Midpoint (Work Experience//Day Three)
The events of Wednesday 
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Day 3, and I can certainly say that I’m still having a blast.
After implementing a quick-edit of the cover I designed yesterday (and gosh were the client’s instructions confusing), as well as making a short trip to Officeworks to pick up printing paper with Amelia, Nathan set me up to work with Dane on the filming of the yearbook videos. Remember my little task on my first day, with writing scripts? That’s what I’m talking about.
Anyway, my job was to sort out and locate the yearbooks needed to film, like how a teacher would call the roll. Except I had a couple of ‘truants’. Tut, tut, tut. A couple of books were missing, but that was okay in the meantime because there were roughly 65 other books to film. I’m being accustomed to the Rockstar library (of Fame xD); I can recognise schools and link to their covers now (Wow, what a great achievement…). Also had to help plan out guidelines to scripts, because yep, everyone in the studio was subject to mandatory filming~
I think I just made it sound really harsh and intimidating, but it really isn’t bad in real life! No, I haven’t done a piece myself, but I’m doing it tomorrow!
We set up an empty space to film with a couple of comfortable chairs+ saggy beanbags, as well as additional (random) props. The whole point was to make the videos as creative and lively as possible, so we had everything from the PS3 Rock Band guitars, to a real guitar, a pirate sword, hula-hoops, a costume lion head… you name it. Oh, and we had a plant. And a watering can. We’d film unique pieces each time to prevent it from being repetitive (something inevitable if you ask me, but there are always ways to solve that), so some ideas that came up included superimposing random and quirky shots in addition to the feature work on the yearbook. As we weren’t able to complete all sixty-something yearbooks in the short timeframe of 3 hours, that’s probably be something we’re doing tomorrow.
And so the rest of the day proceeded as forth: bring person in, quick-brief them on the sorts of things they had to mention, film, mark of yearbook, and repeat all steps. Might sound tedious but I found it to be really enriching and enjoyable. Each person had their unique quirk in their presentations, which brought many smiles (and laughs) to the room. I also witnessed the first thing I ever found and Ipad to be useful for (other than the epic apps)- we had to give kudos to the yearbook committees of the different schools in the videos, so we were using it to search a database on all the respective names. Gasp! Amazing!
Even though I’m technically only half-way through my program, it’s hard to believe that my time at Rockstar is coming to an end so soon. I’ve had so much fun these past few days; such that I’m actually dreading Friday. You’ll be hearing me ramble on and profusely offer my thanks then, Rockstar.
Thank you to Dane, who everyone should know is awesome. I hope my help…helped.