Event 3

One of my old school friends came over to my house so I could help her with some uni work. We see each other every Wednesday morning on the train and occasionally other days as well.

She's doing event management at University and on the way home one day, we were talking about a project that she's doing, because she wanted to see if I had any ideas that could help her.

This was just after we, at BCT, had finished doing the claymations which I had told her about that morning. She was really interested in it and liked the idea of using a claymation for her project. We were talking about how she could do that and by the time we got back to our station she was really enthusiastic about doing it. I told her that I would help her, seeing as I had just finished doing some myself.

She came over on the weekend so that we could work on it. Earlier, she had emailed me her ideas so that I could tell her whether they would be possible. The ideas she had sounded really cool, but some of them were too complicated and time consuming to be able to do.

We made all the figures and objects and got everything else organised. Although, once into it I knew that some of it would not work. When we had all the photos I put them into imovie, just to see what the video would look like. As I suspected, some of it didn't work very well. There were parts in it that looked good, but the majority of it didn't turn out how we planned.
This shows that even if an idea is good, it needs to be executed and carried out in a way to make it even better and most importantly, successful.

Event 2

A while ago I went to see Avatar with a group of 7 or 8 people, most of them family, and a wide range of ages. I saw it in 3-D at the imax theatre on Queen street. In the building there are a number of different levels connected by escalators, making it look almost like a multilevel maze. The actual theatre is huge, both in screen size and seat numbers. Looking at both the inside of the building and the theatre, one of my first thoughts was of a fire. The design of the building is terrible if you take into consideration the possibility of a fire. Despite the size of the cinema, and also the price of the tickets, it was completely packed with people. This was obviously because of all the hype and publicity that the movie had been given. I was expecting an at least above average movie, because despite all the great reviews it's never good to have too high an expectation.

I thought that the special effects were excellent, which I also think is what advertises the movie the most. The storyline was typical and has been used many times in other movies. But even though many people criticise movies on being predictable or overused, I don't think that's always a bad thing. As long as the overall story is good and correctly fits the movie, then it's not necessarily something to downgrade it by. This is my opinion of Avatar, the overall storyline has been seen many times, but it was well made, well acted and entertaining. It is also suitable for a large range of ages.

In simple terms, I enjoyed the movie and don't regret spending precious money to see it.