Living in a House of Cards

Okay this is it, the moment we've all been waiting for... Okay, maybe not all you guys, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. But I certainly can tell you that there were three exhausted students unbelievable grateful to see the successful completion of this project, and so when we got the marks back, we were even more grateful.

I myself was very proud of this piece - lighting, set up, audio - we were pleased with the way we accomplished everything - but I think we were even more impressed when we got it done in 3 days.

A million thanks to Hugh Livingstone, for agreeing to dedicated so many hours to us, and to Shane King - who made us want to cry with relief when we showed up at his place of work with a camera, completely unannounced, and he said "yeah, sure I'll let you film here and do an interview." Well, more like we begged, and he shrugged in complacent agreement, but we are eternally grateful.

Alicia, Cam - I LOVE YOU GUYS. lol

HUGH LIVINGSTONE: Living in a House of Magic




There ya have it folks. Hope you liked it :)

Till next time!

Catalonia Royal Tulum

OMG. I've never been to mexico before, and THIS is where mom and I are booking for April, as a grad gift =D

I can't wait. I will be outside from dawn until dusk because I want to be BROWN baby!!

VOTE FOR BRENDAN

This is a guy I work with at the Nexus Brendan Kergin who is AWESOME and is a semifinalist in a creative video blogging contest. I know what you're thinking....."so?"

BUT if he wins, he gets to cover the olympics! and get all sorts of cool prizes.....

You should all register and vote for him! (even if you just delete your account after...)

It's your christmas present to me! because I think he should win. :P



CLICK HERE TO VOTE!
http://www.hihostelspm.ca/blogthegames


Thanks guys!

Secrets

POSTSECRET is amazing.

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God from Frank Warren on Vimeo.

DESIGNER'S HELL

I love this guy. All his posts are amazing and true. And the saddest part is, clients actually do this - all time.

Read the Post!!

ROOMMATES - Sitcom Character Sketch

Okay, so for my self directed video project, I want to do a pilot for a sitcom. I am in the process of gathering together a team of writers and am in the first few steps of organizing the casting call. 
The show's tentative title is 'Roommates', and will be done in the basic day to day life style, similar to FRIENDS.
 
This is the character sketch for the leads of the show:

Notes

• Names and descriptions of characters subject to change during production and pre-production process
• Other small parts available but will be undefined until script is finalized. You may inform us if you are interested in being cast in these parts when you audition
• If you do not match the physical description of the character you wish to audition for, please audition anyway - you may still be the best suited for the part

Final Photo Assignments

Portrait and Environment Shot 

For this assignment we had to shoot a portrait of someone that clearly depicted their working/job environment

Jim Ryan

This was our final assignment as well as a photo Scholarship called the Jim Ryan. It is for a "News Worthy" photo contest. I also had a shot of a car crash, but it just wasn't as good of a shot, and there wasn't anything super captivating about it, so I decided to go with this one instead. There's no way I'm going to win or anything, but I like the shot a lot :)

(EDIT: Was reading back through old blogs, and realized this was up there, but I forgot to update about the contest results. Turns out, I came 2nd :) Yay!)

Movie Review: CARRIERS

Spielberg in Stilletos

Dvd reviews by Maelina de Grasse

End of the World Blah Blah Blah

“Carriers”

Directors: Alex and David Pastor

Starring: Lour Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp

Runtime: 84 minutes

For your own sake, please read these next few lines and save yourself 84 minutes of actually watching Carriers.

An unstoppable virus pandemic takes over the world. Four dim witted, irritating college kids try to outrun it and epically fail due to their overwhelming stupidity. Everyone gets infected and turns against one another. The End.

Okay, so not everyone dies at the end of the flic, but they may as well have. They make so many stupid decisions that it brings to question whether or not they really should be the ones to survive and repopulate society.

Let's review stupid decision number one: anger the guy who is stranded on the highway with a sick little girl, no gas in the car, and a gun in his hand, by refusing to help him. Why is this stupid? Because the angry man gets a few lucky shots into the radiator and their car breaks down 30 minutes later. Karma’s a bitch.

So, with civilization miles away in either direction and an undamaged vehicle not too far behind them, the kids are forced to bring gas from their own car back to the stranger. Which leads us to stupid decision number two: getting into the same car that’s had a virus carrier in it for God knows how long, and thinking some plastic wrap and duct tape between you and the infected is going to serve as sufficient protection. Please.

Some could argue that these incidents are all circumstantial and the protagonists didn’t have any other options. But please stay tuned for stupid decision number three. One of the girls is left alone in the car with the sick kid in the back and when the poor little girl starts coughing, this brilliant chick thinks its a good idea to tear down the lame ass barrier, and fling herself back there. To accomplish what, exactly? The little girl is dying of a toxic virus, what could she possibly do for her? Sure, it’s brutal but it’s the truth. So, of course, the little girl coughs up a bunch of blood, which hits the heroic (aka stupid) college chick right in the face. As it turns out, consequences  are a bitch too.

Predictably, the petrified teen wipes her face and pretends like it never happened (stupid decision number four), and so starts the inevitable sequence of desertion and betrayal and death. Cue end credits.

Edward is so old news...

I loved it.

Yup. That's right I said it.

P.S. Dakota Fanning grew up?? Don't child actors live in never never land or something? They aren't supposed to look like adults more beautiful than me. It's just not right.

Keys. Sucks when you don't have them.

So I did it. Left the keys in the ignition for the first time tonight.

And NO the car was not still running.

Thank goodness I was with my friend who drives so it was easy to go get the spare. Needless to say I felt like an idiot but I was NOT that surprised. I knew it would happen eventually. I just has hoped I could have gone longer before it happened. Hopefully now I will be super paranoid and never do it again.

