Thursday, March 27, 2014 - [insightszx]
Herrow. It' been raining all dayyyyyy. How gloomy dark and depressing. Pretty glad I didn't have to go out today :o Spent the day at home, well I did get up at 1.30pm XD so .. afternoon was spent completing Media Planning assignment.
Wow this was one of the stupidest assignments ever because the lecturer said the trick to this assignment is that there is alot of information available, so choose wisely. OH BS, there was hardly anything information on Fright Nights and also the databases they provided were only sufficient to make 2-3 graphs, meanwhile ask for 30 slides of analysis on consumer, product and market and create a marketing campaign for Movieworld when even the Fright Night website is down. Jeez. Anyway I'm pretty sure I haven't spent this much effort and gotten frustrated over an assignment like this not because it's a hard assignment but I just couldn't find the info needed. Google not good enough D:
Accidentally stumbled across something I didn't need to know the day before and it was nagging at me. It's really no big deal I guess, but being me ._. I have to think about it and analyze every detail 20 000 times. Sadly my friends were unable to offer much help or advice or comfort probably. Then suddenly I realized there is one more person to talk to ! And I did find some closure, definitely feel much better and calmer ahah :3 ty keeeeeez. We can actually have proper conversations when its just the two of us XD
*inserts non-existent pictures of kas and me*
): need to fix that.
Was gonna do the film schedule assignment but I can't because I don't have the script breakdown template because I did not forsee my Macbook crashing on me and costing $1300 to repair (yes apple called me today ._____.) so .. my assignment stuff has disappeared and I have to wait for my sweet lecturer-tutor to respond. Boy she's so cute, she sent a warning email today that because of the persistent rain for almost 3 days the creek outside her house is rising and might possibly flood overnight so lecture might be cancelled tomorrow. :o
Want to see the Iron Throne exhibit tomorrow ): please don't rain anymore. Also got a notification from QUT Clinics today that they've created an app, for students like me who visit the doctor almost once a month, to book appointments instead of calling and holding. Hurray !! I can pick which Doctor I want via the app too ~ Score ! Idk how this app works though, for me once I signed-up for it, the QUT clinics I've visited appear, IT KNOWS WHERE I STUDY! Not sure how it works for the public ohwell maybe its a gigantic database and connects every clinic evaaaaaaaaa.
I guess it's a sign I should rest the rest of the night, at least I managed to do the physical script breakdown !
For anyone interested, there is a colour system to doing the breakdown:
Red - Speaking Cast
Orange - Stunts
Yellow - Silent actions
Green - Extras
Lime - Props
Purple - Sets or Art Department
Brown - Sound Effects
Circles: Wardrobe
* : Make-Up
The list is alot more comprehensive and longer but that's a basic idea :3 For example, Aqua is used for extra music instead of brown, but does not mean the soundtrack. It's more like if you see a busker along the streets and he sings a song or strums the guitar that's code Aqua, but slamming doors or a car driving by will be code Brown.
So intredasting :3
Maybe I should start on the 3rd assignment also due next week . . .
NNAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I think I'm going to get a giant mug of tea and watch Titanic, because I'm slow like a sloth and I lag behind the world.
Wow this was one of the stupidest assignments ever because the lecturer said the trick to this assignment is that there is alot of information available, so choose wisely. OH BS, there was hardly anything information on Fright Nights and also the databases they provided were only sufficient to make 2-3 graphs, meanwhile ask for 30 slides of analysis on consumer, product and market and create a marketing campaign for Movieworld when even the Fright Night website is down. Jeez. Anyway I'm pretty sure I haven't spent this much effort and gotten frustrated over an assignment like this not because it's a hard assignment but I just couldn't find the info needed. Google not good enough D:
Accidentally stumbled across something I didn't need to know the day before and it was nagging at me. It's really no big deal I guess, but being me ._. I have to think about it and analyze every detail 20 000 times. Sadly my friends were unable to offer much help or advice or comfort probably. Then suddenly I realized there is one more person to talk to ! And I did find some closure, definitely feel much better and calmer ahah :3 ty keeeeeez. We can actually have proper conversations when its just the two of us XD
*inserts non-existent pictures of kas and me*
): need to fix that.
Was gonna do the film schedule assignment but I can't because I don't have the script breakdown template because I did not forsee my Macbook crashing on me and costing $1300 to repair (yes apple called me today ._____.) so .. my assignment stuff has disappeared and I have to wait for my sweet lecturer-tutor to respond. Boy she's so cute, she sent a warning email today that because of the persistent rain for almost 3 days the creek outside her house is rising and might possibly flood overnight so lecture might be cancelled tomorrow. :o
Want to see the Iron Throne exhibit tomorrow ): please don't rain anymore. Also got a notification from QUT Clinics today that they've created an app, for students like me who visit the doctor almost once a month, to book appointments instead of calling and holding. Hurray !! I can pick which Doctor I want via the app too ~ Score ! Idk how this app works though, for me once I signed-up for it, the QUT clinics I've visited appear, IT KNOWS WHERE I STUDY! Not sure how it works for the public ohwell maybe its a gigantic database and connects every clinic evaaaaaaaaa.
