The Beginning of a New Year

I realize I haven't done a blog post in quite some time!

Thats because not only have I not been in a commtech class, I've also been extremely busy!

Wednesday marks opening night of the play I'm in-- RENT. Its going amazingly well, but It also takes up alot of time and dedication-- I'm at rehearsals from 6pm until 11pm almost every day of the week-- and Sundays from 2pm-11pm. Plus I have Seussical The Musical after school *(which I'm choreographing and producing) until 4 every day! Busy Busy Busy.

Regardless, This is the first of what I hope will be many blog posts to come this semester.

Attatched to this post are a couple of posters tha I recently made for the Korah Music Department.

January 18th

Just when I thought I was back on track... BAM! A snow day! How much fun that was, I spent the day cleaning the house with my mom before we went on a hockey tournament with my brother and his team; "Mrs. B's". They places 6th out of 8 places, which isn't too bad considering they've only ever won ONE game... anyways, this past week I spent using whatever footage I had to create little background tracks for some voice over interviews. I have now FINISHED (captions and all) up to 5 minutes of the movie. Only 25 more to go! Haha.

Above is a beautiful picture of some Christmas baulbes taken at my grandparents house on
Christmas.

Post for January 4, 11

Well I figured out why I missed so many blog posts. I was away for three weekends! December 21, 28 and now January 4. The reason why I missed the latest blog post was because my grandma (Mirjami Annala) passed away on January 10th and before that she was extremley sick. I'm still emotional about it. For the Funeral I was asked to make the slideshow of pictures AND the soundtrack. I Guess even when your Mummu (Grandma in Finnish) dies you still have to work crazy!!!!!! Here is the Obituary:

ANNALA, Mirjami - Peacefully at the Sault Area Hospital, General Site with her family by her side on Thursday, January 10, 2008 in her 76th year. Beloved wife of the late Erkki Annala. Loving mother of Helena Annala, Heikki Annala, Sinikka Cooper (Les Webster) and Maarit Steinwedel. Proud grandmother (Mummu) of Craig, Kirsi, Eric, Liisa and Mitchel. Special companion of Pentti Torala. Mirjami will be sadly missed by family and many friends in Canada and Finland. A funeral service will be held at the ARTHUR FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION CENTRE on Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 3 pm. Rev. Rudy Hyvarinen officiating. Interment Greenwood Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the Ontario Heart & Stroke Foundation or to a charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. www.mem.com

Mkaeup Post for December: 7,14, 21, 28

There's SIX days that I've missed posting! (Sorry!) Basically I've been working my butt off to finish this video (without any footage). I've been going crazy doing fundraisers as well. Today Mr. Wrigley was a bit strange. He exclaimed "Give it to me girl!" while asking for a story for yearbook.

Anyways, onto things that matter. In December (before Christmas) we made NOTEPADS and SCREEN PRINTING. Both my friends Megan and Stacey had their designs chosen to be made into t-shirts.

Basically most of this time was spent taking pictures for yearbook (which class I'm not in!).

For Christmas I went to Toronto to visit my dad. we had a fun time, and went skiing -- snowboarding for my brother-- and shopped. We also spent alot of time with out Torontonian grandparents (born in both Germany and England). It snowed alot while we were there.

To cap off the year we spent some time back in Sault Ste. Marie with our mom, and played fun board games + movies on new years eve. The day before new years eve day, I was invited to a birthday party where I had loads of fun with all the korah musical theatre people who graduated last year. I must say, I miss the "Grade 13 IB Music Lounge Grads", as they have been dubbed by Mrs. Williams and I.

I WOULD put pictures on, but the problem is that the downloader isn't working!

November 30, 2007

Well This week I FINISHED (thats right, even with the annoying program, I Finished) the video for the cardboard boat races. I found out that I no longer have to do all the "same" tests as the rest of the class, as MY class is now going to be a video editing class, marks based on a practical note. I also took a break on the video editing now that i had finished the video, and finally figured out (after spending the whole week) how to convert it to the right kind of file to open it with NERO-- the disk burning program. STILL being completley exhausted, Iwent to Oliver! the show, and stage managed all week, because the show dates ended on saturday, followed by a karaoke party, and then work in the morning! (yay!!!) *note the sarcasm*.

Even more in 3 days!!!!!

November 22, 2007

Well this week, was spent working insanley on the video project for the Cardboard Boat Races. Unfortunatley its my first time working with the programme, so everything is going at little slower than wanted. I've been reading the program manual, and this week I learnt how to time stretch. :) I also met with Joni (the organiser of the OTHER video project I'm working on), and we talked about what she would like in her video. I ALMOST finished the video project, but its due next week, and I've lost one entire day of class to work on it, due to the PD day!

More in about a minute`!

November 16, 2007

Lost Track Again!!!!!.... Unfortunatley, one thing caught up after another. I needed to finish the video project for Skills Canada (cardboard boat races) and then (because I stage managed the show Oliver!) I had to go straight from school to practice.

Anyways, the week that I should have posted here, I was busy working on the video project, probably at the stage of finishing the music video and begining the narrative video, by editing the interviews. Running into the problem that the program I used (Photoshop Premiere) kept shutting down every 5 minutes, JUST before I saved, having me re-do most of my work 3 and 4 times.

That programme is quite frustrating!!!!

More in about 10 seconds!