Almost There.

Been chipping away at these slowly. I'm almost done....out of 1200 photos I think I probably only have about 30 left to edit....I know it's down to 2 more sets anyway, I think....the one I did here on the bridge, and then the ones on the train.....

OH SNAP. I just realized it's actually 3 sets. We also did some on a boat (abandoned and random in the middle of a parking lot), which apparantly was not a great idea because the boys were covered in fiber glass afterwards....anyway, those shouldn't take too long, because I think even after the effort of climbing up, I didn't get too many shots out of it.

I can't wait to finish up. There are so many great shots to add to my portfolio now :)

BSOD

Well shit.

My Camosun = 750 BONES

The My Camosun Contest is a one minute video that is supposed to depict was Camosun College means to you. I was inspired when I heard the the song "One Tribe" by Black Eyed Peas, and instantly knew what I wanted to do. I was pretty excited because it was simple, effective, and really easy to shoot.

Anyway, I guess it paid off because I WON FIRST PRIZE!!!

aka, 750 big ones! I can't believe it! I should buy myself something as a treat...but what to buy...? Hmm.

Anywho, next project is to...well okay let's be honest, there's more than one project on the go. Here's the major ones:

• Take 5 Newsletter (an Applied Communication Publication): Christi and I are doing layout and photography. We're going with a Web 2.0 theme. :)
• Photography Photoshop Assignment: A shot of someone in a scene or pose that clearly depicts their job, then edit it (levels, layers, touchups, etc)
• Publishing Photoshop Assignment: Combine some of your own photos, or creative commons photos from the web, to create a whole new scene. For this I think I am going to use some of the photos from the Sunhawk Band shoot. I did a lot of editing and subbing in certain shots, because sometimes I liked one of the guy's expressions in one shot, but like the expression of the other two guys in another...anyway, the only reason why I'm a little skeptical is quite often I only combined 2 photos, actually I think I only ever combined 2 photos, and although they are very well edited, I feel like it's a bit of a cop out, considering everyone else is doing something really obvious....anyway, whatever, I'll figure it out.
• Sunhawk: Finish editing the photos

Okay, it's almost time for work now, so I'm going to DRIVE down. woop woop.

Till next time Kidlies <3

 

A Day in the G-Hood

Went out driving today to get photos done for my photography assignment. Kinda nice, I ended up in Gorden Head where I grew up...so nice to be in the area again. :) And driving which made it feel like even MORE time had passed....haha I'm old and grown up now.

ANYWAY, here's some of the shots. It was kinda nice to have to opportunity to take more landscape shots since I never do. I'm more of a people person when it comes to photography, and I don't spend a lot of time working of photos that I can actually put up on my wall, for instance.

Assignment 1: One Third

Assignment 2 : Two Thirds

Extras

 

 

 

And so ends my day out in Cady-Bay slash G-Hood. (Cadboro Bay and Gorden Head.

Love Meena <3

Camosun Video Promo - ACP Video 3

This was so ridiculously fun to shoot. And before we ask, we went through 5 eggs, yes he did really hit his head, and yes it hurt. lol. Hope you like it!


Camosun. The Choice is Easy.

NEW LIFE

HECK. YES.

Passed with only 2 mistakes.

I'm never bussing again....until I run out of money for parking.

Web Update plus Random Cat Gum

Website's slowly coming along. Putting content on takes the most amount of time....bah.

Okay, let me just point out the fact that I hate with a firey passion when the heel of my hand touches the laptop mouse pad and moves where I am typing so I start typing randomnly at the beginning again. FML.

ANYWAY.

My cat is a freak. She's rubbing herself all over my purse and drooling on it, because I have mint gum in there somewhere, and she loves chewing on it. quite literally. If I don't stop her she'll probably rip through my bag with her teeth.

Driving Tests and News Shifts

So, I took my LAST driving lesson today. Actually, I kind of forgot about it, until the doorbell rang and this cute guy showed up at my door. It took only a few seconds of me contemplating that maybe God was rewarding me by bringing cute guys to my doorstep, before I realized I happened to know this one, and he was supposed to be mock-testing me.
Needless to say, I finished getting reading and dashed out the house.

Apparently I don't look behind me enough when I'm parking or maneuvering the car, because it was that that cost me the points to not pass my mock exam. But Brett (driving-guy) has faith that I will pass my actual test on Monday, and says that a number of his students that he passes in the mock exam, actually fail their real road test, and the ones he fails, know to pay more attention, and pass their road test.

God, I hope that's me.

Currently, I'm actually on air on Village 900 doing my 12-5 news shift. Every hour on the hour I do a 3 minute news read, then a 1 minute sports and weather.
The weirdest part - I'm actually liking it. Strange - considering i used to hate news. Hmmm. Acp is converting me.

I'll be posting soon with screenshots of my website that seems to be coming along quite well. Basically it's just a matter of buckling down and getting content in now, which is a biatch, because it takes about a million years.

Oh yeah, and then I have to figure out how to transfer it to my .com domain through FTP. we'll see....

Ciao for now Bellas!

Facebook Annihilation

Okay, so here goes. My first blog. Well, maybe not my first, since I was once an avid LJ user, during those days long before Facebook "pwnd" Live Journal. I remember very distinctly the day my friend posted the picture of Justin Timberlake's Futuresex/Lovesounds album and said that this is what facebook was doing to livejournal. He was right.



So, anyway, Blogger it is. I feel like after every speaker that we've had come into our classes who said that having presence on the web is now one of the most important factors of networking into the media industry, I can't very well ignore it any longer.

I don't know how easily I'll be able to keep up with it, but I'll give it my best go.