Life Forever Changes

“Tides and turns will change us all”

That’s one quite from a song I’m working on, and it’s pretty true. These past few weeks I’ve been really down and stressed out about college. Things weren’t going right at home or college and to be honest they still aren’t that great at college. However life has decided to take a change of turns of which I’m not going to go into, but it’s a good thing so far.

In other news it’s Comic Relief tomorrow! We’re doing a special show which may be aired around the college, nerve wrecking stuff but if I’m in this mood tomorrow then it’ll go well! So far we have raised a measly £6 for Comic Relief, but you know it’s every little helps as Tesco say! This week at college has been pretty bad, Monday we had trouble with filming, Tuesday we had trouble with filming and editing, Wednesday we had trouble with editing and today we had trouble with filming. Wow it’s really going downhill and we have only…6 days left to finish this I believe?

Until next time! And remember, donate to comic relief!

Updating The Inner Blog

And so into another updating phase of this blog, not much has happened really, there’s a new assignment that’s been set, basically we need to create a training video for an old persons home. Sounds boring, but it is actually a really good job to be doing as the client is giving us what we need! The radio show is going quite well, we did a really nice show which seemed to flow well methinks.

Currently on a day off from college writing this, the lessons have been cancelled allowing us to work on the clients filming but the client isn’t in at all today so it’s a free day! And what a day to have it, the sun is finally coming back to us! Granted it’s still cold outside but to see the sun outside makes it that little bit warmer, things are suddenly feeling like last summer, really nice and calm. I am now saving money…after noticing I had gone down from £90 to £20 in less than 3 days just buy buying DVD’s I realised it’s time to take action and start saving for a provisional driving license and driving lessons. Superdrug turned me down because I’m a male, kind of a harsh thing to do but what can we do hey?

Well not much else to say really, life’s been a bit slow but summer is coming so could that mean more progress? Until next time!

Fading Good Times.

Hmmm, the wonders of college appear to have faded since last year when I was a little First Diploma, back then the course was fun, practical and exactly what I had signed up for, we messed around and enjoyed making a show or film as well as making it to the highest standard we could. This year, being a National Diploma Year 1 seems to be…well…bleak. The fun ness of what we used to do in First Diploma appear to have faded away, the memories lie there in my mind, but so far this year has been a nightmarish roller coaster ride. I signed up for a practical course which is what it said in the prospectus, suddenly we’re thrown into lecture rooms being told to write a massive load of essays and whatever.

I’m really frustrated about this theory work, and to top it off I hate life again. Don’t get me wrong, Saturday was a great night, went out to James’s house, got wasted and had fun with friends, there are always little fun moments but none of them last. I appear to be lost (as one of my earlier blogs mentioned) lost in the crowd of friends, everyone’s moving on, getting partners, passing driving tests, going to Uni…I’m just not moving really, just watching everything progress. Even I’m starting to pick things about my personality that I don’t tend to like for some reason. Basically everything’s downhill at the moment.

Well it’s my deadline for one assignment tomorrow which I HAVE done and a trip to BBC Warwickshire and Coventry. Right now I should be getting back to work…or sleep, haven’t had much of that recently. I’ll continue talking to myself as you slowly close the window….

Half Term Busyness.

The aftermath of something can be many different things, love, happiness, hate, etc, for me it was pain. Today I got a lip stud done by Dvaint in Stratford-Upon-Avon and well….having the actual piercing and fitting done didn’t hurt, it just left me slightly three minutes after, blanking out and inches away from fainting. About an hour later my lip has been hurting all day, not now though seeing as I’ve finally had some tablets it’s not hurting so much and everything’s going naturally! Cara (The woman who did it for me) did a great job though! All that leave appointment wise is getting my fringe dyed pink!

In other news, it’s half term…still, I’ve basically messed around up till now. Tomorrow I shall start working on the assignment I have due in on Wednesday, even if I don’t know what it’s about thanks for being ill for two weeks. What else has happened? Hmmm, I’ve watched a bunch of films this half term, might have a party tomorrow but no news on that yet, then it’s resting all weekend.

That Local Show shall be coming back also soon! Next week I hope with some new segments in the works! Also with comic relief coming up keep an eye out for us doing funny things for money! Which you should do too!

