Bombshell

I had to make a big decision today that I'm both happy and unhappy about; to drop Kelpies for the time being.


We have little over 2 weeks until hand-in and a month tomorrow until degree show, and we're barely over the halfway mark with scenes. Because of assessment (which asks for us to have 2 specialisms, with work on a minimum of 2 films with one of the specialisms, meaning that the films are technically not needed, as I could have worked on my specialisms by themselves instead of working them into a film) most of us in the Kelpie team are starting to panic that we don't have enough specialism work, and would like to concentrate on that to beef it up. That then leaves the 10 days after hand-in until the degree show, and even then it'd be pretty impossible to pull off the amount we still have left to do to a standard we're happy with. We will continue to carry on work with Kelpies after university, but unfortunately we won't have a film to show at the degree show. This saddens me greatly, but it would be far more disheartening to see a film I wasn't happy with being shown, and to have received a poor grade because I wasn't concentrating on my specialisms. This just really shows how important time keeping is, and that it's important to judge that there are certain challenges that are just too big (horses and water spring to mind, anybody?)!


Alas, it's a shame, but it's not the last Kelpies has seen of the world :)