Just how far behind am I currently?
Well, today is Saturday, it’s VERY nice outside and I and well tempted to hop, skip and jump to the park for some footy or get Tom out of bed and go on a bike mission, but staring at my Task Bark/Dock thing (Whatever Windows 7 calls it. :s) I noticed MS Word, Photoshop and MSN. All of which remind me I have work to do. 
(Except MSN :p) So, to try and aid my brain out, I wanna see exactly how much I have to do and in a rough time frame (from memory).
So, lets begin with the slog.
Personal Professional Development I wouldn’t say I am behind on, I’ve just spent a LOT of time trying to make something small on my website work how I want too and I think it’s a case of the perfectionist inside me wanting it done before moving on. Remember what your teachers said to you just before an exam? “If you get stuck on a question, leave it for now and come back to it once you have finished the paper.” Well, I never moved on, I always sat and gawped at a question until the answer popped out of the page and inked it self onto my page. Granted I still always finished about 30 minutes ahead of time, but it’s the principle. Other than my website, I’ve still to create a business card although I know exactly what it will be, just a case of me wanting webby done then do the business card. (It’s going to be my banner with David Norman in the cloud, cut out to the shape of the cloud and my details on the back. 
) The last thing to make is a CV, of which I still need to do my own personal one actually, but anyway yeh, a professional CV for industry, not for Tesco or HMV. This is due in at the end of March! so 9 safe days do get it done in, 11 if I have to push it.
Critical Studies I severely need help on. We have to come up with our own essay this time and write a proposal, this requires us talking to James and getting an OK from him in case it’s absolute turd. I missed my time slot to chat to him a couple weeks back due to the Professional Practice brief and deadlines, so maybe I should email him or have a word with him after Tuesdays session. I have had an idea I wanna do, but not sure if I should use it for this 2500 word essay or leave it for the massive 6-8000 word Dissertation next year… The basic idea is “What are the effects of Piracy on digital medias. (Film, music, game, apps etc) and is it a good or bad thing for consumers and companies.” I guess the title would need renaming, but you should be able to get the gist from that sentence. So yeh, emailing or chatting to James is a MUST DO in the next week before I fail. Terribly. If I recall the proposal is due for before Easter then the essay is due in after Easter. Not a lot of time, but it’s do-able!
Enterprise… is wank but I have to do a thingy plan. It’s big and meh and very long winded and meh. Meh. Meh when it’s due in.
Major Project has started but Alex and myself haven’t done much on it as of yet. We’ve had the idea to do Leeds Ink for ages now, and this is the perfect time to get it done! I’ve been thinking intro sequence lately as that would be a key part of the show, the main research we’ve done so far is looking at how Miami, L.A. and London Ink is all filmed and shot and what their about. I think me and Al have both agreed Leeds Ink will be more like London Ink when it comes to the general aura of the final production. Title sequence however will be unique, maybe based on a the current *city name here* Ink style but will obviously have a bit dollop of Leeds Sauce all over it. 
Other research I’ve done so far is just generally looking at peoples home made tattooing videos and ones that are kinda like the Ink shows but not official. Even though ours wont be an official show that will air on MTV each week, maybe it could sprout into a YouTube craze and do a show each week/month then who knows. Look at CollegeHumor, internet sensation now on MTV! Win. But yes, lots more to be done before anything can be finalized, so I shall blog about this more as more happens. This isn’t due in until the end of this college year, so that’s early June time. That’s a lot of time really, and I don’t wanna sit and wait around until the last minute to work on it. Once Entershize, Critical Studies and PPD is out of the way it’s all MP, and the beauty of Leeds Ink is it isn’t all filmed in a day, it’s filmed on many days at many hours and voice overs aren’t done on shoot so it’s a gradual progression building up to an amazing end.
Creative Writing elective is going steady. Can’t really be behind on it unless I don’t turn up to the latest session and as it stands I have been to the latest session. I’ve not yet done the homework but I do intend on doing it maybe while watching TV or something cause then I could take ideas of characters from the telly and add them into mine. Inspiration from things we see. We have until the end of May I believe so not far off now, and we have a small project at the end which looks to be rather entertaining, so I’m not as worked up about this as I was about my Photography elective last year.
*THIS ISN’T COLLEGE WORK, BUT SOMETHING I DO WANNA DO SOMETIME SOON* Video Blog 3 HD. If Premiere wasn’t so bastard-like I would of had this edited last week, I could use the Mac’s at college but if I was to sit there editing a vlog together, I would feel like I am wasting time where I could be doing something more productive and college inclined. Granted everything baring MP can be done on my laptop at anytime, but it’s still the principle of the feelings. I’ve had a lookie at the footage and it should be enough. There are LOTS of things I wanna put in now on reflection but I guess that’s due to me knowing what I wanna say but not knowing how to say it. I always get that on vlogs. On a blog I can write a lot then add or remove if needed (which is rare to be fair…) but with video I have to know what I wanna say and where, when, why etc and maybe even shoot stuff I wont use, that way I will have stuff I can leave out but lots of content for a short vlog.
I think that’s everything. Only got other personal errands to run really and maybe turn the Xbox on for the first time in a good few weeks.
