17 Updates about my Courses & what I've learned
As I told you in the previous blog I've been quite occupied lately. We've finally made our first movie, and other classes are starting to reach a real purpose as well. Yesterday we had a big presentation again in front of a jury of professors. We had to present 3 proposels for a film/documentary/tv program or any other topic that involves audiovisual methods. First of all we had 4 ideas instead of just three. Second of all..they loves all them! Officially the jury chooses the best one for us..but in our case they simply couldn't choose..I won't talk about all the subjects now, since I have a lot of other writing to do as well..So I'll inform you guys later about the subject we've chosen.
We allready chose the medium though..It will be a documentary. We chose this because Turkey is a fantastic country to make a documentary and we are allready doing a TV program at the moment..A short fiction movie would be really cool too, but it can be done basicly anywhere in the world..A documentary was prefered by the entire group!
Some classes I've chosen are still (in my eyes) a bit useless, others are really interesting. I'm finally getting to know the system better and starting get used the daily life or Turkish people, which is far more relaxed then the way we live in Holland..In the beginning the more relaxing life here didn't made me relaxed at all..the exact to be honest..There are so many things I've learned during class, but even more outside the classes..Conversations you have with Turkish people or other Erasmus students are the most meaningful and the biggest way to spread your horizon, your perspective on things, how the world works et cetera..They can't teach you things like that in school..
I'm having doubts of what my final goal will be..I used to be pretty sure I would love to work in the TV/documentary business, but I'm more and more starting to like making short movies and/or commercials...Working on the set with a really good crew, being a director or cameraman truly gives me energy!
I've also been asked for an interview on Turkish television a little while ago (unfortanatly I didn't see it myself, but I'll try to get my hands on it). It was about beging an erasmus student, talk about my school in Holland, the University here in Turkey and about some cultural differences. It was a nice interview but I have to say that I prefer being behind the camera instead of in front of it! They told me they would contact me later on again to film me and other Erasmus in daily life..Haven't heard something yet though..we'll see :) It was fun being part of it.
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