End of the Semester

DANCE PARTY...

just kidding, So waterfront weekly didn't go to air this week or last week, so that kind of sucks. We worked so hard on this episode so it just really blows to find out that two weeks in a row that it didn't air but...

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! School term is ended. CTV internship is on the go come Monday and I may even get a work term in April in Florida. Lots of paperwork if so! The experience would definently be worth the travel.


So i'm really pumpedd to work at CTV before I head home for the holidays, I'm sure i'll learn a loud of stuff, PLUS I get to work on two telethons, my produced telethon (Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children) and the CTV Christmas Daddies which was produced by Melissa, a girl in my class

This has been a long way coming to say that this blog is done for now is a stretch, but I won't be updating for a bit.

It has been a weekly pleasure writing for you all and I hope you have an amazing holiday and a happy new year! I'll be celebrating my birthday in the midst of the two holidays seeing it happens on the 30th!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

JOEL D.

I thought

That it would be great to do a list of the films I think will be nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming Oscars, so here's are my choices:

1.Up In The Air

2. Precious

3.The Hurt Locker

4.An Education

5.Up

Brand New Day

Man it feels good to sit down for a second. The past week was telethon central here and it finally cooled down right now. I feel relieved but I know that won't last too long because another Waterfront Weekly is coming up. A lot of the viz is shot and in the can, ready to go. I can't help but wonder how much time I've spent here...I guess I should ask them if I should be paying rent...or maybe my tuition covers that. I think they should have rooms here with beds so that hard working people like me can sleep when we aren't flustered with work.

As I sit here and reflect on the past week, I realize how much work went into it. How people changed their plans just to help out, and I'm glad to see that kind of dedication. It's kind of rare sometimes to see it but I'm really happy I did. Some of the first years are truly stepping up to the plate, I won't name names, but there are some up and comers. I think next year will have a lot more TV students then this year. 

It's funny I didn't really realize how much I love this profession until a first year asked me if I miss being in Radio. Let me tell you I LOVED RADIO in first year. I was truly considering taking it as a profession FOR SURE. One day in TV we were given an assignment to make a music video based on a movie, and we'll you know my love for movies. So I worked on it for at least 12 hours, making a video based on 2008's best film "The Dark Knight." Here's the link to the video. Anyways I had so much fun doing it that I changed majors. So back to the moment that the first year asked me about if I missed Radio. I thought about it....sat there and thought about it and I looked at him in the eyes and said....No, not at all. I couldn't believe what I said but I'm glad I did. I am working my butt off and I'm loving every second of it.

Friday I'm heading down to New Minas to shoot a soundscape on the Olympic Torch run. Should be fun but until then, I bid you all adieu!

Joel D....Signing off

TELETHON

This week is filled with Telethon goodness, I am producing the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children for Eastlink TV. We had our first pre-tape on Tuesday which went really well besides a couple of minor difficulties, even difficulties that don't involve the pre-tape.

A 14 year old break dancer needed air so I brought him outside, so he cooled down and we began to walk inside when I hear a looming voice at the top of the stairs. It was the NSCC security guard and he says to me, "If I ever catch you smoking outside one more time, you won't be allowed on theses premises ever again!" I was thinking to myself, WHAT IS THIS GUYS PROBLEM. I'm with a kid, if I wanted to smoke (which I don't fyi) I would get the hell away from the school. So I said to him, "He's 14, I go to school here...I don't smoke." He came close to me to attempt at smelling the "smoke" on me but to no evail, he was wrong. I walked back to the studio in awe of what just happened.

Back to current news, I am producing again tonight more pre-tapes, which i'm really excited about. We will have rappers, a dance group, and a singer. It should be fun as always.

Melissa Munroe is actually producing the CTV Christmas Daddies, which will be exciting, and I get to direct!!! Yippie....I mean YAY! I'm really excited to direct, I love it so. If directing was a profession I would....wait a minute.

So I got an internship at CTV maritimes, and it should go along great. I wonder what they will get me to do there. I also have plans coming up for my next internship. Might be getting away from this city and into another one!! Hopefully interning into film but who knows.

Well I'm off to work, got a lot to do before pre-tape!!