I guess it's a sign I should rest the rest of the night, at least I managed to do the physical script breakdown !
For anyone interested, there is a colour system to doing the breakdown:
Red - Speaking Cast
Orange - Stunts
Yellow - Silent actions
Green - Extras
Lime - Props
Purple - Sets or Art Department
Brown - Sound Effects
Circles: Wardrobe
* : Make-Up
The list is alot more comprehensive and longer but that's a basic idea :3 For example, Aqua is used for extra music instead of brown, but does not mean the soundtrack. It's more like if you see a busker along the streets and he sings a song or strums the guitar that's code Aqua, but slamming doors or a car driving by will be code Brown.
So intredasting :3
Maybe I should start on the 3rd assignment also due next week . . .
NNAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I think I'm going to get a giant mug of tea and watch Titanic, because I'm slow like a sloth and I lag behind the world.
Labels: assignment, colour code, comfort, film, fright nights, media planning, rainy, script breakdown, titanic
bits of me revealed at ..
8:46 PM.
Saturday, March 22, 2014 - [assign-blog-ment-ing.]
I would very much like to blog about the great Friday I had, but I've no time to prepare that post I will require a couple days probably. Instead I'll show you what I've been doing today.
Assignment-ing ! D: how fun. Well I finally am able to get some work done because I've received my MacBook from Apple. If you're my friend on Facebook you'd know I was ranting about how stupid they were for putting a password on my Macbook and not informing me. Well this morning I realized the password was simply a blank. How infuriating. I actually had a whole conversation with the Apple customer service planned in my head like this ..
So anyway, got up at 1.30pm . Oh gad D: all my plans to accomplish things over this weekend. I'll have to get up earlier on Sunday. Decided to start on my assignments by making lunch. So I had asked for 2 pieces of chicken breast from the Deli counter. Woman working there was talking to her friend and didn't notice my standing there with the queue number for awhile. It's okay. We all slack off at work sometimes right.
I wasn't annoyed at all, she clearly wasn't very good at hearing either.
"Can I have two pieces of breast meat please, wrapped separately". Sadly that wasn't comprehensible to her and she gave me 2KG of meat and wrapped each piece individually. Okay then. I'll just stuff $30 of chicken into the non-existent space in my freezer. I'm not mad, I suppose it's great that I don't have to go get meat any time soon but really, the freezer has no space D:
Assignment-ing ! D: how fun. Well I finally am able to get some work done because I've received my MacBook from Apple. If you're my friend on Facebook you'd know I was ranting about how stupid they were for putting a password on my Macbook and not informing me. Well this morning I realized the password was simply a blank. How infuriating. I actually had a whole conversation with the Apple customer service planned in my head like this ..
Oh isn't it fun imagining things.
So anyway, got up at 1.30pm . Oh gad D: all my plans to accomplish things over this weekend. I'll have to get up earlier on Sunday. Decided to start on my assignments by making lunch. So I had asked for 2 pieces of chicken breast from the Deli counter. Woman working there was talking to her friend and didn't notice my standing there with the queue number for awhile. It's okay. We all slack off at work sometimes right.
I wasn't annoyed at all, she clearly wasn't very good at hearing either.
"Can I have two pieces of breast meat please, wrapped separately". Sadly that wasn't comprehensible to her and she gave me 2KG of meat and wrapped each piece individually. Okay then. I'll just stuff $30 of chicken into the non-existent space in my freezer. I'm not mad, I suppose it's great that I don't have to go get meat any time soon but really, the freezer has no space D:
Also.. normally a piece of meat is about 3-quarters the size of the one on the chopping board. Sometimes woolies has huge pieces and sometimes they have tiny pieces. So that day in addition to the hearing-impaired woman, I received mega large pieces of meat. Usually 2 pieces is between $5 to $7. I once bought 4 pieces of meat for $11, imagine how tiny they were. I also once got 2 pieces that were worth $15. Such consistency in meat sizes (:
Part of my film analysis assignment is to create a blog and write why I think a scene is important or how a particular shot develops a character or story and analyze the mise en scene of a particular shot (setting, composition, lighting, framing)
I really like Tumblr because it's so easy to use. I also don't like Tumblr because I can't customize it as much as I like, because I just love customizing all my shit.
I love blogging if you can't already tell, I like sharing my experiences and opinions, so I've updated this little sidebar if anyone wants to see my multiple Tumblr pages. (: I don't even know what that Facebook Like thing is linked to, nothing appears on my feed or anywhere when I created it or when people clicked it.
Did anyone also notice the new photo to the Distractions reel? The star is really to hide a pimple :x And Steph got a HarryPotter scar because I didn't want to be the only one with a stamp on my face :x
Oh hey, Zac's there too.
Labels: analysis, apple, assignments, blogs, customer service, film, genius bar, tumblr
bits of me revealed at ..
6:49 PM.
