Mid week 3 thoughts and aspirations

This week has been a challenge for me. I have had a hellish week at work lumped with the Chief of Staff role for our business unit. This means I will be handling financial and HR issues, liaising with Directors, GMDs and political giants who have the intellectual giantness of frightening proportions. I have to compile the weekly activity report which is sent directly to the CEO. The mere thought of it frightens the crap out of me. And here I sit time ticking on, trying to get through the case studies, blogs and tutes for this course!
Then there is the fact that I had three days away for my sisters 50th and a weekend away which dug into my study time drastically. Top that with a visit from my Adeliade dwelling sister who wants to 'hang out' and her daughtes arrival into Melbourne which makes me feel like I have a responsibility to show her the ropes so to speak.
Anyhoo... all this will pass and I will cope, glad I knocked off a heap of reading tonight including finally finishing this weeks lecture which I found I needed to read at least three times and I still cant recount from memory the differences between the very complex types of storytelling. Analysing the Blair Witch site was a really good excercise and I found it quite hard to decide what types of story telling it really was a combination of many of them, in fact possibly all of them!
I have made a concsious decision not to read anyone eles's comments on the course blog until I have formulated my own, this way I know that others opinions will not influence my own. That was hard! When I logged in I saw that 4 posts had already been logged and it was so tempting to read them to see if I was on the right track or not but I resisted so hopefully mine will stand up on its own as my own. I think this is important. In fact once I had posted my blog entry on Trigger Street I found that most other people disagreed with my comments. Maybe I am a bit naive, or pehaps it is a good reflection to be really reflective, really think deeply about the question and not rush a thing. There were many other things about the site that other students had reflected on that I had not even considered! I really am an early adopter!
So last night as I was trying, trying, trying to get to sleep my mind wandered as it does to the upcoming assignment. Video collage. I have already submitted my concept brief and storyboard when at midnight I came up with an entirely new concept that I really want to run with. I emailed Cathie to see if that was ok and await her answer.
As usual I find that as I progress through the materials, more ideas materialise and I change my mind. In fact I was just reading Part 2 Pre Production Processes and discovered that this indeed is the role that I am playing, a creative producer/developer/designer/editor! So it should be fine that I have refined my idea and I know it is good, now I just have to excecute!
So this weekend is my post production time, I have already got a heap of footage that I like and I know that if I pour through my photo library I will find plenty of still photography, stuff that I have in mind, that will suit the project, but there still is the stuff that I know I need and havent got yet - to tape. Fortunately I have lined up a fairly decent Mini DV camcorder with a good mic that will do the job. Now all I have to do is overcome seeing myself on tape and this could be a great little piece!
Looking forward to it right now, but I know the terror will set in once I start rolling tape! EEEEK!