I want to bathe in the beauty of the title for a little bit and simply say, SHERLOCK! We’ve seen the teaser, we’ve heard the ‘coming soon’, we’ve even seen the moustache. Talk to me about Rupert Graves, my friends, because he’s a-coming. If you got the abundance of references above, you are a natural born superstar. But the bastards! They have said 2014. 2014! Yet longer to wait! I calm myself on the thought that the longer we wait, the better made it will be. Nevertheless, I am so excite. (My fangirl is showing…).
I’m due a layout change, but I’m too busy. I thought the advantage of using premades, which makes me feel very inadequate as a self proclaimed web designer, would be that I could change them easily when I got tired of them, and I wouldn’t have to worry about coding a whole new one. Turns out, it’s so tricksy anyway to get everything sorted and converted accordingly, that the effort is too much and I’m stuck anyway. Oh, joys!
On to the reason I am busy! About a week ago, I was trawling the internet, as you do, minding my own business when BOOM, a satellite fell from the sky and landed on me! Ok, that didn’t exactly happen. But I did stumble upon the BFI Regional Film Academy about 2 days before the deadline for applications. Briefly, the film academy is a relatively new scheme from BFI (British Film Institute) in association with other partners created to enable more promotion of film making in an overall scheme for 5-19 year olds. So, they’ve rolled out a film academy in 35 institutions – cinemas in different regions, film centres, etc – to accept 18 aspiring film makers (in each place) between ages 16-19 on a 3 month evening and weekend training course (75 hours in total). They also have a very competitive single residential one in London too. But overall, approximately 900 young people from around Britain get to join the academy.
I didn’t know too much about it at the time, but it looked like a very good opportunity and I had stumbled on it literally two days before the deadline. I love film making and to actually be accepted would be pretty awesome – I would finally get to work with people who loved it too! So I took a punt and put in an application.
Two days ago, I received the email reply, so I took a deep breath readying myself for the rejection. It began “Thank you for taking the time to put in the application…” and there was me now almost certain of a rejection. “We would like to offer you a place…” (or words to that effect). I know this wouldn’t be a big deal for any normal person, but for me, because I’m an anxious over-romantic wreck of a human being (on the inside), I just stopped still. Then all these floods of thoughts came in; I felt happy; I panicked; I just sort of sat still again. So the end of this long winded unnecessary story… I have been accepted a place in the regional BFI film academy! Which means I have 3 months worth of evening/weekend training and therefore it also means that I’m busy and now we’re back to the original point! I hope you enjoyed that wonderful journey!
I don’t really know what to expect. I’ve never even done a film making course before, let alone an academy. I don’t know if its “a thing” or if it’s really not. I guess I’ll just have to throw myself in and keep my mind open. I can only hope that whatever it is, I meet some like-minded people (and make friends or I’ll be all alone for 3 months *cries*) and that I learn a lot of things from it. I’m nervous, though. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be, or if I’m just being a wimp. Probably the latter. This isn’t even “a thing”, is it? But hey! I guess I’ll find out in the first session next week! *cue screams of unexpectedness*
With it being National Poetry Day yesterday, I wanted to mention it but it looks like this is getting a bit long. So I’ll keep it quick. It’s important for me this year because my friend who died in June wanted to be a performance poet – I was looking all over for some of his work, but unfortunately I think I’ve lost it. Curse my feeble mind! I wanted to publish it on here or something – maybe I’ll find it some time in the future. Anyways, I’d just like to say Happy National Poetry Day for yesterday, to you and to him! I might put up some poems in the writing section in a bit. I’m not sure. But if any of you are writers, keep on writing!
Edit // I added a How I Live Now review and my flickr is jam packed with new film photographs. //
OMG that is so awesome! I hope that you have an absolutely amazing time when you go and are able to learn so much and know all the things! 😀 I am sure it will be an incredible experience! 😀