That’s all from me!

The Months Are Moving, The Boredom Is Growing.

The 14th of February, it’s a Friday and half term has officially started leaving me looking at the date, the 14th of February already, I mean the 1st of January doesn’t feel that long ago, let alone last year! Time appears to be moving on rapidly month wise, but days go so slow and grow slower, however I appear to be stood still watching things move on, distancing them from me. Nothing much has happened since my last blog, we did the radio show which went alright, had a good laugh but once again I become bored towards the end of the show.

I want sun, this cold weather is actually starting to get to me now. It’s just too cold to stand outside in the street anymore, plus I’m trying to stay healthy but already I can feel a slight fever coming along, roll on summer I say!

Well that’s all I can think of in my action packed sense of boredom for tonight, I really need something productive to do, Till next time.

The Good, The Bad And The Downright Odd.

Consequence: the effect, result, or outcome of something occurring earlier.

This means everything has an outcome, there’s always something unplanned lay in the path ahead and we will never know what it is, whether it’s good or bad. Sadly so far everything seems to be going bad, for me at least. This week there’s really only been at least 3% good outcomes. Firstly I actually got a Distinction for our college TV show we all did today so well done guys! I had my doubts as we progressed but it came out well. There’s also been the fact me and a friend finally made amends and now we’re talking again so that’s progressing into a friendship I’d lost for a few years.

Anyway, in the last few months coming up to the end months of 2008 somewhere past the six weeks holidays I was invited as a nominee for the Young Film Critics Awards. Now I must explain, I entered this competition in the early days of January and the competition was to write a 500 word review I believe it was, on a film of your choice that had come out within 2007 and 2008. I went for the 2008 hit Cloverfield which came out in January, so I reviewed it, sent it off, waited months, gave up waiting, then got invited. Anyways, the day itself was pretty fun with my granddad and my mate Dan. Now, the prizes I won are a disgrace, really surprisingly! Yeah they offer you great prizes, I mean I’ve had a nice Canon I believe it is come through the door and that’s really it, I am still awaiting various others but the prize sorting it ridiculously slow! At least I won £1000 for the college, of which I’ve not long just finished typing up a list of 50 films to buy for the college media library I’m creating for them…just got to persuade them to let me keep the DVD’s once they’ve copied them!

The weather is now calming down on snow now, which is a shame as I enjoyed seeing it, shame it never settled nicely, however this means I can get into college tomorrow and record the radio show with the lads! It’s been two weeks of absence thanks to the snow but it’s going to be fun tomorrow, as long as we don’t mess up…which we will. Listen on Saturday at 2pm on www.myscr.co.uk! Also I have applied for a job at Superdrug, provided I appear to be the only male that will be there if I get the job, but its money and I’ll get discount off eyeliner and other stuff.

Well that’s all that’s happening really. Keep your eyes on this space for random updates!

A Winter Wonderland That Needs Fun.

Well my blog is now back up and running!

Now content is required in a blog isn’t it also the first post should be short and sweet, yes? I mean that’s why people read them, obviously. Anyway it’s snowing! Britain has been absolutely bombarded with snow this past week, and today it’s hit my town pretty bad but I love it. Trouble is as my friend stated in a MySpace blog that there are actually people walking/driving to their jobs and schools. I mean what is the point? As he said, we hardly get any snow, we should be enjoying it not working. Luckily I managed to persuade mum to give my sister a day off from school seeing as it’s still open, seriously what do these teachers do? Attach snowploughs to the front off their cars? Who cares if you miss a day off school? It’s not going to effect you in the future.

Well it’s still currently snowing, however I can’t tell whether there’s a drabble of rain in it which would explain why it’s going all slushy on the pavements. Oh well, everyone should have fun while it’s here. In other news I’m feeling pretty ill which is slowly curing its self, my band “The Month Yesterday” has actually got a pretty nice long song underway although I still need to record vocals it’s a bit worrying and finally I’m now doing a radio show every Saturday at 2:00 – 3:30pm. It’s a silly show with three of my friends “attempting” to talk about subjects and involve the public, it’s pretty fun listen in sometime at www.myscr.co.uk

I leave now with a snowy goodbye!

-Ben