1st june johns class

We watched "The Adam Easdon Show" haha it was funny :)

wed 26th may

we revised for our nab next week and watched 3 documentaries.

Brief.. Allow tower

* I done research about venues and events that happen at Alloa tower, e.g Wedding receptions, parties, meetings etc.

* 3 examples of display and/or storage methods for digital video ? DVD, Video tape, computer.

*www.downanddirtydv.com - Anthony Q Artis
www.michaelmoore.com - Michael Moore
www.malcolmdouglas.com - Malcolm Douglas

* I done research on events at Alloa tower, then we went down to the tower and took loads of pictures of it, I done my presentation outside the tower because i didn't manage to do it inside where i had planned :( Robert took out any mistakes I had made and passed it onto Jamie who then edited it a bit more to make it look better, he then put everyones clips onto a dvd and we shall watch it soon :) should be good!

*Ken Feingold -Kenneth Feingold (USA, 1952 - ) is a contemporary American conceptual artist based in New York. He has been exhibiting his work in video, drawing, film, sculpture, and installations since 1974. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2004)[1] and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship(2003)[2] and has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, among others. His works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou[3][3], Paris; Tate Liverpool[4], the Whitney Museum of American Art[5][6], New York, and many other museums.

*David Hall - David Hall attended Leicester College of Art and the Royal College of Art.[1] During the 1960s he worked as a sculptor and showed his work internationally.[1] He won first prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965 and took part in other key shows including Primary Structures, New York in 1966 which marked the beginning of Minimalist art. Soon he began working with film and at the beginning of the 1970s turned to video as an art medium.[1]

*Doug Aitken -Doug Aitken was born in Redondo Beach, California in 1968 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles and New York.[1]
Aitken’s body of work ranges from photography, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, and installations.[2] [3] His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Allow Tower

The trip to Alloa Tower was goooooood .. :) i was nervous to do my part on talking infront of the camera and when I looked at my speech there was ALOT i could have improved on! i just spoke really fast to get it over and done with! her are some of the pictures i took the day we went down ... Ahhh why is it not letting me upload pictures!!!!!

21st May Brians class

I finished off the dvd cover for Alloa tower

friday 21st May Angies class

The class went out into the college garden and had to draw 2 pictures of ANYTHING in the garden, one with just black and white and one with black, white and a colour of out choice.. i enjoyed this :D

Tuesday 18th May

Today I finished my podcast about Interior design and saved it onto big john :D it played infront of the whole class! I still haven't got use to hearing my own voice! haha! anyway at least that is that out the window :D

friday 14th Angie's class

I carried on with practicing using the sowing machine, i'm finding it easier to use now yaaaaay! ... :-) nearly finished!

Brians class 14th May

I went onto moodle and downloaded the photoshop templates for Cd booklet, then I used iphoto to make a front cover for a Cd case, I used 15 pictures of Alloa tower and used different effects on them to make them stand out from the background which was a big picture of the tower itself.

Brian's class - 7th

I made a slide show on iphoto using pictures of Alloa tower, we were just having a muck about with it so we understood how it worked

23rd April Brian's class

We had to go onto the internet and find out if it was cheaper buying a music CD or making one on your own... We checked out different websites to find out where the cheapest materials were. We also had to make a pie chart about what flavour of doritos people preferred. Tried to upload a picture of the pie chart but it WOULDN'T LET ME! ...

Friday 7th May

I caught up with my blog and done some more research on Alloa tower.

Wed 5th May - Gavin's class

The class went down to the games room and filmed the talk show, it was so funny!! we should do more of this kind of stuff :-)

Gavin's class 21st April

Gavin JUST made it back in time from his holiday but he didn't have anything prepared for us so he let the class go down to Alloa tower and take the pictures we were due for Angie's class.

27th April Angie's class

Me, Eta and Flea practiced drawing objects for our interviews! it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be but my picture was a DISGRACE haha

Tuesday 20th April

We finished off our podcast about our own topics and put them onto Big John.

brians class 26th march

We continued to read everyones articles and wrote what we liked and disliked about them. 

johns class 23rd march

I finished my article and read it into the microphone to start my podcast, all i need to do now is put some music into it.

