Backlog 18: The Summer Project - Week Four

i have managed to do a rough edit of one of our films. it needs to be tidied up a bit but the group seems to like it.

This weekend also saw our flashmob executed with mixed success. The Bournemouth Echo very kindly featured a small article about it and agreed to write a story on it. me and Matt (a group member) managed to distribute 100 flyers to different groups of 14-24 year olds in bournemouth gardens (two minutes away from bournemouth square where the flashmob took place) in the 15 minutes leading up to the flashmob. we seemed to generate a lot of interest and as the flashmob started, it was clear that a lot of these youths had turned up to see what was going on. unfortunately, a lot of them and the surrounding people became shy as soon as the cameras started to come out and so we didn't have that many people join in the actual march. i still believe that this was a success though because the whole point of the flashmob was to raise awareness of our campaign and i think we did just that. ok not many people marched but a lot of people watched us and saw the t-shirts, the flyers and the banners. job done.

usually in news bulletins there comes a lighter news segment towards the end. "and in other news..". that sort of thing. here's one for this blog entry. i cleverly managed to forget my ID in london which means that i have been grounded to nights in for a little while. i started to fill out an application form for my provisional driver's license 3 years ago and have nearly finished it so yeah, there's no backup ID from that route. being the 'filmmaker' that i am, i have decided to be a little constructive and creative and so i have started a simple animation using just iMovie, paintbrush and Gimp. it's actually going fairly well and it's hella fun too =]