Week Seven: The Force Awakens

It's Sunday night and everyone knows what that means: my blog post will be due in a matter of hours! It's time to sit down and reflect on my week.

First, I feel I should address something that I haven't spoken about yet.  Each week I write my blog post after dance rehearsal for Seven Ages' Fiddler on the Roof.  Today I was doing some Russian dancing steps that I hadn't done since taking Ukrainian dance as a kid in Russell and my legs are so sore that I can't help but complain about it to the internet.  Anyway, Fiddler on the Roof will be showing April 6-8 at the Centennial Auditorium if anyone is interested!  I will be playing the role of the lowly tailor Motel Kamzoil.

This week in ICT we received the task of creating a short video.  This is particularly interesting to me as I used to create youtube skits with my friends in middle school.  I will not be sharing any of the names we went under as I am understandably unwilling to share the cringeyness that was middle school Cam.  My best friend Riley and I worked on them mainly: I wrote the scripts and usually portrayed leading characters and he was most often the camera guy and editor.  These roles seem to have been worth something for our lives, too!  Riley has worked his way from being a camera man to an editing position for Global News Winnipeg and I've been milking all that I can out of the theatrical side of life.  Not to mention that when we were able to take classmates under our wings to create video projects for school I was able to create some of my favourite high school memories.

There is a small issue with having experience on these sides of things, however.  As I said, Riley was the one doing the editing.  I watched and could do the simple parts but I always had him to help out. Most people aren't aware of this however.  It seems that my classmates have high expectations for me with this kind of project.  We will see how it goes.  

There is one piece of advice in particular that I can give as someone with experience with every part of this process: set your expectations low.  To reiterate, you will never think your video is funny. Even if it does end up containing some semblance of wit you will be far too focused on "oh my gosh, does my voice really sound like that?!" to appreciate anything you worked on.  I hope the realisation comes peacefully to my classmates and we can all have fun making low quality audio visual entertainment!