Live & Learn?

It has been a very long time since my last blog. I thought I'd write a bit about what I feel I've learnt at University recently.
We made our musical, and it was fucking amazing, I had the best time on shoot and the whole crew was amazing. After the monosexual shoot, that was the second most fun I'd had.
Everything went so well, I was so happy with the way the editors did the edit with our director, and we got a 1st which was the icing on the cake.
It was sad to leave that group after we'd worked to well together, right at the very end of our time together. Always the way... However, this year has helped me to make new friends and realise more amazingly talented people on this course that can do things I wish I could accomplish in camera, sound and editing.

Apparently I was built to manage and boss people around.

I've spoken to Jonathan about this quite a lot, especially since discovering my ride and crude ways are so hurtful. Obviously not so directly, but he's told me, as well as a 3rd year I spoke to, that the Production Manager is there for everyone to hate, so that the director can get them to do what they want, but still hate someone in power.
So I guess I fill that role pretty well. Although have tried to tone it down a bit. Not sure how well that's working but we'll see...

The last studio day was a bit of a disaster, and as a result made me laugh. Oh well, you win & lose some I guess.

At the moment I've been working on pre-production for a 3rd year major with one of my course-mates which is being filmed tomorrow and Wednesday. I'm really looking forward to it: cheesy game show premise. Brilliant!
Have also been doing some filming work for the local rave night We Are Your Friends, and am going to be working on promo videos for them in the next few weeks alongside the rest of the work this term. I'm not brilliant, but this gives me a chance to practice my video production without hindering any marks!

My last essay was the production analysis, which although filled the word count, lacked the theory i know it needed, but by the end of my time working on it I was just so keen to get it handed in that I decided it would probably make it worse to re-work it to fit more theory in. We'll see how that one turns out... I'm not expecting a miracle. Hopefully my theory essay due in Thursday will be better, as I've written over half and am getting a good stock of theory ready to put in when I need to!

I think that's about it at the moment...

Oh yes, don't lie to Andrew Ireland about why you're late, because he can definitely tell when you're hungover/still drunk.