Art to Go, Week 2

This week we broke into groups. I'm doing Art Interpretation (now called something else that I already forget), Tour, and Documentary. Each group put together a mission statement and a time line for the semester (except for the documentary group--we don't know what the hell we're doing). I feel a lot better about this now that we're making plans. I can't get anything done without a due date to eat at my conscience every time I get distracted by the internet, beer and VH1. I think everyone's freaked out by the amount of work we have ahead of us, but with all the work so spread out our individual responsibilities really aren't too out-of-hand. We're all going to have to spend some time learning new things--computer programs, art terminology--but at least it isn't Spanish. Blessed Baby Jesus, at least it isn't Spanish.

The real fun this week came when we began filming the documentary. I was watching the rival team filming with the fancy-pants camera all last week and worrying about them beating us, but now that we, too, have used the uber-expensive HD camera to film ourselves being cut-ups and goofballs, my confidence is up. Our group has way more angst and substance abuse. We will have the superior reality show.

Michelle showed me how to use both of the cameras available to us and gave me a basic idea of how to light things, which is awesome because I have zero access to this kind of equipment normally and have yet to take a class about this stuff, so I was clueless. The big camera has a lot of buttons, but isn't too complicated. Didn't they make the Revenge of the Sith with one of these things? What this place needs is more green screens.