My day at the pix beyond pix…

Before the career exploration visit, I thought that beyond pix was going to be full of people running all over the place to try to get their work done. But now I see that most companies are run way more differently that those of the movies. Their absolutely no one running or screaming across the room and their is no one playing garbage can basketball. Their is only a few people working a day it goes from at least 10 to 20 people that work a day. But during their work hours they work very hard and seem to be stressing a bit but still find a way to finish their work for the day.

I personally believe that are day of the exploration to beyond pix was about 90% educational 5% fun and 5% wicked. But over all i loved that we got a chance to take this trip not only because it was only very fun but because it helped me see what kind of jobs their are in this work industry and what it is that i need to do if i ever would want to work in such a cool place like at beyond pix.

 

Silent Movie

FIRST WORK OF 2010-2011

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The Presentation

I think that the presentation was a pretty difficult part due to the nervousness of messing up and having to talk in front of people you don’t even know. After presenting it was not really as difficult as I thought it was going to be. But over all I think that are project was a success I think I did pretty good in talking except for that I look at the slides a bit more than what I was suppose to.

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MY day at KQED

Our day at KQED

Our day to KQED started off slow, due to having to walk to the Bart station. But once at the Bart station it felt like we were moving pretty fast because we didn’t have to go on a bus that drives slow and has to go on the free way going through stops and traffic. After we got from the Bart we had to walk up like 200 million stair. Finally after making it up the stairs which took us 2 moons and a sun rise we made it to 16^th street and Bryant. From there we walked up two blocks south to Mariposa. Where we stopped at Star bucks for some coffee to power up our batteries to be awake to learn as much as we could to see what it takes to not only work at KQED but to get employed.

Finally we made it to the main entrance where we were face to face with the front desk lady that helped us get started on our journey at KQED. At first it started off with a guy named Tony Roberts. He first showed us a wall with lots and lots of people’s names on it. I think this was called the wall of donations. Because KQED is a non profit company and it is also public. What this means is that it relies on donations and other types of ways to get money. He also told us that KQED started on 1950 but didn’t go on air till 1954. Another thing he mentioned was that KQED was not only a TV station but it is also a radio and news station as well.

After we talked about the wall of donations he walked us into a new world within KQED this world was called the world of imagination where all of your crazy dreams can come true. JK this world was the world of show making. Where they will make TV shows and many more things that is to top secret to be put on this paper. It seems like there are one million lights and like two hundred cameras. MR. Roberts told us that every light had a job and that every camera also had a job. So I thought to myself why so many lights and why so many cameras? As I was thinking this, he told us three words that answered all of my questions. These words were suspension of disbelief.  This is a semi-conscious decision in which you put aside your disbelief and accept that premise as being real for the time you are into a movie or story you are reading.  He also introduced us to some people that actually work in making shows and stuff. They said that it was hard to get a job in the TV career but if you try hard and are willing to fight for a spot someday you will get a call and be given a shot to show people what you are capable of. Sort of like a first impression on the director or the president to the company. But at the end of the day you can only hope to find a job.

After talking to them Robert took us into a little room full of TVs and digital clocks. In this room they put the TV shows into TV it looked really complicated till the guy that worked there explained it to us it was really simple. We then went down the hall and looked into another room filled with about five million TVs. It was quite amazing, I have never seen so many TVs in one room before. Ten minutes later we went up a little higher in the building where we got to talk to the radio man about his job. He went on the air while we were in the room that was awesome. I also learned that the people that work In KQED or in other similar companies have their days planned out ahead of time. It was also surprising to my that to work a KQED take lots of luck and hard work. Over all I think our day at KQED was fun and educational.

My day at the UC

College

On my visit to UC Berkeley I was expecting to get to see some class rooms and dorm rooms, as well as some libraries and lunch rooms. I also didn’t expect some people to surprise me like they did on our day at Berkeley. Over all are trip to UC Berkeley was very fun and interesting.

On our way to UC Berkeley I got to get on BART once more since almost one year. Once at Berkeley I got to see lots of interesting things like how big Berkeley really is. Another interesting thing for me had to be the sculptures and the little flee market / student clubs. I thought that was cool because I think it helped people getting their voices heard by the people. For example the girls that were handing the Paper that said I love vaginas and the animation club as well as the club that used all recyclable things to make a man out of it. What surprised me was that there were lots of people that looked like they didn’t really do lots of work because they were all with friend’s eating and even having fun at the park. Their was also people preaching and stuff that’s another thing that surprised me.

I expected for our college visit to be way better than it was. On our way to Berkeley I had in my mind that we were going to go into classes and dormitories and even the gym and soccer/football field. But we didn’t, that was a bummer for me because I really wanted to go visit that part of the school. Another part of the school I wanted to go to was the lunch rooms because I wanted to see what we get to eat in college and how much better the food is than our school because I think that the food from our school sucks.

Over all I think that our trip to UC Berkeley was very fun and it really showed me a sneak peek at what college is like. One of the things I like about this trip would have to be that I got to spend time with my teachers and friends in a college that some of my teachers  didn’t only go to, but graduated from. If I had the chance to go once more I would like to be able to go to the soccer/football field, class rooms, and last but not least the lunch rooms of UC Berkeley.

first semester

I  learned how to use photoshop, and how to do 3D images with bryce its kinda hard at first but then u learn more by the day making it easy. I also did a hoof project it was fun because i got to learn about my family even more and about my friends family. I think the most difficult part was finding the right song to go with my video. I also got to learn how to use final cut express. Thats what I made my video with its basically like your own movie director. Another thing I learned was to fix photos and make songs using garage band. But over all this first semester was very successful.

first semester

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