What, a Gemini? Me?

Today I came to the realisation of the two lives I appear to be living. After a good morning at Artswork Media talking projects and production companies and prospective jobs in production companies, I went home and threaded baked orange slices to decorate the flat. From super 'career focused nerd girl' to 'domestic goddess extrordinare' in the five minutes between leaving Paintworks and going to Sainsburys to pick up stuff for lunch with M before commencing with said stringing.

After the stringing was done (more orange slices still in the oven) I continued editing the film we did over the weekend, aka Student Fellow Report 2008 aka Boring Film done in our flat.

As it was compressing, I did the washing up and put a load in the washing machine.

Which makes me feel both powerful (I can do ANYTHING) and also a bit like I'm splitting myself in two. But hey, it worked - oranges in oven, edit the film, put more in the oven, write some script, etc. etc.

Tell you something though, I am SO looking forward to going back to Mum's for Christmas and just flopping in front of the fire with my cat and not thinking about anything except Christmas TV and Dad bringing me a baileys with ice.

Micro-Biology and a quick update

Had meeting with Iain Haysom from the Micro Biology department at Uni. What a lovely guy! Chatted about how he wanted things to go, we all seemed to be on the right page which was awesome, and going with M meant (as always) that we came across as a partnership, a team not to be reckoned with! Maybe.

We were taken round the lab we'll be filming in, reminded us of GSCE Science.
Had to point out stuff like getting clean mats and taking his rings and watch off while filming to avoid distraction etc. Think we'll use two cameras to do a multi-cam edit, he had some films made last year that were all shot front on and apparently really boring - I can imagine!
We'll probably shoot from the side of him to get CU of his hands, and the opposite side as well as start and finish front on wide shot.
M reckons we'll be able to record the voice over in the Music Lab as well which would be brilliant, so one we've filmed it we'll run off a rough edit so Iain can watch it while he reads his voice over.

Mike Huck has agreed to be our other cameraman (me on the other one, M on sound) and he's free for filming after 12th December so hopefully we should get a few in the can before Chrismtas. Lovely stuff!

Have our tree up already in the flat, so exciting!
Also, I went and bought my iPhone. Was going to wait til after Christmas but went into carphone warehouse and they said I was able to upgrade 2 months before 25 Dec so I was like... ok!
It is honestly the koolest thing I've owned, ever. Genuinely.

The first Christmassy Day

Today, being the first of December, I allowed myself to feel Christmassy. With that really annoying Asda song in my head (It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas... that one) I trundled off to Paintworks for our weekly meeting. Poor turn out, only the real dedicated ones showed up, apart from lloyd who is usually a dedicated but was poorly.
Did some keyframing with Ollie on Final Cut, good, but I kind of worked it all out playing with the Teahouse film. But nice to know I am doing it right.

Came home and had lunch with M, soup and french bagette, before convincing him to come into town to mooch about. We discovered the Christmas Market, not that I didn't know it was on, just that we were walking to where it was.. in a serendipituous type way.

Anyway, it was lovely. Millions of entirely useless crafts and jewellery to buy, I lingered far too long at some of the stands getting distracted by the shiny things. M bought us hot cider and I managed to buy some 'Lavender pillow mist' for Nana - my first Christmas present!

Decided to buy our tree on Wednesday we think. The flat'll look gawjus!

Life Modelling

Today is my last session before the exhibition with my lovely group of ladies.

I started modelling a few years ago with a local artist called David Cobley. M and I did it together over about a year and he then had an exhibition of his work in the Victoria Gallery. We were being sold for about £13,000! Made us feel a bit conned about being paid £10 ph.

Then I started modelling for the studio where David works in random sculpture and still life classes. I found the classes a bit horrible to be honest, no one talks and they're always 3 hours long so I find my head starts going a bit mad when I'm cooped up in a silent room for that long.
Anyway, a few months back I got a gig with Binnie at her house up the road where she's converted a basement into a studio and just invites her friends round for art classes every week, changing the materials and techniques. Its just so cosy and Binnie thinks of really interesting positions and thing to do during the classes. They're having their exhibition on 15th Dec so this is the last class where they have me modelling for them, I believe they're using paint this week. Last week the main pose was 'rag doll' Binnie wanted me to look like I'd fallen out of an areoplane... it came out a lot nicer than it sounds.

Life modelling is one of those strange jobs where everybody is a bit uncomfortably interested. My Dad was a little freaked out when he came to see David's exhibition which is fair enough, my girlfriends have often filled in for me for a pose if I'm unavailable but my boys find it funny. I've been doing it for nearly 3 years now so I'm used to the idea of being naked, so much so that the other day I was given a lovely photo someone had taken of Binnie's class. I was in the background doing a lying down pose and I showed my friend John without really thinking. Stupid girl.

Is this strange? Its only art, and its only what everyone else has.

Hello

Hello.

Not sure how to start a blog so I figured I'd start from now and continue.
As a student fellow this year Mimi has told us we can spend the majority of our time concentrating on our own projects. Sweet. So my own project is our small production company MiKat Productions. At this very moment in time I'm collecting my old films to make a tiny showreel for my new film where I can show off how we came up with the whole MiKat project. God that sounds boring. Anyway, I'm going to make a film to show Mimi that I've actually done something which'll have me chatting on about stuff with snippets of old footage etc. Fun eh?

www.mikatproductions.co.uk

Being a student fellow for the second year is... a lot easier than last year, Mimi seems to have given up slightly on getting us to do so much which is fine with me 'cos 3rd year is HARD.
The student fellow scheme is run by Artswork, a 'centre for excellence and learning in teaching' as SFs we are mentors for other students, representatives for the uni and generally people to talk to for different sections of the university. Bath Spa have different labs for the creative subjects. I'm the SF for the Broadcast Lab so I get to film and mess around with fancy cameras and stuff. I get a bursary each semester. Only two students per lab so I feel pretty lucky for getting it two years in a row and hopefully it'll look pretty good on my cv.

I've finished importing my old films now so I'm going to start chopping them up. More later I guess.

Kat x