I got off my arse and started up Adobe After Effects again, hoping to crawl out of the funktastic hole I had hibernated in these past few months. It worked, and I sit here having gotten the really-difficult-to-complete piece known as the 'Coming Up' segment finished. I'd love to show you, but you'll have to wait until I release the show itself! It's awfully late and won't be relevant to anybody but I'm putting my heart and soul into it because I want this to be my best work, seeing as it's the last that will have come from my XTV life. I'm hoping to come into enough money to get the Come Dine With Us footage repaired eventually, but not holding my breath for that.
I haven't really done much since I last updated apart from what I've written about above, I just figured it would be nice to try and keep this going a bit, especially after having such a creative revival. Only four or so days until I can watch the sixth and final season premiere of Lost. What a fantastic show! I bought the first season while working at hmv, but still haven't opened it. I guess I won't ever get around to watching all previous seasons before starting the sixth, which would be quite relevant as the rumours suggest there's a lot of original cast members making an appearance. Never mind, we'll find out how true that is soon.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
WWID?
I just glanced back at the first ever post I wrote for this blog, and it surprised me. Not only because it was well written, but because it seems like I had this whole vision for how my life was supposed to turn out. Three and a half years later, and nothings really changed except the people I know and a bit of knowledge. This has made me feel quite down.
I think it's about time that I took some inspiration from my younger self. The whole point of life is to get things done, not to sit around and wait for things to happen to you, because they don't. If you have a creative idea, use it and make something beautiful, don't let it waste away inside your head. This blog shall now be about making my ideas come to life and my aspirations become a reality. I will do you proud 20 year old me.
I think it's about time that I took some inspiration from my younger self. The whole point of life is to get things done, not to sit around and wait for things to happen to you, because they don't. If you have a creative idea, use it and make something beautiful, don't let it waste away inside your head. This blog shall now be about making my ideas come to life and my aspirations become a reality. I will do you proud 20 year old me.
Avatar
I feel a bit late to the party making a blog post about Avatar, and technically this belongs in another blog as I could do a huge article on it, but I'm going to keep it simple. I do want to state that I was at the first screening in Wales of this film, so I'm nowhere near a latecomer to seeing this.
A friend of mine just told me their opinion of the film, specifically regarding the plot, and that it didn't live up to expectations. Trying to be concise in my response, I put it this way; just because the basics of a story are familiar or simple, doesn't mean you can't make a great film out of it. The Na'vi could have had a spy in the human ranks or there could have been another tribe around to make the story more interesting, but the film wasn't about that. It wanted to show you this new world and how the tribe of inhabitants lived on it, and weave in a story about humans wanting to take something from them to show us how they coped with it. Simple, yes. Effective, yes. Entertaining, hell yes.
Aside from that, I had a brilliant weekend in Exeter. Friday I arrived in the afternoon, went to Dan and Jamies and we all had an Indian takeaway. Saturday consisted of me and Jamie going into town, have a bit of a wander round, then meet up with the people filming the music video. Afterwards I met Simon and spent the afternoon playing Borderlands. Then in the evening, we went to the Black Horse and had drinks for Pips Graduation, was great to catch up with her and glad she's doing well. Went to firehouse afterwards and stayed til they kicked us out! Sunday went back to Firehouse for sunday lunch, got sidelined to my own table, partially cos I was the last to go down and order my food but got served on my own instead of the group and had my food arrive first, partly because the table wasn't big enough for my ex housemates Dave and Simon to fit on so we sat on our own. Then in the afternoon we had another roast dinner, that's right, TWO, with my old housemates but including the rest and also Steve and Dave's girlfriend Kate who's really nice. I made a cake earlier which we ate, then we had vienetta which we ended up flicking around everywhere. On the Monday, there was much dossing around in the XTV office likes times of old, and then the evening held a comedy event in Mama Stones which was good apart from the talking audience at the back. On the Tuesday I left for Bristol, and met up with Dave where we had food and then also CJ where we had food again in a place called Start The Bus and Fern, Dave's girlfriend, came too. At 9pm I left, and then I got home yesterday evening pretty late.
