Week 8 has come and gone. And it’s been a busy one.

On Monday, I came in the morning to finish an episode of history talks, and work on logging and sorting my B-roll footage for my self directed doc “Community Media Matters”. That afternoon, I finally shot the last footage for the doc! An interview with Bob and Devonna, two community producers at the station. That evening, I finally took the first installment of the studio class. It’s unfortunate that I missed some of the sessions due to snow, but better late than never. At least I’ve finally got official training in the studio.

The following day, I came in that morning to madly transcribe my interview. It was worth the effort. That afternoon/evening, I worked on the County Commission and City Council meeting respectively. I worked as switcher/director on the Commission meeting, and I’m starting to get pretty good at it.

On Wednesday, I came back for the final installment of the studio class, which involved setting up and running a shoot of the show “mission: nonprofit.” I worked on the audio board for this show, which was a nice tie in to my audio recording class.

I skipped the staff meeting on Thursday, and came back on Friday to work on a studio production of Thurston County Connection. This time I again worked on the set/lighting design, prepared the graphics, and operated the robo cams. This was a very complex shoot, where we got to try some new techniques. This time we incorporated previously shot interviews into the program, all of the people on set turned to look at a TV screen which started playing the interview, and then we cut to a full screen of that same video. I learned some new things about the switcher that day!