Wow... it has been so long since I posted. I am no longer sure where to start.
After the whole of January, life became a bit of a blur. I had to prepare a bunch of schedules for my bosses from ArtCorps, who scored the gig with Cultural Survival for me and set out a project plan. That was painful, but I got through it.
It all started out really well, but soon the 14 kids who started out with me learning video production began to slack off. It was all great until they had to start learning how to edit, and they began to object to learning "theory" as they called the main tenets of editing, not realising that I was teaching them settings on the computer that they needed to understand and also the basics of pixel resolution, light in video and how to colour correct, as well as how the timeline on a sequence works. Basics. Nothing more. But 10 of them wanted to play with the cameras and not necessarily create a story with what they had filmed on video. They wanted to see themselves on video and on the camera viewfinder. Not even on a computer screen. It was a bit of teen psychology I was not aware of before.
So here we are, almost at the end of my time here, finishing off two of five videos, starting the third one and organising four and five. Yet, our second video is going to a surprise to the organisation, because it is so long and so information heavy that we are going to have to divide it into 3 videos. I will be giving them more than they bargained for and end up with hopefully two highly trained students. Yes, 2. Not 4. These 2 are the die hards, the committed, the really talented, who stuck through the rainy season, no money to get on the bus, the shutdown of the radio station they volunteer for during 2 months, and recently, the raid on their radio station by the Guatemalan police.
All of these are important things I wish to touch on relating to my learning experiences here, but this is just a tidbit of what is to come.
