Don't get used to it. I'll probably forget all about these things once the other assignments really start to pick up, because I'm just that onto it. :P
Drawing
Drawing is a bit of a strange one this semester. I may have already mentioned it in my last blog - it begins at 11, lunchbreak from 12-1, then the second half of Drawing from 1 to 2. This brings issues that I have Preproduction at 1, meaning either an hour of Drawing must be dropped, or an hour of Preproduction. Peter asked me if I believed it really possible to maintain doing half a Drawing class, concerned over whether or not I would be able to achieve the full workload. At this time, I have no choice. For now, I can still do what drawing I can in the first half, and I can potentially finish off any drawings in the lunchtime. But I may have to revisit this, or even potentially swap which classes I partially sacrifice. Drawing is 2 hours, while Preproduction is 4 hours.
In terms of class attendance, I would lose half of Drawing, as opposed to a quarter of Preproduction. That said, Drawing is a full-year paper, so by comparison, I would be losing a quarter overall, since Drawing had no clashes last semester.
Probably not best to think about it too much. Clashes are a pain in the lower cheeks.
In terms of drawing, I seemed to have an off day. My first drawing (in my opinion) was only half-good, in terms that I believe I drew Peter well enough, proportion-wise... however Jemma's proportions were not so great. In terms of posing, and re-adjusting the linework, it may have been due to her shifting, distorting various sections of the body on the paper, but then that was just a passing thought - my second drawing was turning out even more poorly... I truly was having an off day.
My third was the best out of the entire batch, however size and proportions seemed to fail me there as well.
Practical Filming
Once upon a time, there were a bunch of wonderful students who were summoned in early BY THE EVIL PATRICK nah just kidding, I was awake.
The goal of the day, on Tuesday, which isn't even Practical Filming day (so evil) was to meet the Musos, a group of all but forgotten students that live underground, deep below the Downtown Campus of SIT.
Such horrors can only be imagined at, the the depths of the Earth.
My preeeccciioooousss.
I took notes of a number of things that each muso had to say about themselves, right up until Drawing class (clash, yay!! :D), of which I took my leave. I got most of the musos' details on wonderful refill paper, which will probably be lost in my bag forever.
Goodness knows what we did on Thursday. Oh, right... we Skyped with some dude about interactive commercials and a music video he had worked on, and we also had to get into groups and in five minutes create a proposal of sorts for a nursery rhyme at Eurovision.
I got Mary Had a Little Lamb, naturally.
I never got to pitch my idea - Patrick did call out to the class when he thought we would be finished, and apparently only... I think it was Kate, had not said hers. I had also said I hadn't said mine either, twice, but no one seemed to pay attention. So we all listened to Kate's and went on break, so I figured... fine.
Now... I've listened to all of the files for the music videos. Some are so beautifully done. There are others that... I have no idea what they are supposed to be. One of them had instruments and sounded like a groaning unintelligible old hermit making noises.
I made notes for a bunch of the songs alongside their artist's name, however about half of the songs had no artist, meaning I cannot attribute them to anyone.
Also, some of the songs had the affectionately named "01 Track 1" and such, so... nice work, guys! At least some of them were listed under a particular muso's name, meaning at least I could attribute some of the songs to an artist.
I've had some ideas while listening to the songs, a lot of them made me think of snow, for some reason. Connor's songs (at least one of them, God bless his Satan-like voice which I am not really particularly fond of) made me think of burning cities, darkness, and a wasteland of ash.
A number of other songs made me picture moving through various-paced skies.
I won't detail all the notes I have made, however, these are just some of the ones that seemed to stick out.
A bunch of them also made me think of a forest, there was a couple of songs in particular of which their instruments made me think of something a little before modern times, despite having some modern influence.
I wonder... are we coming in tomorrow at 10am, like Tuesday? I'm not sure...
Preproduction
We went over some of the previous year's Director's Manifest regarding... well, the Director's Manifest. I have to say, Brandon Dunn Done a good job (say that fast ten times), and for mine, I have basically imitated the skeleton of his manifest in terms of headings - as for the rest, there isn't anything to fill it with - yet.
We went over storyboards (of which I am TOTALLY unfamiliar with (PSYCHE)), and started on Mood Boards. In terms of Mood Boards, I don't have much... I just slapped some forest photos together for now, and included a render from my animation from last year, showing a fairyfly.
As of this blog, I still haven't worked much on Mood Boards - I feel I need to get the rest of my stuff together from what I have and compile a better understanding of what my options are, first, which I hope to at least get some done today (regarding ideas for various music tracks in Practical Filming).
The towards-the-end of class was very sluggish, since I didn't have anything there of which to properly work with. Imagine my surprise when 4 o'clock rolled around, I got excited because I could leave and find more material to work with (I had hoped, I hadn't listened to any of the music files yet), only to be reminded that class finished at 5 o'clock.
HOORAY!! :D
Web and Graphic Design
Got myself a visual diary, and we went over things such as buttons. We also discussed the various websites we researched, compiling a list of things regarding what makes a good website.
I totes knew that was the point of the exercise, I rock.
We also researched various graphics regarding social media links. Fun times, really.
From there, I have since made notes of points regarding websites - well, right up to where the list goes off the page, since my computer doesn't have Powerpoint, and opened the list in Preview.
Also, got my visual diary back from last year's Digital Illustration. I was so happy, I love that visual diary, and it has stuff in it which is interesting and useful
Also...
In light of reading a webcomic called Housepets!, I have drawn myself as a pet fan character~
Apparently as a dog, I would be a pomeranian. Thanks, Kim. Thanks, Batteries. Thanks, Tash. I don't know WHAT I would do without you all...
Tarri (me) the Pomeranian... with floppy ears!! :D
