Today we took a colleg trip to Demolition paintballing, it was a good day and a good team building exercise, i pulled of some good shoots, eighteen kills in total with four deaths bringing my ratio to a decent pluss fourteen score.

We played a few veriants encluding capture the flag and Demolition, i thought these were good as it ment we had to work well as a team although the marshal who was overseeing the game told us that its better to act alone.

In all it was a good experiance and one i will not forget, i hope we do more activities like this in the near future.

Today we continued to develope our knowledge of Adobe Premier Pro, although there is no current work in which i can do i decided to practise using the software by importing a video from youtube. after doing this i then looked on youtube for more music that we could use in our video. i managed to find a song in particular that i would like to put forward to the rest of the group, this song is called Juggernaughts by Enter Shikari. i will investigate more into music tommorow.

Today we started to review some of the shoots we had taken with the video camera, in doing this we decided which scenes we would use and which scenes we would descard. as there was nothing we could record today and the lack of work that both me and lewis could do we were not able to complete much work today, baring in mind that all the written work is completed. we plan to record more scenes this wednesday and finish of the recording so that we can start the editing process.

Today we began further planning into our video production project, i decicded to do the story boards as im good at draing and was able to finish this in today's lesson, it was then scanned and uploaded to photoshop. i then moved onto doing my weekly planner so that i have goals to set for the future lessons, as regards to group work its going really well so far, everyone seems to be working well with each other and there havnt been any arguements yet which is a good sign. in the upcomming lessons i will start to look into camera angles and which would be best for our film. we have decided now to do a film about a government agent and a person with warping ability, very simple however the actual footage at the end should look very good and quite complex, i look forwards to continueing this work.

Today we began our new project on video production, we spent the moirning going through the project breif and after the first break we were then assigned into groups, we were then given a task to discuss what sort of video we would like to make and then we had to fill out a planner so that we could begin to prepare for the video. As a group we decided to do a video inspired by the films Jumper and Push, using these effects plus our own experiance we will combine these effects with our own Parkour to make our video enjoyable to make and watch, i look forward to seeing the progress of this and will look forward to continueing this project.

Today i continued to produce my animation project, unfortunately i am a bit behind as i had to start over once i founf that my original idea was far too complicated, however the current project seems to be a success, i struggled with a few minor problems to begin with however i had support from my tutor who was able to show me a much easier way to get the ball to roll down the slide. by the end of today i had managed to nearly finish the animation, all that is left to do is inport a background so that it will be mor einteresting to watch. i also need to finish up a presentation which i will complete over the next few days.

My new project design was allot more simple and so far i have made much better progress, i ran into a fair few problems as im new to this software however after recieving help i was then able to continue with the project, today i manage to set up my wall using flash and after the easter holidays i will then start to animate the ball.

Today i started to draw my story board out into large A4 sheets of papper, i drew each slide individualy so that i would be able to scan them into photoshop at a latter date, as i enjoyed draing i had no problems doing this and was able to continue with this over the next few weeks, after i had done this i then uploaded them into photoshop and edited the photos for flash, as the project moved on i soon found that i had made my drawings to complicated to animate and there four i had to abandon it and do something much more simple otherwise i would risk missing the dealine.

Today i worked towards finishing my research, i managed to finish of my research on the many different types of animation techniques there are and i have now began my research on a topic of my choice which has something to do with animation, i plant o have this finished on the wednesday as tomorow theres no college and i currewntly have no internet at home.

Today we began a developement through our project by first making flip books, i made mine about a bullet traveling through objects, we then went on to producing our first short animation, and we began planning it on a story board, ive decided to do mine on the imagination of a child which is hand drawn by me. i plan to scan and upload these pictures into photoshop to make them into an animation.

Today we learnt how to create animation using a traumascope, we hand drew pictures onto round papper and then placed a wire between the back of them, after doing this we were then able to produce a seconds worth of animation by spinning the string, i decided to do a stick man riding a missle into an explosion, it worked a little bit but i think i should have done it more simple in order for it to work better. after i had made this i then carried on with my research into animation.

We also went through flick book animation and a machine called a mutescope which was invented by thomas edison, we were shown a presentation on this and i found this usefull especialy as we will be making flick book animations in the near future.

