I made it! The journey started in Thailand and landed me in New York's Syracuse University. For the next nine months I'll attend one of the top media schools in the country.
A stopover in my home state of Maryland meant good times with Mama... (she's a black belt)
and epic newspaper reading with Dadeo.
I've been taking advantage of the warm weather while it lasts. Central New York has a lot of lakes...
and mountain bike trails. A deer pauses to marvel at my biking skills.
Okay two things:
1. The Navy is the only branch to attend Syracuse this year. In a time of tight budgets, our top folks found a way to keep the program going. This is why Navy is the best branch.
2. The instructors here are top of their game. I've attended several colleges, and Syracuse professors have a much higher level of knowledge and more importantly, passion, about their subjects.
This room displays photos and backgrounds of our communications instructors. They've got pretty heavy credentials. Our Sound for Picture instructor worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He's holding a voluntary workshop for us on Saturday. Who wouldn't want to go to that?
This is Al. He worked with us on a video refresher course just before regular classes started on Monday. Here he demonstrates how to be a badass camera operator, while I document the event.
Al shows us creative ways to attach lights to everything in sight.
The Sailors and their families enjoy lovely all-you-can-eat snow crab legs!
Getting destroyed in my first broadcast assignment. I used to think I could write.
The only downside so far has been this beast. I am not a fan of shoulder mounted cameras. Unless you've been using them for years, they're just too bulky and awkward to be effective storytelling tools. We were also assigned a Nikon D800 DSLR. I will attempt to shoot documentary video with that instead.
More to come, including several posts from deployed Sailors!
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| Location: Syracuse, NY Miles traveled: 5,638 |
One of my DINFOS instructors is there right now! Can't wait to read about Syracuse- one of my Navy career goals is to get accepted to that program (even though I'm just about to start out at my first duty station.)
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