… we had our group crit, and it was good (thanks Nat and Kate!) I was pleased as I had literally worked my arse off over this one (our mock-ups were made of win.) This time a few students doing peer review didn’t understand some of the choices we’d made but the lecturers seemed to be with it today so all was well. We may even approach the company we selected for our mock-ups to see if they’d be interested in our idea. Who knows!?
We finished crits at 1pm so I spent a good few hours bitching and gossiping in the union bar before heading off to see “Hot Fuzz” with significant other. Not living in halls it’s amazing as to the sheer weight of gossip that one misses and I feel I shall be looking at several people around Uni with fresh eyes after hearing some of the juiciest items. Ahem.
It’s also yearly personal tutorials this week - and I actually feel quite sorry for some of the tutors - as the strength of feeling regarding our course is running very high at the moment. Most people don’t feel they are getting their new improved value from the course considering the tuition fees tripled this year. I know all students moan, but there are some genuine concerns - such as the return of course work. We have a duty to get essays and such in on time. We get severely penalised if we don’t - 40% taken off after 24 hours and refusal to mark and a fail after 48hrs. However, we don’t seem to get the same duty of care in return. How are we meant to know we are progressing or even doing the right thing if we don’t get them back in a timely manner? I’m currently waiting for essays I handed in over two months ago - this is not acceptable.
So, back to “Hot Fuzz”. How can anyone who loves “Spaced” and Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in general hate it? I didn’t. Some genuinely funny laugh out loud moments (the swear box had M in hysterics) and a really great story about the growing friendship of Angel and partner but yes, I concede, the ending is a tad drawn out and could be tightened up. However, if you like - as my lecturer would say - intertextuality in your films you are golden. Try and spot all the nicked tunes from well known action movies used at key moments in the film. The use of the music from the third Maxtrix film had me giggling. I predict an increase in moustaches and ray-ban aviators after this, just saying.
Well I’m off to research my next essay*… toodles.
Edit: *Which is on modernity and modernism. While trawling through Art Bibliographies Modern database for likely journals under the keyword modernity I come across this little gem of an article in a peer reviewed journal. It gives me great hope that I can write absolutely anything I like:
‘Untangling the Scandinavian blonde: modernity and the IKEA PS range catalogue 1995.’
Lovely.