Joel D.

Another Week....again

It's been another week, this week tho is kind of special, I am producer of the Nova Scotia Home for Color Children Telethon here at the Waterfront Campus. I'm really excited, I mean I am providing EVERYTHING for this telethon, plus Waterfront Weekly. Man I won't have a life during this entire month. I think my life will be filled with work.

This is gonna take over my life, I see it already. I will be stressed no doubt, but that comes along with any work right? I just sat down and watched our recent episode of Waterfront Weekly. Julie didn't seem to care for the show, even tho she directed it. I know how she feels, I mean, my first Waterfront Weekly went terrible. I was glad to have friends there telling me that I did good.

I did a film review for Waterfront Weekly this week. I think the first ever film review..I will have to check my sources. But it was amazing, so much fun, I don't think I've had so much fun editing anything...besides my movie/music video last year in tv.

Well I don't think there's much more I can say besides I wish the best of luck with this next production and I think it'll rock because I love doing what I'm doing!!!!

Joel D.

The Falling Man

What does this picture mean to you?

To me, it's both horror and art. Horror for the fact that without being gruesome it displays the tragic events which transpired on September 11th, 2001 and Art for what it signifies. As this man plummets to his certain doom, he looks as if he is at peace with the decision he has made. It is quite a sad picture but strong as well.

We watched an entire documentary surrounded in the controversy which is this picture, It was called 9/11: The Falling Man. This picture hit tabloids and boy did it make people angry. I think this picture potrayed exactly what happened, and what choices people had to face in the towering inferno. It is not without regret that theses events transpired but as time goes by, I hope people can look at this photo and think about what happened and what came from it.

Now a question delegated in class was: Was it right to show this picture? I say yes! My reasoning is that, it displays what happened and tells the truth, no cover ups. I know what you're thinking, this man is a human being, he has dignity and imagine what his family could be going through. The fact is this photo has be examined and looked through a million times over and we can still not tell who this person was. His face is never seen, not even in the photos that were covered up, with the technology we have, we can't even see what he looks like. Black pants, dark face, white shirt, black shoes. That's all we get from this picture.

The film itself dug deeper, looking to an article written about the falling man and declaring who it was originally presumed to be. Now, this is a mistake! Don't publish you're story under assumptions, it will kick you in the ass down the road. Not a good idea. Come to find out, it wasn't that man.

This film was spectacular, I recommend it. It's heart breaking, the certain things that were said. A man's wife jumped from the WTC building and the man said "It was like she was just trying to get a breath of fresh air." I couldn't breathe, I couldn't believe what I just heared. I was stunned.

If you get the chance, Watch it!

Thanks Yvonne for showing us a really powerful doc!

Joel D.

Diversity

Alright, it's diversity time in this weeks blog as I come to terms with diversity. That's a lot of diversity in one sentence, imagine having to say that three times fast! I'm sure once you read that, you attempt it, and you probably succeed, if so good for you and if not, it's ok. So the question raised this week is how can I, as a reporter, put diversity into my stories.

We'll essentially, I could use diversity if the subject matter of my story effects them in some way. I don't think I could take any random person who is a visible minority and ask them "Hey what do you think about such and such" when it doesn't even phase them. That's when it becomes tricky unless you know or have heared that this certain individual has a problem with or is effected by this certain subject. Sometimes you just have to ask essentially.

I guess that if it's a story about diversity or race, that you could take someone of that color or that sexual preference or that disability and ask their opinion on the matter.

I plan to incorporate more diversities into upcoming stories, like doing a story on Acadians, or doing a story about Gottigen street and how a bad reputation can create fear amongst the community. Gottigen Street isn't that dangerous, I've walked up and down that street many times and it hasn't phased me none. It seems that one bad egg can create a mess of trouble.

So my plan is to get more diversity into my stories, but I won't incorporate them if it doesn't concern thoses people, I mean I don't wanna stick in a crappy clip just because an Afro-Canadian is saying it, I mean that doesn't help my story, it doesn't make him or her look good, and it would be a poor decision to do so.

Well I'm Out, next week we talk about something really interesting.

Joel D.