More time off 18.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in in general, people, thoughts, uni.Tags: ayr, film & tv production, friends, Martin, snow, zombies
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Okay, technically it’s still the same time off but it feels like it’s a whole new break seen as I spent most of last week doing uni related things.
Thursday we finished our film, added some music and things and just polished off the last details. I’ll see if I can get it uploaded somewhere but just now I only have it on dvd and it’s not the right format. After finishing the project, we walked to town (people were getting the train and bus, I was going to the bank) and decided to take the longer walk down by the river. It was full of snow and such a nice walk. Of course there was also throwing of snowballs (but ha, British gentlemen don’t shoot at women!) almost all the way and because of the ice under the snow we all slipped and fell over at least once.
We handed in everything on Friday, including the massive amount of paperwork we had. And now we’re off for two weeks! Friday afternoon I went out for a meal with Martin, his uncle and grandparents because it was his gran’s birthday. Lovely. At that point all the snow had melted again and the colour scheme outside was back to grey and brown.
On Monday, we went to Glasgow. Martin had a uni meeting and I wanted to go to the sales. They were taking down the Christmas lights in George Square. I was there when they put them up as well, so that was interesting.
Zombies 12.01.2010
Posted by TabitaW in people, uni.Tags: film & tv production, friends, Martin, snow, zombies
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I’ve been back in Scotland for almost a week. Other than a few trips to the shops I haven’t really been doing much else than zombie-related things. Our latest (and final!) Film & TV project is due in on Friday so that’s what we’re just finishing up these days. We did a lot of the preproduction work before Christmas but noone really had time to get it shot till Saturday. So that’s when we really did some work. We got our film and sound kit, made up some friends (we cast Martin as the lead, Zed Maroon, zombie private detective, he was awesome!) as zombies and spent hours and hours in the freezing cold snow getting everything shot. When we were done, I don’t think any of us had any feeling left in our toes but we managed. Yesterday we were at uni all day cutting and editing and now the only thing missing is music. One of the others has a brother who’s good at that kinda thing so he’s composing a little soundtrack for us to use. We’re going back in on Thursday to get that sorted and then we’re just about finished.
Apart from that, I don’t really have a lot of things that need doing so I’ve got plenty of time for my own projects. More about these when they go past the just-an-idea stage.
Blackpool 13.11.2009
Posted by TabitaW in people, uni.Tags: beach, blackpool, doctor who, england, film & tv production, Martin, photos, strictly
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I’d translate this post but I just can’t be bothered. It basically said that Blackpool seems like something that’s been standing still for decades, except it’s actually still very much alive. There was a short paragraph about Dalek illuminations and a walk along the beach. Along with that there was some bragging about meeting Bruce Forsyth at the Strictly dance session I won tickets to the week before and that Toast is a café that can very much be recommended. It also mentioned that we went to one of the piers and tried one of the pinball machines which I found rather retro and that Martin got me dragged onto this at the Sandcastle Waterpark. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done ever. The last slightly interesting thing you might want to know is that we finished a project in Film & TV Production and it can be seen here.
