Yes, I thought that Ben was on to something when I saw his face-book page that I thought I will have a go. Well at least until the novelty wears off.

Any way third year animation I am through the pre-production stage (just) and on to the production (nearly).  I will have to be getting out of the habit of trying to fit uni in between the ship and the museum. My animation is about bell ringing and bell ringers. I have recorded my local band at Otley in Suffolk. I will put animation to the recoding in a sympathetic way.

Why do I need to put animation with the recording? I think that this does actually need animating because the ringers I think will be more believable as characters.

Would it work as a radio show? The raw footage can be used as a radio four documentary but what I’m doing couldn’t be justified as a documentary or drama within those confines.

The way that I hope to be making this animation is by doing everything at the same time time. So editing, animation and sound in tandem. So I am going to have to get on top of organizing my week. I have a very busy week:

1. The museum where I volunteer. The sort of volunteering that I am involved in is mainly maintenace of a steam tug, a deisel tug , a fire float, steam crane, deisel railway engine, a steam carriage and two steam railway engines. Its great because I can indulge my childish nature, and they let me drive (sometimes with passengers)
2. The Ship where I work; because of uni commitments I have cut the days down to one a week I would do more but they are not open at weekends. It is basically the same sort of work that I do at museum. At Easter I will go to dry dock with it so it will be hard to do any uni work.
3. The gym 3 times a week. Even though I’m only in there for half an hour it takes me an hour and a bit to walk there and back.
4. Evening classes (pole dancing lessons but shh) but I only have two weeks left of them which is a shame because they are soooo much fun.
5. University itself workshops, seminar etc
6. All the walking that I do to get places because I don’t like buses and I cant drive (o god driving lessons)
7. shopping and basic necessity’s

It may not seem like that much but its all the walking to and fro that really eats all my time. I worked it out that I walk about three miles a day. I value the museum and ship things more because they are now my ‘chosen path’ where as animation I can only see as a Hobie.  Anyway the point is I have to sit down and work out my week and see if it is possible to have my cake and eat it.