What's been happening, yo!

Hi beautiful readers, how are you this beautiful afternoon? I don't actually know if it is beautiful, though, because I haven't seen the sky. I'm not even sure it's afternoon, actually. Anyway. I actually have a few minutes to spare now that the term is just nearly wrapped up. If you don't count all the times Tarri follows me around and talks about his stuff that he's made and will make. Ahh.

The past few weeks have been quite crazy. There's been my research report, media culture, the third year project, photography.

And now Rachel Mann has just came in to 228 and brought her whole third year animation class with her. It was quiet and light before and now it's dark and noisy D:

Anyway.

In research I've just handed in my Research Report last week, and I can tell you it was a NIGHTMARE getting that done. I practically lived in 228 for the whole week. Most nights I was there until about 11pm. I turned up in the morning whenever I did. If I wasn't in 228, I was in some abandoned classroom working on my laptop that I had carted all the way from my house. My report was about the pacing in childrens' television, and whether or not live action or animation is "faster". When I say faster, I mean like, um. I was focusing on the cuts per minute. Say if one show had an average of 30 cuts per minute, and another show had an average of 14 cuts per minute, then that first show would be "faster".

Up there is all the shows I watched and the cuts per minute each of them had. I had originally hypothesised that Animation would be "faster", but it turns out Live Action was faster.

And you can tell on this handy chart right there. A lot of the live action shows I watched had quite a varied amount of cuts per minute throughout the studied episode, but the animation shows had a less varied amount of cuts per minute. Big Time Rush had an overall 762 cuts throughout the studied episode. This was the highest that I recorded. The next two shows that had the most cuts throughout the episode were both Live Action (Power Rangers: Megaforce - 568, and Disney's Lab Rats - 430). Only then does Animation pop up, with Ben 10 Omniverse and its 377 cuts. The other shows were Digimon Fusion (357), Disney's Dog with a Blog (355), Green Lantern: Animated Series (350), and Pokemon Black and White (307). This was all found out a while ago by literally watching the shows and stopping it every time it cut, marking the time the cut appeared on a sheet. So yeah I gathered all that and made some charts of it and then last week I chucked it in my report and wrote about it. Fun times. 

So my report was all handed in and everything. BUT THEN. Wild three minute thesis appeared. A 3 minute thesis, for us anyway, was a thing where we talked about our research in a 3 minute presentation. I think I did terribly. I had one slide and three minutes to talk about my research and time went SO. FAST. and before I knew it I had 30 seconds left and I hadn't even gotten to my findings yet, I had spent the majority of it talking about stuff in my literature review about what TV actually does to kids. My god, all while I was standing up there, I just wanted to run out the door. Ahh. So yes. Most of my class has now given their presentations, and we've only got a self reflection to write.

Media culture on the other hand, I've got another presentation to give. I'm going to be talking about the globalisation in my last year's web series pilot The Cat Kids. So that is on Monday, yeap. 

What else was there?

Third year project. I have no idea what is going on for that. Rotoscoping and BTS editing. I have no idea what i'm supposed to be doing. Rotoscoping or BTS editing. I got taught how to do the rotoscoping thing but, yanno, everyone is everywhere and I am highly confused as to what we are doing in classes.

I've just been informed that Allen, one of our foreign students in the group project class, has decided to do some animator thing that I don't understand, but like he's opened up something on all the campus' computers in the background while others are even logged in on them and now they are all running slowly :I thanks Allen.

Oh, photography is more or less done too! We've done our final project, which I found highly interesting. It's currently on display, too. In the student lounge, you might find a photograph on the wall of a troll dude wearing a woolen jersey in the middle of a marshy looking thing. That is mine. There's a book on the table underneath it. That is also mine. It's filled with the other photos in the series of "forgotten childhood". What it is pretty much is a bunch of kids toys put in places that don't have their kid owners around. Really cool. You'll have to check it out in its physical form because Blogger won't let me upload the files because they're too big and I can't be bothered re-sizing them right now because I'm a lazy slacker student, yeap. 

Is there anything else? I can't remember.

Last night I went to New World, and I forgot what I came in to get. So I just went and had a chat to the chick giving away free samples of yogurt. I got free yogurt.  Later on Zylya the cat got the yogurt pottle stuck on her head. 

The end.