It’s that special day!! So grab that special someone (or yourself), and cuddle up next to the fireplace while you munch on chocolates and enjoy some classic love stories from TritonTV!!

Valentine Confessions (NEW!!!)

A series of interviews about love that has succeeded and failed. See all the episodes here! By Ashley Romo

Je Pense-que C’est L’amour

Russ Burton takes you inside his head as he tries to score with a cute girl.

Polarity

Two friends discover the meaning of attraction. By Raman Kansal.

How Billy Met Hayley

Ever look at a couple and think, “how the hell did that happen?” By Chris Cortez

False Assumption

Hasty decisions can lead to false assumptions. By Calvin Feng

Amp Commercial

If you drink Amp, this will happen to you. By Tom Patrick Parham and Dan

Paper Bag Kidnapping Spoof

A local creep devises an ingenious plan to catch his prey… With unexpected results. By Brian Tran

What Might Have Been

This touching piece carries an important message for all you shy lovebirds out there. By Elizabeth Tran-Nguyen

The 3rd Floor – “Patrick’s Door”

A scene from our interactive horror movie The 3rd Floor, which ends happily and romantically… For someone, at least.

You can watch the rest of them at our Love Channel! Happy Valentine’s Day!

I’m sitting here at 3:55 AM (what? last time I looked it was 3:15!), pondering on the futility of life and the arts while waiting for my video to export.

The video, which will be up on the website in just a bit, is a (more or less) raw documentation of the protests at UC Riverside on January 19th. I had the privilege of attending and witnessing student solidarity – no, community solidarity. Together, we came together and fought privatization for a day. We fought the budget cuts that are forcing classes to become larger and larger, for more and more Visual Arts classes to be cut (which directly affects a lot of the people involved with Triton Television), etc. etc.

Some of the rhetoric and language thrown out at these protests is depressing. It sucks that we can’t let more students come. It sucks that the Regents are stealing money, forcing people to cut back while they get richer. The imposed austerity measures are taking a huge toll on us, and it can get really depressing.

But, when I come to Triton Television, I see a blossoming community. I see 20 new interns coming through every quarter. I see staff and producers that I don’t even recognize – and that’s a great thing! It means TTV is growing extremely fast. In the past quarter and a half, we’ve put out more videos than during the rest of TTV’s existence. That’s amazing.

Let’s keep that momentum going. Keep telling your friends about Triton Television. Get them to the Channel Launch Party on Thursday at Porter’s. Tell them about the channel they can watch student-produced videos on.

And speaking of those videos, let’s start putting out videos left and right. Let’s make videos for everyone. Let’s get teams of people to cover the walkout on March 1st, while another team goes to get Pi Phi’s Surf Classic. One group can cover a Red Bull event downtown while another can get the water polo game on campus.

This is the path towards an amazing career. Building step by step – learning the camera, assisting on countless videos, all the while making connections, getting to know the artists and collaborators on campus, until we have our own thriving artistic community. That vision is in sight – now let’s make it happen!

Sean Estelle

I am currently in possession of a video that I desperately want to release but can’t until February 4^th. It’s a video for UCSD’s Indian dance team, ZOR that will premiere at their first dance competition.

My involvement in this video began the week before finals in fall quarter. Out of the blue, a girl named Sita contacted me knowing I had experience making videos. She wanted to see if I was interested in making this video for them that would be shown before every one of their competitions. It would tell a story leading to their well choreograph dance performance. Part of me wanted to just reject her so I could focus on finals and enjoy winter break. But as a TTV producer I knew it would be morally wrong to not help someone with their video related needs. And honestly this project really caught my attention. I love making videos with interesting plots where I get to work with actors. So I agreed to meet her at our studio the next day. Funny tangent- I didn’t know that ‘Sita’ was a girl’s name when she first messaged me and she came to studio with the lead male actor of the video. I shook his hand and said ‘you must be Sita’. Embarrassing mistake.- During the meeting she explained the plot of the video for me. She wanted to showcase a man’s life in San Diego, his relationships with others, and his involvement in his dance team. Right of the back, I imagined what the video would look like and we started planning each scene. It was fun because what I love to do most is create content which I was given the ability to do in this video along with directing it.

Over Winter break, me and Sita finalized the script and started planning out the shoot. I insisted on doing all in one day because it would be hard to get people together after classes started. The shoot was planned for the Sunday before Winter quarter started. My next task was to assemble a team. Victor has been my DP for my previous personal projects and I’ve always felt really comfortable working with him so he was an obvious choice. I also needed another person to be my assistant director which I offered to Raman. I literally ran into to Raman after my first meeting with Sita and told him about the project and he expressed interest (and him being Indian was the selling point, since we were working with ZOR).

We started the shoot at 10AM. I planned out every location of the shoot and projected we would be finished by 6PM. I was very wrong. Throughout the day, Victor worked the camera, Raman did sound and lights, and I spent most of my time yelling at a large group of Indian actors. We shot in front of Geisel, at Scripps, in downtown SD, took a lunch break, shot in residential neighborhood as quickly as we could before sunset, inside someone’s apartment, and finally at the price center ballroom. Oh and then we recorded audio back at the studio while skipping dinner because food was not my priority that day. But at around 10PM, we finished and I hugged everyone around me because of the relief I felt at that moment. I truly appreciate my crew for sticking with me throughout that exhausting day.

I began editing the piece the next day because I was really excited to look at the project. By the end of the day I had all the video cut but unfortunately it was about 3 and half minutes. I told Sita about this and she said the video needs to be less than 2 minutes. Later that week, she came over to my apartment so we could decide what to cut. Honestly I felt like I dismantling my newborn child, but it needed to be done. Throughout the next week, Sita gave me the music to put in the video. (I never heard so much Bollywood in my life). And after many draft of slightly altering clips, changing musical transitions, and adding subtitles, the video is finally finished. And to ease my anxiety to prematurely release it I wrote this blog instead. 

-Joseph

TTV’s back for another quarter of kicking ass, and we’ve got a sizzlin new reel to set the mood!!

Edited by Taylor Chan

If you’d like TTV to produce a video for YOU (free of charge for UCSD students and orgs), head to our Contact Us page to fill out a form and we will get back to you shortly!

-Patrick

Don’t forget!! Anybody who is interested in becoming the next TritonTV Producers or those who just want to take an awesome hands-on video production class for free, we will meet in the TritonTV Studio Sunday January 22 at 2pm!

TTV Studio is located on the 2nd floor of the Student Center (up the stairs near Porter’s Pub), adjacent to Treehouse Lounge. Here’s that map again in case you have trouble finding it!

If you can’t make it to our first meeting or have any other questions about the program, just send an email to Patrick at gwock@gwock.com

Whutttt??? It’s a new quarter already!? Crazy!!

Come on down to the TritonTV Studio THIS Thursday night at 8pm and join us at our first General Body Meeting of the quarter!! Meet our talented and passionate Producers and Staff and learn how you can get yourself involved in the many crazy projects we’ve got in store for this quarter!!

See you there!!

-Patrick

By: Jocelyn Coca

Just wanted to say that I’m so excited to start working on new projects and with new people (congrats fall ’11 interns!) for this new year. This past quarter has been crazy and fast paced but I definitely learned a lot. I hope to keep on learning but also have fun! I feel that something I learned along the way is to just have fun with a project because one never knows what one might capture on camera, it might turn out to be THE footage that makes the video memorable. Who knows, playing around with the editing features could make one’s video UNIQUE. Plus, with everyone at TTV, there’s never a dull moment! I’m definitely grateful to be a part of this family.