Anyways I could really blog about how much I dislike snow and how over-rated the whole thing is but we'd be here all day.
Were back from the holidays and already a week has shot by us, where are these weeks going? I feel like I'm going to wake up and be in 3rd year any day soon. Now theres a scary thought, actually having to go out and get a real job soon! No more student discount...thats not even worth thinking about, I might just faint. Anyways!
This week has been a mixture of getting back into the swing of things whilst at the same time being thrown alot of work to do. Its all rather worrying about thinking about starting either of the tasks that we have been set. I'm sure once I have started them both it will be fine, but as with all reports the hardest part is actually finding the time and confidence to actually start it.
We had all submitted our scripts to Richard the week before we started back and were awaiting the Skype phone call. As last time mines didn't work this was going to be new to me. I went along to Gavin's flat to use his computer/internet this time, the video had worked for Charlotte perfectly fine just before me, but for some reason it didn't for me. I'm not going to lie I didn't particularly shout for Gavin all that loudly when it didn't. The idea of being on 'display' would make me feel a little okward, having just the audio was fine, it was high enough quality to get by. It also made me feel alot more comfortable so I wasn't just sitting there saying 'yeah...yeah' to all Richards points. I actually found myself sticking up for a few points and explaining others alot better than in any other Richard tutorial.
Not in anyway saying I just wasn't taking on board what Richard was saying but I was able to explain points better, and well I did stick up for my ending. I will look at it and see if it can be explained better but its staying!
Zam was back for a full day of looking at realism in film. Zam's class always follows a general format of looking at a clip from a film then deconstructing it. This format I feel works very well and we all generally pitch in with what we think made that clip work and not work. I feel it gives a certain rhythm to the class that makes it feel alot more relaxed, theres nothing worse than just being talked to for a whole day.
As with all Zams classes I feel I always take away new good and valuable points from it. Maybe a whole day was a little much but if it was going to be a full day of any class I would prefer it to be a Zams class.
Now with Andy's and Ray's assignment I choose to go to the Mitchell Library to try and dig up some resources that could help. Such as autobiographies and the type. I was really shocked to find just how little film resources the Mitchell actually has, I would type in film and/or cinematography into the computer terminal and what little turned up was book that wasn't actually in the Mitchell.
Maybe I was doing it all wrong but the woman at the desk could only suggest looking at small area of the library, which only seemed to contain books written when the digital thing was happening. Books titles 'Digital and what it means for Film' were in abundance but they weren't of any value of and were seriously out-dated.
Looks like this is going to be an online research task, or well a little trip to a book shop is in order I think.
Well my feet really haven't touched the group this week and with re-drafting Richard's script and starting on other projects we have been set, sorry no film review in this post I need to get ready for work. I promise tomorrow I will blog my brains out on films films films!
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Try Glasgow Uni's film section - it's excellent.
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