Chapter 7

Hey there guys! I have been busy this week so there is a good bit to talk about! Last week we finished off our Wiki and moved on to the next section in contemporary media issues. We are now working in pairs and have to come up with a new game. The game doesn't have to be made technically, but it has to be a reasonable idea.

Me and Drew are working together which is good. We came up with the idea of Screen School Olympics, which involves playing a series of simple games that doesn't require much skill and is suitable for all people.

In digital media tools, me and Sam are a good bit through our project but it is a long and repetitive process! Here is a picture of our animation:

In other classes, we had out first test last Friday in film language! We had to analyse a 10 minute clip of North By Northwest which I was actually quite glad about because out of all the films we've watched so far this year, it is definitely one of my favourites. I don't know how I have done but I will update you!

In creativity and concept media we had a session of Lego Serious Play. I wasn't sure how this was going to work or what we were specifically going to be doing but it turned out that I found the session really fun and interesting and I think I've brought something away from Lego now other than it being awesome haha.

Okay I will finish there before I ramble on too much!

Josh Out.

Chapter 6

Hey guys, so I know this blog entry is a bit late but ah well. So last week in class we finished off our Wiki project and we were cutting it close! In the end though it actually turned out to be pretty cool and there were some cool comments and videos made about Futuretainment. Below is a short discussion that we video recorded to give people an idea of our opinions of the book as students.

I think overall, the Wiki assignment was slightly boring but I did learn a lot of things about Mike Walsh and what goes on in his head haha. Here's the link to our Wiki page:

Futuretainment

In digital media tools, last week we received our first proper project which was to pair up and create an animation. Me and Sam have had an idea and we started to take pictures for it. It is a short narrative of a guy meeting a girl and them conversing being in separate photographs. Here are some pictures to give you an idea:

These are just a couple of photos from what we have, believe me there are many many more!

I think that is a successful update on whats going on with me and my friend media at the minute I shall speak soon to you all!

Josh Out.



Chapter 5.5.

Hey guys! So i know that we're on Reading Week at the minute but I have a bit of spare time so I thought I'd make a small blog entry :)

Well this week I'm going to try and get a bit of work done, in Contemporary Media Issues we have to hand in our first draft of the Wiki project. I think we'll get it done we just have to arrange a time when we can all meet up and do some of the video aspects etc. In Film Language we were assigned our first essay last week. We have to analyse a 5 minute clip of a movie of our choice using the skills we've learnt so far, but we have to use a column type grid thing to fill in, which I'm a bit confused about! I'll get it done though, I hope ha.

Other than that there isn't much else going on, oh in Digital Media Tools i have to think of what i want my stop frame animation to be, haven't thought much about that yet though.

That's pretty much it! Byeeee!

Josh Out.

Chapter 5

Hey again!

So yesterday we had our Wiki thing again and I'm starting to kind of grasp it and understand how it could be useful. I think a lot of people sort of think that its a bit boring and i do agree to a certain extent but i think once we get more into it., it will be way more interesting! The group work thing is really great though I feel, its just good dong things in groups and finding out more and more about people in your group, because to be honest, I think that we have a real interesting group of people in our class.

I read into Mike Walsh and he its really interesting, I think he has been influenced a lot by more unconventional markets e.g. Asia, Brazil. When i researched him I discovered that these more unorthodox markets and industries are a lot more innovative than the Western Worlds, which is really cool. Stuff like that makes me want to read further into these industries and see how much they actually contribute to the worlds innovation and how recognized they are by the world in general. Also Mike Walsh looks really cool haha.

The second lesson of the day was the Digital Media Tools lesson. Ian showed us numerous animations in his lecture and introduced animation to us in general. We then went into the computer suite and played around with the Adobe After Effects software. At first I was really confused about how to use it, but then Mark explained it to me and it wasn't actually so bad, quite fun as well! The picture sequence we used was really funny though so it was all good.

On another note I think the Creativity and Concept class is quite cool these days, I didn't realize how many different ways there are to be creative! ha. All new to me. We had to watch a video on YouTube for tomorrow, it was a bit old but was really cool and it showed me that in reality the top businesses and creators do use these sorts of techniques to create things and develop ideas.

I think that will do for now actually, I've talked maybe a bit too much there, I get a bit carried away at times haha. 

Here's some Mozart to improve your Knowledge!

Josh Out.