It Died...

Okay, I've learned my lesson. Whilst video-blogging was fun, I'm finding it impossible to find the time to sit down and do it. Given that I've not posted in far too long, and that I'm rather busy at the moment, I'm returning to the good old written blog.

Monday started with a tutorial with Richard. I wasn't too surprised by the premises Richard was less fond of, but I'll admit that Richard's favourite was one I was less keen on. However, we discussed it, and I'm now more confident in the idea, and I'll certainly try developing it. Richard also had a lot of helpful comments for the others that he liked, or thought had potential. It did become apparent that often the core idea, normally my starting-point, was stronger than the premise that went with it. So I'm rethinking several from that initial point. I've also been thinking of a few new ones, but so far I don't think there's anything spectacular.

Following this, we reviewed the rushes with Gav in the DTU. It was a shame that we had already seen an edit of Love, Mugs & Stickmen, as it would have been nice to see the footage out of context first. Then we moved onto the tapes for Melissa's Mail. I kept feeling the need to speak out and justify each shot, or at least acknowledge the imperfections so that people knew I was aware of them. But I tried not to, if I could resist.

Gav continued with us on Tuesday with a simple Logging and Capturing assessment. John and I had already logged all of the footage for Melissa's Mail, so I was confident I knew what to do. Then Paul and I, along with Graeme who we found in a booth, went to see In The Loop. Following a pause for food, we went to see an advanced screening of Coraline, courtesy of Paul and his free tickets.

On Wednesday morning, Paul and I continued on our quest to sit in every seat in Cineworld by going to see Wolverine. Following this we had a screening with Andy, in which we watched In the Heat of the Night. Both of these will appear when I finally return to writing my reviews, I promise.

The themes raised in In the Heat of the Night continued in Andy's first class on Thursday, which was on representation. I couldn't help but feel that it was a little ironic that after we had discussed the objectification of women the slides were rolled back to show Megan Fox again - but it proves it's a more common issue than some would care to admit. We then discussed the representation of race in films, which proved rather interesting. I find the change in attitudes over the past few decades to be very inspiring, and I hope that these attitudes continue growing into other areas of acceptance, as there is still a ridiculous amount of discrimination out there. I'm looking forward to see who will be represented in our next class on representation.

On Friday morning, Adam explained what many familiar acronyms actually stood for, as we discussed Mobile and Web content. I'm really interested in web-content, particularly the different attempts at creating a working business-model, which doesn't seem to be going too well. I'm currently working on a web-series which I'm planning to make with my friends in Edinburgh over the Summer, and so I'm hoping to pick-up useful information from the remaining mobile-content classes!

On Friday afternoon, Andy and Adam kindly agreed to let me attend a meeting in Edinburgh for a new film-making organisation, and so I missed Abigail's class. I'll be getting the notes and finding out what is to be done soon, so that I can catch up and get it done for Friday.