Andrew Noddin
Mon 30 Oct 2000
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Hello,
Im Andrew Noddin and im in my 3rd year of a Television Broadcasting
Course in Belleville, Ontario. Originally when i started i was
interested in the News aspect of Television but that quickly changed
when i realized the lack of production and creativity that it SEAMS
to involve. During my 2nd year here i started directing short 8 and a
half minute documentaries that has aired on the community cable
station for our schools show called Quinteview, which focuses on
stories developed through the Quinte region of Ontario. I have
directed documentaries on Hemp and its environmental uses, on an old
theatre in Picton called the Regent Theatre, a profile on a community
based hockey team called the Picton Pirates and on a Senior Citizens
big band called the Quinte Living Center Band. Directing is not
exactly what i want to do because i don't believe i am vocal enough
to be a director but i try to get the directing experience because i
believe it gives me a better overall sense of how documentaries are
produced and it will help me put together stories as an editor. I
have chosen editing documentaries as my field of specialty during my
last year here at Loyalist college but i have also chosen to direct
one aswell for the experience.
The documentary i am directing (i should actually say co-directing
and co-producing with Brandon Ogden)is a 30 minute documentary on a
Festival in town called Festival of trees, which we are beginning to
shoot in two weeks from today. I believe this program is a very good
program and i am learning a lot and getting loads of experience from
the course itself. Teachers are great and very interactive with all
their students. The only concern with this school concerns the Dean
of the program for lack of organization, equipment and respect for
the NEW 3rd year Television Broadcasting course. Our course consists
of 12 students(6 specializing in Documentaries, 6 in news) This
semester we are obliged to do 5-30 minute documentaries, 6-10 minute
news features, 12-industrial videos for real clients, and all the
preproduction involved in 2 television pilots and 1-1h and 30min
movie, all to be done in 4 months by 12 students and as many
volunteers as us students can get. Personally its seems kind of steep
but i really wouldn't know how steep the workload really gets in the
workforce so im not really complaining about that. The thing i and
the rest of my class are petitioning about is the equipment problems
such as the fact that we only have 2 cameras dedicated to our class,
the fact that there is only ONE media van which is shared between 2nd
year TV, 3rd year TV, 2nd year Broadcast Journalists and the Print
Journalism class, lack of hard drive space on our 3 Avids(each has 36
gigs and is used both by us and 2nd year tv students), our cheap dv
decks having been jamming tapes and costing some students important
footage,and there is a whole list of other things that is on our
petition.
Anyways i have joined this community hoping that i could meet some
interesting doc filmakers and also as a source of advice when needed,
aswell as to learn what the real documentary filmaking community is
really like. "IN RETURN KNOWLEDGE" sorry that's a quote from one of
the tv pilots we are producing.But seriously i will try my best to
offer advice or ideas as much as possible.
Im Andrew Noddin and im in my 3rd year of a Television Broadcasting
Course in Belleville, Ontario. Originally when i started i was
interested in the News aspect of Television but that quickly changed
when i realized the lack of production and creativity that it SEAMS
to involve. During my 2nd year here i started directing short 8 and a
half minute documentaries that has aired on the community cable
station for our schools show called Quinteview, which focuses on
stories developed through the Quinte region of Ontario. I have
directed documentaries on Hemp and its environmental uses, on an old
theatre in Picton called the Regent Theatre, a profile on a community
based hockey team called the Picton Pirates and on a Senior Citizens
big band called the Quinte Living Center Band. Directing is not
exactly what i want to do because i don't believe i am vocal enough
to be a director but i try to get the directing experience because i
believe it gives me a better overall sense of how documentaries are
produced and it will help me put together stories as an editor. I
have chosen editing documentaries as my field of specialty during my
last year here at Loyalist college but i have also chosen to direct
one aswell for the experience.
The documentary i am directing (i should actually say co-directing
and co-producing with Brandon Ogden)is a 30 minute documentary on a
Festival in town called Festival of trees, which we are beginning to
shoot in two weeks from today. I believe this program is a very good
program and i am learning a lot and getting loads of experience from
the course itself. Teachers are great and very interactive with all
their students. The only concern with this school concerns the Dean
of the program for lack of organization, equipment and respect for
the NEW 3rd year Television Broadcasting course. Our course consists
of 12 students(6 specializing in Documentaries, 6 in news) This
semester we are obliged to do 5-30 minute documentaries, 6-10 minute
news features, 12-industrial videos for real clients, and all the
preproduction involved in 2 television pilots and 1-1h and 30min
movie, all to be done in 4 months by 12 students and as many
volunteers as us students can get. Personally its seems kind of steep
but i really wouldn't know how steep the workload really gets in the
workforce so im not really complaining about that. The thing i and
the rest of my class are petitioning about is the equipment problems
such as the fact that we only have 2 cameras dedicated to our class,
the fact that there is only ONE media van which is shared between 2nd
year TV, 3rd year TV, 2nd year Broadcast Journalists and the Print
Journalism class, lack of hard drive space on our 3 Avids(each has 36
gigs and is used both by us and 2nd year tv students), our cheap dv
decks having been jamming tapes and costing some students important
footage,and there is a whole list of other things that is on our
petition.
Anyways i have joined this community hoping that i could meet some
interesting doc filmakers and also as a source of advice when needed,
aswell as to learn what the real documentary filmaking community is
really like. "IN RETURN KNOWLEDGE" sorry that's a quote from one of
the tv pilots we are producing.But seriously i will try my best to
offer advice or ideas as much as possible.