3rd Day and 4th Day

On the 3rd day we had combined class. I love combined classes as i get to be with all my friends from all the other classes and we pretty much can make havoc happen haha
But during this class we were shown different documentaries to teach us different ways we can go about making our "movie". I found this really good, especially watching the LOTR making-of. However, i was quite upset when they had to put it cut it so that we could watch the other snippets.
When watching the documentary about the everest expedition a lot of people thought that it was a very badly done show. I disagree.
It is true that it is technically not up to standard of the LOTR's one but i think it depends highly on the target audience of that documentary. It is highly detailed and contains a lot of terms used by the men that average non-hiking people like wouldn't understand. I think this is why most of the class found it boring or not "capturing" enough. I however looked at it much differently. I think the majority of people who buy this are interested in mountain climbing so they would want to know the technical terms. I don't think they would bother about the "nice-ness" of the movie quality either. All they probably want is something with detailed terms.
I also think that the lighting was not up to standard because they are up in the moutains. I don't think they have the budget to bring up all the expensive lighting into the snowy tops in case of a snow storm or what not. Thats why the quality of the filming was not that good. I also think that they wanted it to have a very "raw" feel to it thats why minimal editing or video quality was used. Again i stress that this is all due to the target audience. I think target audience is one of the most important factors of a production as it could literally mean changing the entire theme of the production if your target audience objective is way off.

On the 4th day we had a class. Alfie again told us about what we need to do and what our objectives should be. Although we did not have Andrea Lek with us, i still feel that we covered quite a bit on our own. We pretty much thought about the content and finalized the theme of what we want our production to be about.
I'm really having fun thinking about the different ways we can bring about the joys of MOI. I like having witty conversations with my group as all our ideas merged together usually turns out to be something really nice and useful. I guess i'm lucking to have a group such as mine as i feel we really gel together and our teamwork is very strong.
However, i do have a problem with our lecturers repeating the same thing over and over again. For the past 4 lesson's we've been told the same thing over and over. I know that reiteration is good as it helps people to remember but there's also something called OVER-KILL.
Its nice that they want to help us a lot but i feel that we don't need to be cushioned all over. Yes we make mistakes but sometimes we need to realize for ourselves that they are mistakes and not for our lecturers to tell us all the time. I mean, seriously, when we go out into the working world, they won't be there to say "Clarissa, i don't think that idea would work well" or "Clarissa, i think you need to rethink the objective". No, they won't be there to cushion me. So maybe they would just lay off, just a little bit? Please :)

Oh and about this blogging thing. Sure i think its a great idea but its hard to blog everyday. So i hope its okay for me to cover two days in one entry rather than type an entry everyday.