How on EARTH did I make it through the day?

Those of you who are clever… Well, those of you bothering to read this, might notice I have been clever in my blog titles. But i’ll let you work it out.

On to today… Oh Jesus Christ on a Bicycle made for Two Potatoes, Three Potatoes, Four Potatoes more!!

Yes, today, I have been very fortunate enough to take part in not one, but TWO presentations at University. And if it wasn’t bad enough, one was in front of another group, too!! People I barely know… As well as people I barely even know!

Yes, I know I used the same phrase to describe my group and this other group, but it’s true. *40 seconds pass* Okay, so I do know more about my group than the other group, but that’s not the point. The point is, I Hate Presentations!

Au contraire, I quite enjoyed the first one, sadly. James (my partner) and I were sufficiently prepared, and we managed to avoid getting picked till the end, and had to run through it because we were almost out of time.

The second one, not so good. The unit: Technologies of Broadcasting.

But don’t let the title fool you… It’s like, calling an English lesson ‘Pen and Paper’. By that I mean, in an English lesson you are likely to write with a pen onto a piece of paper. In Technologies of Broadcasting.. We work on iMac’s, which is a piece of technology, and iMac’s usually have FinalCutPro on, which is the editing software used in broadcasting and television production.

In the 12 weeks so far… We have covered: Photography, Audio VoxPops and Flash Animation. None of which I believe are really of much use in Television Broadcasting. Anyway, the three areas were then to be put together into a presentation on a chosen subject.

Being quite sad, I like iDents – those things you see in between adverts and programmes to promote the network – but James (The same one I mentioned earlier) and Tim (If anyone knew Karl from Barton Peveril OCR Media, it’s like looking at a double) wanted to do changes in animation quality and technology, which - don’t get me wrong - is a good subject area, but, well, it didn’t really send shivers down my spine.

So we come up with half arsed PowerPoint presentation (which was meant to be in Adobe Flash – Eurgh) whipp and few pictures in, and print it off to look like we were actually reading from notes, and turn up “ready”.

The other group go first.. There were 5 groups of 5. Each of their presentations were beautifully put together, all lasting 15 minutes or more. An hour and a half later, they had finished.

Our turn: we had 7 groups of three or four. Little more than an hour later, we’d finished. Enough said.

So i’ve just written word number four hundred and sixty six, no, eight, no, seventy, no seventy three, no… sorry, where was I?

ANYWAY, apparently, someone heard that the tutors were talking about how ours wasn’t in adobe flash. So I’ve just spent the last 3 hours (would have been one and a half hours, but I had to get the program off my old broken laptop and onto my new one – which proved harder than i thought. Then the bastard crashed half way through and a lost a lot of it) turning it into a Flash Animation.. I use SWiSHMax, by the way, it’s much better.

I don’t really know why I poked that bit of information in there, it’s not like I work for them.

In conclusion (See, Kirsty, This means it’s an essay!) I’ve probably bored you all to death! Til tomorrow young fellows!