First up was the 'opening address for all students', and as you could imagine was the usual talk on creativity and career propspects, the talk that is supposed to inspire and motivate the masses (well...the ones that weren't playing on their iphones anyway).
I listened and I enjoyed and I took it all in. What more could you ask for at 9am in the morning after a sleepless night with 2 kids.
Barry Pervis
I've only known Maurice for the first year of my couse (6-7 months I suppose) but have never seen her so happy before. I found this a quite promising start to creative futures week. 'I'm so proud to welcome......... Barry Pervis' Said Maurice.
'Barry Pervis......... who the hell is that'? I thought.
An elderly man took the stage, bearded and grey and wise in years was my first impression. He's an animator and a puppetier as it turns out and worked on King Kong and also on Wind in the Willows. He trained as an actor at Manchester University too.
One of my earliest memories is watching Wind in the Willows at my Nanna's house on lazy summer holidays so I took this as a good and promising start.
I liked Barry Pervis, You could say 'I liked how he rolled'. I liked his career progress, his ease with himself and the way he effortlessly comunicated with his audience. I liked how he loved Mary Poppins too. (How could anyone not)!?!?
About halfway through he said 'give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth', (an Oscar Wilde quote I think, maybe not though). I thought this to be very true and all I can say is that I liked it.
'I see animation as a liberator and a distancing device' Barry said. How true I thought again. I'm not an animator or a puppetier, what I'm trying to be is a photographer and film maker, but I still liked Barry Pervis, and I thought the clips of War Horse that he shown we're outstanding.
The one thing that let the whole thing down was not the man himself but the terrible audio quality of his films. Being no fault of his own but something to do with the University itself. There is a minimun of three years worth of students doing some form of audio technology at Glyndwr, surely someone could of sorted it out. Even Colin (a.k.a Mr Smooth) had a go.
All in all I thought Barry Pervis to be inspirational and a great opening speaker, I took on board all he said and and I'm sure I can apply it too my future education in the forthcoming years. etc etc.
I liked Barry Pervis, You could say 'I liked how he rolled'. I liked his career progress, his ease with himself and the way he effortlessly comunicated with his audience. I liked how he loved Mary Poppins too. (How could anyone not)!?!?
About halfway through he said 'give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth', (an Oscar Wilde quote I think, maybe not though). I thought this to be very true and all I can say is that I liked it.
'I see animation as a liberator and a distancing device' Barry said. How true I thought again. I'm not an animator or a puppetier, what I'm trying to be is a photographer and film maker, but I still liked Barry Pervis, and I thought the clips of War Horse that he shown we're outstanding.
The one thing that let the whole thing down was not the man himself but the terrible audio quality of his films. Being no fault of his own but something to do with the University itself. There is a minimun of three years worth of students doing some form of audio technology at Glyndwr, surely someone could of sorted it out. Even Colin (a.k.a Mr Smooth) had a go.
All in all I thought Barry Pervis to be inspirational and a great opening speaker, I took on board all he said and and I'm sure I can apply it too my future education in the forthcoming years. etc etc.
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