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.
Christmas 29.12.2009
Posted by TabitaW in people.Tags: christmas, denmark, family, friends, Martin, see me, sherlock holmes, snow, theatre
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Since the last post, we’ve been busy with all kinds of things. We visited friends on the 20th, made biscuits the 21st, went to the theatre with my parents to see Les Misrables on the 22nd and visited Louise and Mikael on the 23rd. Actually we were baking for days as we made about six different kinds of biscuits plus a lot of other Christmas sweets. The kitchen is still full of biscuit tins.
Christmas Eve we were just me, Martin and my family. Oh, and the guinea pig of course. Went to church, put the presents under the tree while watching the usual Christmas Disney Show on tv, had roast pork for dinner and walked round the Christmas tree singing before opening the presents. Plenty of biscuits on the table, of course. Lovely Danish Christmas.
On Christmas Day Martin and I went to the Anglican church in town so he could have at least something that was a bit more like home (actually we had Christmas crackers at dinner, with hats and jokes and everything). After that we decided to go see Sherlock Holmes at the cinema. Not very traditional for Christmas, but a great film.
We went to Jutland on Boxing Day to see my mum’s side of the family. Big dinner at my gran’s house, then lots of games, sweets and playing in the snow. At night my parents drove Martin and I to the train so we could sleep over at my aunt and uncle’s place. The rest of my family stayed at my gran’s house.
The next day we spent playing Bob and eating biscuits indoors even though we’d actually planned to go for a walk down to the frozen fjord. It was raining too much though, so we didn’t go outside till we had to catch our train back to Copenhagen.
Martin had to go home on Monday so we got his stuff packed and him driven to the airport. Still not a huge fan of airport goodbyes but it’s getting better.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t win the See Me photography competition. Not that I’d expected to but it would have been cool. Thanks to those of you who voted for me anyway.
Also, I don’t usually encourage reading my Danish blog on Google Translate as it makes much more sense translated by me but seriously, this one has some hilarious nonsense in it.
Snow 19.12.2009
Posted by MartinH in in general, people, uni.Tags: centrestage, christmas, denmark, guest author, Martin, snow, sweden
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While Tabi wraps Christmas presents of varying sizes, I’ll update you on what has been going on since her last post on our weekend in Cardiff.
After many hours of work, Tabi finally completed all of her various University assignments, managed to get them printed, attached ‘pink slips’ and handed them in all in. This left her a few hours to pack her suitcases before we had to drive to Glasgow to see the musical “Beauty and the Beast” live on stage at the Clyde Auditorium. The trip was organized by my theatre group, Centrestage, as we are mounting our own production of it in March. We came away having enjoyed the performance but confident that we can do even better ourselves.
The very next morning (Thursday) we were up early and back to Glasgow to catch our plane to Denmark. When we arrived at Kastrup Airport we found the ground was thick with snow. The runway where our plane would normally have landed was one of those reserved for bringing world leaders to the Climate Change Summit (COP15). This meant that we had to land at the other end of the airport and taxi, then finally take a bus, to the terminal building. It was lovely to see Tabi’s family again and I know that she enjoyed having a proper Danish lunch: rye bread and warm liver paté.
On Friday, we ventured into Copenhagen to visit the Climate Change Exhibition which showed the various ways people are trying to save energy and preserve the planet for future generations. I contributed by pedaling a bicycle for a few minutes to help power the Christmas tree lights. Tabi, in tourist mode, took a photograph of me doing it.
Today, we went with Bodil and Rob (Tabi’s parents) on the train to snowy Sweden to visit the Julmarknad (Christmas Market) in Malmö. We took a ride on the Wheel of Malmö which gave us lovely views of the city from high above it. It snowed all day and it was very cold but it was good fun to walk around the Christmas Market and town looking at the various festive things on sale while drinking our hot chocolate. Our favourite tourist attraction would have to be the bike stand which an exercise bike was chained to!
Tabi and I recorded the trip on a mini digital video camera my parents gave us for Christmas so some of you may be fortunate enough to see the edited highlights of our trip, if we ever find the time to select the highlights and edit them into some sort of coherent narrative with high production values, naturally.
Martin
