Today was a very important and eye-opening experience for me! To start the day we headed to Malibu to meet Kathy and Amy Eldon the founders of Creative Visions. This all started when Kathy’s son and Amy’s brother, Dan got stoned to death while on the job in Somalia at the young age of 22. Dan Eldon was a photojournalist who was an adventurous and outgoing young man who only saw the good in the world! After his passing, his mother Kathy and sister Amy wanted to share his story so they started some passion projects, including Dying to Tell the Story and The Journey is the Destination.
Kathy stated that if we were going to go into this field of work, and really want to motivate and make some true change you as an individual need to dive deeper into the issue at hand and by going deeper and getting the better understanding, this allows for you to then be able to expand wider and make more of an impact. When watching her documentaries on Dan it was very eye-opening and she also stated that in anything you do you need to be in the now and allow yourself to experience all that life has to offer! Dan also showed this through his work and journals! This relates to broadcasting in so many ways but the major one is because it is such a demanding industry, you can sometimes get too focused on a job that you forget what you're doing the work for in the first place. Don't forget to take a step back and look at what you're doing it for and see the beauty in all that you're doing!
After going and visiting Creative Visions we headed to the taping of Carol's Second Act produced by Pamela Fryman. I focused in on the sound during this taping. I found it interesting that the boom mics were on these crane-like things and how the people controlling them use the mics. I noticed that the person controlling the boom mics were always moving it back and forth to be placed over each of the characters heads and had a lever to move left and right when the rest of the crane was still so that each character sounds the same and not like one is further away. This is important to notice because you never know when you're going to need to be able to work one of these machines for a production that is being filmed or any other boom mic for that matter and you need to be able to know how to get the best sounds.
You absolutely correct! It is a demanding industry and the competition to make it is pretty stiff. Soak up everything you can and network like crazy to set yourself up for success. You have an amazing team of professors to learn from. :)
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