This morning was one of the earliest that I have had for in-depth. I needed to be in the department before 8 to charge the equipment so that another group member could use it. After this was done I dived straight into editing my video. I had to sync my extra interviews and start finalizing … More Video editing and dinner
Yesterday we had to show our video lecturer our rough cuts of our videos. Mine so far is alright. I already had most of my main interviews done so I was able to show him something at least. I was hoping that I wouldn’t need to do much extra shooting, but now it looks like have … More Back into the field
Yesterday was primarily a video day. I had three videos of my own that I ended up shooting as well as helping Riante with one of hers. The day started early as we both worked in the department on our written features, while also waiting for equipment being used by another team mate. Once that … More Interviews with the regulars
When I woke up this morning I assumed I was in for a busy day, but it actually turned out to be one of my more relaxed days of the week. This was only because in the morning I worked on my written feature and video storyboard, then in the afternoon I helped a classmate … More Filming afternoon prayer
Yesterday was mainly spent working on my written feature, transcribing my last interview and getting it towards a finalized piece. This however proved to be difficult as I was also interested in taking photographs of the student protests that were going on outside my department in Braamfontein. This included walking between police and singing protesters … More Protests and Feature Writing
Most of today was spent shooting videos for our multimedia feature. To get ready for this I spent most of my morning working on my story board and working a bit on my multimedia feature. The day did present itself with quite a few problems. The first was that the equipment arrived a bit late. … More A day of video
Today, like most days, was quite tiring. Most of the it was spent working on my storyboard for my video and working on another draft for my feature. This meant having to read up on South Africa’s tobacco act to see where hookah fits into it. While it did provide some information it did leave some questions … More Researching the tobacco act
I didn’t like much the idea of waking up this morning. I spent the weekend relaxing from the stress and exhaustion of the previous week so apart from working on my feature I was unable to get any leg work done. This meant that I was again left with a feeling of stress over my … More The doctor is in
Today was one of those days that didn’t seem to want to work for me. After receiving feedback on my draft I had to re think a lot of things and basically re write large sections of my feature article. While this was happening in the morning there was a massive protest happening at Wits … More Another day of stress
Today was the day that we handed in our story boards. Even though I had a character and a doctor for my video I still wasn’t sure whether it would work out due to my characters schedule. After having a meeting with our video lecturer Zaheer, he gave me the idea if approaching Wits students … More Stress of Multimedia
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