projector wouldn't work at first, the batteries were dead in the remote, he was late to class, and only 7 of the 20 some people shown up. However, b/c we were talking about gender I was able to chime in on many of the aspects relating to media.
I do watch some British television, but there's not really a lot of it that I sincerely enjoy. The British seem to be a fan of two types of genres: soap operas and reality television. I'm not a big fan of either, but I did watch an episode of Coronation Street and a couple of my British friends from Television Genres class plan on doing a presentation on "Two Pints of Lager..." which can be funny sometimes. However, they do watch a lot of American television.
Yesterday was chaotic in TV Studio. I was directing, but it was hectic b/c the stories were created last minute (the new reporters were suppose to do that and tell me), there were no real pictures (for the preview shots), we didn't have a PA (someone who keeps track of everything) and I didn't have a script to see the timing. However, other than the dialog, the professor said that I did well and that he could tell I was really trying with the timing and the reactions. He said it started off chaotic but that I pulled it together. He's so awesome.
Today, we had a female lecturer and she was pretty neat, except she didn't show clips. However, she did talk about southern shows like "Dukes of Hazard" and "Dallas" and the whole lecture was on Gender in Media (which is what we mostly study in Berea). I don't know, but I think the main professor shows some American shows on purpose so I would have something to relate to. Or, maybe I'm just being silly since they do show a lot of American shows here.
The assistant did come back to class for the seminar (though 20 minutes late) and today wasn't his day. The overhead projector wouldn't work at first, the batteries were dead in the remote, he was late to class, and only 7 of the 20 some people shown up. However, b/c we were talking about gender I was able to chime in on many of the aspects relating to media.
I do watch some British television, but there's not really a lot of it that I sincerely enjoy. The British seem to be a fan of two types of genres: soap operas and reality television. I'm not a big fan of either, but I did watch an episode of Coronation Street and a couple of my British friends from Television Genres class plan on doing a presentation on "Two Pints of Lager..." which can be funny sometimes. However, they do watch a lot of American television.
posted by Novice Novelist | 5:54 PM
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