Monday, April 4, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Film and Theater, Oh My!
Welcome to my second semester, loyal readers!
I know it has been a while since I last posted on here. I have been a very busy college student.
I was the stagehand for the college's children's show, The Jack Tales and was part of the Advertising Committee for the college's Nerd Prom. Unfortunately, I fell ill during the weekend of the performances and the prom, so I went straight home after the performances and didn't go to the prom.
In Dramatic Writing II, I'm writing the first act of a movie script, and it's coming along nicely. I am also working on a three to five minute entry for the college's film competition! I wrote the script for it tonight, and filming starts tomorrow.
In addition to that, I will also be the stagehand for the next play performed by the theater troupe on campus: Karima's City. It is a play that was originally written in Arabic by an Egyptian American, and we are performing an English translation of it. It's about an Islamic woman who is put into an insane asylum, and the play delves into the reasons why. I will also be helping out with the West African cultural club's performance of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Isn't Enuf. Currently, I am under the impression I'll be doing lighting or sound or both, but the woman who contacted me about helping with the play hasn't clarified things with me yet.
Anime Club is also getting ready to host its anime film festival. I'm really looking forward to it. While the movies are playing, we'll be selling amagurumi dolls, rice balls, and ramen. The funds will go to the club's two huge events on campus: Wizard Ball and Nerd Prom.
Also, I am debating whether or not I should see what my Christmas story will look like as a stage play and if that will be a better format for the story to be told, with the same themes and message I want to get across. The plot for the Nutcracker story is still in its development stages, and its development is coming along nicely. I also have an idea for a series of First Chapter books.
You'll probably hear back from me after the Film Competition prizes are awarded! I'll show you my film after that!
I know it has been a while since I last posted on here. I have been a very busy college student.
I was the stagehand for the college's children's show, The Jack Tales and was part of the Advertising Committee for the college's Nerd Prom. Unfortunately, I fell ill during the weekend of the performances and the prom, so I went straight home after the performances and didn't go to the prom.
In Dramatic Writing II, I'm writing the first act of a movie script, and it's coming along nicely. I am also working on a three to five minute entry for the college's film competition! I wrote the script for it tonight, and filming starts tomorrow.
In addition to that, I will also be the stagehand for the next play performed by the theater troupe on campus: Karima's City. It is a play that was originally written in Arabic by an Egyptian American, and we are performing an English translation of it. It's about an Islamic woman who is put into an insane asylum, and the play delves into the reasons why. I will also be helping out with the West African cultural club's performance of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Isn't Enuf. Currently, I am under the impression I'll be doing lighting or sound or both, but the woman who contacted me about helping with the play hasn't clarified things with me yet.
Anime Club is also getting ready to host its anime film festival. I'm really looking forward to it. While the movies are playing, we'll be selling amagurumi dolls, rice balls, and ramen. The funds will go to the club's two huge events on campus: Wizard Ball and Nerd Prom.
Also, I am debating whether or not I should see what my Christmas story will look like as a stage play and if that will be a better format for the story to be told, with the same themes and message I want to get across. The plot for the Nutcracker story is still in its development stages, and its development is coming along nicely. I also have an idea for a series of First Chapter books.
You'll probably hear back from me after the Film Competition prizes are awarded! I'll show you my film after that!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
In 6 Days . . .
. . . my responsibilities regarding The Jack Tales play and Nerd Prom come to an end. The final performances of The Jack Tales conclude on Saturday, and Nerd Prom is Saturday night. After that, I have nothing but homework and my TV show to worry about. Yay!
On Sunday, I'll be relaxing by watching the Oscars on TV. I haven't seen all of the movies that have been nominated, so I'll be writing down some of which I should definitely see.
In March, I test for my driver's license, and I will help with advertising my college's film competition. I don't think I'll have enough time to enter myself, but I absolutely adore the fact that we have one.
I also made a tumblr blog. It's for much more personal things that I don't put on here.
Writing-wise, I have come up for a brilliant plot addition to my Nutcracker story, which will make it easier to write.
And if it feels like this blog post isn't written very well, there is a reason for it: in college, my creative juices are shot.
See you all next blog post.
On Sunday, I'll be relaxing by watching the Oscars on TV. I haven't seen all of the movies that have been nominated, so I'll be writing down some of which I should definitely see.
In March, I test for my driver's license, and I will help with advertising my college's film competition. I don't think I'll have enough time to enter myself, but I absolutely adore the fact that we have one.
I also made a tumblr blog. It's for much more personal things that I don't put on here.
