Ponders on film

Just some thoughts today...nothing deep or humourous...trying to decided what to do with this assignment of mine. I for the most part, am done filming my video project for class friday. Now I just need to edit. This can be a tedious task involving long hours and many cans of caffeinated beverages. If you plan ahead of time for what direction you would like your film to take, then piecing clips together during the editing process is much easier. Often times, I don't do said planning step. This time however, I've left myself a couple of routs that I can take. To save on both, time and your sanity, I will spare the details of these routs. Suffice it to say that one of these routs takes some more planning while the other of the two allows me throw some random clips together with little to no intention on direction and come out with just as good of a result as the first option. Fortunately, the theme of the assignment is speed manipulation. This will enable me to slow down a few of the clips as well as speed up some other ones that together, will hopefully create a semi-successful video; that's the plan anyway.

Thank you Mick Jagger!

Today at work the fire alarm went off. I work at the Desk in the lobby of my old dorm. For those who aren't familiar with some dorm lobbies, this particular lobby has a dorm on either side. The RD of my old dorm cam down to inform me that it would be going off and gave me fair warning. This was much appreciated and I proceeded to get my set of deskie-issued ear plugs and inserted them into my ears. Not to long after, the fire alarm did indeed go off. When the RD came and shut it down, I was under the impression that the noise was done with, and it was...for a while. Then the fire alarm went off in the other hall. This, I was not prepared for. No one came down and told me it was going to happen. But then soon after that, a wise songwriters lyrics echoed in the back of my head, "you can't always get what you want."

A bit of psychology comes into play here. I was conditioned to think that because one RD warned me about the fire drill, that the other one would as well. But that isn't always the case. Sometimes we get warnings about alarms in our life (isn't it great when that happens?) and sometimes we don't and we need to be prepared for when we don't.

This, too, was random.

TMI

Here we go again.

Well, here we are, a few weeks into the new semester and a month into 2010. I'm sitting in english class as I type this, a class that I am unfortunately retaking. Don't ask. Suffice it to say that I've very nearly been put back a semester now and I plan on taking summer classes to catch up. And I'm minoring in writing so to be retaking an entry level class doesn't paint the best picture. To honest though, I do love writing (obviously or I wouldn't be minoring in it) and I don't completely mind taking this particular class over again. Furthermore, this particular version of the class is different from the one I took before and I wish I would have taken it from this teacher the first time around.

She's a character and, no offense meant to the other teacher, a lot more pleasant to learn from. To be fair though, the first teacher I had was a grad student and was still figuring out her teaching style. The teacher that I have now has been at this for a while. We are going over Essay Structure at the moment. I guess the more I think about it, the more I realize that this is good for me and that a good writer knows that one is never done learning, that it is an ongoing process.

And you know what? I look forward to the rest of this semester in this class:D That was random.