Well, not all of me. But my hand is going to be famous.

1. Paramount have asked me back for another week.
2. Several pieces of my work are going on air.

Go me.

Nineteen days until the end of term. Joy!

Twenty one days until I start work at Paramount. Joy!

It’s so annoying seeing people swanning around having already left university for this academic year. The gits.

The critique for the sperm donation project could’ve gone better yesterday, but I’m fairly pleased with the outcome. My main aim was to get recognition for trying something ambitious in such little time. And I did.

“Tossing yourself off,” - as uttered by my female course leader three weeks ago - was topped, I feel, when my course tutor described “the come coming down the screen” on Sam S’s project.

Today has again been a lengthy one, ending with my presentation about work experience at English & Pockett over Easter. It went down very well with laughs aplenty. And according to my course leader, they have since been in touch saying how impressed they were with me. Smug mode.

It looks like I’ve got to rethink the title sequence I was going to do for that pilot episode, as the theme tune has been changed completely (different mood entirely) and now won’t work with my clever idea.

Bugger.

Work experience, then. Okay, so it started slowly. Very slowly. But by midweek it had really picked up and turned out to be an insightful, entertaining experience. For the most part I was working on a re-brand of UEFA’s Super Cup and their Football Gala event. But I also did masses of research for a presentation on the use of wit/comedy in design. I was even treated to lunch at some swanky restaurant yesterday. Nice, eh?

The travelling was very hectic though and my body clock has adjusted to getting up at ridiculously early hours without the aid of an alarm call. Which was quite annoying this morning, as I was looking forward to a bit of a lie-in. But just as well at the same time, as I had to be up & out considerably early to meet up with Jess E. for a bit of a chat, lunch and then some hardcore Ice Age 2 action.

The meet itself was a long time coming and did not disappoint; Jess was as lovely as ever. The film too was excellent - really funny. And looking around the cinema, we seemed to be the only adults there not accompanying children. Unless of course, you count the fact we were accompanying each other. Which is more or less the same thing.

Update: I forgot to mention that I met Eugene Sully (Big Brother 6 runner-up) and Shaun ‘Fat Baz’ Williamson (from EastEnders) on consecutive days whilst travelling to my work placement.

I kept looking out for Doug Naylor but he was probably in Australia.

Well, not quite yet. But tomorrow I’m starting a week’s placement at English & Pockett. I have to admit, their reputation has unnerved me somewhat - mainly because I’m a mere second year student tosser with little experience in the real world as it were.

Ah well, I’m sure it’ll be an interesting experience all the same.

I got up early and went to Racodac *just* to drop by the employability department. But it was shut because broadcast students were filming in the corridor. This did not please me in the slightest.

I am, however, the graphic & visual effects designer for a science fiction / fantasy / drama pilot television programme called FutureShock. Hurrah!

Waiting for one of our tutors to join us in the Lecture Theatre at Racodac today, Jordan A. thought it’d be funny to play a pornographic video on his mobile telephone and project it onto the big screen using a digital overhead projector. And yes, it was funny. But the tutor walking in to see the female character performing fellatio was even funnier.

The only other amusing event of the day was having to pitch a design to everyone in the aforementioned Leccie Theatre via a microphone, projector and podium set-up. It was only a dummy run (to prepare us for the forthcoming Racodac TV channel branding pitches), so I improvised the whole thing - and got the joint top mark. Huzzah!

I also went to the employability department to arrange some work experience. Despite my hate of children’s television, I’m thinking of going to Nickelodeon for a fortnight over Easter. The reason being the wide scope for creativity there. (Diverse genres, children’s imaginations needing to be fuelled et cetera.) Plus of course, it’d look good on the old CV.

Okay, Liz K. never showed, so I carried on resizing those photographs… and now I’ve done them ALL. Yey me.

And I’ve just seen the new ending to Return of the Jedi and think that I prefer it to the original. Not 100% sure though; I’ll probably comment further in May 2005.