and now the school report
That is report on the school.
Well, lets see. J2 is actually worth getting up at 6:30 for. My professor is actually a working journalist, and he always has really good stories to tell and show us. Also I was worried about having to cover a beat. He tossed that idea out because the class is too damn big for everyone to actually work on things they want to. instead we have a more free form sort of reporting.
Advanced editing is pretty neat, to my surprise. I'm a Multimedia Web Editor, which means I get to do sound and video editing, and think of interesting ways to implement them. I'm also responsible for at least three pieces of original content for the website, and they can be pretty much anything I want. I'm really happy about that, I'm going to do at least one radio piece so that will be fun. It's a ton of work, but in a good way.
Arts writing is.... ehh. I'm a little underwhelmed by the course. I like the idea of music writing, which it should be called. I certainly like the challenge of writing a music review that makes sense. However a lot of the class revolves around what everyone else in the class thinks of your work. This might be a problem because my tastes seem to differ heavily from everyone else there. I guess I'll never get past the reaction people have when I tell'em my favorite kind of music is punk. It's like dropping back into high school for a second. Needless to say my peers there are more into the indie/hipster scene. I do legitimately like some indie stuff, but it's so very broad, and the stuff coming out of NYC( where many of these kids hail from) isn't interesting me right now.
Music of the world is a really calming class about the basics of music(duh) and I can honestly say that spending over an hour twice a week learning this and hearing examples through classical music is incredibly relaxing.
Indians of North America is just as boring as it was last spring.
Well, lets see. J2 is actually worth getting up at 6:30 for. My professor is actually a working journalist, and he always has really good stories to tell and show us. Also I was worried about having to cover a beat. He tossed that idea out because the class is too damn big for everyone to actually work on things they want to. instead we have a more free form sort of reporting.
Advanced editing is pretty neat, to my surprise. I'm a Multimedia Web Editor, which means I get to do sound and video editing, and think of interesting ways to implement them. I'm also responsible for at least three pieces of original content for the website, and they can be pretty much anything I want. I'm really happy about that, I'm going to do at least one radio piece so that will be fun. It's a ton of work, but in a good way.
Arts writing is.... ehh. I'm a little underwhelmed by the course. I like the idea of music writing, which it should be called. I certainly like the challenge of writing a music review that makes sense. However a lot of the class revolves around what everyone else in the class thinks of your work. This might be a problem because my tastes seem to differ heavily from everyone else there. I guess I'll never get past the reaction people have when I tell'em my favorite kind of music is punk. It's like dropping back into high school for a second. Needless to say my peers there are more into the indie/hipster scene. I do legitimately like some indie stuff, but it's so very broad, and the stuff coming out of NYC( where many of these kids hail from) isn't interesting me right now.
Music of the world is a really calming class about the basics of music(duh) and I can honestly say that spending over an hour twice a week learning this and hearing examples through classical music is incredibly relaxing.
Indians of North America is just as boring as it was last spring.