Chapter 11

Hey!

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:

Def Jam

Futuretainment

Maximuscle

Apple

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.

Here's the trailer:

A Screen shot:

 Okay that is my update until next week!

Josh Out.