So, due to my rubbish reflection skills (and our on going assessment) here is a wonderful reflection on life so far at the RSAMD. First of all I really can't believe we're almost at the end of term already, yet it feels like home already, aww. It'll soon be time to dig out Elf, THE best christmas movie ever. Anyway - lets get down to business shall we. I'm so happy in this course, I feel like its perfect for me. Last year doing art, I hated it. Every day was god-awful, and I'd constantly boak at the sign of a sketch pad. Its an amazing feeling to be doing something that I feel I adore and I'm only 18, some people never find their wee niche! I am so excited for every single day and dread nothing; I love classes, they are all so great, and Monday mornings are actually....FUN.
Being interested in writing and ideas, I lurrrve Scriptwriting classes. They are so exciting and everyday is different, I'm coming up with all these ideas I never thought that I remotely had and Richard has a great way of getting them out! Tomorrow we're doing a mini Post Secret activity, where we have to put two of our deepest darkest secrets down (dun dun DUN)...I'm nervous already! However think these activities bring us closer together as a group and we realize that we're all in this together, its cute. I can't wait until we start developing ideas, its all very exciting.
Going on our little field trip last week was really interesting, and I loved hearing about all of the grooosseee stories, yuck. That's what makes the course so exciting, that its not the same boring old 9-5, its fun and everyday is unique. Oh god - i sound like a total cheese-bomb preacher. Moving swiftly on.....
I feel really comfortable with everything we have done so far, but I'm slightly worried that I completely suck at doing Proposal's. They are boring and not really (as Adam would say) 'Sexy' enough. This really annoys me!!! I really want to be a writer, I think, and I feel sooo defeated when I stare blankly at the page. But, FEAR NOT, I will get better soon. Just you wait, come second year ill be a wordsmith or something cool like that.
Another worry is the fact that all of my idea's for three-five minute films are like a million times too big - I physically cannot come up with a GOOD idea for a film that short. I do try, but then other ideas come to me and I'm like, YEAAAH! Then suddenly I realize I'm looking at a feature and not a short. So this really needs to be addressed, I need to really condense my ideas in to idealistic lengths or I'm going down the pan. I think I'll watch a tonne of shorts so I properly understand what kind of scale we're talking about, but I'll really need to get some recommendations because the last short i researched on my own was about some creepy girl who's teeth killed anyone. I'm sure Richard would be very pleased at idea's along these lines.
On the plus side - I am really enjoying how much old TV shows really influence today's stuff. Even films, I had never wanted to watch Charlie Chaplin before for numerous reasons, and I found that I actually really like them. For some reason I had this idea that people from 'back then' in the past were running around like vikings, not laughing or having remotely the same sense of humor that us highly advanced beings have today. But, I was so pleased to see that Charlie Chaplin could crack me up without even saying anything. As I was saying in class, his facial expressions are high-larious. The way he conveys emotion and humor through just an eye-brow or a hand is beyond me, and I understand now why he was so well received 'back then' and even still today.
I'm glad we watched Chaplin before we watched his actual films, (and not just because of Robert Downey Jr...I promise...) because it gave us a sense of who he was and what his life was like. I had no idea what a little womanizer he was! Cheeeeky!
So I'm enjoying being educated in the classics because I know my taste can be a little hmm how do i put this...girlie? Chick flicky? AMAZING? Hahaaaa, but seriously, I'm open to all types of films and I'll give anything a watch with eager expectations.
In general, I LOVE THIS COURSE. That's all I need to say really, and also a little pat on the back to meeee as the big scary cameras don't seem so big and scary anymore. Until next time, ciao for naow. X
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