Gavins class 17th

I finished off the radio show MYSELF! it was only me and Eta who took part in it anyway.

brians class 19th march

Here is a picture of the evaluation form.
I finished my magazine page on interior design and downloaded the article evaluation from moodle, I am just waiting on people finishing their article so I can read them and write what i thought about them in the evaluation form.  

16th march - johns class

I updated my blog and continued with my magazine page so I will be ready for recording next week.

wed 10th march - Gavin's class

 Me and Eta recorded our radio show about celebrity gossip because karen wasn't here. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be, we just need to get background music and delete a few mistakes we made and then we will be finished.

tues 9th johns class

We done research on Alloa tower and wrote down things we found out about it. We had to choose what bit of the tower we would be talking about when we start our filming, i haven't chose anything yet.

5th march - brian's class

We had a meeting and brian video recored us. I started to publish my article on scribus about interior design, I am finding it easy to do so far but I had difficulty trying to insert my pictures. So far I have inserted my writing and 2 pictures.

26th feb

Today we used scribus, brian gave us a book to work through and it explained how to make a page in a magizine. It was quite complicated but if i was to do it again i would know what to do. I worked on my own but sometimes i got a bit distracted because the book went on forever but finally got it done! 

Brian's class 12/02/10

Today i done research on interior design for my magazine page, I saved some pictures of designs I liked and some writing about famous designers, the class also downloaded scribus and article planner on moodle. I wrote out my article on a piece of paper first then typed it on my planning sheet on moodle so it would be easy for me to find, brian is going to read it and get back to me on what i need to fix. 

09/02/10 Johns class

Today we discussed how to make a dvd and what equipment we need to make one. This was useful information for when we go to Alloa tower to make our documentary.

 

Garageband

This is a screenshot of an example of me using garageband.

I-web

This is a screen shot of an example i have of using i - web.

I-photo

 This is a screenshot of i-photo which we used to make our podcast.

EPK

We had to make a folder and put two other folders inside it.

Block2

Brian's class - he gave us magazines to look through and we were to trace a double page. we were to outline the invisible columns and was given a piece of paper with all the different names that are used in magazines e.g Heading, footer, margin, recto etc. 

Angie's class - went to the learning zone and printed off pictures that Andy Warhol produced.

Gavin's class - We went over what we would be doing in this block which is media analysis ( non-fiction) 

The restaurant

Fiona brought in plastic chairs, tables, sofas etc. We covered them in plasticine and this was what they looked like after everything was covered.

animation backdrop

This is our backdrop for both the living room and the restaurant, I brought in the black and silver wallpaper and an empty ice cream tub for the reception table. 

animation models

 These are the models that were involved in our animation. I made the asylum seeker on the left in the blue outfit. 

report on animation!

Animation has changed a lot since it was first invented in the 19th century, the first types of animation was the thaumatrope, flipbook, rotoscoping and painting pictures onto a backdrop then moving pictures by hand in each frame to make an animation. Some old types of animation is still used in schools such as the flip book and by using cameras by taking a picture then moving the characters slightly frame by frame to make an animation, this is called stop motion. one example that still uses this technique is the simpsons. Over the years/century's animation has become a bit more technical but easier and todays way of making most animations is to use a computer, some CGI is so good that in some films it can make characters look like real life people for example the film The Polar Express has characters in it that you wouldn't believe they were only cartoon, below is one of the characters from the film.

12/01/10 - 15/01/10

John's class - we put the pictures into different folders as some of them had bad lighting and were a bit too jumpy, we also shortened the frames in each picture.

We finished the last scene and put all the scenes together, Adam and john did the sound, we have finished. =)

Angie's class - we finished our sketch books and any paper work that needed done.

7/01/10 - 8/01/10

Gavin's class - We done our assessment on Michael Jackson's music video black or white.

Ewan's class - We continued with our animation, just need to sort it on the computer and add a soundtrack.

Cut out animation

this involves moving cut out shapes a little at a time and taking a picture every time to make an animation.