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...?

Friday 23 April 2010...

Our first week back after the easter holidays, uuurrgh. We have now started Project 4, which is a DVD on a local landmark, we have chosen Alloa Tower. The part I am doing for the DVD is "The Views From The Top".

On Tuesday in Big Johns class we tried putting together our college advert, but thanks to the computers crashing every 2 minutes, we didn't get very far. In the afternoon in Angies class we had the option to go to Alloa Tower and take some photos for our project, or stay in class and do some drawing. I opted to stay in class and do some drawing. On Wednesday in Gavins class we started planning our Jerry Springer inspired programme, in which Rab will wear a dress....? After we had finished college we went down to Alloa Tower and took lots of photos for Angies class. On Friday in Brians class we did a numeracy task, drew graphs and worked out easy sums.Yay. In Angies class in the afternoon we started doing mono prints from our fotays.

Friday 26th March 2010

This week on Tuesday in Johns class Becca and I did a podcast of our magazine article,we used "appropriate" pictures and the theme tune from the muppets for it. In the afternoon in Angies class we did some mono printing. In Gavins class on Wednesday we started on the next part of his class which is television. On Friday in Brians class we did the evaluations for our magazine and put the back page together which is a work in progress as I type. In Angies class in the afternoon we started colouring in our prints from Tuesday.

Friday 19th March 2010

On Tuesday In Johns class we finished off our magazine article, Becca and I did a problem page for our article with ridiculous over the top problems and answers. In the afternoon in Angies class we started doing clay letters, to be used for the magazine. I did an F and an E, mine and Erikas initials, which I am then going to paint. On Wednesday in Gavins class we finished our radio programmes, Rab, Becca, Abee and I did a late night talk/phone in show, based on sex injuries! We also had a weather forecast and some music. On Friday in Brians class Becca and I finished our magazine article, and handed it in to be printed. In Angies class in the afternoon we painted our clay letters I did mine black with a silver effect over the top which made it look very old.

Friday 12 March

I was off in Johns class this week, came in for Angies class in the afternoon, which we finished off our pop art paintings. In Gavins class on Wednesday morning we were still working on our radio shows. I missed Brians class on Friday morning but came in for Angies class in the afternoon as I wanted to get my painting finished.

Friday again... Arches Tonight!!!

Well I'm off to the Arches tonight, first nite out in 2 years!! Anyhoo, in Gavins class on wednesday, we (Rab, Becca and me) started writing a script for our radio show, which we have to record next week. On Friday morning in Brians class I had to catch up with the scribus exercise from last week then Becca and I started work on our problem page for the magazine. I have decided not to do my original idea of being a mature student and team up with Becca on the problem page.

Some date from ages ago?

This is the first screenshot I took of pro tools, it shows how to open a new thing.

This is the

screen you get

once it's opened.

This is the box that lets you add a new bit to record onto.

This screenshot shows you the bit you can record onto.

This screenshot shows you the bit where I recorded myself talking pure crap.

And here is my recording, made into a wee podcast, just for ra tinterweb. It wouldn't show up. Ah well...

The dentist hurt...

... but I'm here now. Last Tusesday, 23 March 2010, in Johns class, we looked at pro tools and had a play about with it getting used to it and taking screen shots to put here. On Wednesday in Gavins class we started putting toether our radio programmes. We split into groups, my group is Rab, Abee, Becca and myself. We are doing a late night radio show talking about current "adult" themed topics, with a fone in caller (Gavin). The show will also include adverts (durex), weather(sponsered by tena lady),and some appropriate music, which is still to be decided. i was off on friday thanks to the horse tablet antibiotics from the dentist which left me feeling very sick.I'm sure we were supposed to be doing our article tho!

Am I here?? Kinda..

16 February 2010

John was off today so Colin Gunning took our class, we had to take photos and write a script for a college advert but since last week the recordings that have been done have been lost and we have to do it all over again.  In Angies class in the afternoon we continued with our self portrait, I am using silver material for my hair, instead of painting it, which I spent most of the afternoon cutting out.

On Wednesday in Gavins class we kept going with the radio part of media analysis, in the morning for an hour in Taylors class we tried to decide what we would do for our projects.

It's Friday, it's sunny + it's nearly lunchtime!

Tuesday 9th February

I was off today for John and Angies class.

Wednesday 10th Feb

In Gavins class today we looked at radio, different types of stations and programmes, and listened to some radio stations from across the world, in particular Hungarys very own radio one!!

Friday 12th Feb

Brians class in the morning... we had a meeting, in which i took the official notes, discussing the production schedule - today we had to complete our draft articles, we had an update on what everyone is doing for their articles, then looked at moodle and where to download the article planner then upload it again once we had filled it in. We also downloaded scribus onto the computer so it is ready for us to use next time.

