End of the year approaching fast

I can't believe its nearly the end of my first year in university already. It seems like yesterday when I first started and set up this blog. Before I know it I will be starting my dissertation and graduating.

Charity Abseil

Yesterday, I took part in a sponsored abseil to raise money for the children's charity 'Wishing on a Star'. I only found out I was doing it the day before but still managed to raise nearly £100. The abseil was about 50ft high. Here are some of the pictures.

Berlin

As promised here are just some of the photos from Berlin.

One of the best holidays I've ever had. We done some great sight seeing visiting check point Charlie, the Berlin Wall and a Jewish concentration camp were we seen some scary sights.

Personal Profile - Speak What Your Truth Is

Below is the video in which we created for our personal profile film for the Production Practise module.

We received a first for this film.

Prezi - Redmond Racing

This is a prezi i created for my group when we was pitching our idea for a game in the university. We went for a game involving racing each other on the computer chairs which we have in our computer rooms. hence the name 'Redmond Racing'.

We received a 2:1 for this task.

Prezi - Street Art

Below is a prezi that my group and I created for a brief set in one of our modules. The brief was to create a pitch for a short 5 minute film that we wanted to make. We chose to do street art from the list of options that we was given.

We received a 2:1 for this task.

Berlin

This weekend I will be embarking on a 4 day trip to the capital of Germany, Berlin. I am going for one reason and one reason only, to drink Berlin dry. 30 friends that I go to football games with will be joining me on this binge trip.

It will be the first time I have been to Berlin. I have herd only good things about the city and how good it is for a holiday, so to say I'm looking forward to it would be an understatement.

I will post some pictures (ones appropriate for this blog) and feedback on what I thought of the city, IF I return home. No promises!!

Filming - The Antony Walker Foundation

Interesting filming today for the Antony Walker foundation upon which we are doing our factual short on. Very nice people and a pleasure to film for such a good cause.

Drive

I watched to films tonight, Drive and Drive Angry. Two similar names but very different films. One film being (in my opinion) a huge success (Drive) and the other being a huge failure (Drive Angry). Nicholas Cage stared in Drive Angry and was as dreadful as ever playing a character That I still don't know what was meant to be and having my head completely cabbaged all the way though. Where as Ryan Gosling in Drive played the mechanic / Hollywod stunt driver who fell in love with a woman and her child.

The whole point in this blog post was to express how bad one film was compared to another with a similar name.

Reservoir Dogs

After watching Reservoir Dogs for the first time, i must say that Quentin Tarantino is a genius but is very weird.

I found the film very weird but a fantastic story and well thought out and put together.

Google Maps

Recently we have been working on creating a story and telling it through google maps. I use google maps all the time so I know how to use it pretty well. However, I've never thought to try and create my own on it. It has been very hard to think of something to do but I have final decided to go for the idea of a bank robbery and creating lots of clues and evidence and displaying it all over the map.

I looked at other google map stories in order to try and gain knowledge and get an idea if what I could do mine about. I didn't find many stories that I felt I could do as some were involving different countries across the world and I didn't have the access to do that.

Then I came up with the bank job idea and it went from there. I enjoying creating my own little robbery and plotting clues and evidence around the city.

Here is the link to my google maps story

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

After Effects

In the past few weeks we have been using the software after effects to edit out images we have previously created. It is my first time using the software and I find it tricky too use. I didn't have a clue how to use it at all at first but I'm starting to get the hang of it and will hopefully be able to produce a good piece of work from it.

Location Profile Filming - Goodison Park

On Saturday, when Everton played Norwich City at home, we decided to film our time lapse looking down Goodison road. We chose this location so that we could show how busy the streets get on a match day and how quiet they are before the match. We also tried to incorporate some idea of the work that people put in around the ground prior to the match in order for it to be ready for the fans coming to the game.

Table Top Story

Today in the Contemporary Media Issues module we we're set a brief to create a table top story. For ours we decided to show the table of a man with heart problems and a gambling addiction. He was also an alcoholic and a drug abuser The man was to find out he won the lottery but because of the excitement of winning such a large sum of money, he head a heart attack and died before he could claim his prize. The image below is of the table top story that we created.