Direct

I'm directing this week's HuskersHQ talk show. Well, mostly just running the camera switches, but there's no real script so the switches are sort of freestyle.

When I do the daily newscast, I've got a script and camera changes written in. Easy-peasy. So freestyle makes me a little nervous. Especially since it's a sports show. I know SFA about Husker football so I'm hoping it will be easy to tell when to flip cams.

I'm also excited about it. As I learn more and more about video, producing and editing etc, I'm discovering a new thing that I love doing in my field. It almost feels like it did back in college when I was a bit directionless until I discovered the Internets. I had an epiphany moment when I realized I could make a living out of something I love to do as a hobby.

And I've always dug editing. Been making WAV files and soundclips for eons. But I never had really good tools to learn the stuff full force. I do now and yep, it suits me :) I'm gong to be learning how to shoot video next. Looking forward to that.

Anyway lunch break's nearly over. Check out http://theindependent.com/overtime/ tomorrow and let me know how I did :) Or you can catch my newscasts every other day at http://theindependent.com/video/.

...Later that afternoon...
Well that wasn't so bad. I kind of like freestylin' :) I felt stiff at first and afraid to get too crazy with the switching but you really do kind of get a feel for when to throw it to 1 or toss it to 3. AND you don't have to know football either :) It's more about tone of voice and you can just tell when the talking head is winding up his spiel.

I'd do it again.