my first day
2:33 p.m.
so i just got home from class. this is what i wrote during it:
ryerson's a great school. toronto's a great city.
i'm currently in class right now. i've forgotten to bring a pen.
i have to buy 'documentary production reader' cn 2771 50199 $18
ok. like uts is great, and i love sydney. but we did our class intros. it's a small class which is nice, but out of everyone, i had the most work experience.and i def credit that to ryerson's hookups, and toronto's opportunities.
ok, so i also have to go to www.hss.uts.edu.au/student_info/forms_documentary_bookings/index.html
i don't know if i will like the class. i pretty much took it so i could follow up dyer and s4c on his aussie tour. but that's not happening yet. it would be wise of me to switch out, just to get the most bang for my buck, but i really really really love my sched.
this being:
tuesday 2-5 doc prod
thurs 10-1 tv and pop cult, 1-4 lit of protest
that is all.sweet azz.
like i'd marry my schedule if it were possible.
so...the only other thing i'd switch to might be creative techniques for shorts if it has a really sweet sched. because since i'm considering switching to commercial production, it would be handy. yeah i should really do that. cuz as she's introing this, i'm already finding it repetitive.
i love having a laptop. but this wirelesss access sucks balls, so i'm actully typing this to be copied later. my attention span sucks.
the marking criteria for this class is pretty sweet. only 2 projects, 1 group, the other personal. but only 1 produced doc in total.
they call docs doccos here. crazy aussies.
plus, the guy to girl ratio is really weak, and that's an indication of a not so fun course. estrogen-heavy courses are just... dangerous. coomey's doc class was fairly balanced, thus resulting in a variety of final docs in the end.
sometimes i think i know too much.but that just means i know nothing at all.
oh, apparently film australia allows free rights to their footage for doc producers. that's pretty decent. but you have to pay for the transfer.
shit i have so much to learn about film. canada's industry is whack. i think audio-visual arts should all be groped together, but then it would be a very heavy course if tv and film with audio was combined.
maybe i should suck it up. but i really wanna work with a creative bunch of people, and i will prolly find that with the other course.
ok, they call essay docs expository form doccos. cinema verite is observational forminterview-based docs are interactive form
ok, if i did stay in doc class, i'd do an interactive form doc on canadians in sydney.easy, a little bit of a copout, but... hey, i think people would find that fascinating. it would appeal to both sydneysiders and canuks primarily, and any other travellers and aussies secondarily.
haha my doc prof is also bad at math! sweet. it's just like back home.
ok, well maybe i'll stay. i'll just tune out and blog while i'm in class, then produce kickass shit outta class. but i really should sit in on creative techniques for shorts. that seems more up my alley. i mean, i do like things i'm good at. but i also get bored by repetition.
haha she just said the beginning of docs are usually the last things put together. not alicia and i. shit that stuff is the most important part, and there's no way we can cut up something good with like 5 hours to spare before we have to export and burn everything.
i hate not having internet access!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fuck man, i only have the attention span to last me in an hour and half class.this is torture. yes i'm being a baby. i will probably skip english. unless my profs somehow read this. then i'll be ever present. but just frequently in the toilet...i'll be the kid with the hair and pants...
ok this aussie doc has a really long take which is content-wise
relatively interesting, but visually B O R I N G ! ! !
i
am
so
bored
juxtapositioning! that's the word i was trying to remember!! way smarter sounding than cross-scripting, though that sounds more technical
i wanna watch borat again.
ok i dunno how keen i am on creative techniques cuz all of that stuffm ight be individual and i think production is a team sport.sigh.
also it's a lot like second year efp. which i fucking hated at ryerson. so i think i'll suck it up and stick with doc. it'll gimme a chance to learn more about the city. sigh.i wish they had a commercial production course.
shit if i didnt have a pc and if there were more than 14 people in our class, i'd totally take a nap. how i'm managing to do well in school impresses me to no end.
h o l y s h i t s o b o r e d
t h i s i s b r u t a l
writing is the only thing keeping me sane. barely.
coffee with pat will be good. lots to catch up on. less boredom.
hey my mind is less on vacation than i thought it was. i'm pretty keen right now and it impresses me.
aaaand i just had a brilliant idea. i think if there was a way to do something on body piercings, so i could get a discount on a piercing, while making a cutting edge docco. dunno if anyone will buy it. don't even have a slant to it. it's only 3 minutes too...i mean, it'd be so easy to get work sequences if it was just a how-to... if only there was some new thing in the news that made this topical. ps keeble was an awesome teacher.
(LISH! -it would be great for any feedback. i will facebook you later. ps, i submit as much as you can to the taras and good luck!!)
shit i totally tuned out and i have no idea what shes talking bout. or probably completely narrative docs. boring. wait, no. just expository.
officially really super bored.
i hate old docs. i wish we could watch contemporary shit that was relevant to the type of stuff we'd actually be producing. in better news, i already know which people i wanna work with. i dunno how i know this, just intuition. i know for sure who i dont want to work with. this team will have a huge influence on my enjoyment on the exchange...fuck there's still a half hour left. grrr. 35% batt life remaining.oh great. a wildlife film. .. ok well this is kind of funny. kangaroos and idiot joeys are entertaining. the narrator's voice, however, was not.
motherfucker. i'm like as bored as i'd be if i was sitting in church right now. that's pretty fucking bored. and now we're going to watch a boxing film for the rest of class. this is productive.
not.
haha i just made a not joke. i am the only amusement i get out of this class, save for the idiot joey.
