Busy busy busy

With less than a week to go before our first four modules are assessed it's a busy time for us Creative Tech students.  My brain is so full of stuff I wake up thinking about what I should be doing to improve my projects and last night I actually awoke in the middle of the night and had to grab a piece of paper and pen and scrawl some ideas down in case I'd forgotten them in the morning.

We had our last theatre project on Thursday which was to choose a piece of music and light it up on stage.  I spent a late night getting lost in You Tube and had a bit of a realisation about how it's possible to spend so much time there, and still didn't have a choice, but enjoyed wandering among all that fab music.  In the end I went for a Moby track which I'm fond of and could envisage how to light it.  Only had half an hour to programme all the different lighting states into the desk, but just about managed it and lit up "Why does my Heart Feel so Bad?"   It's true you  feel a bit like God as you change the look of the stage at the flick of a switch.  Unfortunately didn't have time to film the results.  Bummer.


Monday in the recording studio luckily saw a great bunch of musicians coming together and we had the chance to mic them up and record them.   After an awfully brave attempt at singing over an excellent recording of 'The House of The Rising Sun', I need to edit it (if I can bear to listen to it again!) and write up my experiences. I do not, however, need to ever sing into a microphone alone again.  That personal hurdle is over.

There is... a house.... blah blah blah!

Fantastically I have actually finished my stop motion animation.  It took hours and hours of snipping out bits of black paper, photographing with 'I can animate' and editing with 'imovie' on the ipod.  Major effort for very short (just over 1 minute in total) unpolished and unprofessional bit of animation.  Gives me some idea of the incredible work of real animators and film-makers.  Here is the tale of Clarissa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBexAs6FoZs&feature=g-upl&context=G25d3b4dAUAAAAAAABAA


And on to the suspense film project... bit of a disaster unless I can get a bit more footage.  Planning to go to my actress and either beg or offer to make her lots of cakes for just a half hour more of filming... This module has been so much more challenging than I had envisaged, which is ok as long as I've learned from it so that next time I choose something achievable.

All in all I'll be glad to be blogging next week when it's all over. :)