Sunday, 9 June 2013

Oh Youtube Views

So last night I deleted 3 videos from my youtube channel. I deleted a live video from a You Me At Six concert which had a little over 3,000 views, I deleted a video from a street busker that had just over 1,600 views and a lens review that had 500 views. The reason I deleted these was over the quality. The one downside is that my channel just lost over 5,000 views. So I went from having about 17,600 views to 12,600, this saddens me greatly but it really need to be done! On another note I have 3 exams done, 7 more to ...

Friday, 31 May 2013

Danny Boyle’s 15 Golden Rules of Moviemaking

Danny Boyle is one of my favourite directors (the other being JJ Abrams), I just came across this piece he wrote recently, some very good tips in here :) Written By Danny Boyle 1. A DIRECTOR MUST BE A PEOPLE PERSON  • Ninety-five percent of your job is handling personnel. People who’ve never done it imagine that it’s some act, like painting a Picasso from a blank canvas, but it’s not like that. Directing is mostly about handling people’s egos, vulnerabilities and moods. It’s all about trying to bring everybody to a boil at the right moment....

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Finished At Long Last.

It is ridiculous how fast time goes by. I'm now nineteen years old and have been in education since I was four. Fifteen years sounds like an awfully long time, and at times it felt like it would never end, but now that I am finished school it feels like only a few days ago I was thirteen and going into first year. I still have to take state exams next week to see if I will get into college or not, but I am technically finished with the whole being a secondary student thing. It feels weird. For most of my life I've had a constant structure...