Every year in Broadcast Technology 2, Mr Goble whips up a fresh idea for his final project. Apparently, it's always something completely out of the blue. This year, we had to make a 6-shot film that corresponds to a 6-word story about our lives.

Mirroring Hemmingway's famous challenge to write a story with only 6 words, we had to tell a story about our lives with only 6 shots. Luckily for me, I have a 6-word story on standby in case a teacher thinks hes clever and assigns me to write one. It's tried and true. "The Straight-A Student, Secretly Rebellious". The only chalenge now was to get this story onto the screen. A quick storyboarding later, and I was ready to go.

The only issue that I ran into was a glitch with the autocorret. The 4th shot, which is a super tight of my shoes as I walk in the door, caused the camera to absolutely freak out. The ground appeared that it was boiling, switching in and out of focus every frame. I had to reshoot, but luckily I was still able to wrap everything up with ample time remaining. Onwards and upwards.

I'd like to consider myself a somewhat outgoing person. I try not to let myslef be anhibited too much by unfirmiliar social situations. But let me tell you, being dropped in a room with a half dozen people twice my age with no introduction was AWKWARD. This wasn't helped by the fact that I was shoving a camera in their faces and demanding soundbites. To their credit, all of the HEC TV cast and crew did their best to humor me. They let my trapse around their setup, filming interesting bits and collecting interveiws. Perhaps I took advantage of this a little too much, I finished with hours of B roll and interveiws that needed to be edited.

It always seems that even when I have enough B roll to fill a small house, I still never have the right kind. Sometimes, I have to just get a little creative and pair a sound bite with some viduals that don't match. This lady is talking about how hard it is to market the TV station. I've got 7 medium shots of the two anchors at the desk, 5 shots of the meteorologist at the green screen, and a handful of shot with techies plugging in equipment. It's impossible to go out and collect more shots, HEC TV has packed up and left. Just gotta make do with what you have, I suppose.

Even with a few awkward silences and speedbumps in the editing room, I was still happy with my end product. The sound was bad at times, the framing wasn't perfect, but when it was all said in done, I think that I had a video that is both informative and (somewhat) entertaining. Solid B+ work.