This will probably include less ice breaker abuse.
Well well well, if it isn’t that successful, freshly shaven, efficient staff member again. Look at you being all responsible reviewing my bloated blog again. I hope I was not too harsh in the last one and If so, I’m sorry. In this blog I will try to be more like a sweet ripe orange rather than its sour citrus brother, the lemon. A little FYI though, I do love lemons. So much so I eat them whole, including the rind. And not just for attention either, like I genuinely would eat a whole lemon if I was completely alone in a room with one… When I write it out like that it sounds so romantic. I’m imagining me sitting at a small table in a dimly lit french restaurant, piano playing softly and the Eiffel tower reflecting off the expensive glass of wine in my hand as I smooth talk a nicely dressed lemon across the table. God I would love to see whats under that rind. OK LETS MOVE ON TO MORE ACADEMIC THINGS. Week 2 was a lot better than week 1. I got to meet Eric who seems super cool and am beginning to make friends with some of my classmates. Eric is from Mexico but has been living in LA prior to London. We chatted a bit about the contrast of those two places as I was planning on going to LA too before changing to London. Eric also relieved that his brother is getting his masters degree at Penn State. That’s where I live in Pennsylvania! Out of all the places his brother could be, he just happened to go to school in my town. I was so amazed I texted my mom and dad to which everyone said the same thing “small world”. My mom then said something like “Let him know if his brother needs people to spend time with around the holidays, or just wants to have a meal, we would love to have him!”. Shes always trying to meet new people and go out of her way to help. Sometimes to a fault but I think its a good fault to have. Pierre showed us our new immersive assignment. It’s supposed to be like the Black Mirror Bandersnatch episode but all in 360. Right away my mind was running with the idea. I had a whole story line already unfolding and was eager to explore more. It was going to be based off a classic Friday night of partying. The first decision was what shirt you would wear. If you picked the first shirt the story would progress like normal, but if you picked the second shirt, something would get spilled on your shirt and you’d have to end up wearing the first one anyway. This would create the illusion of choice for the viewer without having to film every future scene 2 times, 1 in each shirt. Anyway I had a lot more ideas like this and even planned on having a super weird abstract path that was somewhat of an easter egg to find. Wellllllllllllll Pierre then went on further to explain the guidelines for the assignment and they were a lot less ambitious. Apparently we were supposed to film something as if its a tour of LCC and it must all be filmed on LCC campus. Boy is that a creative killer, I guess it wouldn’t be school without putting me in a box though. I asked Pierre if I could do a different idea and he said yes but it still needs to be filmed on campus. Soooooo disappointing… Well I guess its alright because I like my group. Kelvin started teaching Maya and a few people missed which basically means they are screwed. He also went fairly fast so even those who didn’t miss are still going to struggle with the homework. Hell, even I struggled with the homework and I have 5 months of experience. Luckily Marie also has some experience with Maya so she can help people too.