Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Grammar Nazi

It's MAY I; not Can I.
Don't ask why people say "Can" as if it's inappropriate; ask why the masses don't know their grammar enough to understand it's actually "May".
They call it the English Language; yet probably less than 10% of people actually speak it..
I still ain't gunna say "may I", It's far too pretentious.
Maybe in a few decades ;)
This is largely all.

Monday, 21 November 2011

This is my Digital Story I made in a rubbishy module called "Creative Media".
We were told that digital stories had to be "unprofessional" SO. I did what the brief told me.
As you can see, it's quite morbid; it's about how my dog has been old forever and will never die. Well, she will eventually, but in the meantime she certainly doesn't appear to be going anywhere or indeed doing very much, in a hurry.
Social media is bullshit. I see no reason to study it; and I see even less reason as to why I; as a Radio Production student, should go anywhere near photo editing software.
It reeks of shit. I understand the want to study people, people are interesting, I LOVE people. But that's more anthropology, or psychology, or sociology. I didn't come to university for that.
I can only imagine that as Creative Media has only 11 people enrolled, they've felt the need to legitimise the course with 22 Radio students. 
I don't want to do it. No one on my course seems to want to do it, let alone enjoy it. some of its interesting.. but even then only mildly so, and something you might think about for all of 4 seconds, before dismissing as pointless media pretension.
I dislike how for our presentation (30% of our overall marks) our lecturer (I shan't name names.) didn't look up once at all; didn't watch our digital stories; didn't read our references and also, before we started, told us to "hurry up".
Even though my group had to sit through 3 hours of unintelligibly, unresearched crap from the other groups. 
Most powerpoints were full of size 12 fonts, from top to bottom, which is a lot to read, as they found out themselves, when OH YES, they just read off them, themselves. 
They couldn't even be bothered to rephrase half of the shit. And oh yes, believe me, it was shit.
My group went to the library, and found original quotes; about 40 of them. No other group did this. We pointedly read the criteria from the "70% +" section, and did exactly what was said. 
She didn't even take notice of it.
What was the point?!
This was all now 1 whole entire week ago, yet I still feel the frustration of the unjustness of it all.
I'm not being big-headed, but I can safely say, our presentation, was probably the best, even though we of course had problems, but if I get less than a 2:1 in this piece, I will personally rip some of someone's hair out. Not because I'm sore about getting a mediocre at best, mark, oh no, because I know, that our lecturer couldn't even be bothered to give us the courtesy of watching or listening.
I feel she should have had us all in for 15 minute slots, and if you missed it, well tough. But oh no. We all had to sit through each others. It all got very monotonous and tiresome. 
Even after everyone else's I can't believe that the rest of the class took more notice than our actual lecturer.
Nothing pisses me off more than a rude media wanker.
ANYWAY.
Now we're on block 2. Woo. :/