It is finished. With this last blog, I will be officially finished with this class until July 4, 2011 when I receive my grade. I was honestly starting to sweat over that class but thank God it's finished.
In all honesty though I'm having mixed feelings about leaving.
I will admit I did enjoy this class immensely (and that's rare for me). Sure I had some serious challenges when it came on to concentrating and kept losing focus when the facilitator went a tirade about what is what in WrItInG 4 e-MeDiA. She did however have a contagious attitude, and was boundlessly enthusiastic about what she was teaching, which was really the saving grace for me since it was a lot of information to absorb. So in light of your immeasurable help especially for the final assignment, thank you miss and a token :-).
I have enjoyed this blogging experience and I believe that I MIGHT continue to do this. It was fun, but all good things must come to an end. And so I say:
"So long, and may the fates be kind to us as we part. Until we have again I bid you blog, blog, blog."
All my scripts are finished and handed in. The radio script was the most challenging to complete since I had to listen attentively for every minute detail in terms of audio (a task which surprised me with the various background noises that are present that even after watching the same scene for 5 times still had to watch it further to get them), but I persisted and it paid off.
HOWEVER, after I diligently ensured that I completed my assignment to meet the deadline, the class facilitator changed the due date...After I had uploaded it. I didn't mind though, I believed I had done as much as I could and was satisfied with my results. BUT to my utmost despair, I found out that the system kicks the documents out if teh teacher makes a change whether or you you had done final submission.
Imagine my absolute horror when on my way to a stress free lunch (@ 12:00 pm) a fellow classmate told me that was what happened to her, but she had realized before 9:00 am (the new due date) so she had gotten to resubmit her assignment. I had not looked back at my assignments since last night.
Well talk about an abrupt end to a good day. I was saved somewhat though because the system evidently automatically resubmits the assignments once they were not downloaded from my account but it tags them as late. Hiss teeth, after 4 years I'm just finding that out...In my culture they say "Bad luck wos dan Obeah." and today I was inclined to believe that.
Still I won't complain the class will be officially over after the facilitator receives one last piece of document from me (an exam permit) and it will be home free and no more of this class, and who can argue with that?
Today is SUMMER SOLSTICE . The official beginning of the Summer season and the longest day of the year. And what am I doing on this beautiful sun shiny day??? Assignments, yes I am yet to finish my final e-media assignment.
Seriously this is just ridiculous. The first one (the screenplay adaptation) took me way longer than I had anticipated to complete. The double column script is on its way but I'm getting worried about the radio script. It is moving slower than a snail. It requires much listening and concentrating on the audio aspect of the film, not easy to do when I keep getting caught up in the visual.
If that's not bad enough TODAY is the DUE DATE. Yes today at 11:59 pm I must have already upload this assignment or my derriere will be be on fire.
Even though I hate to be in school on such a fine day, I am having mixed feelings. On one hand I am happy this is the longest day of the year more time before 11:59 am (not really it just means that the sun rose earlier and will set a little later), yet sad that I am still stuck doing this assignment. I am a bit worried but I'll try my utmost to get it finished for later.
I'm telling you laziness is an intolerable sin. But I cannot seem to muster the will power to make anymore progress on this final assignment. Today (well in all honesty since last night). I just haven't been feeling like it. Don't get me wrong I understand the importance of this assignment and I know I must get a move on, but I keep forgetting that I'm supposed to be compiling a script and keep falling back into the movie and watching it.
If I were ever in doubt about my concentration problems this has confirmed it. I am not focusing on the task at hand. I wonder where I can get some ginkgo biloba to help me complete this assignment this weekend?
On a more positive note, thank God for facilitators who pay enough attention to their students and will take the time out (like my poor facilitator did) to advise their stubborn students, and assist them even after they claim they do not need help. I was extended some much need leniency from my facilitator and to say the least even if I am not (ONLY CURRENTLY IT MUST DISSIPATE) in the mood to do the assignment, I am still in a pretty grateful mode.
Man this is proving to be a little more difficult than I had anticipated. This just teaches me that I don't know as much as I thought I did. In all honesty I sincerely thought that a scene is a change of scenery, but as it turns out, a scene is really a change of LOCATION.
Check out an ENTIRE scene from a movie that I found quite funny.
And these are beautiful pictures of scenery (an example here).
As much as I was not looking forward to class on Tuesday I was ridiculously grateful when our facilitator showed up. I had tried working on my final project but man, it was not progressing at all. I had the most problem distinguishing where one scene ends and another starts. I will humbly say thank you to my facilitator for showing up (even against the protests of her students) and clarifying even though most of us (that means all but one person from class) really didn't want to have class at all.I was getting really worried about those scripts (still am to be honest).
Seriously though folks with the way things are going (exams are around the corner and I swear I'm not getting anywhere with my work) I just hope I can get this done properly by the deadline.
You know what they say "So said so done". Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Generally I love being right, EXCEPT when it is about something negative about myself, and I hate being proven wrong.
I had decided that I would wait until the end of the week-end to focus on my final project for the course:
Finally Sunday evening as I took a look at the posted assignment, I identified immediately that I would have to make contact with my facilitator to clarify whether the first scene starts after the title of the movie comes up and whether the part where he is driving and there are multiple change of scenery are all considered as separate scenes. This means that I have been proven wrong. In the words of my lecturer
"Mark my words you guys will want to meet with me
after today to ask lots of questions, so don't be so
thrilled that this is our last meeting. You guys wil be
the ones begging to meet."
See in my head I was like:
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right like we'll need to run to you every second. I'm soooo glad that we don't need to meet anymore."
It is finished. With this last blog, I will be officially finished with this class until July 4, 2011 when I receive my grade. I was honestly starting to sweat over that class but thank God it's finished.
