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!