Chapter 4

Hey guys.


I am updating my blog a couple of days late this week sorry! On Tuesday we continued our investigation into Futuretainment and Mike Walsh and things are starting to come together I feel! I'm slowing growing on to wetpaint as well which is good!


Today in class we went to "The Automatic" which was really good. I think that having class in there is really good as it has a real positive atmosphere about it and I feel a lot more motivated to work in that environment. We used a creative method called SCUMPER which basically aided the development of an idea. It was extremely useful to me and it helped our group finalise an idea about sharing ideas! 


I really enjoy Thursdays because not only do I actually learn methods of creating ideas and research creative artists, I have a lot of fun doing it and I also think the Lecturers attitude towards our learning is really cool. 


Anyways I think that will do for now, I have to try get the hang of this sketchbook thing, but it took me a bit to get the hang of blogging so I guess I'll get there! On a leaving note I was saying to a couple of people in class, how cool would it be to have entrance theme songs for whenever we entered class? I think The Automatic entrance tune should be this ha ha:

Awesome, Josh Out.

Chapter 3

Well, today was good, and actually I thought I'd maybe talk about yesterdays class as well actually because I haven't really done that yet. Yesterday was the production practice module and it was really cool because we had the Director of the Film "Will" come in and have a chat with us! Her name is Ellen Perry and she has a background in directing but mostly non-fictional projects so it was interesting to hear her talk about directing fiction and also about her past as a director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Perry

There's a link to her page on Wikipedia, there's not that much to it but it may give you a small insight as to who she is and what shes done!

Okay enough about yesterday, today was good, Tuesdays can seem like they might be a drag as we have two classes during the day but actually i find they seem to be just as long as when we have one class? Don't ask me why but...yea haha.

Wow just heard a loud bang outside my halls.... cool.

I thought both classes were good today, I think they're good because I'm learning something new everyday really so I want to go to class I guess, and also because everyday I'm chatting to someone new or getting to know someone a bit better. We did this cool exercise today in digital media tools, were we had to tell a story through 5 shots, this at first seemed as though it might be really hard but then I started thinking of just really simple ideas and me and Joel took the shots quickly and it turned out to be a good laugh and really funny also!

I think that'll do for now, trying to think of something to leave you with...mmmm... okay a friendly picture and another YouTube video....

And video...

UNDERWATER CHILL OUT MUSIC!

Josh out.

Chapter 2

Hey there again! So yea today I was in contemporary media issues and once again I had a really good session as well as my afternoon session which was digital media tools. 1st lession we learnt how to use another free online software website called wetpaint. We had to create what was called Wiki's and it proved to be relatively fun. What I would say is though I have enjoyed the other websites and software more so than this website today, I think I'm maybe more of a visual kind of person when it comes to presentation rather than just plain writing and linking between pages, but thats not to say I didnt enjoy it because I did!

I think now that everyone is settling in class is getting better and better because everyone is starting to get to know each other and I have to say I really do like my class, everyone seems really sound and I've had a good laugh with everyone I've spent time with so far.

The afternoon session though I felt was really good today and I learnt quite a lot. We had to alter images that we took throughout the week on photoshop and at the start of the class I was ridiculously bad haha. Then as the class went on I actually got the hang of it, Media will make a photogrpaher out of me yet! Ill show you my images:

Hope they look okay...probably not ha. I really enjoyed Photoshop though and its the sort of thing I'd quite like to get good or at least relatively good at.

I think thats pretty much for today but I do see that I have a few viewers now...Legendsa thankyou, but I need more so follow me!.... You know you want to ;)

Some more Jazzy Elevator music for you, only this time.... I have the video! Boom!

Josh Out.

Chapter 1

Hello again :)

On Tuesday in Contemporary Media issues we were required to come up with a presentation using online programme Prezzi. I had never used this software before so once again it was something new for me to try out! I actually really enjoyed using it and I'm starting to realize that my course is really fun but I definitely am learning from it and all the things that I'm learning I am really wanting to learn, if you get me?

Our group had really good fun during the session and our finished piece, I thought, was quite good! We used a default template which was a picture of like a pathway type thing, but we jigged around the frames and titles. We had to bring in an object that meant something to us. For my object I chose my headphones for a number of reasons. Firstly because I really like them and they have treated me well since I have moved to Liverpool, secondly because they are like the last thing i purchased before coming to uni and thirdly because most of my meaningful objects are still at home so I didn't have a lot to choose from!

So our presentation looked like this:

So far I've really enjoyed every class if I'm being honest, so all is going well so far and I hope that I keep enjoying every class! Oh and by the way to all the guys in my group for the presentation, I couldn't find that song but instead I will link you to some lovely elevator music, to keep the mood mellow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9-Nw4nAZg&feature=related

Dunno if you can click that link guys, haven't worked that one out yet so just copy and paste :)

Josh Out.