Documentation: The Making of Documentary

Hello!!

Once again this is overdue and I really don't use this journal as much as I should. Somedays, like today, I feel more productive and reflective than others and since my printer is not working (so I can't actually do my UNI project as yet) I'm stuck with this instead lol.

A few brief news points:

- I am currently about to start making a documentary for my uni course. Have yet to decide what subject though, my group and I are quite strapped for ideas. My two (vague) ideas so far are: Muslim women in Western society and the conflicts between their religion's views towards them and different human rights towards them in other countries, gonna be honest, could be quite a heavy subject. The other was a documentation following an archeological find in Egypt or something of that nature, eg. 'The Book of the Dead' exhibition at the British Museum and the 'pages' travels to locations.

I've watched a few documentaries for research (I'm amazed I am so into the research of this project considering I don't really watch or even LIKE a lot of documentaries) namely ones about geisha though cos I fucking love geisha. I've already watched BBC's 'Geisha Girl' (2005) three times.

Kikuyu (my favourite maiko and now geiko)

I do not claim to own this photo.

However I suppose watching one documentary several times isn't really research haha so today I took out two called 'Grizzly Man' (Herzog, 2006) and 'Wheel of Time' (Herzog, 2007) to watch for a wider purpose. Also got down with my nerd side and got 'Documentaries and How to Make Them' by Andy Glynne out too.
So yes even though I wasn't particularly excited about this project, nor this year at uni, I'm feeling a little more optimistic now.

- I bought a moleskin, a beautiful moleskin, for documenting ideas. I'm concerntrating on one at the mo, one idea I've had for a long time and really want to develop more; my intention is to one day make it into a film/s or tv series but at this moment in time I'm aiming towards a comic after reading and drooling over Der-shing Helmer's 'The Meek'.

http://www.meekcomic.com/

Brilliant comic, wonderfully drawn. Check it out.

-I promise I will make more vlogs soon. I wanted to make some over summer but my summer was faaar from fun for a load of reasons and also Premiere Pro wouldn't fecking co-operate. I've managed to whip it into shape now though so I will make some more vlogs. I want to make one tomorrow actually, maybe in the evening? I'm out in the day, gonna go with my mate Joe into town and photograph our day as a documentary experiment and research....yep.

-Lastly, for now, Bayonetta is a sick game! Ghostbusters is also awesome however the glitches and bugs in it are insane! 'BILL!! Fuck sake stop running into Dan! There's a freaking slimer on the rampage!!' Whish reminds me I want to get a playthrough up of 'Tales of Monkey Island' up and going as well as possibly a 'Whispered World' playthrough.

That's all for now though. Hopefully see you soon!!

And on the first day she rested

Ello!

Being at uni, vlogs are a bit more difficult to produce. They're loud and disturb people and I don't feel entirely comfortable in this environment to do them :S.

So I thought I needed SOMEWAY to update every so often otherwise you would have all thought I'd died or something.

Saying that there isn't much to update on surprisingly. Yeah I'm at uni now, met some lovely ppl, flatmates are awesome, course has just started getting good (Media Practice bitches). So yeah very dull really haha.

OH BUT OH!
Last night yours truly was on her AOL and IM pops up. It was someone who'd been messaging me the last week or so but I'd always ignored it cos I didn't recognise the username. Finally I caved and checked what the actual message was. It read,
'Oh just wanted to say I really like your Monkey Island walkthrough!'
So I thought, 'oh a youtubian' so I reply thanking them kindly and we continue to chat for a bit. They then ask if I've bought 'Tales of Monkey Island' yet, like pre-bought all the chapters. I say yes and they respond with,
'Ah shame, was gonna set you up with them.'
I tell him that that was a very kind thought but I don't mind paying the £30 since the game's amazing, and that I'm not entirely comfortable with people I don't know buying me things.
'Oh I didn't mean like that, wasn't gonna buy them for ya, I'm on the inside you see' he says.

I'm all 'eh??'

Cue huge bomb drop!

'Yeah, I'm one of the lead designers you see, my name is Mark Darin'

*JAW DROP!!!*

Apparently he likes to watch my walkthrough when he's scripting and stuff cos it keeps him in the 'MI vibe'!

Wicked shit and I assure you he is a LOVELY guy and so friendly! Was utterly blown away.