A week not too shabby.

All things considered, it's been a pretty good week. I'm about to head out the door to go camping. So I gotta make this a quick update.

Monday, I got to try my hand at directing! It had been the one thing that I had been dying to do here (a director in tv is the person who watches all the cameras on monitors in the control room, and switches from one to the other).  We were only filming one of the bands performance, but I was just happy to get some experience.
Tuesday was Old Testament class as usual. We studied wisdom literature, mostly writings of Solomon. Wednesday, I worked camera 4 for Chapel. Not my favorite camera, but it was experience none the less. that night I was trained on Producing (a producer is accountable for EVERYTHING. First one, there last to leave.  If something goes wrong, it's their fault.) I was extremely shocked to look on my roster and see that I was going to THE producer in a couple weeks. I wasn't expecting to be in charge of anything for at least another month or so.
Thursday, I worked camera 1 (the hand held one that shoots behind the drums) for Sisterhood. It was the first time I had been rostered to work that camera in the C.C. (main auditorium). I guess what's happening is the first semester students are now slowly getting placed in positions of more responsibility to replace the second semester students. Needless to say, this change in the tides is welcomed on my end.
I have realized, that I have become such a more competent and confident film maker since coming here. When I first got here, I couldn't even begin to take on and edit a video with Final Cut. Now I can edit videos just as well as the next guy.  I know how to set up a good shot, I have learned a whole books worth of terminology, and how to use equipment that I couldn't make heads or tails out of five months ago. I'm thrilled to see what I will learn in the coming in the second half of my time here.