moral of the story: school is boring. the end.
ryerson's a great school. toronto's a great city.
i'm currently in class right now. i've forgotten to bring a pen.
i have to buy 'documentary production reader' cn 2771 50199 $18
ok. like uts is great, and i love sydney. but we did our class intros. it's a small class which is nice, but out of everyone, i had the most work experience.and i def credit that to ryerson's hookups, and toronto's opportunities.
ok, so i also have to go to www.hss.uts.edu.au/student_info/forms_documentary_bookings/index.html
i don't know if i will like the class. i pretty much took it so i could follow up dyer and s4c on his aussie tour. but that's not happening yet. it would be wise of me to switch out, just to get the most bang for my buck, but i really really really love my sched.
this being:
tuesday 2-5 doc prod
thurs 10-1 tv and pop cult, 1-4 lit of protest
that is all.sweet azz.
like i'd marry my schedule if it were possible.
so...the only other thing i'd switch to might be creative techniques for shorts if it has a really sweet sched. because since i'm considering switching to commercial production, it would be handy. yeah i should really do that. cuz as she's introing this, i'm already finding it repetitive.
i love having a laptop. but this wirelesss access sucks balls, so i'm actully typing this to be copied later. my attention span sucks.
the marking criteria for this class is pretty sweet. only 2 projects, 1 group, the other personal. but only 1 produced doc in total.
they call docs doccos here. crazy aussies.
plus, the guy to girl ratio is really weak, and that's an indication of a not so fun course. estrogen-heavy courses are just... dangerous. coomey's doc class was fairly balanced, thus resulting in a variety of final docs in the end.
sometimes i think i know too much.but that just means i know nothing at all.
oh, apparently film australia allows free rights to their footage for doc producers. that's pretty decent. but you have to pay for the transfer.
shit i have so much to learn about film. canada's industry is whack. i think audio-visual arts should all be groped together, but then it would be a very heavy course if tv and film with audio was combined.
maybe i should suck it up. but i really wanna work with a creative bunch of people, and i will prolly find that with the other course.
ok, they call essay docs expository form doccos. cinema verite is observational forminterview-based docs are interactive form
ok, if i did stay in doc class, i'd do an interactive form doc on canadians in sydney.easy, a little bit of a copout, but... hey, i think people would find that fascinating. it would appeal to both sydneysiders and canuks primarily, and any other travellers and aussies secondarily.
haha my doc prof is also bad at math! sweet. it's just like back home.
ok, well maybe i'll stay. i'll just tune out and blog while i'm in class, then produce kickass shit outta class. but i really should sit in on creative techniques for shorts. that seems more up my alley. i mean, i do like things i'm good at. but i also get bored by repetition.
haha she just said the beginning of docs are usually the last things put together. not alicia and i. shit that stuff is the most important part, and there's no way we can cut up something good with like 5 hours to spare before we have to export and burn everything.
i hate not having internet access!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fuck man, i only have the attention span to last me in an hour and half class.this is torture. yes i'm being a baby. i will probably skip english. unless my profs somehow read this. then i'll be ever present. but just frequently in the toilet...i'll be the kid with the hair and pants...
ok this aussie doc has a really long take which is content-wise
relatively interesting, but visually B O R I N G ! ! !
i
am
so
bored
juxtapositioning! that's the word i was trying to remember!! way smarter sounding than cross-scripting, though that sounds more technical
i wanna watch borat again.
ok i dunno how keen i am on creative techniques cuz all of that stuffm ight be individual and i think production is a team sport.sigh.
also it's a lot like second year efp. which i fucking hated at ryerson. so i think i'll suck it up and stick with doc. it'll gimme a chance to learn more about the city. sigh.i wish they had a commercial production course.
shit if i didnt have a pc and if there were more than 14 people in our class, i'd totally take a nap. how i'm managing to do well in school impresses me to no end.
h o l y s h i t s o b o r e d
t h i s i s b r u t a l
writing is the only thing keeping me sane. barely.
coffee with pat will be good. lots to catch up on. less boredom.
hey my mind is less on vacation than i thought it was. i'm pretty keen right now and it impresses me.
aaaand i just had a brilliant idea. i think if there was a way to do something on body piercings, so i could get a discount on a piercing, while making a cutting edge docco. dunno if anyone will buy it. don't even have a slant to it. it's only 3 minutes too...i mean, it'd be so easy to get work sequences if it was just a how-to... if only there was some new thing in the news that made this topical. ps keeble was an awesome teacher.
(LISH! -it would be great for any feedback. i will facebook you later. ps, i submit as much as you can to the taras and good luck!!)
shit i totally tuned out and i have no idea what shes talking bout. or probably completely narrative docs. boring. wait, no. just expository.
officially really super bored.
i hate old docs. i wish we could watch contemporary shit that was relevant to the type of stuff we'd actually be producing. in better news, i already know which people i wanna work with. i dunno how i know this, just intuition. i know for sure who i dont want to work with. this team will have a huge influence on my enjoyment on the exchange...fuck there's still a half hour left. grrr. 35% batt life remaining.oh great. a wildlife film. .. ok well this is kind of funny. kangaroos and idiot joeys are entertaining. the narrator's voice, however, was not.
motherfucker. i'm like as bored as i'd be if i was sitting in church right now. that's pretty fucking bored. and now we're going to watch a boxing film for the rest of class. this is productive.
not.
haha i just made a not joke. i am the only amusement i get out of this class, save for the idiot joey.
moral of the story: school is boring. the end.
