Harder than it looks
All of this multimedia stuff we’ve been learning about in class has surely become more difficult than I thought it would be.
Firstly, I can hardly keep up with this blog, while keeping up (or attemting to) with classes and The Stylus. I have an abundance of things I want to talk about, even if they’re not related to college or professional journalism, but it’s finding the energy to talk about in this medium that normally comes last. Perhaps choosing this as a topic for my class was a bad idea… I’m sure once the summer is here, this will be updated much more frequently, particularly since my internship will be requiring me to do weekly logs, in order to receive class credit. Woo.
I also have a ridiculously short attention span at the end of the day. Granted, it’s only 6:34 p.m. But for me, that’s the end of the day. It was non-stop today, too. This makes it difficult to blog when I can never remember what I wanted to talk about once I get here to the dashboard.
Oh, I remember now.
Multimedia is a lot more difficult than we all probably think. I’ve been tediously working on getting a video department set up for The Stylus, starting next year. We have a video editor, Nick, who has been working very hard with me on getting everything set up. When I first thought of the idea, I thought we would buy him a SONY Handycam and send him on his way. Apparently, this is not going to work. There’s XLR cables and microphones and jibs and dollies and tripods and mic flags and firewires and hard drives and lots of software, to name some of the things thrown at me in the past week. I’m trying to keep up with him, trying to understand what he does in order to help him with any issues next year. But boy, video is a whole new world. I give a lot of credit to any newsroom that has successfully brought in a video crew, it’s hard work. I’m sure they had a lot more people working on the implementation than The Stylus had, but with hardworking and supportive professors, we finally have a set program. And a huge bill at the video store.
