I pretty much forgot I had this blog!

I keep telling myself I am going to get back to blogging, and regularly, but as with everything else, it never actually happens. Maybe I will. Its the New Year in twenty-something days; a time for resolutions and life changes and all that jazz. I always set myself tens of resolutions though, and generally don't even begin them, never mind stick to them. We will see.

It's 6:06am. Too many sixes. Not good. Especially not good when you and a friend have recently discovered the backmasking of Led Zep's 'Stairway to Heaven' and it's freaky messages of Satan. Seriously gave us the creeps. It's completely plagued me for the last couple of days.

It's now 6:07am. Better. Six in the morning and I haven't slept yet. My sleeping pattern is messed up. It always has been, to an extent. I have no idea why I keep myself up so late. I'm just not tired right now. I feel like a total insomniac at night time, though once I'm asleep, and come 'morning', I'll not be able to wake up for the life of me. No doubt it'll be mid afternoon by the time I wake up now. Probably be dark too. That's the most depressing thing.

I've written drips and drabs here over the last what, two years or so? Started when I was at college, getting ready to apply for university. Now I'm in my second year. It's good. I'm still enjoying being here. Except I have no idea what I want out of it. I'm doing a degree in film and television, and have recently come to the realisation that there is no way I'm ever going to manage to get a job in that field. I'm not even sure I'd want to. Sure, if some big Hollywood hot-shot came and offered me a job of directing the next big box-office blockbuster, I'm sure I wouldn't say no. But how likely is that to happen?! Can we say Pigs might fly? At the moment, plan B is to become a primary school teacher. Once I've graduated, I can do a one-year teaching course, then I'll be qualified to do so. Or so I believe. That is Plan B. As for Plan A, I have no idea.

It's Christmas soon! I can't wait. All my presents are wrapped up, practically. I love wrapping. I like to try and upstage everyone else's by wrapping mine the nicest. Haha I get to go home in a week. Normally I wouldn't be so bothered, but lately I've been missing the place, good ol' Rotherham, and all my family. I was only there two weeks ago too. It shall be nice to be able to spent three weeks at home, in a nice warm house, with nice cooked food and of course, christmas presents!

Last year I was staying in Student Halls. This year I'm in a private rented house with two of my friends, in the middle of town. It was great to begin with, but now, quite frankly, it sucks. It's cold, and that is the main thing that has put the three of us off it. It's the top two floors of a big old Victorian townhouse. Big houses are notoriously cold, and hard to warm up. Especially so as we don't have central heating, only electric heaters, which are expensive, and being poor lowly students, we naturally do not have the money to pay for the electricity bill *which will be huge anyway*

I'll leave it here for now. It was a bit random, I admit. Maybe I'll be back very soon. Who knows..

Ooooh, last night served as a reminder of why Rotherham is not a good place to be, and why I would much rather be in lovely lovely Aberystwyth.

Guys, I'm going to say this once, and once only, so listen carefully and pay attention:

"Can I cum on your glasses?" is NOT a good chatup line to use.
Especially when you're pissed as a fart and old enough to be my damn dad!!

*shudders*

Me & Jess went out in town last night. Was generally a good night, except walking from Liquid to Milanos, where pretty much every man we walked past threw some sort of insult/gross innuendo towards us.

Anyway. You may now return to your scheduled programming.

Over a year since I made an entry? Jeezy! Since it's been the most interesting year of my life (not that says much, really. Was generally a pretty dull life ) I'm not going to bother listing absolutely everything that's happened. Cause there's too much. Besides, I have trouble remembering anything longer ago than yesterday. But lets see...

Left college in June. A levels = A in English Language, and Cs in Media & Psychology. E in General Studies. But that's General Studies, so no-one gives a crap. And everyone fails it anyway. If you get a decent grade, then you're weird. Haha.

Summer was uneventful. Lazy. Spent time with friends. Not enough time, though. Went to Tenerife for a week with my mum.

