Oh No!

I have realized that everything that is listed on my blog is in the complete wrong order, oops!
Starting to worry now, The order it is supposed to start with is my people on the move assignment, and then work on from there with Avid and Camera workshop being next. My people on the move project was created in November/December 2011 and everything else followed on from there. I am really sorry for the mix up this has caused on my blog! I really need to get to grip with putting everything in order.

People On The Move Updated..

Our story had been created! We all went away and thought of our own ideas of how the story could be brought together, and I was very happy with the outcome that was produced. I have taken a picture of our story and this is shown below.

The next stage.. Filming! Now that we had been given our lecture in how to work the cameras, it is time to put that lesson to the test. I was very excited about finally being able to film our story, and how it will all begin to come together!

Contemporary Media Issues - Google Maps Assignment.

During our Contemporary Media Issues lectures, we were given an assignment to split up into groups and create a certain story using various different points of the world. We were each given a starting point and had to work from that point and find and plot five different points of the story onto Google maps. The starting location that me and my group were given was St James Gardens, which is situated just next to the Anglican Cathedral near upper duke street. We discovered that St Andrew's Gardens is a cemetery and we thought it would be a good idea to document one of the lives of a person that has been buried within the cemetery. We started to look into the lives they lead and tried to find the most interesting one to use for our story, and came across a person called Sargeant Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson. We discovered that he lead a very interesting life from being a dental surgeon apprentice, to becoming a law enforcement officer.

Above I have shown a picture of what he looks like, I started to get really interested in this project once we had found an exciting story to work on. Although I was a bit worried at the same time as I am petrified of graveyards and cemeteries. So I didn't feel very comfortable going to visit where he had been buried at St James Garden's.

I struggled to get to grips with working the Google Maps software at first and pinpointing each place that Arthur had visited, but after a few tries I started to get the hang of it and was proud of what me and my group had accomplished. The places that we pinpointed included,Southport, Canada, Cape Town in South Africa and Liverpool. I felt that we could have been a little bit more organized for our presentation but am pleased overall with how it all came together.

Here I have uploaded a picture of what St Andrews Garden's looks like to give you a better idea of the story we have produced.

Production Practice (Camera Workshop)

This lecture was spent on us learning how to use the Sony cameras for the first time. I was really excited about this lecture because I was really looking forward to going out and exploring all different parts of Liverpool using the film cameras. We was given a booklet on how to work the cameras just in case we got stuck. I was really happy that we had this lecture because it taught me a lot more then I originally knew about film cameras. The main points of the camera I was looking at were zoom, iris and shutter speed. The lecture covered these points and a few more to make sure we knew what we were dealing with all round. The camera's that we are using to film our projects with is called the Sony Z1E. I was very happy that we had this lecture because now I feel a lot more confident about going out and filming my own projects with no worries.

People On The Move Assignment...

Okay, so I probably should have done this post back in 2011 when this project was developed, but I suppose it is better late then never. During my module 'Production Practice', we were asked to brainstorm a couple of ideas for our first major film project 'People On The Move'. This project involved us coming up with a short story that had to be between 1 and a half to 2 minutes long. The story could be any theme we wanted it to be put it had to relate to people moving to different places.

Me and my group thought that a good starting point would be to write down a range of ideas for themes that we could first start of with. The main idea that we all agreed on best would be 'Conflict'. Following on from this we thought it would be a good idea to do a spider diagram of all the different ideas we had that would relate to conflict. Ideas for a good story for our film were then developed from this spider diagram.
I thought that this was a good way of keeping ourselves organized and on target with our work. I have taken a picture of the ideas that we had and this is shown below. I was really excited for filming with the ideas that we had in store, I felt it was a good story that we had brought together and couldn't wait to film it.

Wikipedia Assignment 1..

During our contemporary media issues lessons, we started to look at media articles and asked to bring in a media article that we found that interested us. As I am a huge fan of the television show "F.R.I.E.N.D.S", I thought it would be a good idea to bring in an article relating to this topic. I recently heard a rumor that F.R.I.E.N.D.S were planning to create a comeback film which I was very excited about. I started to research into this more and found an article relating to it on the daily mail. The link to the article is shown below..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1216441/Friends-reunited-Stars-hit-TV-sitcom-make-movie-version.html

Once this task was complete, we started looking at creating Wikipedia pages relating to many different topics. We were split into groups and were each given a topic to create a Wikipedia page on. Our topic was a book called "The Medium Is The Massage" and our task was to 'Discuss why the authors have used the word massage rather than message which McLuhan used in his earlier book 'understanding media'. We started to create Prezi's relating to Marshall McLuhan's past and giving our own opinions of what we thought of the book, as well as answering the question in our own individual way. I found this assignment very interesting and was happy that I was creating my own Wikipedia to a particular topic. The link to our Wikipedia page is given below..
http://contemporarymediaissues.wetpaint.com/page/Marshall+McLuhan+-+The+Medium+is+the+Massage

This is a copy of the Prezi that one of the group members created on Marshall McLuhan relating to his past.
http://prezi.com/zdmqfe4liw-w/marshall-mcluhan-his-background/

Little Bit Of Extra Work..

When I was 16/17, I was given the chance to appear as an extra on the television series Waterloo Road. I was so happy to have given this opportunity as it taught me a lot about being behind the scenes of a television production. The hours that are put into making a television series and the amount of takes you have to do until the scene is perfect. I was there for a week overall and then a few random separate days after that. It was so much fun being able to meet the cast and talk to them about how they got into the business and what work they have done before. On top of this, i was paid! One of the best work experiences I have had and recommend anybody to give extra work a go, you really do learn a lot.