Friday 5th February 2010

On Tuesday in Johns class we tied up any loose ends from previous projects, printed out some screenshots as evidence and did a bit of paperwork to link our evidence in our blogs to forms John had. Then in the afternoon we started adding colour to our blown up photocopied portraits, and traced the outlines of our faces onto see-thru poly pockets so we can use a projector to blow them up even more, then paint them.

In Gavins class on Wednesday we looked at the press, reading a variety of newspapers, and discussing the ways different papers portrayed different stories.

On Friday in Brians class we had a formal meeting to discuss our new project, Kayleigh was the secretary and took notes, the meeting discussed each persons topic for their article, how we are going to store the resources for the magazine (brian set up a folder on the network for us to put our stuff in), the production schedule (not completed as yet), and what is next..... we then went off to research our own topics and see what we could find.

Friday 29th Jan 2010

On Tuesday in Johns class we finished off the last project,making a few final tweaks to the animation before filling out the forms to have them sent away. In the afternoon in Angies class we started our new art project, going down to the library to do research on the internet into Andy Warhol as we will be making pop art self portraits this time. On Wednesday in Gavins class we started media analysis non fiction, and watched some documentaries to get us in the mood.

On Friday in Brians class we started thinking about our new project, which is producing a magazine for the college. We each have to write an article for the magazine,I am going to do mine on coming back to college as a mature student. We also did some research into how magazines are designed and laid out, in preperation for our own attempt. In the afternoon on Friday we had Angie again and we took photos of ourselves dressed in various interesting props which were printed out and blown up.

Project Three... Da da daaa!!!!

Todays is Friday, it's a new timetable and a new project.  This time we are producing a college magazine, aimed at potential candidates for the Access course next year.  We will be producing both a print version and a multimedia version, in the form of a podcast. We have to produce every element of the magazine, from artwork to articles, and use appropriate software to put the magazine together. 

Plasticene & Tears

Our wee animation. It's crap.

Animation - 19canteen till Today.

Animation as we know it today started in the early 1900's with many primitive devices to make drawings move, such as the zoetrope, the magic lantern which was the predecessor to today's projector and the humble flip book. These methods which seem simple and crude compared to todays standards, were, in their time cutting edge, and no doubt caused quite a stir.

Animation moved ahead quickly through the 2oth century, using more advanced hand drawn animation, and then stop motion animation, where the objects are moved a little, photographed then moved a little more. Then came the dawn of the computer and CGI animation, the first example of this was Toy Story by Pixar, which opened up a whole new world of animation.

While primitive forms of animation from the 19th century can entertain a modern audience for approximately 3 seconds, they are in no way comparable to modern forms of animation, except for the fact that with both you see moving images on some form of screen. However, the early devices used to make the images move were enough to inspire people into developing better techniques, even as early as 1937, with the release of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, which is still a watchable film today.

However, in the case of a program such as South Park, which started off as a cut out animation made by using cut out cardboard figures, moving them slightly then photographing them. Once this series became a hit and the makers had some money they then started using CGI animation to make the cartoon, and this in my opinion ruined the show as it lost some of its ooomph.

Urrrgh.. Happy New Year?

Friday 18th December...

I was off this week with a nasty throat infection,returned today to do what I could to help with the project with no voice! Today Dawn and I took lots of still photos for the animation, then we finished up for the xmas holidays, as we had the afternoon off.

Friday 8th Jan....

We had Tuesday off so we lost John and Angies class to do the project, back on Thursday for an assessment with Gavin, then on Friday in Ewans class we had to work out butts off to try and get our animation finished. Abee and I transfer ed all of the photos from the camera to the computer, in the process we had to manually shorten the lengths of the photos as imovie would not allow us to select them all and do it that way.In the afternoon in Brians class we wrote our report on our pieces we had produced in the design and make part of the project, which in my case was the plasticine man for the animation.

Friday 15th Jan...

On Tuesday in Johns class we tried to find out if we were doing something wrong when trying to select all the photos and shorten the timings on them, it turned out we were doing it right, it is the program that is misbehaving. That meant Emma and I had to spend a while working together with her clicking the mouse and me "apple v +enter" to shorten the timings on the last few hundred photos. Once this was done we used imovie to join up all the little clips into one long animation, then Ryan and Adam recorded a dialogue in the stylee of footie commentators off the telly.On Thursday in Gavins class we did remediation on our assessment last week, and on Friday, which is today, we are finishing off our blogs and animations as this is the last day of the project. Aaaaarggghhh... rush rush!! Thanks for the Smint Eta!!