Wow,

Busy week.

I am sorry. Midterms - which kind of went, err, terribly. But oh well, I did try, but simply didn't revise the right stuff. Next time, up my game.

Other than that, the most important part of my week has been working for Triton TV and getting valuable experience for hopefully *fingers crossed* my future career. I have interviewed two people and covered a Puppet Show at the Loft.

The interviews were fun. By 9am this morning, I knew how to set up all the equipment and all the different names of the equipment so I felt a lot more confident. I liked doing it and listening to the interviews with everyday students was really interesting. They all had such different ambitions and lives.

The Puppet show was a bit odd. When I signed up to film it, I was expecting something like 'War Horse'; a spectacular production in England with large life size puppets. The storyline is so heartfelt and the puppets are genuinely very realistic and beautifully manoeuvred. However, this puppet show was quite a bit different. The puppets were slightly like Wallace and Gromit creepy look-a-likes, without obvious features and the type you'd expect to find in a Victorian household. Despite the fact there were also large life size flying chicken puppets and random electrical pylons, it seemed very old fashioned. The music was rather creepy and I totally didn't follow the storyline. Something about a debt collector being hypnotised by a large chicken and meanwhile being attacked by an electrical pole and trying to defeat a big monkey in charge. Yeah, totally confused!!! BUT it was an experience. I learnt a lot more about the camera and different lens. I also had to hold the boom for a good twenty minutes for one interview and realised just how painful it was. I also felt good because I was helping out.

So that has been my week, pretty much.

Sorry about the late update - Mum thinks I am dead. I'll try and update again soon.
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