CARDIFF'S GOT TALENT

I'M DONE! My new film is done :D So might upload it before 25th of May if I have the time. Even though my film is done I still got more to do. I'm satisfied with the result, of course you'll always see the faults/improvements like light, sound, composition etc., but with what I did I'm satisfied.

New dance routine today, so have to try to practice a bit during the week. We'll have this exact dance routine for three weeks now. Watched Saturday's Britain's Got Talent, this time from Manchester and Cardiff (the capital in Wales, 40 min from me). Many amazing acts and some special ones. One of the best ones this times, I think, would be James Hobley (see description below). It's kids like that inspire me, to go out into the world and give it your best. Never let anyone or anything stop you from reaching your goals. Really looking forward to circus tomorrow now.


Britain's Got Talent: 11-year-old James' incredible talent was discovered by his mum taking him to a dancing event when he was younger. As well as loving his amazing and natural skills - it's even helped him overcome a problem with his legs and his struggle with autism. With his teacher and biggest fan, Mum, watching from the wings - James comes alive to the music on the Britain's Got Talent stage, wows the audience and renders the judges speechless! Will James overcome all the odds and take his fantastic dance routine to the semi-finals?

Just saw Owl City's music video for Alligator Sky today. AMAZING! I think I've watched it 10 times today alone. Really good shots, costumes, story and song :D Check out Owl City on Spotify.



Today's song: Owl City - Alligator Sky ft. Shawn Chrystopher

LET'S MOVE

My nice Sunday run, 14,55km/9,05 miles. Had to get all the alcohol and pizza from the weekend out of my body. Haha!

The Clyne wood is filled with lovely old stone structures, this is one of them. It's filled with old pipes, bridges, walls and tunnels, so I'm just trying to take it all in. You never know, might come in handy in a film sometime. I so wanted my camera here, instead of that shitty phone camera. Could have used my Ricoh 35mm camera. It's so unique and special lighting in this forest, so to go back here with my cameras in my to-do list after 25th of May.

Until uni work is done: It is 16 days, 19 hours, 5 minutes :D

Source: Deano Matten - Sorry about the focus (not my fault)

Had a really good time out last night with Deano, Kylie, Sara, Thomas and David. Went to several places and enjoyed most of them. Yes I have coloured my hair, gonna post a picture as soon as I've been to the hairdresser, hopefully tomorrow. The colouring went great, it's just that I've got way to long hair right now.

The First Lady, Michelle Obama, have started her new campaign Let's Move! to try to fight the obesity in USA. I think this is a great campaign and one that's really needed. She's got Beyoncè to create a song for it and its being shown all over the states. You can learn the steps here.

                
Damn that lady can move! Did you see those heels!?!

Today's song: Let's Move! "Move Your Body" Music Video with Beyoncé

1000 BALLOONS

One of our housemates went to Germany for a few days, so we decided to fill his room with ONE THOUSAND balloons :D Not many friends love you so much, haha! We took them all out into the hallway afterwards.



We had so much fun this morning, popping'em and all. Some of them were filled with glitter too, so now all us have glitter in our hair, clothes etc. HAHA!

Went to the Swansea Met 2nd Year Photography Exhibition opening yesterday. Some very nice pictures I must say and some interesting and a few not so great. Really like going to exhibitions, see other peoples works, mingle/socializing AND free wine :D After a most succesfull exhibition (except the fact that the janitor decided to kick everyone out at eight o'clock) we went out. Elise, Silje, Janne, Ingelin, Arne, Guillaume and me went to Bar Reef. Never been there before, but I'm definately coming back, very good food and excelent staff. Probably be back already next Friday (my birthday) when it's a live jazz group preforming.

Now I'm going out for a quick cycle around town to find the hair colour I need, cause I'm in need of blond highlights again!

Have a great weekend peeps :D

New video from Panic! at the Disco :D Love it!
Today's song: Panic! at the Disco - Ready to go

WORKATHON

Deadline 09.05.11: Essay - Film review in "Sight & Sound" magazine style. My choice: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

- Here I'm up to date, only missing the conclusion which I'm gonna add during the weekend.

Deadline 20.05.11: Hand in Personal Narrative Fucking perfect, visual diary and showreel DVD

Today: - editing 

             - made several showreel DVD design sketches, the cover, disc and menu

Tomorrow: - editing

Weekend: - making the titles and text animation for the intro to Fucking perfect

Monday: - editing

Tuesday: - editing

Wednesday: - exporting/finishing touches

Thursday: - design the DVD, cover and menu

Friday (my birthday): - design the DVD, cover and menu, finish!

Weekend: - fine tuning on DVD showreel

Monday: - print out DVD cover/disc

Tuesday: - burn DVD, for Fucking perfect + project files for visual diary

Wednesday: - check that everything is in place in visual diary (which it is cause I've been working on that all year, 5 min a day is much better than 3 day at end term)

Thursday and Friday: - two extra days in case something happens

Deadline 25.05.11: Exam in Avid Media Composer, 1st year

- As soon as I'm all done with the above, it's Avid training videos all the way

(For the record, the more I use Avid, I hate it. Cause I think it's a old interface and time consuming. Personally I prefer Adobe Premiere pro or Final Cut)

And after 25 May we basically don't have any more uni, except waiting for feedback and grades. So then I'm gonna enjoy nice warm days down at the beach with friends, finish one of my my film/photo private project (which has taken much more time then I originally hoped), Circus eruption on Tuesdays, exercise, exercise and exploring :D And some charity work for Discovery charity. Basically I'm so fed up with all the paper, we live in 2011, we hardly need paper. So I'm setting up a digital systems for all Discovery staff/volunteers to use for gathering info etc. Also design the website for Discovery.

Have you seen it??? Lady Gaga's brand new video for the song Judas. I love her videos, even though they are a bit look-a-like Madonna and Christina Aguilera.

Today's song: Lady Gaga - Judas