Around and Around

How the weeks seem to be flying past already, feels like we have just got back and already its week 2. Have I been in a coma somewhere, I think its due to us not being in from 9:30 till 4 every day like last year. I love the course don't get me wrong but it did wear me out towards the end of the year. And I don't want to come to recent the academy. I feel this timetable is far better, feels more relaxed and more time to get work done! Thats always a plus.
I especially like our knew class of directing, Zam just is the man. Down to earth and teaches without just talking to you. He has a way of making it all very exciting and interesting. I feel having his class will definitely help with performances in any new films we make in the future. The experiment he done where by we showed our favourite scene was a brilliant class, I thought I knew why I liked the scene but he opened up so many other doors of why the scene has been made so well that I just didn't think of. Not that I just chose the Saving Private Ryan scene from the stairwell just to make everyone want to go into a corner and rock back and forth :)



I just how no matter how many times I watch this movie, this scene still gets me every time. As john put it, I could have quite happily of gone another year without seeing that again. Its just so suspenseful, and the tension it creates has everyone shouting at the screen "Get up those stairs!" I sometimes turn it off just before that scene, as when that knife slowly goes in...it just makes me feel so distraught.

I am feeling the work beginning to pile up though, got alot to do already and so little time. I just can't seem to find time to sit down and think of ideas for Richard at all. My mind just goes blank every time, I've been squeezed dry of ideas for the moment, but will need to get the gears moving a.s.a.p.

Andy's research classes have been interesting also, yeah I'm not actually just saying that. I like this kinda thing, I can sit on wikipedia for hours just reading about things I would have never otherwise have read about. For example battles from WW2 that I just never knew happened. All these facts in the one place is just a dream for sad little people such as myself.
The field trip to the library sounds equally as exciting for me, just to be able to pull of books and documents about the most random of things that I would have never otherwise have read, just sounds like the best place in the world. I would also happily spend the rest of my life in a place such as this.

Technical with Ray was a tad embarrassing when we had our quiz and I got 6/15 in the first one. Most of the answers I got wrong involved things such as lenses and focal length, which I have never really been able to pick up. I did read over my notes yesterday but obviously my notes are all that detailed. Will need to pull some notes of moodle at some point and get revising!

The second quiz was alot easier as it wasn't multiple choice so I couldn't confuse myself as in, oh its that one...no wait that one sounds better? The second one I just wrote what I thought was right and I hope it all was...here's hoping. I don't think he was expecting us to remember it all in detail so not too worried. I did the best that I could do, hopes thats enough.

Anyways what a fast week its been! Just seems to be flying past, but on a side note! I'm not a fan of 'that' woman at the cafe bar who seems to hate me for some reason, throwing the packet of crisps at me like I was something she stood one. I wasn't impressed, I really wasn't.