CBC Montreal
The CBC building in Montreal was the hugest TV station building I've ever seen. An hour tour only guided us through a fraction of what that place has. We saw these huge microphones that looked like the end of a tuba. It would seem humorous now to see someone speaking into one of those.
CBC's set collection is amazing. They call it all their heritage, so they can't get rid of any of it, they keep it. The vast majority is stored underground but they stash a lot of it at the Molson building next door and in some other building too.
After the tour we had the viewing for our National Film Board mini-documentaries. There were 25 in total and there were some pretty impresive ones. They played them all in a row and mine was 24th. After the viewing we went over all of them again, this time being critiqued by the students, mostly from around Montreal, but maybe a half dozen projects coming out of Ottawa, ours one of them. When the constructive critizism came our way, the first of the comments were wonderful. They loved the editing, some saying they've never seen something like that on tv. A few, including one of the National Film Board reps asked how one of the effects was done. Needless to say, I was quite excited.
This was the rough cut, and the final is due on April 29th. We've got a few things to fix, but they are pretty minor. I'm looking forward to the final viewing which will take place sometime in mid May. Hopefully I will be able to get down to that too. It was awesome to take a daytrip to Montreal and I wish I could have stayed the night, or a few days. Montreal is an amazing city and I would love to live there.
Back in Ottawa now and back to regular schoolwork. I had 5 messages waiting for me when I got in reminding me about projects due soon. At least i'll get 6 hours sleep tonight!
CBC's set collection is amazing. They call it all their heritage, so they can't get rid of any of it, they keep it. The vast majority is stored underground but they stash a lot of it at the Molson building next door and in some other building too.
After the tour we had the viewing for our National Film Board mini-documentaries. There were 25 in total and there were some pretty impresive ones. They played them all in a row and mine was 24th. After the viewing we went over all of them again, this time being critiqued by the students, mostly from around Montreal, but maybe a half dozen projects coming out of Ottawa, ours one of them. When the constructive critizism came our way, the first of the comments were wonderful. They loved the editing, some saying they've never seen something like that on tv. A few, including one of the National Film Board reps asked how one of the effects was done. Needless to say, I was quite excited.
This was the rough cut, and the final is due on April 29th. We've got a few things to fix, but they are pretty minor. I'm looking forward to the final viewing which will take place sometime in mid May. Hopefully I will be able to get down to that too. It was awesome to take a daytrip to Montreal and I wish I could have stayed the night, or a few days. Montreal is an amazing city and I would love to live there.
Back in Ottawa now and back to regular schoolwork. I had 5 messages waiting for me when I got in reminding me about projects due soon. At least i'll get 6 hours sleep tonight!
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