I got the FOX35 Summer Production Internship!  I'm excited about it, and looking forward to learning in a hands-on environment. FOX35 is an owned & operated station, which means it's owned by Fox and not an affiliate, which means they have really awesome equipment. The internship is also for studio production, which means I'm not going to be in the field often (I assume there are no "nevers" in news). I am more interested in studio production than news field work, so it's perfect.

One of our Advanced Video Post Production assignments this semester was to create a promo for WUCF. After we chose a subject, we were given footage from the shows to use - I chose Britcoms (British Comedies) and was given one episode each of Keeping Up Appearances, Chef!, and Good Neighbors. Now that the semester is over, they've let us know whose promos they would like to air, and mine was one of them!

In addition to Adobe’s CS6 Production Suite, I just picked up Avid Media Composer 6.5. As we read articles from professional production magazines in my Advanced Video Post Production class, I’m realizing that a lot of professional work is done on Avid. Despite that, nearly all of our editing bays and edit labs have FCP 7, and only a few have the Adobe CS6 Production Suite. We’ve mentioned Avid briefly, but without the actual program, it’s difficult for the professor to really teach us anything about it.

The hyper-intelligent serial murderer is a staple of procedural crime dramas and horror films alike, serving as the antagonist to the hero or as the horrific villain. This character evens ventures into anti-hero territory on shows like Dexter. And I’m tired of seeing it. It’s lazy writing, because these shows and movies recycle the exact same plot infinitely. It’s also incredibly unrealistic.