Whassup guys, so its been freaking ages since my last blog so all u people hanging on to my every word sorry. Some of the guest speakers that came in recently i was sadly ill for, but as a good uni student i found out who they were and what they said, obviously some of it will not be in my own words as i was not there. One of the guest speakers was Paul Appleby. He is an executive producer who works for the BBC. He was also the person that gave Susan (our beloved lecturer) her first job as a researcher. Paul spoke to us about evolutionary changes. This is using technology until it becomes the standard, over time the technology is adapted until it becomes the new standard.

The phone interview between Mark Fox and myself

Provided Material Manipulation

This is the edit that i had to do within the time limit of 3 hours

Plagiarism

Ok so the same day that we had the interview with Andy Netley we also had a talk on plagiarism. Which I must admit i have  clearly done some of in the past. I didn't quite know how much there really was to it. And the minerva site seems pretty clever in making sure you haven't cheated so don't think I will be trying to beat the system anytime soon. 

Interviewing Andy Netley

Today we were given the chance to interview Andy Netley, a decorated editor who has worked on such projects as Amazon and Planet Earth. He is freelance much like most editors. He told us a bit about why he became an editor and he gave us some advice on what we can do to try and get into the industry, which i found out at the end of the interview was very little. The way to get into the business is to be cutthroat. Use every contact you have, do as many short films as you can and try and get them out in the open. Andy was very helpful as I one day would like to be an editor.

He then went on to say tell us that the best way to get a job as an editor is to be good at storytelling and to be able to link the images together in order for the viewer not to realise that the peice they are watching has not been edited at all. That is the true mark of a good editor.

This is my first blog and im not really sure what to write but here it is anyway. It's a pretty simple procedure and quite interesting once you know how to use it properly. If you have not tried blogging yet, I think it's time your began.