Practical Project Portfolio (1)

So, for my Uni Practical Project Portfolio, I've been asked to keep a blog about what I'm getting up to and the progress I'm making with my work. I'm doing an Editing skills portfolio, so I'll be editing a couple of films and making some trailers. Sounds more like fun than work really, doesn't it?!

Firstly, here's my task list for the next few months (all of which I need to complete by the end of May next year):

1. A Contextualising Essay on the theoretical and practical aims and outcomes for and of the project.

2. 2 films plus 3 minute collection of trailers (own work, mash-ups and re-cut trailer)

3. Write up of work experience (2000 words)

4. This Blog (updated weekly)

5. A Self Reflective Essay (min 1500 words)

I'm pretty chuffed with this, as I can actually start a lot of it now, and get it done and dusted before production even begins on the two 10-minute films that I'm going to be cutting.

I'm most excited about the trailers part of the portfolio, especially after finding this, a mashup trailer of Toy Story 3 and Inception:


I'm going to be doing something similar to this, and at the moment I'm working on a trailer that combines The Breakfast Club and Ocean's Eleven, and then I'm thinking of doing one that merges Toy Story 1 with The Departed. So yeah, it's all under way!

Summer Camp USA

So I've decided that next summer, instead of just going on a few holidays and generally bumming around, I'm going to actually get off my arse and DO something. And after speaking to the BUNAC people at a careers fair the other day at uni, I've come to conclusion that the something I will be doing is going to Summer Camp in America to be a camp counsellor...no not that sort of counsellor. It means I'll be looking after the kids, doing activities with them like film-making, photography, all sorts of sports, and generally just having a good time.

I want to do this soooo badly...At the moment I don't really have enough formal experience working with kids, so I've contacted the Girlguides people and will hopefully be volunteering with them (starting asap, fingers crossed!) which will beef up my application form.

Ah yes, the application form...what a palava. They want so much information, about me, about my background, my experience working with children, that sort of thing. And then I have to go to an interview (I'm hoping to book it for late January) for them to see if I really am suitable for it and what kind of camp I should be placed at...and then they have to find a job at a camp for me! If I get accepted that is.

But if all goes according to plan, I will be in America come the end of June. And I cannot wait!

I Made A Little Video

I went with some friends to Trebah Gardens the other day...a beautiful place with exotic plants and water running through it. But to be honest, what we enjoyed most was the zipwire!