Ok, so this is my first blog of 2008 so firstly let me wish you all a belated Happy New Year! Its been quite a well now since my last post, so I’ll try my best to up date you on all that has been going on. This is also the first post (as far as I can remember) that has been posted at a reasonable time of day! So new starts all round.
Right, where to begin…firstly, WordPress is still driving me mad with the line spacing but anyway…the project. After a very productive and enthusiastic start to the brief there were loads of different ideas floating around of the visual appearance of the website. We settled on the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’ after I had spent a few hours sat in the children’s section of Bournemouth Town Library reading kids books and making notes on the story or shall I say “breaking the story into nodes”. I found that there were SO many different fairytales that I had never heard of, but also quite a lot that I had forgotten about which I vaguely remember from my childhood i.e. the princess and the pee and even to a certain degree the gingerbread man. Afterall we all know that he runs away from the baker and shouts “Run, Run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man” but who else does he run past?! I’ve since discovered the answer and we have added a modern twist to the story and replaced the characters.
*Note to self: Start New Paragraph*. This now brings us up to after Xmas. This is where the stress began…from what I can recall, the first week back we planned and booked equipment for the latter part of the week. However, after having all the group agree to the dates some changed their minds and so not a lot of filming was done on the day that we had planned. This initially caused myself and our Project Manager issues of rescheduling and rebooking equipment as it had all been planned, down to the wire almost with changes being made/requested and these taken into consideration in the plans so that everything would run smoothly. It would also give us enough so time that if anything needed reshooting we could and we would have long enough to edit.
Anyway, enough of that. The interactive narrative is now complete and is online 
it is pretty awesome if I do say so myself – and Lydia you have given me many laughs during this project not just in person but on the actual footage as well and its made it all that little bit more bearable!!
The next thing on the list; Monday! HA! What a funny day that turned out to be. Go Claudia Go! You tell em girl! lol I think that woke a few people up and the rest probably weren’t really that bothered. However, Monday, I feel may have marked the start of a new leaf in my book…it’s only little things, but I’m gonna start to try and understand what’s going on a little more rather than just being there in person and not doing much else.
Also, Marian kinda gave me a bit of a wake up call in the “specially arranged lecture” for PDP on Monday. I’ve decided that I’m going to start doing that now and meeting with my tutor and get things going to try and built myself as a person to make me more employable including *shock horror* trying to learn a language again – which could prove very interesting!! haha.
I’ve also decided that I’m going to start blogging more often about the relevant things that are going on in my life. I dont know why, I’ve just got this urge to do it at the moment (I wonder how long it will last…?!).
That said this essay is a bitch to say the least and I have no idea where to start with it…also this blog is probably long enough already so I’m gonna sign off now. Bye.
P.S. This blog has now taken two days to write and I’ve probably forgotten some of the stuff that I wanted to write but nevermind!!