Writing-wise, I have come up for a brilliant plot addition to my Nutcracker story, which will make it easier to write.
And if it feels like this blog post isn't written very well, there is a reason for it: in college, my creative juices are shot.
See you all next blog post.
Friday, January 28, 2011
What Have I Unleashed?
Like Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll, I feel as though I have unleashed a monster to wreck havoc amongst the world. The key difference is that the havoc is only in relation to the world that's in my head. In a single week, I have taken on so much responsibilities on campus.
1) I became part of the advertisement division of the Nerd Prom Planning Committee.
2) I started filming with my camcorder a tour of the campus, with the hopes of getting a friend of mine to come to my college.
3) I have volunteered to bake for the Anime Club bake sale, which will raise money for Nerd Prom.
4) I am looking into the Study Abroad Program. The countries I am looking at are Italy, Iceland, Czech Republic, Sweden, and the U.K. (I am aware that the U.K. is made up of three different countries and Northern Ireland.)
5) I still have my duties with the theater production, The Jack Tales.
6) I'm trying to schedule a whole bunch of different episodes for Nerd Central all at once, and I'll need to figure out when I'll be doing episodes by myself for little things, which will be like advertisements for things like Nerd Prom and the theater production.
7) I'm thinking about applying for a position as a Writing Center Tutor.
8) I am re-thinking The Christmas Spirit, and I may give it another rewrite once I have time (a.k.a.: summer break).
9) Ideas for a story about a unicorn keep popping up in my head.
10) I still have homework, which requires a lot of reading.
And that's just the stuff that is relevant to what this blog is about. The Writer's Festival at my college is also coming up soon, and I got my ticket all ready. For the first time this semester, I am ahead in my homework, and tomorrow will be a lot of uploading videos onto Youtube, baking cookies, and doing homework.
Someone please tell me what I was thinking when I gave myself all these things to think about.
1) I became part of the advertisement division of the Nerd Prom Planning Committee.
2) I started filming with my camcorder a tour of the campus, with the hopes of getting a friend of mine to come to my college.
3) I have volunteered to bake for the Anime Club bake sale, which will raise money for Nerd Prom.
4) I am looking into the Study Abroad Program. The countries I am looking at are Italy, Iceland, Czech Republic, Sweden, and the U.K. (I am aware that the U.K. is made up of three different countries and Northern Ireland.)
5) I still have my duties with the theater production, The Jack Tales.
6) I'm trying to schedule a whole bunch of different episodes for Nerd Central all at once, and I'll need to figure out when I'll be doing episodes by myself for little things, which will be like advertisements for things like Nerd Prom and the theater production.
7) I'm thinking about applying for a position as a Writing Center Tutor.
8) I am re-thinking The Christmas Spirit, and I may give it another rewrite once I have time (a.k.a.: summer break).
9) Ideas for a story about a unicorn keep popping up in my head.
10) I still have homework, which requires a lot of reading.
And that's just the stuff that is relevant to what this blog is about. The Writer's Festival at my college is also coming up soon, and I got my ticket all ready. For the first time this semester, I am ahead in my homework, and tomorrow will be a lot of uploading videos onto Youtube, baking cookies, and doing homework.
Someone please tell me what I was thinking when I gave myself all these things to think about.
Monday, January 17, 2011
School Starts Wednesday
My second semester of college starts Wednesday. This semester, I will be:
1) taking British Literature After 1700s, Perspectives in Literature, Science in Theater, and Dramatic Writing II,
2) writing part of a movie script in DWII,
3) being tech support for the spring semester theater performance in February,
4) working in the Writing Center,
5) doing my TV show, Nerd Central, on the school TV station.
The movie script probably will be an adaptation of the Christmas story - which admittedly needs some more work, but I'm hoping that adapting it will help me think about and fix the problems that are in the book, so I can put what I write in the script into the book in novel format.
I'm excited for all my classes, and I have almost all of my books. Spring Semester, here I come.
1) taking British Literature After 1700s, Perspectives in Literature, Science in Theater, and Dramatic Writing II,
2) writing part of a movie script in DWII,
3) being tech support for the spring semester theater performance in February,
4) working in the Writing Center,
5) doing my TV show, Nerd Central, on the school TV station.
The movie script probably will be an adaptation of the Christmas story - which admittedly needs some more work, but I'm hoping that adapting it will help me think about and fix the problems that are in the book, so I can put what I write in the script into the book in novel format.
I'm excited for all my classes, and I have almost all of my books. Spring Semester, here I come.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Grades Are In!
