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Hi my name is Ferdaws Salatan,
this will be my video submission for
the Radio & Television program here at NAIT
the stream I'll be taking will be television, although I wouldn't mind going into Radio.
(if that is possible) but for now I'm focusing on just television.
I'm signing up for this program in the hope of maybe one day becoming
either an editor for a news publication or a video producer or
or someone who's just involved post-processing;
I don't know yet, actually...
But without further ado, let's get on with the questions
I don't know where my fascination for shooting came from.
All I know is that for the longest time I always wanted to
hold a camera and shoot and chop films and say "look what I did everyone"
and someone would ask me to shoot their wedding. But I would politely decline, saying
that there was this other offer for shooting dinosaurs...
I'm a pretty bad friend, I know.
And finally now that I got my own DSLR cam, despite not knowing how to use it
or what to use it with,
I [figure] this career path can help me put it to good use.
Now as for editing (for editing in writing):
That came pretty recent. I've had this passion for correcting other people's work
only in the past couple of years. Back in high school when I was studying creative writing.
One day in class we were put into group and were tasked to come up with a story all together.
Normally we would write on our own, avoiding everyone( that's why I took the class).
Anyway that involved a lot of peer evaluation, lots fact checking, lots of critiquing,
lots of communication, basically.
And I found that to be more interesting and fun than writing the story alone
and I thought that maybe one day I could do this for a living.
For video: I believe most of the time will be spent on your doodling,
making paper airplanes, checking your social, pranking your boss and whatnot.
All whilst waiting for your video to render.
At least that's how I interpreted it because, really, what else are you supposed to do in the meantime?
Like actual work?
For a writing editor: a typical workday would look a little bit less chaotic.
At least all of the chaos is actually happening on the inside.
You're just flummoxed by all [these] grammatical hiccups your writing partner
managed to overlook and you're like "how on earth did you think that was clever?"
Or "What are you even trying to say here?"
It's really easy to miss certain things that you would otherwise deem
incorrect, sloppy or incohesive
unless if you have a second pair of eyes.
So editing, whether it be for writing or shooting, requires a right (balance) of creativity
and creative sacrifice.
And lots of judgment call.
When cutting a video, first of all, one must consult with their director/producer or something like that.
on how they want their film to look;
a design specification, more or less.
And then once the actual cutting begin, you must make your own decisions as to
what you think is bad or what you think should stay. You won't really know until you actually cut.
If you like your results: good. If not, well it's a good thing you kept a backup file, right?
Right?
It requires a lot of practice, basically.
With writing it's more of the same. Just instead of cutting, you are underlining and annotating and stuff.
But more notably, you are doing this for somebody else so it is of the utmost importance to
be extra harsh when evaluating.
There shall be no gold star stamped until everything is perfecto.
I have [heard] from most fiction authors that almost nothing in their books resembles how it was
initially written.
They would be lucky enough to have at least one sentence untampered with.
So that should be fun.
Earlier I've talked about how people in the video processing department tend to goof off all the time(allegedly).
Which probably factored in why I wanted to become [an editor] in the first place.
However I may not have [this] luxury since for the most part, I tend to finish certain projects
minutes before deadline. Which, I will say, it's not a a good habit to get into
So what I hope to build on is to get stuff done ahead of time.
That way I can have more time practicing my origami artistry,
Another habit I have to free myself from:
Sometimes during any given project I tend to forget something suggested by my fellow peers
They would ask me to "do this, it'll be funny" or "do that it'll be entertaining or eye-gouging."
Which once I realised I've missed out on, it's too late. And then I feel bad afterwards even though nobody except for my teammates and I would
notice. But despite them being very trivial stuff, I aim to minimise those missed opportunities.
Oh crap, I should've done this--
Well if you really must know, I have this really really unhealthy obsession of going to X--
I get most of my news from the onion. It is America's finest news source.
I also go to Reddit in general. Nothing too specific there; it's basically my new Facebook.
I also watch Philip DeFranco, Rooster Teeth, John Oliver, among other things.
Recently I've been listening to a lot of S. Town, some pretty good stuff.
Did I mention X
So as I've mentioned earlier: editing in journalism, editing in television/video.
I was most interested in the Journalism Fundamentals class this program offer.
As well as post-production graphics, videography, studio production and I'm just going to list off all the classes at this point.
And I've also mentioned that I wanted to become a video producer of some sort as well. I'm currently taking
online course for project management. And from what I've learnt, that requires a lot of [time] management skills (as the name implies)
and communication skills which I guess falls in line with editing.
Right now it sounds as if I'm trying to become everything at the moment. Whilst it does sound intriguing,
the reason being is that from what I've heard, you'd have to be able to operate multiple equipment,
run multiple software and do almost everything just in case if someone doesn't show up
which will happen one day. So really nothing has changed since
your high school/middle school days of school broadcasting where people
constantly switch roles, making very hard to master one equipment.
Except that now that you've grown wiser and more prepared,
you should be proficient in at least one or two things.
But to narrow it down (or to broaden it in that sense),
I would like to become a journalist (a writer), a video editor, a videographer and a producer. Something like that.
So from the lowest paying [aforementioned] occupation to the highest,
I should be expecting anywhere [between] $30 000 to $60 000.
I'm taking Canada, US, UK and France into consideration. I'm
not sure why and I'm not sure why I did it that way.
But for as far as I'm concerned, it is going to be quite the competitive environment, so wherever I should land I should thankful
enough to be contracted anywhere. Because from what I've gathered people don't like to stick to one profession at at time.
Or at least they hop around until they find their Goldilocks of a job.
And I don't expect anything out of the norm for me.
Anyway that is all I got. Thank you guys for listening and I hope to see you guys in class. Bye bye.
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