So today I bought myself a whiteboard in order to try and make myself be more productive and get stuff done. On it I have listed things I need to get done, which means I constantly see it so it will be constant reminder. The point cannot be rubbed off until I have done it and so i shall stare at me until I do it. Hopefully it’ll get me working, because I need to find ways to make myself productive. Fingers crossed this will work.
Month: September 2014
Thought no. 271 – Focus
It’s been a while since I’ve filmed (the ideas just haven’t been there neither has the confidence) but finally I have filmed and edited another thing, learning about altering the focus on my camera definitely inspired this one.
Thought no.270 – Yesterday’s Thought
So i am writing yesterday’s thought today and then will also be writing today’s thought in another post, because I actually had a thought for yesterday and here it is…
Money and Time is all I can seem to think about at the moment; how there isn’t enough time and I don’t have enough money and how there are so many things that I need to get done but here I am still as lazy as ever. Always obsessing over the money in my bank account and future expenditures I need to make and what time I have left and everything that needs to be done in a certain space of time and how time is running out and going too fast. It’s exhausting and I feel like I am drowning in this endless chasm of not enough time or money and both correlate so much with the other, there isn’t enough time before I need to spend so much money and I need to spend money in such a time, but what if I don’t have that money and its just this constant weight and worry. And I am so annoyed by letting these things rule my life but they control everyone’s and I just wish I didn’t care so much.
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Thought no.268 – Quote
“There are 7 billion people in the world. For each negative thing a singular person says about you, don’t forget that there are millions of people who have tens of thousands of positive things to say. Your life is yours, and your time is yours and only yours. It’s a privilege to enjoy your company, it’s not a right.”
— burning-abyssal-phantasm (via wordsnquotes)
Thought no.267 – Good day
Do you ever just have a good day? Even the bad things that happened don’t really effect you just fly over your head because today is just a good day.
Thought no.266 – 99 days
There are 99 days rest of this year meaning I have only 99 posts left, its weird to think that this project of mine will soon be over and that I actually managed it. I’d love to get the rest of these 99 days done without missing any but that is far too unlikely, but I hope to try and not miss very many. Here’s to the rest of the year.
Thought no.265 – Depth of field
Learning how to alter the depth of field in a shot has always intrigued me. I’ve never just been able to work it out in my head, I understand that there would need to be a shift in focus but just couldn’t work out how it would be done. I want to know how as in shots I think altering the depth of field is actually just one of those visually intriguing moments as it pulls the audience’s attention to what you want it to be. And so after the creeping thoughts of depth of field entered my mind once more I decided to use our good friend google. I found the answer.
Now if you’ll turn your eyes to my little test just proof of my achievement.
So I discovered in order to alter the depth of field I needed to be in manual focus rather than automatic and then proceed to alter the focus using the lens and learn which way to turn in order to discover which way the focus turns. Though of course from my 8 second clip, just proof of my skills, is that you can in fact hear the sound of me turning the lens in order to alter the focus. This is something that can easily be remedied by deleting the audio in editing. But I’m feeling pretty chuffed with myself in the fact that I’ve taken to learning that and it took a manner of seconds.
Thought no.264 – Bleugh
Bleugh
Thought no.263 – Open Day
So yesterday I went to my first University Open Day, I went up to Lincoln university, which took about four hours to get there and believe me it felt long, so we didn’t arrive till about 12. Which meant I didn’t really have time to go to any talks and by the time we actually found the university its safe to say I felt pretty stressed.
Surprisingly I didn’t actually have one of my panic attacks, where my chest gets quite tight and my breathing gets a bit funny, instread I ended up crying. It was so strange because I didn’t feel actively stressed or paniced like I usually do, I just suddenly came over all emotional and started crying, which is just what you want before you go into a talk about what course you want to do. Which meant that I spent the majority of the talk trying to keep myself calm and so I hardly remember anything. Great.
But what I do remember I think was good. But the problem was that the talk was talking generally rather than specifically and specific talks/ tours of my specific course was afterwards but I had another talk on accommodation that I wanted to go to, so I couldn;t find out more about the course I wanted to do/ see the facilities.
The accommodation talk though was very good and I do feel a lot more happy about accommodation. So living in Lincoln seems perfectly fine to me. We had time to look a little at the city centre and Lincoln does seem like a lovely place and I would be more than happy to live there. It’s the course I don’t feel so definite about as I don’t feel like I know as much as I would like. But in the end I got to go to the talks that I wanted to, I just didn’t account for the fact that the talk would be so general and would be about all the media-ish courses rather than just the one I wanted to do.
365 thoughts in a year 