busy time.....

started monday last week. About 8.45 there was a massive bashing on the front door. i opened it to find Luke on the doorstep saying 'ive just been mugged. we've got to find Rachel'

you can imagine the sort of images that comes up with. we all rushed out and we eventually found Rachel sat on the floor in the petrol station shop. while we were waiting for the police to show up it turned out they were cycling back from tesco and Luke had the tips of some fireworks sticking out the top of his backpack.
some guy came out of the petrol station, saw Luke and said something like 'are those fireworks?'
Luke just said 'no' and they both sped up. the guy got into his car with his friends and started to drive after them.

they rode into the park to try to get away but the guy followed them and rammed Luke off his bike with the car. he got out, pushed Luke over the knee high railings by the path and started punching him in the face. at this point Rachel rode back to the petrol station to escape. another guy got out of the car, took the fireworks out from Lukes bag and hit him round the face with them.

they tried to steal his phone, but luckily they believed him when he said he didnt have it so they took his wallet instead. fortunately there wasnt much in it. after that they drove off, and luke rushed back home, dumped the rest of his shopping and round us up to go find Rachel.
we asked the shop owner about the CCTV footage considering the mugger had just left the shop but apparently the camera was turned off. personally i think thats just an excuse to avoid lots of paperwork...

the police finaly arrived after about an hour and Luke and Rachel went off with them to show where the mugging happened and to go back to the station to make a statement. Luke got the car regestration number so hopefully something'll happen. the guy from CID came round saturday evening to talk to them, mainly to introduce himself and find out a bit more detail on what happened.

wednesday i had to be a russian with a stutter. we were recreating a 2 minute scene from Mirror for our Digital Sound and Image Manipultation project. if it gets youtubed i may post a link to it here....if my stuttering isnt too embarassing...
there was a bit of a panic on friday. we had to hand in our 2 minute sequence and Avid decided to mess us around. it took us about an hour to copy the film (which was only 2 minutes long, remember) to a DV tape and we just got it in with half an hour to go before the deadline.
in tomorrows DSIM tutorial we're doing a peer assesment to grade each other depending on how well we pulled our weight. if i slacked as much last year as Alex did for this project then im surprised the others didnt boot me out.

Andrea came for a visit at the weekend and we had a fantastic time as usual. didnt really do much as theres hardly anything to do in stafford, but spending the weekend wrapped up in a duvet together in front of some good DVDs is nothing to be complaining about.

had an amazing breakthrough with Visual Media Applicatons. i actually came up with an idea for my assignment!
im going to do an animation to advertise an Anime season for Film4. something involving giant robots in a Neon Genesis Evangelion stylée and ive found some good music from the .hack//SIGN soundtrack that i think will be suitable.
will have to rough out my vague ideas to make them more usefull this evening.

think thats about it for now. have to start coming up with ideas for our next DSIM assignment. a 3 minute film based on either a poem or an original 'experimental narrative'. i think Derwents idea from last years scriptwriting module involving invisible lammas and questioning reality would be experimental enough but we'll have to see.

oh, and im now using the post Google take-over BloggerBeta so if you have any teething troubles posting comment etc that will probably be why. apparently i cant post comments on non-Beta blogs at the moment but they're working on it and will be able to soon....at least thats what they say.

hopefully ill have something interesting to blog about sooner this time :P