Job Done!

So on Thursday myself and my classmates recorded our live studio programme. All of the worries of the last few weeks disappeared and I have to be honest it went really well. People laughed when they were supposed to and everybody had a lot of fun. Our lecturer more or less told us that our programme would get us a pass which was very relieving.

On Friday the entire class had to come in so we could view everyone's programmes together and write our evaluations. There were four programmes to be viewed and ours came first. I was really pleased with how the programme turned out and most people laughed at the segments that I had directed and shot with my friends so I was pretty chuffed at that! A lot of people went for a comedy orientated piece but to be fair our programme seemed to get the best reaction.

After the lesson everyone congregated outside of our building as people said their goodbyes. It didn't feel real to be honest as everyone kind of dispersed fairly quickly. A lot of us also went out on Saturday night for a friends birthday. Everyone had a really good time (some more than others!) and then we said our proper goodbyes at about 4 in the morning. This felt real as it got pretty emotional at times and took over half an hour before everyone went their separate ways.

I've had a great first year but to be honest I'm glad its over as I really need a break from it all. I'm going to spend my summer working at the shop, savings lots of money, buying stuff and hopefully going on holiday. I've made loads of new friends at Coventry and have passed the year fairly comfortably (I think!) and I'll definitely be going back next year.

One Down

And one deadline to go. Both are for the exact same module but the Friday just gone was the hand in date for the written work aspect of the module meaning I had to hand in my workbook. For those that don't know a workbook is a book that we have to keep that we put in all of our ideas and work as we go along through the module. This includes notes on lessons, sketches and the work that I put into the module. I always leave these till more or less the last minute which is just a stupid idea meaning I have to type up and create around forty pages of work usually in about three or four days. Forty is more or less my average page count but this one I bumped up to around fifty three pages. Obviosuly its the quality not the quantity but I think thats usually bullshit because the more bases you cover the more chance you have of a higher mark.

This weeks deadline is the actual creating of our piece of work. Working as a whole class has pretty much been a lot of fun at times but has took the piss at others. I get the feeling we could fail but I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

Until next time...

My HTML project.

Thank god I've been given a 4 week extension for this project. I have to design a web site and place a 360 frame stop motion animation on it. Now with this project the planning is all well and good and pretty interesting but when it comes to actually creating it, fuck me its boring. Not only is doing the mark up for the site very boring and repetitive but when I actually start my film I can't imagine how bad that will be. For those who don't know stop motion is the kind of thing they use to make "Wallace and Gromit" and the like. Mine has to be done using photographs as I'm doing it on my 12 inch stormtrooper coming to life. The scene with the blaster rifle bolt will take the piss as it will include a lot of work in photoshop moving the bolt a couple of mm each frame for about 30 photographs.

Updates to come!

So Tired...

As you can see I didn't post again last night this is due to the fact that I fell asleep at the computer at around 6am. I got quite a bit done though but it meant I only had around 3 hours sleep before my presentation. We explained our idea for our studio piece and I have to say I'm impressed on how well I blagged it. We dragged it out to around 10 minutes and we hadn't even had a practice. The tutor gave us our feedback on which she had wrote "well prepared"!

I am knackered though now and I have to be up for around 7:30 tomorrow for work. Hopefully the N&C Audio/Visual club are going to see "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints". More on that tomorrow if we do.

Time for a bit more "Shield" now though I think.

Tatty Bye Bye.

Me, Last Minute? Never!

Its 2:33 in the am and I'm still preparing for a presentation that I have tomorrow at 11 o' clock. I'm sure its only two minutes long but a) theres rumours its 2o minutes long and b)I can use this as an excuse to push me to get quite a bit of work done.

Let you know when I'm done...

Huzzah!

Today I finished my second essay for Uni. I started about five days ago but finishing today still doesn't feel "last minute" to me and I have been known for this in the past so I'm quite proud of myself. I am worried about this one because I feel once I got into it, it was too easy. This isn't me showing off as this is why it has taken me so long to finish as I've been worrying and re-reading the brief over and over again. I think in the future if this is the case I should make sure to see one of my tutors and get them to read a draft. I did try that this week but I couldn't find any of them. I suppose I could have tried harder though. At least now I have a few days to myself to do what I like after work.

My student loan came through this week which was good because it meant I could buy some shite. I bought a new pair of trainers, some DVDs (know I'll end up getting more) and some CDs. I also put some of the money into my savings account as I think its time to start growing up. I could still work on making sure I watch my money better. It sounds boring but it might be time to start making up some budgets.

Bed time

Catch you on the flip flop

Watched: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Listened: Common - Be
Read: DMZ #13

My First Essay

Don't know whether this will work but I think this is a link to view my essay.

http://pdp.coventry.ac.uk/viewasset.aspx?oid=77287&type=file

Watched: Kill Bill
Listened: Kill Bill Soundtrack
Read: Gotham Central - In The Line Of Duty