After a month of waiting, I finally have last semester's grades! My term GPA is 3.333!
I'm a little surprised I got an A- in my first-year seminar class. While the assignments weren't difficult, it was the most stressful for me because of all the death, poverty, and utter hopelessness that the subject matter was drenched with. I have now promised myself to go out of my way to avoid any more political science classes. I don't think I can handle anything like that again. However, while I am happy with my B+ in Craft of Writing (ENG 110) and my B in Dramatic Writing I, I should aim to do even better in this semester's classes. I think that a better study plan should assist me with that nicely. (That and meeting with my professors more to get a better idea about what it is I need to work on.) I'll be taking 3 English classes and a Theater class that acts as a science without a lab this spring semester.
While I did have four classes last semester, one was a P.E., which was a non-credited class (though I still need to take a second one before graduation time comes). This will be my first semester with four credited classes, which means even more work for me. Combine that with my on-campus job and needing to work on my books/writings more than I have been, I'm going to be a very busy person. Lucky for me, I have plenty of notepads to make daily to-do lists. I have a Christmas-themed notepad and a Jack Russell Terrier-themed notepad. I may have more; I'll need to check. If necessary, I can buy more.
I'll also need to get into the habit of always carrying around a notebook with me so I can write down book ideas that come to me. An idea struck me during driving school classes, and I didn't have anything to write it down in that I wasn't using for other notes. I still remember it, though. I just don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.
On a different note, I wasn't able to get The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman from the library before Christmas because none of the libraries I had available to me had them. But I did get it for Christmas, and I've started reading it. It's already coming in handy with inspiring scenes for my Nutcracker story.
I haven't been doing as much editing on the Christmas story as I would have liked, nor have I written many short stories since I last told you all about them. I've been letting my free time get away with me. But I have discovered that I get so much done when I have a schedule, which is why I'm going to make time during the school semester to work on both the Christmas story and the Nutcracker story.
Speaking of Christmas, I got a camcorder, tripod, and microphone. I'm still figuring out how the camcorder works, but once I do I'll be able to make better videos for my Youtube Channel. You can find my Youtube channel right here. I do have a few videos thanks to my webcam. Aside from those videos, I've been having fun favoriting music videos I especially like, from wizard rock songs to Korean and Japanese music videos.
How was everyone's holiday and New Year's? When do you go back to school?
I'm a little surprised I got an A- in my first-year seminar class. While the assignments weren't difficult, it was the most stressful for me because of all the death, poverty, and utter hopelessness that the subject matter was drenched with. I have now promised myself to go out of my way to avoid any more political science classes. I don't think I can handle anything like that again. However, while I am happy with my B+ in Craft of Writing (ENG 110) and my B in Dramatic Writing I, I should aim to do even better in this semester's classes. I think that a better study plan should assist me with that nicely. (That and meeting with my professors more to get a better idea about what it is I need to work on.) I'll be taking 3 English classes and a Theater class that acts as a science without a lab this spring semester.
While I did have four classes last semester, one was a P.E., which was a non-credited class (though I still need to take a second one before graduation time comes). This will be my first semester with four credited classes, which means even more work for me. Combine that with my on-campus job and needing to work on my books/writings more than I have been, I'm going to be a very busy person. Lucky for me, I have plenty of notepads to make daily to-do lists. I have a Christmas-themed notepad and a Jack Russell Terrier-themed notepad. I may have more; I'll need to check. If necessary, I can buy more.
I'll also need to get into the habit of always carrying around a notebook with me so I can write down book ideas that come to me. An idea struck me during driving school classes, and I didn't have anything to write it down in that I wasn't using for other notes. I still remember it, though. I just don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.
On a different note, I wasn't able to get The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman from the library before Christmas because none of the libraries I had available to me had them. But I did get it for Christmas, and I've started reading it. It's already coming in handy with inspiring scenes for my Nutcracker story.
I haven't been doing as much editing on the Christmas story as I would have liked, nor have I written many short stories since I last told you all about them. I've been letting my free time get away with me. But I have discovered that I get so much done when I have a schedule, which is why I'm going to make time during the school semester to work on both the Christmas story and the Nutcracker story.
Speaking of Christmas, I got a camcorder, tripod, and microphone. I'm still figuring out how the camcorder works, but once I do I'll be able to make better videos for my Youtube Channel. You can find my Youtube channel right here. I do have a few videos thanks to my webcam. Aside from those videos, I've been having fun favoriting music videos I especially like, from wizard rock songs to Korean and Japanese music videos.
How was everyone's holiday and New Year's? When do you go back to school?
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