Hey there, last week I got more into the flow of things after coming back. On Monday we went into Media Production and finalised out idea of what we were going to submit to the "It's Liverpool" competition. We decided that we were going to do it on University Square so after this lesson throughout the week we rented out the camera equipment and on a very rainy day we filmed our small piece, including an hours worth of one shot which would soon make our time-lapse slot! On Tuesday we learnt about Debonos six thinking hats. This consists of six different coloured hats and each colour represents a different way of thinking, here's the link:
For me personally I don't think that the six thinking hats technique was effective. I didn't like the way it directed to you to think in one specific way as it kind of narrowed your though process down, which I found it hard to do. I found it hard to be negative about something that I really liked for example. It was clear though that certain people in my group suited certain hats, for example Callum seem to latch on the Black (Negative thinking) hat quite quickly! This is what Creativity and Concept is about for me though, exploring loads of different ways of being creative and deciding which ones suit me and which ones don't.
Also in this class we were given some information about the Assignment which is to come up with a new exhibit or event for Museum Of Liverpool and then in March present to a panel of people consisting of our lecturers but also someone from the outside that we don't know. For the assignment we are being put into groups of three and we are given a specific group of people that we have to aim to attract to the Museum and the group that we have given is Political Activists, which I think may be quite tricky!
In Contemporary Media Issues on Wednesday we gave out presentation of our Google Maps narrative and then we received feedback on it. I personally don't think we took the right approach because I think that I didn't fully understand what we actually had to do, I hope we get an okay mark but I have to admit I was quite disappointed with myself for this one.
To aid us in creating the google maps narrative we watched a tutorial video on Youtube:
That is all for now, I will update on how the editing of the video entry went next blog entry and also any progression with the Museum project!
So last week was quite a hectic week actually! On Monday I was in Media Production and we basically had to further our ideas for the It's Liverpool competition. After some discussion we decided to film University Square because we were thinking about The Docks but then we soon learned that a lot of people were also thinking about filming there!
On Tuesday I learnt about Facilitating and in groups we had to come up with certain events for the idea of an LJMU Festival. The festival idea lasted one day and we had a budget of £1000. I thought this was really fun, thinking up cool ideas that I would include at a festival. After some divergent thinking (basically writing down as many ideas as possible) we then had to whittle the ideas down to our 3 favourite. The idea was to present 3 ideas that were original and do-able.
On Wednesday we had a full day. First of all in Contemporary Media Issues we got into our narrative groups and we had to make a start on our google maps project. What we had to do was to create a fictional or non-fictional story using google maps and pin point certain locations wherever we wanted. We were given a starting point which for us was Bluecoat Gardens. From there then we picked 4 other locations and using Videos, Photos, Text and Sound we had to plan our narrative. I will update you all on the finished piece next week :)
In Digital Media Tools we got briefed on our next assignment which is to create our own website. I think I'm really going to enjoy this because It's solely my project and my design which is good as we haven't properly done anything individually yet. We then went into the computer suite and looked through various websites to see which ones had good designs. I found a number that I thought were quite inspirational and that I might base my design on, here are some links below:
By next week I hope to have a basic design for my website, which means I'll know what I want in it and how it will be laid out.
On Friday we learnt about about the development of Westerns in Film Language. I'm enjoying Friday lessons this year so far because Westerns, like I said before, has never really been my thing but now that I'm learning about it, it's pretty fun. We watched True Grit, which is a movie I've always really wanted to see but never had the chance. Some of the shots in the film are basically amazing and I would urge anyone to watch the film as it is beautiful.
Okay so Christmas is over and it was all very good, I am back now in Liverpool! I arrived back last Wednesday so i unfortunately missed 4 of my classes but I am currently getting caught up now. Last Friday In Film Language we started to learn about genre and the first genre we are looking at is Westerns.
Westerns have never been a genre that I have been interested in but I really enjoyed the movie and since I have watched a couple of Westerns
That's all for now but I will update my experiences in more detail tomorrow when I do a blog concentrating on the current week :)
