Production Practice (Its Liverpool)

The next project that we were given in our Production Practice lecture was called 'Its Liverpool'. This was a project where we had to create a short film explaining what Liverpool is all about so that it would attract more people to come and visit the city itself. We had to explain Liverpool using only one part of it, whilst thinking of ideas in our new groups, we decided to base our film on 'Bold Street' and use one character during the film. The reason behind us choosing this idea was because bold street is a famous street in Liverpool ranging from restaurants to vintage stores and clothes stores etc. We wanted to express many different types of cultures of Liverpool from using this street and the different types of food that the restaurants have to offer such as Chinese, Indian, American etc...
This project was done at a fast pace for me and my group because we were looking to move straight into the third project just weeks after It's Liverpool had been assigned. Every spare time of the weeks that we had were spent filming on Bold Street for this project. I am very pleased with how it all turned out, it expresses a lot of types of techniques used within the film such as split screen, fading, time lapse etc.. All to help make bold street a main tourist attraction to visit. The time lapse did take a whole afternoon to film, as we left the camera running for a full hour showing Bold Street. I was very pleased with how it all turned out, although it was very cold. I did manage to take photographs of the day that we went filming, luckily I put them on my facebook as they were on my old phone before it was stolen!

After all the filming and editing was complete, after many days spent day and night on bold street. The film was finally complete! I have posted a link below showing just how it turned out, I hope you enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iLBOhWE3cmU

Digital Media Tools - Web Design Techniques

I was far too excited with this lecture because we were looking at creating our own websites which is what I have always wanted to do. The only website I have ever created was my own piczo back when I was about 14/15, I am prepared to share the link but I don't know why, its very embarrassing! The link to my old piczo website is -> http://www.piczo.com/h4n4-0xx?cr=1

This lecture taught us how to use HTML codes and imply this into Dreamweaver. I have only ever used Dreamweaver once before briefly whilst in college, so I was very excited to learn more skills and techniques using this software for future knowledge. We were taught how to structure our own websites and creating external links and how to use split view in Dreamweaver which enabled us to use the codes that we would need to know to add whatever we wanted to our websites. This was one of my best lectures being able to use Dreamweaver! I now feel like I have more skills for future reference to create my own website which I am very happy about

People On The Move - FINISHED

We have managed to finish our People On The Move assignment! The filming went down really well, we did re-take a couple of shots as they were not too good, and when we went to go and film outside, we struggled with the lighting and the L.E.D lights, we felt the shots were a little too dark for us to use, but tried to work our way around this and it worked out okay in the end. I was pleased with how this film had turned out and we were lucky enough to gain a 2:1 in this film which I am very happy with! The editing was a bit of a struggle as it was our first proper time using Avid, but we pulled it together in the end with minutes to spare! Phew! This is definitely one of the best films I have made whilst on the course and am very happy with the outcome.

Digital Media Tools - Photography Techniques

I would definitely say that digital media tools would be my favorite lesson because it is the one I can relate to the most out of them all. Throughout my years of college, I studied an Interactive Media & Photography course which I enjoyed so much and so feel that this is the best lesson I can relate to the most.
We had a lesson about learning the different techniques to use in Photography, as I did this in college, it was more of a feedback lesson for me. We was taught about the following topics:
- Composition Rules & Guides
- Working with Lines
- Playing with angles
- Rule Of Thirds
- Cropping
- Depth of Field & Background
- Light and Color.
I am fortunate enough to own my very own SLR camera, which is the Nikon D40x, and so during the summer before university this benefited me a lot and was able to teach myself these techniques whilst out doing photography shots. I was pleased that this subject was being taught on my course and felt I could relate to it really easily. After all, every image tells a completely different story, you never know what you might pick up on photography shoots.

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.