The title says it all!
This week I have been working on my reflective report, which turned in to a bit of a can of worms but its done! Am i happy with it? Of course I'm not! I have also been working on our presentation, I have far too much to say and I have found it pretty difficult to limit it and I have also found myself constantly putting over my point of view, what I would change, how I dealt with the difficulties. So to remedy this I deleted all that stuff and will work with the group tonight and get their opinions. Our video clip is done but we may be altering one tiny litle thing tonight and then its presentation all the way and then its finally over!!! I have enjoyed it but I can't wait to work on my own again!
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Thursday, 12 February 2009
War and Peace
I think perhaps I may need to set myself a word limit on my reflective report! I have decided to try a few different ways of communicating my thoughts for my report because I doubt that a lengthy typed report will be fun to read or write for that matter! I will continue blogging, and perhaps use some extracts from this in my final report and I have also decided to teach myself InDesign and make some sort of visual reflective report using that. I have a few other random ideas but I may be getting carried away.
As I mentioned in the previous blog I was unhappy with the project but couldn't quite put my finger on the problem. So I showed the rough version of the final clip to a very honest and good friend, Jen and she too thought there was something not quite right but wasn't sure what at that point.
And so, the pair of us went on a day trip to Salford Quays and decided to go in Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum. I am a huge fan of architecture and the Imperial War Museum as a building isn't particularly special but its interior and the reasoning behind its exterior is in the words of Ben, 'Awesome.' The excellent lighting scheme and the angled positions of the walls make you feel disorientated and uncertain.The dark interior evokes every emotion that war does. We also watched a 360 degree show that lasted 15 minutes in the museums main exhibition. The show was filled with real life experiences from a variety of wars, thought provoking imagery and excellent sound effects. I watched and compared it to our project, we had the imagery in ours, we were working on the audio and then Jen hit the nail on the head... we were lacking emotion. I filmed a couple of minutes of the show and also found several other linked items in the exhibition, eg, videos of the Manchester blitz and also some info from the Manchester 1996 bombing.
Back at college and talking to the group I brought this up, with the help of Jen. They agreed and so we are well and truly back on track. So this week Tim is working on the audio, Chris is reworking his script, Tom is working on our title sequence, Adrian is working on the editing again and they have told me to have a week off...somehow I don't think that is going to happen!!!
As I mentioned in the previous blog I was unhappy with the project but couldn't quite put my finger on the problem. So I showed the rough version of the final clip to a very honest and good friend, Jen and she too thought there was something not quite right but wasn't sure what at that point.
And so, the pair of us went on a day trip to Salford Quays and decided to go in Daniel Libeskind's Imperial War Museum. I am a huge fan of architecture and the Imperial War Museum as a building isn't particularly special but its interior and the reasoning behind its exterior is in the words of Ben, 'Awesome.' The excellent lighting scheme and the angled positions of the walls make you feel disorientated and uncertain.The dark interior evokes every emotion that war does. We also watched a 360 degree show that lasted 15 minutes in the museums main exhibition. The show was filled with real life experiences from a variety of wars, thought provoking imagery and excellent sound effects. I watched and compared it to our project, we had the imagery in ours, we were working on the audio and then Jen hit the nail on the head... we were lacking emotion. I filmed a couple of minutes of the show and also found several other linked items in the exhibition, eg, videos of the Manchester blitz and also some info from the Manchester 1996 bombing.
Back at college and talking to the group I brought this up, with the help of Jen. They agreed and so we are well and truly back on track. So this week Tim is working on the audio, Chris is reworking his script, Tom is working on our title sequence, Adrian is working on the editing again and they have told me to have a week off...somehow I don't think that is going to happen!!!
Thursday, 5 February 2009
I don't like it!
Still doing group work! Last nights lesson with all the group present and reviewing what we had was great and gave us back some of the direction I thought we had lost. We are still steaming ahead, working hard and striving for perfection. Last night we had completed our first, very rough attempt at the final film clip and with five weeks to go we are well ahead of schedule.
So far what I have said doesn't fit in with the title of my blog so I probably should explain. We worked in to the clip a lot last night and it seemed my phrase for the night was 'I don't like it!' It is getting there but something isn't quite working yet. The clip made perfect sense to the group because we understand the message we are trying to convey but if an impartial person was to take a look would they understand that message? As it stands at the moment I don't think they would and I do intend to test this theory.
I have also posted some of my new sketches on our google group so they can be added in to our second attempt at the film!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31392076@N03/
So far what I have said doesn't fit in with the title of my blog so I probably should explain. We worked in to the clip a lot last night and it seemed my phrase for the night was 'I don't like it!' It is getting there but something isn't quite working yet. The clip made perfect sense to the group because we understand the message we are trying to convey but if an impartial person was to take a look would they understand that message? As it stands at the moment I don't think they would and I do intend to test this theory.
I have also posted some of my new sketches on our google group so they can be added in to our second attempt at the film!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31392076@N03/
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