Almost over

Well my time for me a KKC is almost over and my time at my internship/job is almost over as well. As I grow in my craft I want to put myself in the best position to provide the best future for myself and family. I could be traveling to Balitimore but I have some opprotunites that I dont want to miss out on and I find myself torn between the two. This weekend is the opening of the Art center where I live there is going to be a press conference and its going to be a big thing and I want to network with the people who will be there. I want to create a dope package of the press conference. Also this weekend is the first meeting of the artist that live in the complex I will shoot that and get interviews of every artist that comes which is a great start to documentary for the next year of living over there. On the other hand Min Farrakhan will be speaking at Morgan State and I want to go to that and be a part of that but I cant do both. So which do I chose well I chose to stay and go to the press conference. How much do you sacrafice for what you believe in? Sometimes its hard working for what you believe in I wish I could make more money here but I dont see that as a reality. So I feel like I'm choosing my personal desires over giving my everything for what I believe in and helping Min. Farrakhan. I applyed for a job at city colleges and if Im blessed to get it I would leave the Final Call which would be hard but I have to think about myself and family. Is that a lack of faith? I see some people here who have sacraficed so much for the Nation but they have not put them self in a better position financially. This is me just venting on the trials of working at the same place you worship at.

Nov 5 2014

Well Im almost done with KKC and Im want to finish strong. My internship is coming good I have no complaints just need more money which we all need. My media writing class is help me grow in my projects. Today I participated in a vice chancellor meeting to get input from the students on there experience at KKC. My capstone commercial was played and went over extremely well. Its such a blessing to find something that I enjoy doing, I used to install cable I was in the carpentry union and was a factory worker and I didn't enjoy none of it. I finally something I like to do which is a blessing. I will be glad when this semester is over and on to the next part of my life.

After Kingston Jamaica

Hello world and Ms. Ash this is my blog after spending a week in Kingston Jamaica. It was a great trip with alot of work and learning. This week I put what I learned in media writing to work. Our primary goal as the Final Call production team when we travel with Min Farrakhan is to record every speech he gives and record historic visit and meeting with world leaders. The first thing we recorded was his trip to heros park where Marcus Garvey, Michael and Norman Manley and some of the first prime ministers of Jamaica are buried. Once we were done I wrote a voice over for it and had to edit it for the preshow on sunday.I got it done and it was shown to the world on Sunday. After visiting Kingston and coming home I am a little more appreciative for living in America. I have everything I need to be successful.

Oct 8, 2014

This past 6 days have been really hectic for me at my internship and personal life. I moved this past weekend and we have had 5 straight productions with the last one ending last night at 11:30 pm. I had to edit together two very important videos that played over the national broadcast on Mon. It was fun but there was a deadline I had to meet so there was some added pressure but I got it done. Now we are getting ready for Jamacia.

Sept 24 blog

Today at my internship am working on editing lectures from Grenada. Min. Farrakhan has spoke at several locations there so I have to edit 2 camera shoots of all these location. Its a hard edit because the best way to shoot when there is 2 cameras and it has to be edited afterwards and not switched on location is to record non stop in both cameras. However on these productions the main camera recorded non stop but the 2nd cam or cut away camera did not. This makes the editing harder and more tedious .

1st Internship Blog

This is my first blog for my internship class of 2014. I missed the first one but I won't miss no more. For my first blog I will write about some of my daily activities at my internship. My daily activities as of late consist of getting ready for the anniversary of the Million Man in Jamaica. He speaking to the whole of the Caribbean from Kingston Jamaica. He has spoke there a lot over the past 20 years and alot of that footage is on beta and 3/4 inch tapes. So I have been finding the lectures he did in Jamaica and other islands and capturing them and making them into a digital file and getting them to the head editor for commercials.