Long Time, No See!

Well hello, long time no blog! I've been busy moving house, and going to concerts, AND going to school, its been hell. I managed to break my hairbrush in half, lose half the TV shows I've recorded onto DVD, my mum has lost her necklaces, and every five minutes, we lose more things. Literally, the amount of times I've put something down, turned round, turned back round again, and lost the thing I put down is ridiculous! It is infuriating to have that happen repeated, but on the plus side, all the boxes are now unpacked (albeit, not in the right places yet) and we generally know where most things are.
But on the whole, the last few weeks of my summer holidays were fun, I shot an air gun, an air rifle, and a bow and arrow in Devon which was pretty fun. The video where I talk about that is here:
I Shot A Gun!
Other than that, I spent a lot of time unpacking, and writing all the time. I've come up with even more book ideas, for completely different universes, and started developing rough ideas for each, which had occupied my time when I haven't been dying from exhaustion in school, which has also been quite fun if I am completely honest. I'm having more fun than I did last year, because I'm not doing chemistry, which has taken a load of worry off my plate. But now I have to make my way round history and the 'extended project' to work around instead. I've got my research going for the project, which I've already said is on Joss Whedon and his work, but other than that, I haven't properly started yet. But its only a few days in, so I haven't properly had time to get started doing some proper research yet.
But apart from that, i don't have much to say, until next time i get five minutes to blog about something, bye!

Toolroom Skills Challenge

I haven't written a blog post in ages! Sorry about that guys, I've been busy with a skills challenge and started to pack to move house, so I thought I'd write a quick blog on the skills challenge, cause it's the most interesting thing thats happened to me in the past few weeks.

Every year at school, we have something called a 'Skills Challenge' for the year 12's, at the end of June, after all the exams. Every year 12 student is brought in during the holidays, and get split into seven teams of eight or nine students. Each team is then given a challenge by a local company to fix, this challenge isn't something random, it's usually a problem that the company would face during the year at some point. Be that figuring out how to get students involved in a running club, or getting young people into work, anything like that. Most students dread it, and just wish they could stay at home to enjoy their holidays. Admittedly, I was one of those people, but, I was proved wrong in the end.

The first day, we were introduced to our 'employers' if you will, and it turned out to be pretty cool. My group were hired by Toolroom Records, a dance record company that resides in my town. They aren't as big as Ministry Of Sound or anything like that, but they do sell to over one hundred countries, and turned over 1.2 million last year, which isn't bad for a small record label that hires twenty people in the middle of Maidstone.

We were given the challenge of designing and marketing a dance compilation album. Of course, my whole group almost literally jumped into action, getting so excited over this. We were making a dance album, we had twenty grand to spend on marketing too. Basically, we were kids in a toy store. But, it didn't mean we didn't take things seriously. By day two, we almost had an entire album planned out. We were conducting research into the three names we'd chosen (Decade, Fusion, Transition) an album concept (celebrating Toolroom's 10th year in business, mixing old and new music together in the album) and a possible idea for an album cover (Toolroom's house colours melding together like paint mixing).

Eventually, we decided on using the name Fusion, as we were fusing two ages of music, to bring older dance tracks to a newer audience, as our target market was sixteen to eighteen year olds. Then, we had to decide on how we were going to market it, in the most interesting ways possible. So, we came up with the ideas of doing a flash mob, and a silent disco. Both would be filmed and put on YouTube, in the hope they would become viral among the target market, so we could advertise our album to a huge market in a quick space of time. We also went with the traditional YouTube advert, twitter promotion, billboard adverts, and things like this.

Toolroom really liked all of our ideas, and at the end of our two weeks, we had an album and a marketing plan, and as we presented it to a group of judges, we got through to the final! We came third in the end, but, we had a great time in the end, and learnt a lot about the world of dance music, something we hadn't really been involved in before. Toolroom, thanks for the opportunity!
Oh, here's a picture of our final product if you're interested:

Well its been a while, hasn't it? But I've had a few stressful weeks, with exams, family issues, and house hunting. So in six weeks I'm moving house, not very far from my house now, just ten minutes down the road in fact, but it means I'm getting back virgin media tv/phone/broadband, and a dishwasher in the kitchen. There's nothing I hate more than slow internet, terrible TV and washing up, and just by moving ten minutes down the road, it all gets fixed, thank god!

But anyway, I've also finished my exams two weeks ago, which is another good thing, so I've got more free time on my hands again. I don't think I've done well in psych unit 2 though, which is a problem. But I just blanked the entire thing, because I've had some problems and ended up focusing on them instead of the actual exam. But its over now so I can't do anything about it now, I'm sure I'll have done fine... hopefully.

Though, in better news, I've levelled up in life! A couple of weeks ago, when I saw Star Trek, the boy I went with actually asked me out! I couldn't believe it, and he's really so sweet and he's awesome and kinda nerdy like me.... and I almost killed him by introducing him to Sherlock... whoops. I made it up to him by introducing him to Dexter though, so its all good I think.

