Tra la tra lee! I’m so happy. I’ve spent the entire day struggling with this stupid lesson for my design class, and I was stumped for ages! I was getting so frustrated with myself, wondering why I couldn’t explain how to decorate a stupid room. It’s all just so complicated and interconnected for me that I didn’t think I could explain it in 45 minutes. I think I just needed to vent at someone who would go, “I understand, but you’ll do it. It’s a matter of style, just say so.” I’m so glad Erick was on, he said all of that and once I vented, it was like the Hoover Dam broke. All these thoughts came flooding into my head and an hour and a half later, I now have a completed lesson. It’s perfect – only four pages long, I covered everything I wanted to cover, it was concise, humorous, spunky; in other words, just what I wanted it to be. Now I just hope the girls enjoy it on Tuesday.
Also, guess what I did this afternoon! While procrastinating writing the actual lesson, I decided to tackle video editing. I thought, since the audio was the problem before, getting it to match up to the action, that I can still do the little video I wanted to do for the class. No one’s talking in it, so I just deleted the audio, cut out the bits I didn’t need from the video, added background music, and voila! I have an uber-professional looking montage of Changing Rooms designs and even a special addition of a garden designed by Diarmund Gavin for Homefront in the Garden. I used Fila Brazillia music, and ‘Edge Hill’ by Groove Armada. It was pure luck – the action on the screen matches the music perfectly!! It’s so awesome. I’m going to hook my laptop up to the TV to play it on Tuesday. I can’t wait!
Tomorrow I have to finish the cute bags for the design kits, and then I’ll be all done and ready for the class. Like I said, they’d better appreciate all this.
But now I have to get some sleep, I’m dead tired. I need to start blogging earlier, but I’ve just been so busy!