I am so looking forward to doing make-up on my best friends Zombie summer project. All I have to do is learn to do things like this:



and this:



And this:



and then I will be sweet!

Dissapointed

I would like to state that I am thoroughly disappointed with my work and work ethic these past two years. I know that I need to do better and yet I have no idea how to better myself. I am struggling with being tired and my body giving up on me at times and I feel as if my love for film making is slowly dwindling down, crushed by the dirt that piles up on the flame. I know that it is almost impossible to do achieve good grades while also working an almost full time job, but only almost. If all I did was worked and studied then I could achieve it all but how in the hell could I be happy? I need at least some form of interaction with humans other than my class mates and my customers at work and yet when socialising becomes a factor my grades drop ten fold. Lately I have felt depressed and angry almost all of the time, I hide it with a polite smile, and act cheery and bubbly but on the inside I'm burning with tears that threaten to overflow at the smallest hiccups. I just dont know how to fix myself. Can anybody out there help?

The Flicks - SIT Film and Animation Showcase

I really enjoyed attending the Flicks, the works shown stunned me with their polish and style. It really encompassed all of the different ideas that the students can come up with and particularly this year the Animations were very well incorporated making them more a part of it than in previous years.
It has shown me that next year we will have to work incredibly hard to surpass our predecessors and this is what we aim to do.
A few of my classmates have been discussing our role in organising the flicks next year and we know that we want to go all out!! We have noticed that not only is the Flicks about the films and animations that are shown but also that all of the audience members are excited by the opportunity to dress up and have a nice night out. Therefore, myself and my classmates have discussed that we need to make the surroundings worthy of how everybody looks. It will take a lot of planning and work but next years Flicks are going to look amazing!!!

While researching Baz Luhrmann as an auteur I found a quote that the man himself gave to The Guardian;

we were in drama school and we had a whole lot of people telling us that there was only one way to tell a story, by the nature of being in an institution you are academically oppressed and want to find your own voice.

It made me think about how I have been feeling recently as I come to the end of my second year of film making study.

We are a group of creative minds, the kind of minds that crave freedom and time and yet we exist within an institution that controls almost every ounce of our creativity. By being forced to fit into schedules and restrictions our work is affected often in a negative way. I find that due to everything being required at one time, we as students, are never able to complete our work to the standard we want to. Time management is obviously a factor but so is the scheduling of the assignments.

If only, as creative people, we could be allowed some slack and given the chance to let our creativity run free in order to make the things we want to make the way we want to make them.