I think thats about it for now though, there's not much else I can say about anything. So I'm going to go back to watching St Trinian's 2. Here's my new video about Doctor Who here if you missed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlzGYTMb58

Star Trek Into Darkness Review

Well I've just come back from seeing Star Trek Into Darkness for the second time. I watched it last week for the first time with a friend (now boyfriend) and just watched it with my mum, so I thought I'd give it a bit of a review.
Now admittedly, I did originally watch it because of Benedict Cumberbatch, as I am a big fan of him, and have been since Sherlock series 1. And because of Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto (fan of them both since Just My Luck and Heroes - and because they're hot... don't think I'm weird/perverted, I generally can not help but think they're all fit) but after watching the film, I found that there was so much more to it than hot actors.
I would go into detail about the entire film, but I feel like that would be boring, and would spoil the film for others, but i will say this. As someone who hasn't seen any Star Trek previously, not even the previous film, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I knew the basics of the story line of the Enterprise, e.g., Kirk being the Captain, Spock his first mate, identified by his pointed ears and blue jumper. All other characters I easily picked up on along the way too, which was a relief as I would have been very confused otherwise. The film itself was very good,  with an easy to follow story line, with lots of action scenes, some funny moments to lighten the mood of the film, and some incredible CGI as well.
The make up was very good on the aliens involved, and the sets were very realistic. The actors themselves were very, very good too, I can always trust to have a good performance from Benedict, but what really blew me away from was how different he is from Sherlock. He looked almost like a completely different person from the skinny detective, in this, he was muscular, excellent in combat. Though he was still very intelligent, and did a very good job at playing a bad guy, something I haven't seen him do previously. All with a very sexy voice that just drew me in and made me hang on his every word.
Chris Pine was also a very good Kirk, he was slightly cheeky, but commanded respect and was thoroughly believable as the captain of a ship. He took the role in his stride, and portrayed his love for his team and his ship very well, and had me routing for him, despite me slight biased for Benedict's Khaan. The same can be said for Zachary Quinto, his portrayal of Spock had me captivated too. He played the idea of a Vulcan with emotions perfectly, though i was reminded of Castiel from Supernatural, though it wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as both characters are not used to feeling emotions and such. I will admit that I started shipping Kirk/Spock by the end...
In summary though, Star Trek Into Darkness is a very, very good film, so go out and see it as soon as possible!

Hey guys, so this is slightly strange, I’m not used to your normal blogging types, I’m barely used to making videos yet!

Anyway, I’d thought I’d use this blog as a way to tell you about myself a bit more. You may have seen my 7 facts about me video, which is here:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RH5byXFJxw

But other than that, I haven’t really said much about me. So here goes:

I’m 17, was born in March, and was born with a thing called hip dysplasia. It just means that I was born with a dislocated leg, that wasn’t diagnosed properly for a few months, so I had to have five operations in two years to fix it. I guess it helped shape me as a person now, as I couldn’t wear skirts or dresses while I was in plaster after the operations, so I was permanently in trousers. Then, when I finally got out of plaster, aged two, my mum tried to put a dress on me, and I refused to wear it, and any other dress she ever tried to put me in. This has continued throughout my life, and I’m still as tomboyish as ever, the girliest thing I do is actually paint my nails. I don’t wear makeup, or skirts, or dresses. In fact, it took me until about two years ago to wear skinny jeans!

I love to read books. I seriously love reading, I’ve got two book cases filled with books, and my bedside table is filled with yet more books to read as well. But if there’s one thing I love more than reading, its writing. I adore writing things. Whether it be books, fan fictions, (blogs too hopefully) youtube video scripts. I love writing it all, and I love writing many different genres too. Angst is probably my favourite,  I’m not sure why, maybe because I enjoy writing peoples emotions. But I do love writing vampiric things too, because I adore the whole vampire genre. I take a lot of inspiration from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, because I feel like Joss wrote vampires properly in that show. He wrote them to have souls, and without, showing the full spectrum of human emotions with them. He had me hooked for thirteen seasons in total, and has me hooked on the comic series too. One of my main goals in life is to write a successful book, and I feel like Joss has inspired me to write the vampire genre in a proper, well constructed way.

On another note, I love science, and love all the murder shows that focus on science. Things like Bones, NCIS, and Criminal Minds, if you count psychology as a science. I take both at A Level at the moment, and have the exams coming up in the next three weeks (hence why this post is being written now, so I don’t have to face a chemistry book). I also take English Literature and Language, and am hoping to go onto either an English or Creative Writing degree.

Well, that is actually all I can think of right now, so I better go and actually do some practice psych questions, and start praying for the least amount of Freud possible on the exam. I hope I can come up with some better topics to blog about in the future, but for now, bye!