Where do I start?

I've given up trying to avoid writing a blog. It turns out that I have to do one as part of the assessment for Creative Enterprise.

Assignments: An artefact (Eco Campus). A blog or diary (otherwise known as the critical commentary and bane of Creative Writing. Except now i'll have to log weekly). Appendix (photocopied notebooks).

And so it starts: my blog, a boring reflection on what I am doing for enterprise. Maybe i'll add a few personal entries here and there just to make it more interesting.

So, where do I start? I guess i'll have to kick off from where I am at the moment, because there is no way I am back logging all that I have done so far. Which isn't really that much. I've filmed (with the help of Jona) and edited the first film for Eco Campus: Recycling. Filming in the snow wasn't the best fun i've ever had, my feet actually went numb. The actor, who isn't really an actor, but a first year student who lives in my block, saved my skin. The actor I had originally asked to be in my film dropped out at the last minute (the morning of filming) and thankfully Josh agreed to be filmed. Vanity sure is a useful sin. Jona too was a saving grace, I don't think I would have remembered which buttons to press if it wasn't for him. Filming went well, even if we did nearly get attacked by swans. But am I happy with the film? No, not really. It didn't turn out the way that I wanted it to. It's not as quick, sharp or fast paced as i'd have hoped, the plot isn't exactly thrilling and when showing a group of first years at university the film to get some feedback, the only response I had was:

'Who's the guy in it? He's cute.'

Hello, people? It's a promotional film about saving the world by recycling, and all you care about is the blonde? Kind of says it all doesn't it?

It has taken me five painstakingly long weeks to finish Recycling, I have spent day after day, staring at my borrowed MacBook Pro screen, hoping that Final Cut Pro will grow a conscious mind and help me finish the film. I am no longer precious about Recycling, and will glad to see the back of it. Tomorrow will be the last day that I will watch it and make some edits, and then that's it. I wont open it, edit it or even watch it, not until the other two films are near completion. I am beginning to think that completing three films by May 13th is about as likely as, I don't know, something unlikely. I'm starting to think that going to Australia for nearly a month, in the middle of the second semester in my final year at university wasn't the best decision i've ever made. How am I ever going to do all that I need to do in seven weeks?

Plan for this week:

• Finish filming Energy (film 2),
• Log and capture footage,
• Gather notes and make texts and voice overs.
• Possibly do a rough edit?