When Lesley offered me the chance to work on a set of video interviews to be displayed on the art Departments website, I approached the idea the thinking the same way I do whenever I am about to get employed: “I will enter this shivering and scared, but I will come out much wiser and richer.”
However, after my recent conversation with Ms. Cornelia Swann, the webmaster (webmistress?), I feel a little more intimidated that I am used to. You see, with employment, I am guided quite closely through the process which, in a way, is not that vivid enough to loose focus in. This situation, however, is much more of a “make-this-professionally-and-we'll-see-you-at-the-end-of-the-semester”; a position I don't believe I ever have been in.
*takes deep breaths*
As you can see, fear is my knee-jerk reaction to the proposition but once I take a clear look at it, I shouldn't be afraid of anything. What this basically does is give me freedom to do what I wanted to do anyway. It would have been a tremendous missed opportunity had I turned this down from fear. After all, I will have all the equipment I will need to make this, I'll have the entire campus (or at least the art building) to use as a backdrop and the advice of lots of students and Professors whenever I get confused, overwhelmed or break down in the fetal position. Furthermore, it's not as if interviews are ridiculously hard; one, maybe two cameras recording an individual talk, a light on the person, a light on the background, maybe have them start over when they make mistakes, some cuts to the things they're talking about, it sounds reachable to me.
The one and only problem, and I believe this is what I truly fear, is Procrastination.
I am a notorious procrastinator and this could be my major downfall on this quite glorious opportunity. It has plagued me in the past and is still rearing it's ugly head on this the first week of this semester. But there is some good news on the horizon; lately I have adopted using my friends and family as living alarm clocks for things I have to do and when I cannot do that, I go to Starbucks. Yep. Definitely Starbucks. That's because if I am in a Starbucks, I absolutely have to be studying or working on something. It's probably because of the coffee smell.
And with that I raise a Vente Chai Latte to this Semesters Project.
Hip hip hooray.
Friday, January 15, 2010
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