ideas and thoughts about the past term, :)

it really doesn't seem like we have had a hole term it kinda feels like this should be half term brea or something, its flown by that quick!

so much has happened socially and on the learning front!!

Getting here was a party, i went through Edinburgh freshers and stopped of in stirling for a few nights of parties and then got my ticket to glasgow in time for our 3 day induction !

I really enjoyed that week , although

to begin with i thought i was

the only one in the whole of my halls, until i met D. that was a bit of an adventure in-itself , i don't think i have met anyone like D and our first night out at BUFF was interesting to say the least :)

By the time freshers week came along i felt happy in the class dynamic we quickly established , everyone is similar in many ways but then we all have things that make us different so it worked really well from the beginning and as that was one of my

big worries before i came here i'm really glad it worked so well so quickly. As a class we must have gone to the cinema nearly everyday in the early days we soon established it was an expensive game so we all got cineworld cards which enabled us to go to the cinema several times a day without the worry of being skinted by the experience.

in that first we period i went to see : Away we go , sorority row, 500 days of summer, toy story 3d, district 9 , surrogates , fame , dorian grey. that was in the time i came to glasgow and the 05/10 :) so you can see how busy we were. the first lesson i have notes for was on the 8th of october, it begins with the title " what does tv mean to me? " my answer was a personal response and i remember being embarrassed reading it out when i heard others had a more academic approach to answering but i have soon learned that the personal response is a good thing. I had answers like , childhood, saturday night with Sher etc, i think i would answer this one differently if asked now the lessons have defiantly de-personalized the television experience for me and i now find it very hard to sit down and watch television, in fact i have probably only watched 5 or 6 hours since i have been here. This you may think is a bad thing but i don't think it is, i'm always tuned in to things as if they might help me with future ideas, i pull things apart that i watch trying to think why it was made like that , script and theme etc.

its a new way of watching tv . Classes were painfully easy at the beginning of the term i think thats the reason for my early blogging being done so often, as the classes got more in-depth and challenging i felt i had less time and concentration at the end of the day . Blogging felt like a fun thing, to be able to not have a structure like in english and history felt like a heaven sent for me, as i was never good at this at school. Our first piece of written work to be handed in was the short story for Richard's class, i love creative writing and i felt that i flourished at that task , i even felt confident in reading my story to several members of the class. screen writing was ever emotionally challenging and i feel that i probably could have been more open, sharing personal thoughts has never been something i can do easily and by the end that class began to annoy me in that i felt some people were using it as a personal therapy maybe that was the whole idea but i don't think i got as much out of that class as others. i am however exited about working on writing in my own time now richard is away to la. The post secret task however was so interesting and extremely tense in the class , the discussions over our beliefs was particularly difficult for me as i couldn't help feel personally offended when someone said religion was disgusting! But from the beginning that was a clear favorite class i think that Richard's teaching style was really effective and his lessons were always eagerly anticipated. As friendships really flourished in the class i found myself settling in really quickly and beginning to feel at home in Glasgow. One of the best nights i had out was when me and Julia went to see Tommy Reily: we didn't have tickets but bought some in the line for cheaper than the asking price :) it was one of the best gigs i have been to and it

was fun sharing the experience with a new friend. Going to gigs has been a staple since then although getting tickets for cheap has not!! Green day set me back £60! ouch :)

anyway all that was fun for the night time but during the day was fun to, Rays class is probably the most interesting for me because everything is new and i think that overall it has come quite easily to me so i'm glad and thankful about that. I found his assessment to be relaxing and that is a first for anything of that nature, so far the camera seems a logical step forward for me from photography and i cant wait to start going out on shoots. ( that is when we get our health and safety induction !) Im proud of my note taking for this class as well because they are concise and really helpful for me, which was the whole idea. i have bought a new leather journal for keeping them all together stylishly.

As for Rays class..... oh my , the one class i cannot and have not got my head around! my note probably make sense if you no what editing is but i just cant make sense of it and the whole things is very stressful even his room is claustrophobic and far to hot!> much worst even than agos9!

on the subject of agos 9 i don't think its a great learning environment , i like sitting in a horse shoe shape its good to be able to see everyone and when someone is talking you can focus on them, the room is just to low sealing and not enough windows or natural light.

what can be done about that i don't no but anyway agos nine is not my favorite.

one lesson i found particularly fun was the one were we had to make up a game show i thought my teams idea of 'get your man back' was quite funny and people seemed to think it was a good idea. i like working with people to create ideas and in every class i feel my ability to work with others in a collaborative way had been positive and i have found these situations enjoyable.

To be honest this really isn't what i was expecting at all! i thought it would be hard graft reading , shooting footage, editing etc.... however, next term i'll probably regret taking this term for granted! its been FUN overall :) and the best thing is i feel at home here now and have a new DFTV FAMILY WOOO :)

peace xx