Hey fellow readers!
Just been to the cinema to watch the new film, The Prisoners. It was a great movie starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhall. It was a very tense movie about two families that are friends that have their daughters kidnapped. The story line has great twists and has a good cliff hanger ending. Has anyone seen this film?
The last film I watched Hugh Jackman in was Les Miserables and he was fabulous in that and equally as good I'm this.
Watching the film made me think of how technology has grown over the years. At the beginning of the movie there was a short advert about the technology the cinemas are using, it said 4k. I am intrigued what this is so googled it and found information on this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution
If I am correct it is basically a movie that has the digital resolution of 4000 pixels. I then googled the
pixels on a normal tv and if I am correct this is 1024 pixels.
I found this from the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
I then thought about the whole technology subject and remembered about the reader I was given at university
about professional communications technology, so I began to read further into it.
It talks about Web 2.0 which is Facebook, blogs, YouTube, twitter and other social networking methods
all in one category. Sites such as Facebook, twitter, blogs and hotmail will help me share my ideas and
Help me communicate to friends, the community or the network. I personally at the moment use Facebook a lot and
Find this is the most convenient way to communicate but I'm sure thoroughly my time on this course I could be persuaded to use other
Methods of web2.
Over the next week I shall read the reader 1 booklet in more depth and comment or blog with any findings or opinions I have on it.
Happy reading and if you have spare time go and catch Prisoners.
Saturday 28 September 2013
Thursday 26 September 2013
Day 1 of blogging
Hey guys...
Day 1 of blogging starts today!!!!
What to say? Well, I went to my induction on Tuesday for BAPP and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am quite an academic person and was at school so when i turned to performing arts it surprised my family and friends a lot. I gained my trinity diploma at LCPA and have wanted to turn it into a degree to open more windows for me in the future and help me get my foot into teaching. We had great discussions at the BAPP induction and thoroughly talked about reflection and what it meant to us. Reflection to me is thinking about what I have done previous whether it be on the day, a week ago or a year ago. Hopefully, if you have the chance to do things again you can learn from your mistakes and from the reflection process do them better next time.
Listening to people's stories that are on the BAPP course with me tells me that they all have a great passion for the performing arts area and want to then take that passion and knowledge and pass it on to others, as the majority want to teach. I think teachers should have great passion and knowledge other wise learning for the students would be boring and it would boring for the teacher too because their day job would not be as enjoyable and just be something they do for the money. This is why I would like to go into teaching, because I have a great passion for performing arts and would like to pass this on. Not only my passion but my knowledge and experience.
During the session we talked about the course and then read through some newspaper and chose an article that jumped out to us. The article I chose was purely chosen from the picture. It was a picture of a model not looking her best, she looked like she had been dragged through a bush and her lipstick was not perfect, which when you look through a magazine you expect to see models looking perfect so I started to read the article. It basically said that red lipstick has been around for a long time but it isn't perfect and smudges too much. I personally wear red lipstick a lot and never find that it smudges. Yes, it fades and you have to re apply it every now and again but that is the same with all lipsticks and lip glosses. I think every lipstick is made differently but so is everyone's skin. Therefore, what works for one person may not for another, so testers are great for an individual to test what works for them the best. The fashion and make up industry is so big and their is so much competition and sometimes the most expensive brand are not the best. An example of this is one of my friends who I will not name LOL wears mac make up which a lot of people think is amazing but on her it does not suit her skin and makes her skin look orange and clammy but she thinks it is amazing!!
What do you think about the make up industry and how people wear it? Do you know what works well for you or do you just shop for the cheapest items?
After the induction I stayed with friends who are all trying their hardest to get into the performing arts business. One of them is in a west end show and doing exactly what he loves so he is in there and his hard work training has paid off. Where as, my other friends are still auditioning and struggling with money to pay rent and generally struggling to live in London. Being with them made me feel very confused about my future performing career because I have always wanted to move to London with them but staying with them made me think against it. Being at home and travelling to London for auditioning is more fun when you do it randomly and the fact that I am working near to home and still living at home the costs for living are not as much which makes me feel more financially safer. I think living in London I would also feel quite lonely because my friends and family are at home and the friends that I would live with are always working so I would mostly be alone.
