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What? TWO posts containing cool videos during the course of one evening?! The human mind simply cannot handle such an entertainment overload! Well, you can at least try. Two guys have recreated part of ‘The Matrix’ using Lego and still photography to produce a stop-motion animation of the ‘bullet time’ scene that was broke new [...]


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 [...]