Busy Busy Busy!

It's been a while!
Because i've been very busy!


So far:
Semester 1 (Sept 2010 to Jan 2011) - 


Fact into Fiction Group Film - 54
The Other Cinema Personal Film - 70
Documentary History & Theory Essay - 58


Currently:
Semester 2 (Feb 2011 to May 2011)- 


- Working on a story/ pitch for the group film next year in which i'll be Directing 'Flatmates'


- Working as Cinematographer for Group Documentary Project this Semester, a Documentary up in Anglesey, North Wales featuring the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution).


- Attending "Reality and Fiction" (Essay Unit) Lectures, yet to choose question


- On a Five week Break from Directing Specialism (to produce a description of a scene and detailed floor plans for the shoot) Chinese Restaurant Scene from 'Kill Bill' (Tarantino, 2003)




TODAY is 28th February 2011...


I received my mark for my first Academic Essay online, 58, not brilliant, but not bad. I'm content with this mark.


However, today I went to my pigeon hole to pick up my feedback for my essay... to which I found none. Well, I say none... Nothing was said about the content nor the subject I wrote about in my essay. Nothing whatsoever, very helpful. All I received on the feedback sheet was how bad at referencing in the 'Harvard' way. I use Capital letters in the wrong places and sometimes add the letter 's' when not needed, some of my paragraphs aren't structured properly either...


I thought I came here to be a filmmaker... not to write essays. Fair enough I take the points on board, but the real task of the essay was to write about how some documentaries draw out underlying tensions and sensibilities of the time in which they depict... I received no feedback about what I wrote about, but how I wrote it. I'm sorry my grammar isn't great, but who's is? I'm pretty sure the most important thing in terms of writing and me learning is the subject of what I write about? Surely? I don't want to be a professional essay writer... I want to be a filmmaker... For something I put a lot of effort into, I'm quite unimpressed that nothing was said about the content of my essay, maybe I should take it as a compliment that he didn't criticise it, but surely that's what we need? Criticism of our work... my work being - analysing and realising what tensions were at that time... but no, apparently the work is how well I can use punctuation and grammar and reference everything specifically in 'inverted commas' or in italics... 


Annoying... But it's done now, I know what I need to improve on, theory wise no idea whether what I wrote was good enough... English Language wise, i'll do better next time, sorry Harvard.