Today is the end of an era. Our class has finally bonded together and it's time for us all to go our seperate ways.

Bye Bye.

See you next year!

Friday 28 May 2010

Not many weeks of school left, 2 I think, I'm starting to get worried about how I'm going to stay in touch with facebook over the summer.... I so need the internet at home!!!

Anyway this week on Tuesday, Big John tried to write on me with a green marker, we updated our blogs and did a written piece about the research for our DVD that we made. It is just below this post entitled "Stuff for Big John"...... In the afternoon it was Erikas sports day, she came third in the potato & spoon race and her team came first in the obstacle race. Whooo hoooo! When I got back to Angies class the were up in the garden drawing again, my drawing of a pee the bed was not as good as last time tho.

On Wednesday morning in Gavins class we watched documentaries in preparation for our assesment next week. That was about it.

On Friday in Brians class we were working on finishing our DVD, doing the final stuff to it and updating our blogs. We also have an evaluation to do. Yuck, it's far too early in the morning. We are doing more drawing with Angie this afternoon, don't know what or where yet though.

Stuff for Big john.....

Name: Fleabag 506088

To research the Alloa Tower project I used the Internet to search for information, and also went down to take some photos of the outside of the Tower prior to the actual visit when we would be filming. There are several websites about the tower but none of them have that much information about it on them.

Links to Documentary makers

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

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

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

Examples of display and storage methods for digital video are....

Display -

• Screens
• Mobile phones
• i-pod

Storage -

• DVD
• Computer
• i-pod

The creation of digital video sequences...

Douglas Gordon (born 20 September, 1966) is a Scottish artist.

Much of Gordon's work is seen as being about memory and uses repetition in various forms. He uses material from the public realm and also creates performance-based videos. His work often overturns traditional uses of video by playing with time elements and employing multiple monitors.

One of his best-known art works is 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho so that it lasts twenty four hours.

Shaun Wilson (born Melbourne, 1972) is an Australian artist and film maker.

Since 2004 he has produced over 350 video artworks under the titles of Mnemoria series, The Memory Palace series, Filmic Memorials series I-IV and Uber Memoria I-VII/Proto. These particular works that Wilson himself describes as ‘video paintings’ explore the nature of memory and place through the moving image and its subsequent effect on autobiographical memory. In doing so, Wilson has deconstructed family home movies, vintage 8mm film, and found 9mm film and from late 2006 onwards he has incorporated these filmic images with High Definition Video (HDV) to convey tensions of fractured memory.

Sadie Benning (born April 11, 1973) is a video maker, visual artist, and musician.

She first made her name in the early 1990s as a teenage video maker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her earliest works, made from the time she was 15, were shot with the Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, which recorded pixelated, black and white video images onto standard audio cassettes. The Fischer-Price PXL-2000 camera used in her early works that brought her to the spotlight was a Christmas gift from her father, experimental filmmaker James Benning. At first Sadie was standoffish to the PixelVision camera. "I thought, 'This is a piece of shit. It's black-and-white. It's for kids. He'd told me I was getting this surprise. I was expecting a camcorder." The majority of her shorts combined performance, experimental narrative, handwriting, and cut-up music to explore, among other subjects, gender and sexuality.

The process that we followed to produce our film is as follows...

1. Research on Alloa Tower and watching documentaries on TV to see how it is done
2. Storyboarding what we are going to shoot and scripting it
3. Getting permission to film and going down to film
4. Editing the video clips, adding music and sorting out titles
5. making the final video into a quicktime movie and putting on a DVD

Fin.

Friday 21th May... Hot Hot HOT!!

This week in Big Johns class on Tuesday we worked on the film from Alloa Tower and did some adjustments to the cover for the DVD. As I was not able to go to Alloa Tower as the witch (erika) was ill I am using the footage from Gavin's class instead, which is the Adam Easdin Show (a spoof Jerry Springer type thing).It's, erm, interesting. In Gavin's class on Wednesday morning we did some discussing of how to use the day most productively, Becca sorted out the titles for the end of the show, then we watched a skateboarding documentary and Gavin gave us some advice about the upcoming assessment.

On Friday.. it was HOT! We did a numeracy task in Brian's class in the morning, then I had to go for a "back to work" interview at the job centre... great fun, they know I'm at college, and I told them that I'm going back next year but still they want you down there. Typical government department... back in Brian's class we had to make some amendments to the covers of the DVD once it had been printed as a few errors became glaringly obvious. In the afternoon in Angie's class we went out to the college garden, which none of us knew existed and did some drawing, got sun burnt and I broke my good sandals and had to drive home in bare feet.

Then it was the weekend, and 2 whole days of sunbathing....... fan-bloody-tastic!!!

Friday 14 May

This week it feels like November....cold cloudy and miserable..., only because I'm writing this the following Tuesday and summer has finally arrived and my socks are in the back of the drawer!!

However, on Tuesday my wee devil spawn Erika wasn't well so I didn't make it into college, instead I spent the whole day booooored.(Id much rather have been at Alloa Tower but I'm not supposed to say that am I?)

On Wednesday in Gavin's class we started editing our TV show, since Jamie is faster than a speeding bullet at editing, he got that job, and we went off to find suitable crowd sounds and other erm, effects.Which we were quite successful at.

On Friday in Brian's class we started putting together the designs for the booklet and cover for the Alloa tower DVD, Eta and I did the front cover booklet while Rab did the inside of the booklet and Becca did the back page. Although now it looks like we might have to rethink our idea and make a DVD booklet instead. Nothing like making stuff easy for us. In the afternoon in Angie's class I finished off my picture of Alloa tower that I sewed, had to soak it in water to get the paper off and lots of the stitches broke so it now looks awful. ho hum.

Friday 7th May

Where is this year going? More to the point where is summer? Normally I've got sunburn by now. Anyhooo...

We were off on Tuesday for the May holiday, so we missed Big Johns class, on Wednesday with Gavin (Security!!) we went down to the student common room and filmed our own TV show, called "The Adam Eased-In Show" which was about confessions. The idea was that Rab and I were a couple and I was on the show to confess to him that I was pregnant and didn't know who the dad was. Rab was also there to confess that he was gay, and had been seeing Jamie for 5 years. In the end it turned out that Jamie was the dad. We had a couple of fights and Gavin who was standing at the back acting as security had to split us up. Adam was the host with the most, and delivered the all important DNA results. Once we had filmed it, we uploaded it to the mac and saw how bad it really was. On Friday in Brians class we are updating our blogs and starting our own slideshows of alloa tower for the dvd. Yay! Happy Friday??

Friday 30 April

Today is D-Day, I have to hand in my work to Angie to see if I get on the course I want next year.Oh my GOD.I feel a bit sick again.

Anyhoo, this week, on Tuesday, in John class we looked at a short film he made while at Uni of the Falkirk Wheel, and we looked at a book about filming techniques. In the afternoon in Angies class we kept going with our mono prints of Alloa Tower. On Wednesday morning we planned our tv show for gavin, we have decided to film it in the student common room next to the canteen. We also planned out how it will run and how we are going to film it so next wednesday we can (fingers x'd) get straight on and film it. Today in Brians class we are making slideshows of our fotays from Alloa Tower, using both i-movie and i-dvd to make our own slideshows so that we can work out which is best for producing our "extras" for the dvd. Thats the bit that no one ever watches then...?