A friend of mine just told me their opinion of the film, specifically regarding the plot, and that it didn't live up to expectations. Trying to be concise in my response, I put it this way; just because the basics of a story are familiar or simple, doesn't mean you can't make a great film out of it. The Na'vi could have had a spy in the human ranks or there could have been another tribe around to make the story more interesting, but the film wasn't about that. It wanted to show you this new world and how the tribe of inhabitants lived on it, and weave in a story about humans wanting to take something from them to show us how they coped with it. Simple, yes. Effective, yes. Entertaining, hell yes.
Aside from that, I had a brilliant weekend in Exeter. Friday I arrived in the afternoon, went to Dan and Jamies and we all had an Indian takeaway. Saturday consisted of me and Jamie going into town, have a bit of a wander round, then meet up with the people filming the music video. Afterwards I met Simon and spent the afternoon playing Borderlands. Then in the evening, we went to the Black Horse and had drinks for Pips Graduation, was great to catch up with her and glad she's doing well. Went to firehouse afterwards and stayed til they kicked us out! Sunday went back to Firehouse for sunday lunch, got sidelined to my own table, partially cos I was the last to go down and order my food but got served on my own instead of the group and had my food arrive first, partly because the table wasn't big enough for my ex housemates Dave and Simon to fit on so we sat on our own. Then in the afternoon we had another roast dinner, that's right, TWO, with my old housemates but including the rest and also Steve and Dave's girlfriend Kate who's really nice. I made a cake earlier which we ate, then we had vienetta which we ended up flicking around everywhere. On the Monday, there was much dossing around in the XTV office likes times of old, and then the evening held a comedy event in Mama Stones which was good apart from the talking audience at the back. On the Tuesday I left for Bristol, and met up with Dave where we had food and then also CJ where we had food again in a place called Start The Bus and Fern, Dave's girlfriend, came too. At 9pm I left, and then I got home yesterday evening pretty late.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Continue
It's been a while since I wrote in this, and I won't promise that the future holds any form of regular updating, but I will always try to post something up, even if it's incredibly short, when I remember about it. And so let's delve straight into the first entry of 2010.
As I sit here, my situation is as follows; I'm still living with my Dad, and jobwise I had a temporary position in hmv over xmas until 3rd Jan, but now I'm sending out emails and applying for the occasional media job in order to chance upon a TV production based vacancy or work experience placement. The trick to succeeding with that apparently is to send out as many emails as you can, and while I have begun this in a pretty slow manner, this will improve as the main excuse has been not really knowing how to structure the perfect email (I blame my perfectionism). Having written quite a few so far, I do appear to be getting better at it, or at least not caring so much about the final draft. I only made a single resolution this year, which was to get a job in the TV business. Hopefully this amount of emailing will get me somewhere. I should mention that I have one potential option, my friend Ceri has told me he will chat to the guys at a local production company called Telesgop and see if he can get me some work experience there, and so I must promise to myself to chase him up on that. That'd be a great headstart.
Other things that I'm currently doing are far and few between. As this is a catch up blog post, I'm cramming a lot in and so the form will have to suffer. I've booked tickets for a lengthy stay (Particularly on a dole income) in Exeter to see all the friends I haven't seen in ages. It should be good, though I've been asked to stick around until Tuesday to see a friends comedy event, and this makes me wonder if I'll be missing my own bed and privacy by then! Ah screw it, I'll enjoy getting to catch up with everyone and will treat it like a holiday.
I've still yet to finish writing a draft of 'Backstage' and for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a comedy script I've been asked to work on by a friend of mine in the business. However, I did start the whole thing again, and showed the first couple of pages to him and he told me it's the most promising he's seen it so far, which was quite pleasing to hear. I do add to it now and then but it's not going at a pace I'm happy with for the time being. It's worth mentioning that I did attempt a novel writing month challenge to write 50,000 words, but the challenge soon exceeded my capabilities and I gave up after a measly 10,000. I really should work through that while I have some free time.
