day 14

Vlog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDtbsvERkXA

blog

http://gerilee.tumblr.com/post/523129110/beda-14-5

my last BEDA post

only because I have no audience. I might vlog from here on out but maybe not. I'll try and see how that goes. but just don't know.

here is a link to the vlog. it's just me reading that short story I wrote here last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsTy7X9j5Xk

eff this

I'm going to Pigfarts.

WEDO (oh look this is like an actual blog)

Last October, one of my favorite youtubers, Levi Beamish (an amateur director/film maker from New Zealand), started a month long video project called "Vlog Every Day October." VEDO. The video he made announcing it was super cute and it made me kind of fall in love with him.

Then, in January, I decided to do a parody of that video. At first it was going to be as a birthday surprise for a friend but then I realized her birthday had JUST passed and I didn't want to wait a year to make this video.

The first thing I did was watch the original video while transcribing the dialog and noting every jump cut. Then I wrote a script, changing just about everything Levi said to the exact opposite. I based my video off of my rewritten title "Wolves Every Day Owned" so where ever he was talking about vlogging, I was talking about owning werewolves.

After that, I went through the original video taking screen caps of very unique gesture or expression Levi made so that I would be able to copy it. Here are several of the 46 screen caps I took:

I studied these pictures and watched his video many times over the course of "preproduction" which was only about a two weeks from the time I had the idea to filming. I can still recite his video word for word right along with him.

Then came filming day. I cleaned my room, made my bed, and dressed to match his video as best as I could.

And I filmed. Which took me close to an hour. I shot in three different segments and did two straight run throughs before getting all the footage I needed. Editing all that took much much longer. Well really it only took about 2 hours but it felt like forever.

However, nothing seemed to take longer than Levi accepting my video as a reply after I put it on youtube. I can't even remember now how long it took, but I think it was over a week. In that time, I watched my own version over 50 times wondering if Levi was going to think it was stupid, left him page comments letting him know I was interested in hearing seeing some sort of feed back from him, and watching my other favorite videos from him while questioning my own mental stability. Once the reply was accepted, I only waited a hours before giving up on him ever saying anything to me about the video.

At first I thought not hearing back from this beautiful man would kill me since I was so proud of my video and I look up to him so much, but then I just realized it wasn't that important. I had fun making the video. It has made people laugh and that is what is most important.

I hope that making this video taught me something about vlogging for real. And I hope telling you about this was helpful/interesting as well.

lovies!

crap i'm messing up this EVERY DAY part of BEDA

not really idk. somthing.

today was good because I didn't die or burn anything at work.

today was not good because I had to work.

the end.

beda 9

http://gerilee.tumblr.com/post/508095086/beda-day-7-revisitied

lol

I love my friends.

the end.

untitled as of now

So I don't know what I want to talk about today but I don't want to do just another stupid post about nothing.

I've been trying to think of something to write for a few hours now and nothing has really come up. But I just had the idea to write a short story right here right now. 300 words sound good to you? yeah me too.

You ran your thumb around your iPod’s click wheel, scrolling down through 180 GB of song titles without really seeing them. You weren’t actually listening to anything because your headphones were broken from chewing on the cord. That didn’t stop you from doing it now.

Instinctively stopping, you pulled the headphones out of the jack and jammed your iPod onto the beat up docking station, pressed play and jumped to your feet. You danced inappropriately fast to the song’s slow beginning, knowing it would match the upcoming tempo change, and sang along loudly.

By the first chorus there were tears streaming down your cheeks as you thought about me and how this song perfectly described our break up.

You know you messed up and there is no going back. Neither of us can forgive you and it hurts. It hurts so much that all you can do is scream the lyrics and thrash around in the darkness of your bedroom and you never want it to stop because it will mean that we are over.

But you suddenly find yourself on the bed sobbing as the song ends. You scream my name into your pillows and my face is all you can see.

And then I stop kidding myself, because I know you don’t care and I’m the one crying in my bed as my favorite song that was never really about my completely imagined relationship with you plays again.

Ok, so it took me hours to write that. I hope it makes sense. That it is all actually the narrator talking about what she is doing the whole time. It doesn't have to be a girl, that's just how I picture it in my head. The song is Bruised by Jack's Mannequin but again it could be any song that makes one feel like that.

Feed back please?

And in case you were curious, it ended up being 240 words.

BEDA 6

haha even though I went to bed last night without blogging, I didn't miss today's post. haha I'm so cool!!!

Yesterday I went to Walmart to buy cheap easter candy but they had already cleared it all out. ): I still bought chocolate. (cool)

I started watching Angel the other night. Awesome so far. One of the characters is played by the same person as a minor character from one of my favorite TV shows from my childhood (Mark from Roseanne) I didn't know he was Irish!

I'm kinda afraid to go through tumblr right now since I haven't been on in 24 hours.

lol but as I say that I'm actually going through tumblr.

I should maybe have a point to things/this.

