Getting my CV up to scratch

This week I am getting my CV sorted to apply for different jobs or opportunities I should say. The reason I say opportunities is because some of the real opportunities I want to explore are voluntary but may lead to a position in the future. I wont say what they are because Ive had a few rejection letters and I dont want to jinx it.
Anyway I have been editing copies of my CV to cater them to the different positions.
IT IS QUITE HARD TO TALK YOURSELF UP.
Now Im finding this part really hard to do and have a little voice in the back of my mind saying blowarse. Or creatively descibing some of the job roles I have had in the past. Assistant this, Manager that.
Anyway here goes another CV off to wild unknown. Fingers crossed!

TRANSCRIBING SUX

Yep, transcribing sux. Because I could not complete my workplan on the sceduled day for vox pops, I had to transcribe EVERYTHING I had.
I was a good experience though and it saved my assignment from total doom. I had to put all the what ifs aside and concentrate on what I had. By doing the transcribing I knew exactly what I had and made a paper edit. In the paper edit I could clean my audio and lay it out in sequence. I also did timings. The ins and outs. This helped save time in knowing when and where the rough cuts were. I didnt have to listen to the tracks over and over again.
In the editing I was really stoked that I did the transcribing. I would definetly do it again, but TRANSCRIBING STILL SUX.
I did learn to edit with my eyes in this assignment. Dave said that you edit with your eyes to find the ebbs and peaks in speech. I have seen Neri do this with skill but it was as clear as mud to me. It wasnt till my last day of editing I started being able to do it. It was quite natural after awhile. It certainly made the experience more exciting finding where the words begin and end on the audio graphs so I could isolate a word and cut it out and then move it somewhere else if I wanted. Mean skill to learn.

VOX POPS @ KORONEIHANA

Vox pops was hard to do. As I was speaking to people I would get caught up in the korero and have to remind myself to go back to my work plan and ask the questions I had prepared.
The hardest paer was going up to people and asking them if I could ask them a few questions. Most people were really good about it. The rangatahi were hard to interview because we were so far apart in age that I wasnt relatable to them. I think they thought some fothe questions were dumb. I could tell because they would laugh at my talent every time I asked a question they thought was dumb.
I managed to get enough info for my audio assignment though. Just. I had a wee hickup while I was there and had to cancel my interviews for the afternoon. Because there was a major gliche in the work plan I was concerned that I wouldnt be able to meet the requirements of the assignment. Bummer

Koroneihana 19 August 2009

Is the Kingitanga relevant today? That is our kaupapa. I have been researching for about a week and a half. I decided to get a Tainui perspective for the my question as my research didnt give me a personal perspective and it lacked a real feeling of why this Maori kaupapa is still so strong and vibrant. Why does Tainui still go through all the effort and cost to put it on every year.
My interview was with Moko Tini. She is the media liason for Tainui.
"kotahitanga is still the message..." She also said that it was formed by all nga ma ta waka to discuss what is important to us as a people.
I could see this for myself when we attended. There were rangatahi there whose job was to manaaki tangata. They were the ringawera. The rangatahi I spoke to were truly an inspiration. They did not have a clear explanation as to why it is still relevant and important but they were hard working and knew their roles. Without even realising it they were participating in kotahitanga en masse, it was part of their whanau traditions. So thanks John Reed Lewison of Huntly College for your korero.
In conclusion Yes it is still important today for Maori people to support such a positive kaupapa and congregate as one. There are so many negative media perceptions out there, the size and sheer execution of such a large event annually is awe inspiring and made me feel proud to be a part of it again. E te whaea Te Atairangikahu moe mai e. Ki a Kingi Tuheitia, tu mai e. Ki te Kingitanga, anei to pononga.
HINZ

Politics and the Paula Bennett PR Spin

My political piece was on the Tauranga sea gardens. This is about my tipuna Hori Ngatai back in 1844 saying that the Tauranga harbour beds were his sea gardens and if the crown at the time wanted to exercise the queens chain then they had to go out past Tuhua to do so.

In my research I found it interesting that the Maori Party has an agreement with the National Party to say that they will review NOT REPEAL the Foreshore and Seabed Legislation but the Review panel has no powers only that they can make recommendations. In return the Maori Party will not talk out against the national Party.

I think Aotearoa shoul be very cautious about this agreement and take the rose coloured glasses off and think seriously about the new legislations that are being passed. If the Maori Party are being gagged then surely the Labour Party Maori MPs would speak up. But alas there are no great words of caution coming from any camp.

An example of what I am talking about is the way Paula Bennett is carrying on using Parliamentary Privilledge to release the financial details of two beneficiaries. To add salt to the wound this week she is going at people who earn over a thousand dollars per week on the benefit. Not that it is illegal but it is rather high. These are people who have over 10 kids. Go forth and Procreate I say. It alarms me that this is her focus when there are 100s of kiwis signing up every day due to the recession. Switch your focus Paula, due to the recession you are going to be the statistically worst performing Social Welfare Minister in a decade. The New Zealand Herald say she has released the beneficiary bashers who have been quiet for some time.

Next will be the Maori statistics coming up again and what do think National will do about those high stas. Legislate of course. Once the Racist radicals are released next with their outlandish comments it wil be PR mayhem.

While all of that is going on Im going to keep a look into what the new legislations are being passed that we are not media informed about.
Hine the sceptic. Watch this space!!!!!

Magazine Assignment

This was my favourite assignment so far. I think I found my groove on this one. It was great to work as a team. Even if it was only a team of two at times.

I found once the pressure was on and we needed more hands on deck I was getting a bit scratchy. I had a chat to Paige about how I was feeling and not to take any notice of how I was saying things but what I was saying. She said I didnt seem under pressure at all.

I knew I was because I was focussing on things that were out of my control and there wasnt any flowers on the way I was saying it. All part of the hype I suppose.

I was really happy with my cover but I didnt edit my own pieces to perfection because I was wrapped up in doing other things. I wanted the overall feel of the mag to be to a certain standard. I think we achived this. On a personal note I learnt that at the end of the day for assignments I need to pay attention to the detail in my own pieces before I get involved in critique others. I need to be a more disciplined self editor.

O Week at MIT with Smashproof 13 July 2009

Today Dave gave us an assignment to go and take piks of Smashproof. Was a mean as concert with free sausages and drinks. Man I miss my camera. The course one just wouldnt perform for me. Paige lent me hers and I ended up getting some good shots.
I told the organiser I was a Maori Media student and he got me a security pass to go up onto the Staff Deck. Thats how I got the overhead shots.

I am getting better at getting myself into the right place at the right time. This shot of the crew went onto the student mag wit my name on it and Maori Media Student. Yeaaaah! Its free publicity for the course and Im gonna stick the story in my port folio for c.v stuff.