Mini Vacation Weekend

This was a lovely week off and I enjoyed every minute spent with Boy (I can't help but be extra happy for the plus time spent with that darling).
 
I am so, so, soooo excited for tomorrow. I'm off to Seattle just for the weekend before the school starts once again to see my amazing dearest best friend, Jess.

Such an amazing gentleman!

Missing the little things

I'm on vacation for a week at the moment. I do like the rest but I'm already starting to feel a little bored. It's strange to go from working all the time to no work at all. Thankfully I recieved an email from the Game department at my school about a game collaboration I'm doing with a group of game designers over there.
I'm going to be creating the sound for their final game and couldn't be more excited about it! The only unfortunate side is that it is a full game with lots of sound and I'm the only person that it completely on my own in desinging all the sound for the full game. Everyone else is in groups of two.
I'm going to need to call on all of my organization skills to get everything going smoothly and keep my game friends happy. But I am quite excited.

Ever find yourself missing the little things in life? I feel like that is what I miss most of all about my home. And it's usually when I'm bored that I realize these things.

I miss finding my kitty in bizarre sleeping positions. Strange no?

But how could you resist the cuteness of it all????

2nd Shoot at VFS

So this was one of the film students apartments and our first set for the second shoot. 

 

Look at these fantastic lobby areas. Such a nice place. 

 

R was very upset with how small the apartment was. And he was right, we were practically sitting on top of each other, all of us watching the actors who somehow managed to make the room look bigger. 

 

Pug not Drugs with a godly shine behind him. 

And below is our 2nd set. 

A restaurant actaully right outside Boy's house. Small world.

J darling with his dazzling smile. 

 

Yes the sound department does wait around a lot. Even more than alot actually...

 

Water tower! 

 

Such a lovely lane. It really makes me think of a newspaper boy's route in all those old fashioned movies.

And this was the last set.

 

Just the camera crew setup and below the grip doing his duty. 

 

All in all it was a pretty great shoot with a crew that didn't really get along with each other but got along with us just great.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

I always liked that quote (title), but I always felt that during the worst of times it would be difficult to appreciate it as the best of times at the same time. I realize that he was talking about a period of time and not an actual event taking place in a small moment.
Well this sentence has a completely new meaning to me, because these past few weeks have been the best of times and the worst of times.

As can be seen in the records of this blog, there has been a bit of a drop out in the last few weeks in posts. And there is no good reason like, vacations, lots of school work (though I have been doing a lot of that as well) and/or family time. I don't like venting on people, it makes me feel ridiculous, so I'm sending this out into the cosmic void of the internet where people can ignore it if they don't want to listen and then don't feel rude or anything when it happens (I tip my hat to you as you're mouse hovers over the close tab or go back one page button, thanks for stopping by).

Without going too much into the details. It has been the worst of times, because you always start with the bad so that you finish on a good note, in my classroom. I have moved around from country to country my whole life, a couple of times while I was on this blog as well, but never have I felt as secluded as the last weeks.
In my class there is one boy/man, boy because of the way he behaves, man because he is twice my age. And every one in my class falls in line with him. I don't mind this ordinarily and I can live with the fact that this boy/man makes a mockery of the way I live my life. But last week the whole class followed him in hate towards one teacher, a teacher that I quite like. It all turned pretty rough and now that everything has blown over, there is a bitter taste in the air between all my classmates and me. The girl who did not follow. I think it's extra bitter because all of the teachers and department heads know that I did not follow and therefore are talking to me about these problems and all the others in the class feel like they are being looked at badly. Which is true in their case (in mine the teachers only talk to me because I am class rep) but you have to live with the consequences of your actions.
 Suffice it to say, I am feeling very lonely in this country that isn't even one that I have ever lived in before and no one in my class to really talk to.

 I'm keeping this light hearted with Lilo & Stitch awesomness

It has also been the best of times because, and to keep his name to myself I'll just call him what I call him usually, Boy has been around.
I don't like leaning on people but Boy and I have been bouncing off of each other as he is on the middle of doing his finals and was feeling very very stressed so I tried to keep him aloft and being able to spend time with him made me feel better.
His whole class is also comprised of some great gentlemen. I could argue that this best of times can become worst of times once again because they are all graduating next week. But I am living by the day to take full advantage of Boy.

 This is probably an entertaining notion but in this image Boy is probably the cat and I am the dog

*Sigh* That's all. I apologize for this but man it feels good to write it all down. It makes it all more distant and easier to deal with.
Do any of you have difficulties venting to people? Or are having troubling times?
If so I'm sending you a *smile* and a *hug*. Just because they're lovely.

3d and 4th day of the first shoot

 

The grips setting up lights for the kitchen scene. 

 

 

Zoran, drumming our boredom away to a good beat.

 

It was a really nice kitchen.

 

Our set-up.

For those who don't know, it takes sound about 2 minutes to get set up and then we wait about 2-3 hours for the camera and lights and all that jazz. 

 

A big boat full of woodchips sailing by the set.

And the last day of our first shoot we were underground.

On top is the movie lighting, below is the normal lights.

 

Juan was tired as hell.

Which then resulted  in us pulling out the Leme Cam app on my Iphone.

1st and 2nd Days Shooting: First Set

Here are my classmates and I feeling the cold and suffering the waiting on our first day on set.

The film students we had to work with were... slow to say the least and we had to make sure we always had some form of entertainment with us.

This is a storage facility near my house, I was glad for the proximity but it was.... Aww screw it, it was pretty darn cold down there. 

I actually had to sit with my legs in a super warm bathtub the whole night after spending a day shooting there because my legs would not and would not warm up. Thank god the bath did its job and I didn't get sick. 

Juan is working hard. 

Annd I'm still trying to wake up properly. 

The set that we were working on was actually one of the film student's jam spaces. 

A brilliant and well organized sound setup. 

Trying to get warm with coffee. 

Day 2!

Zoran showing off his brillaint, finger-pointing, mixing skills. 

Yes film sets make you look liek a refugee, its not all fame and glory my friend. 

Back with a vengeance

 I have been gone for so long! I miss writing! But I'm back now and my lovely sets gave me some pretty pictures to share with all.
While I get all of that sorted out I'll share something I am actually kind of proud of.

So without further ado here is a project that I made using the Kontact sampler in Pro Tools, I only used the sound of my voice making the noises, Eee, Ssss, Shhh, Var, Gor, Ing, Myu and a couple other nondescript sounds.

Sampling Project