September 23rd. Lifechange! Left for University. Aberystwyth. Pardonnais le francais, mais... fuckin' fantastic.

Live in student halls with seven other people. Each of whom are amazing. We all get on well. Three of them I get on with much better than the rest - they are now three of my best friends.

The course, Film & TV, is good too... when I actually go to lectures. heh. Yeah, I'm pretty lazy and miss a lot :S but I get work done, I'm doing pretty well with essays and crap, it's all good.

It's fresher's year. Work is not as important as the social life. Fact.

Most of my time is just spent being lazy with my flatmates. We have so much fun together. Playing games, drinking, playing more games, drinking more, talking, laughing, drinking and games, drinking games... ha, you get the point.

It really is the greatest year. I'm back at home, at the minute, on Easter break. And GOD, it's boring here. I miss everyone so much! Got another 3 weeks yet before term starts. Ugh. After that, only 2 weeks of lectures & 3 weeks of exams (but I only have 2 exams, yay), before the year is up. Then I have no idea what i'm going to do. 4 months away from everyone? I'm not going to survive!

Although, me & two of my flatmates are renting a house next year, and two of us are on about staying there over the summer, I'm thinking that will be much better than being at home, even though I'll still miss the other people.

Anyway, maybe I will start this blog up again. But for now, this is my short little nutshell of my year.

Yes, I think I will be back to write more...

Hello! Been a while since I've been here- whoa! Anyhoo, I have a video to share- this is my project that I've been working on with a friend for our A-level media. Music video for Placebo's 'Protect me from what I want'. I assure you, the MASTER copy is nothing like this, but transforming to windows media file and then uploading has seriously diminished the quality. But let me know what you think!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uyHmnla5I

 

 

If you have enough time, I would REALLY appreciate it if you answered these questions for my audience feedback and evaluation that I need to do..

 

• What's your age & gender?     
• What age group and gender do you think the video is aimed at? Why?     
• Would you like to see the video again? Why?     
• Would seeing the video encourage you to seek out related products? (e.g. CDs of the band?)     
• Does the video match with the genre of the song? Give details.     
• What genre do you consider it to be?     
• How did the video make you feel?     
• What did you think of the video's mise-en-scéne (this means locations/props/costumes - literally 'everything on screen')     
• Did these fit with the video's mood and the song?     
• What do you think of the editing? (Cuts, transitions, fades etc)     
• Does this fit the pace and mood of the song?     
• What do you think of the camera work and shots used?     
• What did you like about the video? Give details.     
• What didn't you like about the video? Give details.     
• How does the music video compare with an actual rock video on on a music channel?

Since I last wrote, I managed to get my university application sussed - I went for Film production & related areas. I can't remember the exact courses I went for. That's pretty bad, isn't it?! I got an offer from the University of Chester today though, yay But... haha.. I can't remember what course that is. I'll see if I can log onto UCAS and it'll tell me..

 

A-ha! yay, according to this I've got an offer from Aberystwyth too! Okay, this is what I've applied for:

• University of Chester: Film Studies and Media Production (TV)
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth: Film & Television Studies
• University of Gloucestershire: Film Studies & Journalism and Professional Writing
• Cardiff University: Journalism, Film and Media
• Bournemouth University: Television Production
• University of Gloucestershire: Digital Film Production

My offer from Aber says I need 280 points - which is... two Bs and a C. Considering I got two As and a B last year, I think we're alright

 

My offer from Chester says I need 240 points, including at least a C in Media Studies.

 

I'm chuffed I've got some offers. Yay. I'm feeling more positive about the whole thing now. Despite the fact that I reallllly don't feel grown up enough to go. Seriously. I'm the same person I was when I was twelve. I remember thinking about university years ago, and it seemed so so far away, and how grown up I'd be before I went, etc etc. Now it's nine months away, and everything still seems the same as it did then when it was light years away...