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I’m currently trying to get the beginning of the first draft of a documentary script written, and I could use your help and knowledge. I’m looking for examples to refer to in the opening few paragraphs of dialogue, and could use your help in the comments below. As part of the documentary I’m making, I use [...]
Well it certainly has been a while since Le Blog got updated. I’ve been away on holiday, laboured away in Bernie’s garden for nearly two weeks getting ready for Anna & Mike’s Wedding, and have generally been trying to get back into the swing of things as I slowly creep towards September. Now is as [...]
Morning! I’ve had a lot of distraction over the past week, which amongst other things has affected by ability to Get Things Done ™ and the original film shoot I had planned for my Virgin Media Shorts/final college project short film never happened. Now, the deadline is edging ever closer (this coming Monday!) and I [...]
Heading out soon, and just wanted to post a quick update in regards to the short film I’m producing for the Virgin Media Shorts 2009 competition. This afternoon, I Tweeted/Facebooked asking for suggestions as to what kind of educational advice the public service parody will be dishing out, as I was looking for inspiration as [...]
When I go into college tomorrow, I’ll have eighteen days to ensure that my video entry into the Virgin Media Shorts 2009 competition is completed and uploaded. We would normally have six weeks to produce a piece of work, but as we have run over on other assignments over the last few months, we’re left [...]
I previously blogged about the competition back in April, and it was something I really wanted to enter, but more for the exposure on their website than to win the actual prize. This morning, we received our brief for the final assignment of the course entitled ‘Digital Storytelling’, and we have been encouraged to follow the [...]
Every Friday morning we have a class with a second tutor, on the Interative Media & Moving Image course I’m currently on. For my final project with my main tutor, I’m producing ‘Park of the Dead’, my short horror film that I’ll be writing a lot more about from this week onwards. With the second tutor, [...]
I got wind of this a couple of weeks ago, but only actually had a look at it today. Budding British film makers have until June 22nd to submit their short films of up to 2mins 20secs in length, to be entered into the Virgin Media Shorts competition. Having had a look at some of the [...]
I’ve not really had a great deal to say on Le Blog this past month, things have been super busy with college, work and preparing for the university interview I had over the weekend. For the most part, I’m good. I’ve got a lot of bits and pieces I’m working on…so here comes the brain [...]
Only just settling back into normality, thought I’d freshen (and brighten) up the blog with a new template at the same time as upgrading to Wordpress 2.7; very slick indeed! I’ve not had much chance to get much college work done, as I’ve been working or away for most of the last month. Have three assignments [...]
Well, it’s been almost a week now since the university application went out of the door. At 10:06am on Friday, November 21st my application left the college and went on its merry way to UCAS. Just writing that is quite liberating. I try and sell myself as a guy with no regrets, however, along with never [...]
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. The first assignment in the second year of the Interactive Media Diploma was to produce a four minute documentary that would be suitable for broadcast over the Internet; specifically with an eye towards uploading our documentaries to the Channel 4 ‘Four Docs’ website. I [...]
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. One of our final assignments in the first year on the Interactive Media Diploma was to produce an advert, suitable for broadcast on television, to be no more than thirty seconds in length and to incorporate the fake brand name ‘Zero’ in a [...]
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. When I was first presented with a list of the assignments we were going to be working on in the first year, the ‘Newscast’ assignment was certainly the one that caught my interest the most. I do have a strong interest in factual/documentary [...]
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. Killer Appliances was my response to our animation assignment, mid way through our first year on the Interactive Media diploma. Prior to creating this, I had no experience with traditional animation; only (somewhat limited) experience with Shockwave Flash content. From the word go I [...]
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. This was a short film conceived very late into the ‘City Shorts’ assignment. Initially we had planned to shoot a Clerks-esque film in a local Blockbuster video; only to have them withdraw access after initially saying yes. Don’t rely on difficult locations if [...]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. During our NCFE Art & Design basic training, prior to starting the BTEC National Diploma, we were tasked with creating a ‘Soundscape’, a short film using still images and sound to create a narrative. My team mate Raj and I had [...]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. As a massive Doctor Who fan, I bought a USB 4 Port TARDIS Hub from Firebox.com some time ago and almost immediately began scheming. I’d been on the Interactive Media Diploma for a couple of months at this point, and [...]