Today we began our research into animation and the different types of animation there were. John our tutor gave us a presentation on the different types of animation to give us an idea of the different types. we were then asked to produce our own presentation in which we had to complete six slide. each of these slides would explain a different type of animation. i manage to get four out of six slides done and i plan to finish the rest tommorow.

Animation Notes.

Clay-mation - Using clay to produce animation.

Edward Muybridge - Humans in Motion - stop motion photos.

Zoetrope - Series of sequential images in a drum.

Phenakistoscope - A picture disk with slits mounted on a handle that reflects images.
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Cel Animation - Created by disney were the first to introduce sound to animation.

Today we began to finish up the final editing of our podcasts, as we took it in turns by doing sections each. we also continued with our initial research and began attempting ti finish all ten pages of the required research, so far we have five shared research and i personaly have four research documents, so ive nearly finished my research and i will probably be finishing it tommorow along with the podcast.

Today we started our recording of our podcast but first we finished our scripts and the line that we would be reading, we also put down key points that we would bring up during the podcast, we signed out a sounbooth room in the library and set up inside to begin our podcast, their were quite a few mistakes however im happy to say that none of them were my fault as i was the only one who didnt screw up a line, after we had finished recording we returned to the class to update blogs and finish the lesson.

Today we started to produce our breakdown script of what we would be doing and then another script about what were gonna say, we all wrote what we would like to say and discussed about what sort of questions we would ask and be answering. after we were happy with what we were going to be talking about we began writing it up in detail.

Today we finished of our mind maps and continued to research into podcasts which we will be making in the near future, we had to find a podcast of interest and save it for the wednesday back as we have monday off, latter on through the lesson we had to arrange in order some cards in groups and then had to discuss the right answers with the rest of the class. we then had a class review and then finifhed with this update on blogger.

I found todays task not very challenging however i found it to be a better more useful way to research instead of typing pages of information which becomes boring, i thought thats the tasks could be more challenging for future reference however an all round good effort, in actuall fact i think in some ways its much better.

Today we recived the new project called audio prodiction and we began by researching into broacasting equipment of our own choice, we put the information into a spider diagram and did a little research around google in order to fulfill the questions in which the template asked, i managed to get one done on MP3's and i nearly done another on Speech radio's which has yet to be finished, after completeing this i will then move on to another called Music Tv which i will compleate either on the wednesday back of the following thursday.

Example – Won’t go Quietly

Example is a british rapper that i personaly find interesting because of his tyle of music and his use of clever lyrics, one of his newest songs called ‘wont go quietly’ in my opinion is one of his best along with the previously released ‘watch the sun come up’. Examples real name is Elliot John Gleave.
Born 20 June 1982 at West London hospital in Hammersmith, Gleave attended All Saints Primary School in Fulham High Street. He later went on to attend ADT College, Wandsworth (now Ashcroft Technology Academy). Gleave has claimed in interviews that the main reason he started rapping was due to his introduction to Hip-Hop through albums by Wu-Tang Clan and Snoop Dogg – the latter's album purchased primarily for "the cool cover art". Aged 15, Example entered his first rap battle at a house party in Shepherds Bush and in his own words "completely destroyed a useless wanker and a fight broke out so [he] sprinted home" . In 1992, he won Royal Mail Poet of the Year, winning his school a new computer. In 2000, Example attended Royal Holloway University, London to study film directing. While at University, Example started garage MCing to make some money. It was during this period that he met Joseph Gardner AKA Rusher, the producer with whom he would later go on to work with. Example and Rusher made a concept album in the audio booth of the University film department which included the track that would go onto be Example's first white-label vinyl release, "A Pointless Song".
The song is a dance track meant for clubs, night clubs and other of the same variety, I’m not to sure what the song is about but then again I’m not sure it really has a meaning behind it, it simply contains a decent beat with clever put together vocals which makes the song.
I personally like the song because it has an upbeat style to it that makes you want to go out, and also the lyrics are catchy an draw your attention.
The thing i don’t like about the song however is that I think it’s too short and i think it would be better if they had made the song a little longer as this song is only around three minutes long.
My overall opinion of the song is good, i like the song and I don’t think i can find many things wrong with it, as previously mentioned i liked the lyrics and the beat, he’s a unique artists and i enjoy quite a few of his songs.
My rating on this song is a decent eight out of ten, i think there’s definitely things that could have been allot better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-So9lXFt5rM

