Pirate's Eye

I have "Pirate's Eye", apparantly. In a cinematography lecture yesterday we were told that there's always one student who can't keep their left eye shut when they're trying to look through the camera. Instead they stand there winking like an eejit. Of course, that one student is me. I now have to wear an eye-patch in the studio, rather like Long John Silver, or that Gabrielle chick who sang "Dreams can come true, except that one I had about getting my lazy eye fixed, la la la".

I'm not great with technology at the best of times. I was crap with the camera, zooming when I should be panning and vice versa. I can't get one hand to do one thing while the other hand does another (hence my inability to do That Thing That Men Like).

Anyway, it doesn't matter that I'm not good at some things, because, as it turns out, I am brilliant at other things; like visual storytelling. We all had to pitch a 2 minute film idea today and I won hands-down. Everybody laughed at all the right places (even though my idea came from quite a traumatic public experience I once had on an escalator). On Monday we vote for the film we want to make first. I can feel my competitive streak kicking in, because I dashed home from class to draw up my storyboard without so much as stopping for a pint at The Thirsty Dog.