Family politics now, and things are going great. My Dad is away often but that's a positive thing because he gets very agitated over the smallest things; I've put this down to him still being in the giddy phase (Though it's lasted bloody ages) of being in a relationship, and time spent away from her is grumpy time. It gives me a bit of freedom and peace when he's in Cardiff, but we still get along well most of the time. My Mum and I are on getting along really well, though there's not been a negative incident between us since at least a year ago (I think) and though I only see her once a week roughly, it's always joyful, and my little sis Emily is always ringing me on her mobile phone, I should ring her for once cos she obviously misses me and it would be nice for her to know that I care about her enough to speak to her of my own accord; thing is she won't give me a chance as she always gets there first! As for siblings, my bro plans to move out soon and we are getting along well which comes and goes, my sis Chloe is working a lot and I don't see her very much and my other sis Vicky is at Uni and in a seemingly 'controlling' relationship with her boyfriend Chris, but I don't know for sure, and I probably shouldn't even mention it, but this is a blog for me and I think I'd be interested to read this back in a couple of years and see if I was wrong about it.
I've applied for a BBC job in London for people who don't have much experience, and if they give me a chance to go to the next stage which is the interview stage, I am positive I can make them love me enough to hire me. Annoyingly I don't have much luck getting past the application forms, I need to practice that a bit.
It is way too late now, so I will finish downloading the new season of 24 and go to sleep. Night night.
As I sit here, my situation is as follows; I'm still living with my Dad, and jobwise I had a temporary position in hmv over xmas until 3rd Jan, but now I'm sending out emails and applying for the occasional media job in order to chance upon a TV production based vacancy or work experience placement. The trick to succeeding with that apparently is to send out as many emails as you can, and while I have begun this in a pretty slow manner, this will improve as the main excuse has been not really knowing how to structure the perfect email (I blame my perfectionism). Having written quite a few so far, I do appear to be getting better at it, or at least not caring so much about the final draft. I only made a single resolution this year, which was to get a job in the TV business. Hopefully this amount of emailing will get me somewhere. I should mention that I have one potential option, my friend Ceri has told me he will chat to the guys at a local production company called Telesgop and see if he can get me some work experience there, and so I must promise to myself to chase him up on that. That'd be a great headstart.
Other things that I'm currently doing are far and few between. As this is a catch up blog post, I'm cramming a lot in and so the form will have to suffer. I've booked tickets for a lengthy stay (Particularly on a dole income) in Exeter to see all the friends I haven't seen in ages. It should be good, though I've been asked to stick around until Tuesday to see a friends comedy event, and this makes me wonder if I'll be missing my own bed and privacy by then! Ah screw it, I'll enjoy getting to catch up with everyone and will treat it like a holiday.
I've still yet to finish writing a draft of 'Backstage' and for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a comedy script I've been asked to work on by a friend of mine in the business. However, I did start the whole thing again, and showed the first couple of pages to him and he told me it's the most promising he's seen it so far, which was quite pleasing to hear. I do add to it now and then but it's not going at a pace I'm happy with for the time being. It's worth mentioning that I did attempt a novel writing month challenge to write 50,000 words, but the challenge soon exceeded my capabilities and I gave up after a measly 10,000. I really should work through that while I have some free time.
Family politics now, and things are going great. My Dad is away often but that's a positive thing because he gets very agitated over the smallest things; I've put this down to him still being in the giddy phase (Though it's lasted bloody ages) of being in a relationship, and time spent away from her is grumpy time. It gives me a bit of freedom and peace when he's in Cardiff, but we still get along well most of the time. My Mum and I are on getting along really well, though there's not been a negative incident between us since at least a year ago (I think) and though I only see her once a week roughly, it's always joyful, and my little sis Emily is always ringing me on her mobile phone, I should ring her for once cos she obviously misses me and it would be nice for her to know that I care about her enough to speak to her of my own accord; thing is she won't give me a chance as she always gets there first! As for siblings, my bro plans to move out soon and we are getting along well which comes and goes, my sis Chloe is working a lot and I don't see her very much and my other sis Vicky is at Uni and in a seemingly 'controlling' relationship with her boyfriend Chris, but I don't know for sure, and I probably shouldn't even mention it, but this is a blog for me and I think I'd be interested to read this back in a couple of years and see if I was wrong about it.
I've applied for a BBC job in London for people who don't have much experience, and if they give me a chance to go to the next stage which is the interview stage, I am positive I can make them love me enough to hire me. Annoyingly I don't have much luck getting past the application forms, I need to practice that a bit.
It is way too late now, so I will finish downloading the new season of 24 and go to sleep. Night night.
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