I had a conversion with my friend Sophie who is currently working two jobs and she disagreed with me totally and said if you want to perform that much then you will do anything to dance, but she isn't dancing. I still attend auditions and am now doing BAPP to improve my future but my friends are against doing this themselves.
Why do you think they are so against BAPP?
I think everyone would have their different opinions about this situation but at the end of the day it is up to the individual themselves to determine how they would be happiest. Teaching performing arts
to me is being in the industry because you are still working with your chosen subject.
What do you think about this situation and subject and have you been faced with similar decisions?
First blog coming to an end now, not so scary!!!
Please comment and tell me your thoughts!!
Good luck everyone on your blogs whether you have already started or not and I look forward to reading and commenting on them.
Ruth xxx
Day 1 of blogging starts today!!!!
What to say? Well, I went to my induction on Tuesday for BAPP and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am quite an academic person and was at school so when i turned to performing arts it surprised my family and friends a lot. I gained my trinity diploma at LCPA and have wanted to turn it into a degree to open more windows for me in the future and help me get my foot into teaching. We had great discussions at the BAPP induction and thoroughly talked about reflection and what it meant to us. Reflection to me is thinking about what I have done previous whether it be on the day, a week ago or a year ago. Hopefully, if you have the chance to do things again you can learn from your mistakes and from the reflection process do them better next time.
Listening to people's stories that are on the BAPP course with me tells me that they all have a great passion for the performing arts area and want to then take that passion and knowledge and pass it on to others, as the majority want to teach. I think teachers should have great passion and knowledge other wise learning for the students would be boring and it would boring for the teacher too because their day job would not be as enjoyable and just be something they do for the money. This is why I would like to go into teaching, because I have a great passion for performing arts and would like to pass this on. Not only my passion but my knowledge and experience.
During the session we talked about the course and then read through some newspaper and chose an article that jumped out to us. The article I chose was purely chosen from the picture. It was a picture of a model not looking her best, she looked like she had been dragged through a bush and her lipstick was not perfect, which when you look through a magazine you expect to see models looking perfect so I started to read the article. It basically said that red lipstick has been around for a long time but it isn't perfect and smudges too much. I personally wear red lipstick a lot and never find that it smudges. Yes, it fades and you have to re apply it every now and again but that is the same with all lipsticks and lip glosses. I think every lipstick is made differently but so is everyone's skin. Therefore, what works for one person may not for another, so testers are great for an individual to test what works for them the best. The fashion and make up industry is so big and their is so much competition and sometimes the most expensive brand are not the best. An example of this is one of my friends who I will not name LOL wears mac make up which a lot of people think is amazing but on her it does not suit her skin and makes her skin look orange and clammy but she thinks it is amazing!!
What do you think about the make up industry and how people wear it? Do you know what works well for you or do you just shop for the cheapest items?
After the induction I stayed with friends who are all trying their hardest to get into the performing arts business. One of them is in a west end show and doing exactly what he loves so he is in there and his hard work training has paid off. Where as, my other friends are still auditioning and struggling with money to pay rent and generally struggling to live in London. Being with them made me feel very confused about my future performing career because I have always wanted to move to London with them but staying with them made me think against it. Being at home and travelling to London for auditioning is more fun when you do it randomly and the fact that I am working near to home and still living at home the costs for living are not as much which makes me feel more financially safer. I think living in London I would also feel quite lonely because my friends and family are at home and the friends that I would live with are always working so I would mostly be alone.
I had a conversion with my friend Sophie who is currently working two jobs and she disagreed with me totally and said if you want to perform that much then you will do anything to dance, but she isn't dancing. I still attend auditions and am now doing BAPP to improve my future but my friends are against doing this themselves.
Why do you think they are so against BAPP?
I think everyone would have their different opinions about this situation but at the end of the day it is up to the individual themselves to determine how they would be happiest. Teaching performing arts
to me is being in the industry because you are still working with your chosen subject.
What do you think about this situation and subject and have you been faced with similar decisions?
First blog coming to an end now, not so scary!!!
Please comment and tell me your thoughts!!
Good luck everyone on your blogs whether you have already started or not and I look forward to reading and commenting on them.
Ruth xxx
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