Oh not.

BYE!!!

last minute blogging.

some stuff I really like that I didn't like this time last year:

• Doctor Who
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Torchwood
• David Tennant
• getting a good night's sleep
• hanging out on skype

yeah. I can't think of anything else right now.

(cool)

random post

I don't know if this is obvious or not but I actually post for the day before going to bed the night before. So when I talk about "today" I actually mean yesterday. (cool)

I wish skype emoticons were available everywhere else on the interwebs. but maybe not everywhere because then it would be boring and I wouldn't feel so cool when I say (cool).

I'm really tired.

Doctor Who is amazing. I only started watching it in January, starting with the Nineth Doctor. Finished in about 2 weeks time. then watched Confidential and Torchwood. Then I started watching the Sarah Jane Adventures but I only made it though the first season. It was just kinda dull ori got distracted by life or something idk. Anyway, I loved David Tennant (RIP) and I will miss him, but I really like Matt Smith. Can you say unf?*

ok I can't think of anything else. love ya!

*i'm sorry that is a silly picture. I said I was tired. but really, any picture of him will work.

questions.

I was asked some questions on my blogs so I figured I answer them. I hope the askers see this lol

Possum asked me "How is it being 21?"

Well for me 21 isn't really that big of a deal because I don't drink or anything crazy like that. The only thing that sets 21 apart is that this is the age where I'm learning what it is like to be a real adult. I actually have to work to live now and I'm learning that who/what I want to be/do isn't as important as who/what I actually am/do.

Anonymous asks "Do you like the idea of moving back?" in regards to me moving to California/back to the mainland.

In all honesty, no I don't like the thought of living in California. Whenever I've been there I feel so far away from things I know and love, and disconnected from my religion, which is a major part of my life. I have this idea in my head that I'm going to lose independence and a sense of self by moving there and it scares me. I don't mind that I'm leaving Hawaii, even though I finally feel like I'm starting to have a life here. California just isn't where I'd like to go. I'm doing what I HAVE to do right now.

And now to leave you with an amazing thing I found on tumblr today. It is called SolarBeat. I want to write a song to it but I have no skill.

Feel free to keep asking questions! love ya!

I have an announcement

I'm moving back to the main land in a few months. to California specifically. apart from 3ish people, I haven't told any one yet.

SURPRISE!!!!!

I'm going to miss Hawaii. It kinda sucks that just as I really start LIVING here, I have to go. I just can't afford it.

It is that time of the year again

and yeah, I mean BEDA.

I know MJ hasn't like started this up this year but I decided (about 10 minutes ago) that I'm just going to do it. Who knows how well this will go.

things I have done in the last year

• moved to hawaii
• started a collab channel on youtube
• started a personal vlog
• cat-i-tude/OperationHPValerie
• got a job
• went to NYC
• watched the new seasons of Doctor Who (omg the new episodes start this weekend I'm so excited)
• kinda fell away from the church
• got back into the chuch
• turned 21

I don't really know what else. I can't think right now.

Some of this stuff I've already talked about in this blog but whateves. It isn't like I'm going to actually tell you what any of that really means right now anyway. haha!

have a great day!

I actually miss high school

-marching band
-playing music daily
-seminary
-homework that didn't require my brain that much
-not having to worry about stuff
-drama
-actually having time to write because I wasn't on the internet
-something of a love life even if that means I was really pathetic


this doesn't mean I'd want to relive high school or just stay in it forever. that's not healthy. at all. I just want to be more like the person I was then while still being who I am today.

Readers?

So I am about half way through writing a short story. I plan to have it done in the next few weeks. and then I was wondering if anyone would like to read it? I want to send it out for publication or use it as a sample thing when I contact editors/agents/scary writer people, so I would want a lot of feed back on it.

it is about a boy about to start his last year of high school and he doesn't know what to do with his life. He feels stuck. Then a girl comes into the picture and helps him get unstuck by breaking into a graveyard at night. approximately 2500 words.

just so you know, there is some mild language in it. I really believe in writing how the characters would speak. and well, they don't speak like me. No f-bombs or either b word. like I said. mild language.

It's young adult fiction. my intended audience is 14+ and it's a romance. but I'm hoping that boys will like it too. My main character is a male, so this is new territory for me. Though the audience is kinda young, I'd like to hear from all age groups. Actually I'm hoping that the story will appeal to "real" adults too.

Anyway, just let me know if you are interested. most likely you are a friend of mine and therefor you know how to get a hold of me in a more secure setting, but if you just stumble across this and think it would be fun to help, contact me on twitter or facebook

thank you!

HEY YOU!

So remember when I ranted about how like, my life sucks and I am a terrible, lazy/depressed person?

WELL! I'm finally making a change. it's been a while in the making but I am just that cool.

I have motivation and goals. and plans. and I go OUTSIDE every other day!

So, that's all I have to say.

I'm cool.

Yours always,
Geri