Hello everyone! This week in Mondays class we finished off editing our personal profile and to be honest I don't think it ended up as well as we would of liked it to, this was down to our organisation. I think because of this we have learned that organisation is very important when it comes to production and we will remember this in the future.
On Tuesday in Creativity and Concept we furthered our museum project and eventually Rio and I came up with an initial Idea, I will update the next blog with this idea and its progression.
On Wednesday in Contemporary Media Issues we finished off our Wiki project which was actually quite successful in the end. I had to update the Wiki with a 300 word thread on Global Warming on Social Networking and Democracy. I found it quite interesting to look into this. Here is a link to our Wiki on Global Warming :
In the second class on Wednesday we had a Dreamweaver Workshop that Ian took. I found that Dreamweaver isn't too hard but it will take some getting use to!
In Fridays class we had a lecture on Shane Meadows and then we watched the film "Dead Man's Shoes" directed by Shane Meadows. I found this movie quite moving and really serious, and although I personally don't like British made movies because of the seriousness of them normally, I really enjoyed this one and thought that it seems to be quite underrated! Here is the trailer for Dead Man's Shoes":
Hello there! So this week on Monday we went in and finished off any editing of the 'Its Liverpool' competition and burned it onto a DVD. We just about got finished in time and handed it in, once I get a copy of the video I will post it in my blog :)
On Tuesday in creativity and concept we spent the lesson having a discussion with our fellow team members about our museum project. Me and Rio were the only ones in so we made a start and I think we progressed quite far. Initially we jumped ahead to quick onto the ideas but then we decided to take a step back and concentrate on different types of political activists. Next week we are going to progress further and finish off this and then move onto the next stage of development with initial ideas and thoughts about the exhibit or event. Here are some pictures of our progress so far:
For next week we have to present a story that must only be one minute long and then we will have a presentation workshop which I'm actually looking forward to quite a lot.
On Wednesday in first class we experimented with Youtube and were given a small leaflet with a word on it that we had to go and search in youtube, I got Line Dancing which definitely isn't a theme I have searched on Youtube before! Here is one of the videos I came across:
After this exercise we were brought back into room and we watched a quite long video lecture by Michael Welsch about the development of social networking and its importance. Once we finished watching this video we were given the brief for our next assignment which is to get into groups and make a Wiki about a certain theme. The theme that my group got was Global Warming. We got into our groups and worked out which sub-theme we were going to write a 300 word thread about each but we decided we wouldn't make a proper start on it until next week.
In the second lesson we furthered our ideas of our own websites with regards to the layout and what we are going to put in it. I found a website that I really liked the design, colour scheme and layout of and this was the Swedish House Mafia website.
On Friday in class we learnt about the mind game film, which is probably my personal favourite. We had a prolonged lecture on the different types of mind game films and we watched a few clips of different movies that fall into these sub categories.
