So I just got back from my first short study tour to Aarhus, and it was pretty amazing. Never really thought school-affiliated activities could be so fun, but I guess Europe takes it to a whole new level. We started the tour off by taking an early, long bus ride to the small town of Odense, where we followed in the steps of H.C. Anderson and did a bunch of touristy stuff until we were released to our own devices and eat lunch.
Odense itself wasn't particularly interesting to be honest, just another typical tiny Danish town. There was, however, an interesting media outlet based there, which kindly donated their time and facilities to DIS for us to have a fun day learning how to produce our own news cast! Personally, I was the Director of the show, so I was the one responsible, along with my friend Bryant, to basically just talk to the news anchors, and the camera operators, making sure the show is shot correctly and putting the correct text on the screens, etc. Basically I just (attempted to) push buttons behind a one way mirror, which eventually came down to the representative director from the company grabbing my hands and making it inescapably clear as to which buttons I was to press at the exact right time. Eventually I caught on to the mechanization of the operation and was able to press my buttons in peace as the Representative Director was pleased with my performance (for the most part) as director...whether my peers and I did a good job or not, I'll leave that judgement to you...give me a guitar, a mic and a stage, and I'm good to go, but put me in front of a camera(still or film) and I never quite know what to do...which is why most of my profile pictures look like this:
Regardless, I didn't have to confuse anyone by being on camera this time around. Anyways, I'll let you be the judge, as the wonders of the internet can bring this personal video production (or direction, however you want to see it) to your very eyes!
Hopefully it's become apparent that I am truly having a blast here, despite my late night shenanigans and early morning hangovers brought into my classes...professors don't seem to mind that very much as long as you get the work done. If anything they seem more interested in where you went and what you did, rather than judging your actions, and instead being genuinely interested in how you are now and where you've been. It's all about story, and that's really what I'm all about, whether its in blog posts or songwriting, storytelling is all that's in my blood and it's refreshing to have instructors who are genuinely interested in my own stories, sordid or not.
More stories like this will soon come, but for now, I must rest and gather myself together so that I can keep telling these stories effectively and interestingly. Hope you enjoy how I tell them, and what I say. That's pretty much my only goal.
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