Unstable Orbit

VEDA, as you may know, is Vlog every day in April. I know it is now the 27th of April but there are videos on my channel for almost everyday – I only missed one I think. Here is the address: http://www.youtube.com/user/UnstableOrbit

When April has finished I will be uploading once a week. I will post here more frequently too. At the moment I seem to be juggling a lot of things. Isn’t that always the way.

You know it doesn’t matter how many to-do list apps you download there is always something that falls by the wayside.

Be back soon.

 The Way of the Warrior¹ is a feature length episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine². It was the opening story of the show’s fourth season. It changed the status quo of the series with the introduction of a new main character, Lieutenant Commander Worf³, and the beginnings of war with the Klingon Empire⁴. The Klingons are the warriors referred to in the title and their displeasure with the peace treaty with the Federation⁵ is what drives the action. This essay will explore the development of the story by the use of three analytical works: The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler⁶, Inside Story the Power of the Transformation Arc by Dara Marks⁷ and The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri.⁸

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On Easter Sunday I went to the Doctor Who experience in Cardiff Bay. I forgot to take a picture of the outside but basically it looks like a giant worm.

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I’ve just spent an hour looking at camcorders. There are so many to choose from and it seems almost impossible to decide.

Part of the problem comes from budgeting. Say I set a budget of £150. Then I find a camera that’s just £10 more. Well £10 isn’t a lot so I can say £160 is the budget and I start looking for stuff in that range – then I find stuff just a little above that and so on.

I think I’m going to get the Panasonic V100. I’ve watched a review of it and it looks good. The reason I want a camcorder is to make you tube videos. I’ve uploaded two already, using a digital camera, and the sound is not great. I’ve tried video editing of course, like in the one below, but its just a little bit more than my poor computer can cope with – it crashed twice last night.

At work I can’t have a pen and paper with me at all times. So sometimes ideas seem to pass me by. Yesterday as I worked all these ideas sprang to mind but most seem now to have slipped from my brain. So if you can, as I’ve said before, write your ideas down.

I will be starting on you tube in the not too distant I’ve just be wrestling with the computer a bit. See you soon.

I watch You Tube videos every day. This probably comes under the category of a waste of time. Of course You Tube has a massive variety of videos some are vlogs, some are educational, and there is a lot of rubbish too.

Vloging, and You Tube in general, is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I just have two problems…

I’m a little camera shy. When speaking with someone I can talk fine. It doesn’t matter if its at work, university, or just generally out and about that’s fine. The exception is if I want to ask someone out. Then I freeze up faster than… than… well faster than a writer trying to find a useful metaphor for the end of his sentence.

When I’m using a camera words just don’t flow. Writing a script might help but I imagine the freeze reflex would still be their. Its like when someone asks you: ‘What is your favourite food?” – and suddenly you can’t seem to remember the names of any foods at all!

Now assuming I could get over that fear I come to the other problem. This is that I’m not much of an extrovert. My favourite vlogers wave their hands around they are excited by stuff. I tend to have all the outward emotions of Mr Spock.

I do get excited by things, like the fact that Doctor Who is starting again in a little while, and yes I do jump around sometimes  – but doing that on camera… no.

I would feel too self conscious.

So when I’ve figured out camera set up or how to put voice over on top of pictures I will perhaps, maybe, start doing you tube

I happened to be passing Burger King yesterday. There current slogan is ‘Have it your way.’ This to me seems like an odd phrase to advertise a company.

When I think of that phrase the first thing that comes to mind is an exasperated person giving up on giving advice. As in the sentence ‘Fine, have it your way, but don’t come crying to me when it all goes wrong.’

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