The MTV Movie Awards were today and I watched a re-cap on YouTube. So many women to acknowledge! So amazing. Emma Watson of course deserved her win of best actress for her role as Belle in Beauty in the Beast – which I have already blabbered on about.

Millie Bobby Brown won an award for her role as Eleven in Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’, which was also extremely well deserved. She’s only 13 years old and is already a fierce, talented, down to earth and stunning actress.

For me, there are three things that spring to mind when I think of Emma Watson:

1. Hermione Granger
2. Incredible actress
3. Feminist

What I love about her is her decrete passion for gender equality, especially in her field of work. I love what she stands for, and how she delivers her messages and beliefs. Her acceptance speech at the MTV Movie awards beautiful captures this in only 40 seconds.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/mtv-movie-awards-2017-emma-watson-best-actor-gender-neutral-beauty-and-the-beast-a7723466.html

Groovin the Moo music fest was on Saturday in Bendigo.
The music was incred, personal favourites were The Wombats, George Maple and Snakehips.

The layout of the festival, I thought, was done really well. Music festivals are always so ridiculously packed to the brim with people, but the layout at Groovin made it feel quite spacious.

I’m doing literally nothing this next holidays except work. I thought to myself, I have 6 weeks. That’s a long time. I need to do something productive or at least have a bit of fun and get away! So I decided to get involved with uni games. There were so many sports on offer to participate in, but I chose netball. Classic. So there were two trials, and boy was it intense! I was expecting it to be a breeze, I thought everyone was guaranteed to get into a team – but I was wrong. It was a full on trial. Not only a lot of people, but a lot of people who are incredibly good at netball.

Anyway, I did my best which ultimately worked in my favour as I was selected for one of the two teams! Exciting. So we had our first training today ….. what was I expecting? Due to the level of the trials I was definitely expecting to be working hard and sweating a lot – especially because it was scheduled to go for two hours.
Yep! I was right. I am so sore. We did everything from drills to practice games, all with such high-intensity!
I was moved from the women’s team into the mixed team in the last 10 minutes of the practice game which was exciting. The only one switched. I think they are still decided on who is best suited to play in the mixed team so trying different combinations and all that jazz. I’m secretly hoping they keep me in the mixed team, however if I do get moved back down to the women’s I’ll still be happy because all the girls are so good and so lovely

I have work Tues, Wed, Thurs and Fri morning at 7am and this is literally the only perk of doing so. The sunrises are always so beautiful, as if the sun is saying “you can do it Isobel, don’t give up, there is still hope”.

Thanks sun 🙂

On Friday I had a live gig. It’s the 5^th one I’ve done in the past year and it was great. Live music really does do wonders in this world. It not only makes artists, either professional or completely amateur (including myself) extremely happy, but it brings people together. I had a crowd of about 40-50 people, 30 of which I knew. It was awesome being on stage and seeing people talking to each other, catching up and socialising as well as listening to live covers.

Here’s a pic 🙂

 

Today our group caught up in the media studios.

We had to decide on ideas for the next audio and visual media.

While listening to the Offenberg soundscape, I was feeling frustration, chaos and essentially reminded me of someone having a nervous break down. It was almost scary at times, and messy with different footage being all over the place.

So, from this, we thought of focusing our video (which would pair up to this soundscape) on mental breakdowns, however through the actual physical breaking of glass, plates, waterballoons and whatever else that breaks/smashes well.

For the audio, we thought about focusing on their garden/outdoor scheme they maintained throughout their visual. So recording atmospheric sounds of the outdoors and editing to create a rhythm.