Mass Effect 2



Mass effect was created by Bioware who have a long history of creating good decent games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, and Dragon Age: Origins. But the game that most interested me was mass effect and mass effect 2.
The game takes place in the future following a human hero named Commander John Sheppard who leads a campaign to stop the powerful semi synthetic organic race referred to as the “Reapers” who aim to strip the galaxy of its resources and technology to complete a cycle which has repeated itself for millions of years.
In this game the goal is to gather elite skilled members from all over the galaxy to make a powerful team to fight against the Reapers as they attempt to annihilate all sentient life through out the galaxy, by putting together a team of the best of the best it is suggested that Sheppard has a higher chance of success.
In the first game you are up against a rouge specter who has been indoctrinated by a Reaper who has been nick named by Seren (the rouge specter) the name given to this Reaper is Sovereign, who is the vanguard of the reapers return, his job is to make sure the reapers can easily return to begin the cycle of animation the Reapers real name however is Nazara, named for reasons unknown. Fortunately Sovereign fails in his attempts to open the mass relays to the Reaper fleet. Killed by Sheppard and the Normandy. That’s a quick summery anyway.
In Mass effect 2 as previously stated he is to gather a strong team to aid him, however it isn’t a reaper he is fighting directly it is a race known as the collectors whose home world sits beyond the Omega 4 relay cut of from the rest of the galaxy. It isn’t known weather the collectors allied with the reapers through choice but they seemed to be acting on behalf of a reaper called Harbinger who is currently with the rest of the reaper fleet out in dark space on the outer rim of the Milky Way. The collectors reassemble bug like creatures with advanced technology, an individual collector can sometimes be controlled by harbinger himself when he attempts to foil Sheppard’s plans.
The game itself is a third person’s shooter with a great variety of weapons and powers in which you can abuse and combine to take care of your enemies quickly and effectively. Their is allot a levelling system so that you are able to make your character stronger, faster and more powerful with his attacks, you are also able to gain paragon and renegade points depending on the actions you choose and depending on how good or bad you are this will unlock more dialect and new options.
The game also has good sound quality giving a different sound for every different action, in combat and out of combat; the background soundtrack is also amazing giving the player a good sense of realism.
The controls to this game are easy to use and conveniently modified for easy movement with your hands however if you do so choose you can modify your controls to how you prefer.
The only thing i don’t like about the game is the fact that on some occasions the game might freeze which can be very frustrating especially once you get into it.

Id rate this game 10 out of 10 for its amazing graphics and game play, and imaginative storyline, definitely a must buy for x box 360 gamers everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLhptv1yYMU

After i had done putting together the tracks and the recordings i then played with the faders and effects again adiing ambient sounds like i did back on the cubase project, after i was happy with the sound i had created i sent it in for marking again with the screen grabs i had previously taken as i progressed through the project.

After we had doone the loops we then went out with recording devices to record a veriety of sounds in which we would also use to create our track as it was apart of the brief, after we had finished gathering our recordings we then loaded them onto the computer and into Soundbooth, using our loops, recordings and other parts of audio we now started to produce a working track, it didnt have to be good but as long as we demonstrated the techniques we were ok.

Next we were told hot to create a loop using sounbooth, we did this by taking apart of a track either from youtube or from an mp3 player and taking a segment from it, we then edited it by cutting away excess parts and looping it by going to the loop option on the right hand side of the screen, after doing this we were able to save it, and keep it for future reference where we would be using it for making a new track on this new software.

After the Cubase project was completed we then moved on to a peice of software called soundbooth, its similiar to cubase however i find its much easier to edit and make loops, there were some complications when i was trying to find certain options however i found that it was much easier to use once i had a little more experiance, i still prefere cubase at this point though.

After i played around with it a bit more i was finally happy with what i had created, i then performed a media mexdown by going to file and then export, after i had completed my mixdown i then handed in the peice of work to my tutor along with the required screen grabs that we had to do for each individual track.

after i had compleated this track i then began my main peice using aripped track from youtube, i then began edditing it by breaking up the song and rearanging it untill i liked what i was hearing, i then began adding an reverb ambient sound to change it up a little adding faders to make the loops connect better with each other.

After christmas i had contued to develope my track, i had time stretched the track and added a few more loops fitting them to the correct beat of the track, i had a few problem here and there but i found the easy to overcome as i grew to know the software much much better.