Open School Night

11 juni 2009 door Robin

Yesterday my school held an ‘Open School Night’. Basically this is an event that’s organized toward the middle and end of the school year to encourage new students to sign up for next year. I’ve seen about four of these events to this day and in the course of a few years they haven’t changed much. In the main lobby there is a whole bunch of stands with teachers annoyed having to be at school so late, trying to persuade you and your parents to pick that study. At least, that’s what you would expect.

Last year I went to the Open School Night since I was in fact looking to join the Media department. I knew what I wanted, so I had planned to just go there, get what I need and go home. But when I got to the Media stand the first thing I heard was ‘the department is full, we don’t take new registrations. We can put you on the waiting list, though.’.

Really?! If it’s full then why the hell did you put a damn stand there? No way in hell I’m going to wait 2 years to do a damn study. I was twenty for crying out loud. Obviously I did manage to get in eventually, otherwise this blog would be a whole lot of wasted server space.

Anyway, yesterday was no different from the night I had gone there to register. The media hallway (as it is known to most people in the department) had taken every piece of equipment we have from storage to create a very awesome display in our TV studio, obviously meant to show off the kind of stuff we do around here. Absolutely everything was there, from the expensive moving lights to TV cameras and even an auto-cue (I have no clue why we have such a thing at our school). It was very impressive to see when you walked inside, but you couldn’t exactly see anything going on from the main hallway. To solve this, me and a friend from class came up with the idea to set up a simple audio installation in the hallway, indicating to people that something was going on. And it worked, in less then five minutes from setting up we attracted a lot of curious people from down the hall.

We played some music, had two girls from another class do some chit chat over the microphone and generaly just had a good time. That day I think I was at school for a good twelve hours.

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Taken with the camera phone as usual, excuse the quality.

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