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In order to make using this blog a little bit easier I have tagged every post, and I'm posting all the relevant tags in this untagged post hereAssignment 001Assignment 002FinalInteractionMiscPortfolioResearchSPP2TutorialWeb

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So after been in Nottingham for just over two years I may have a slight career opportunity. I have been taken on as independent arts distributor [basically means handing out magazines] for Nottingham based fashion, arts, music magazine Don't Panic. Now, this is has nothing to do with web design as of yet, but it can help me get into the web design industry by gaining knowledge and contacts within

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I said a few months ago about creating a website for a friend and creating audio/video players for another, well, these didn't happen for a number of reasons. But now, I've been 'commissioned' to create, host and update an online photography portfolio. Exciting stuff. Especially after what I've learned in creating my social network I should be able to use similar coding.After getting Web Designer

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Just a quick note for all the web designers to say that if you don't know about these books already then you should. I came across a few books by publishing company Taschen last year in Fopp, based around websites and how they were created [the books being called Web Design: Flash Sites, and Web Design: Portfolios].I then found a few more yesterday in Zavvi [these being Web Design: Music Sites,

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After everything, I finally handed in my social networking site. Overall I am very pleased with what I have accomplished, it was an experience to be given such a, complicated, yet very interesting project that opened my eyes as to what can be done with web design and how easy it can be.However there were a few things that I had missed out. I didn't complete the CSS coding fully and I still had a

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Now, with this been a social network I had to think about how to create individual profile pages. After looking at todays social sites I found that they each had there own unique way of showing user profiles.Facebook seems to use the Member ID to create individual profile pages.Myspace seems to use a unique URL defined by the user for the profile page.With this in mind, and after speaking to Dave

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I'm on a roll now!! Once I get started I just can't seem to stop until I've finished.So today I have been creating the system so that you can invite a friend to join the social network, as you can only be invited and you can only view the site if you are a member, which in todays world seems to be a good idea.At first look the idea seems easy; sending an email which you can input the message, and

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After getting the login system working on my site I set about how to create public and private messages. First I created the database to hold all the information for the public message system, cleverly titled 'public_message'. Then by using a simple send and receive tutorial, alongside a little javascript [which, if I'm honest, didn't understand] and with the examples we used for the CD database

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Just completed the [basic] design for my login system and got it working, just. So that's one of about thirty things completed. Its amazing that if you forget one space, and put an upper case letter instead of a lower case one the whole thing doesn't work.

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After explaining to my friends about this terms project and how I have to create a social network, they were more then happy to help me with the name choosing. Half a dozen pints later we came up with the name 'iPlanet'. Initially I wanted something to tie together both MySpace and Facebook, and to also steal some ideas from my friends work in progress 'yourwURLd'. But after a long list the only

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After a short weekend away in the Big Apple I found something that may be of some interest to me in my final year. I was walking past The New York Times building on Broadway, if I'm correct, and noticed two walls filled these strange black boxes. I thought nothing of it as I knew I wouldn't be able to get in because of the security at the entrance. I turned a corner to find an entrance open to

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Remember the series of Honda Adverts from a few years ago [The ones with ], well they've just realised a new series of adverts. After scaling the wonder that is YouTube I managed to find the whole advert. I particulary like the first one with the Rubix Cube's. Maybe because it ties in with the pixel art I studied [and became obsessed with!!] a few months ago!I also found out that the company [

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After this lecture on Phidgets, the flash based user interface, it got me thinking more and more about my final year. After been told the set shown was near enough £400 I decided purchasing the set wasn't a good idea, so I set about looking at working examples of the Phidgets. I found this, and it looks like a great idea, and I bet very easy to create. Enjoy!

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So last week, we were given the task of to visit one of the following galleries;+ 1851 [Waverley Building],+ Lakeside [Nottingham Uni],+ Galleries of Justice,+ View From the Top [Waterstones]We were told to look at the work been showed and suggest how you would/wouldn't use it in your own work. This, I thought would be easy, but, I was wrong. I chose to visit 1851 and View From the Top to look at

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With the wonders of todays technology I was very pleased to find 'The Big Fat Quiz of the Year' been available on the internet after missing it on TV.This passes some of the winter nights rather nicely.

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So, with the tasks been set at hand by my friends of creating a website and flash players I was thinking about creating myself a type of online portfolio/journal/gallery for me. Its a lot harder then I first thought, I cant think of how to design it but also what colour scheme to use, and to which are "web safe" and work with each other! I'm hope to try and create something in similar affect to

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With my ever-growing knowledge and experience within the course I'm very excited to be taking a trip to New York at the beginning of February. I can't wait to go, and I hope it'll give me a chance to learn some new things/cultures whilst I'm there, even if it is only for a weekend. Also the visit will give me a chance to experiment with photography slightly!!

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Lately I've been thinking [but moreso worrying] about what I should research for my final year project, and I've made an inital idea to research into the affects of Web 2.0 on the world wide web and what it has done to the internet community. This will incorporate the likes of social networking and the internet been accessible almost anywhere on almost any electrical device, and how it may change

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You know when you set out to do something but then get completely sidetracked by something, well, unfortunately I'm doing this a lot recently, I'm still debating whether this is a good or a bad thing.So, I was searching for a nice pair of trainers, the winter weather has taken its toll on my converse, and I went to a popular American shoe company to browse their online catalogue and became

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So another one of our tasks for our regular tutorial sessions was to go along to Broadway [the digital arts/gallery/cinema/bar] and to look at their digital art and have an opinion on it. What I first thought would be very interesting turned out to be very plain.I was expecting lots of different displays with lots of different installations but all that I got was half a dozen plasma tvs

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Now, just when I don't need it I've had another offer from a friend to create them an online portfolio for their graphic design work. I'll hopefully build the site in HTML with a flash based galley, maybe, thats my initial thought on the subject. However, both this and the flash players will have to wait till I've finished my project!

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Recently in the Web Apps series of lectures we have been looking at databases and the ability to query them. I found these very simple to start off with, studying Computing at A-Level I've created more then enough database. This, is slightly different, even if maybe for the same purpose. I'm struggling slightly on the queries and the slightest of things that would make the database

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When I was first given this assignment I had many pre-conceptions as to what to produce for my adverts. I wanted something that was stylish and would stand out but wasn’t annoying to view and/or too distracting. In order to think about what I had to design I first thought about what I like to see in a banner. Although slightly annoying and addictive, I enjoy games built within banners, but I

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Right, as far I can see my banner is completed, a few more tweaks here and there since the last post and its done. Still didnt manage to get the hover function working, but well I never seem to get exactly what I want from flash, and it keeps me coming back for more, great.Now to just complete the report.

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See thats the code I want to try and implement, or something to that affect, but its not working. Ive spent the past week or so trying to figure out the code to make the movie play a certain frame when the slider hovers over a certain part of the slider, but it will only work on a press function. This is not good, and I'm slowly starting to lose my patience. If anyone has any ideas please help me.

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So after stressing about the fact that I dont actually have a portfolio, besides the work I've completed within university I've been asked by a friend to create a flash audio player and a flash video player, similiar to the ones seen on youTube.com and purevolume.com.This sounds very interesting but very complex. Let's hope I'll see more of this in the future.

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So I have now completed the Intro and Outro to the Christmas banner. Which means, its finished. Half way there, finally, thought I'd never make it.

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Now that I'm coming to the final stages of my second banner I've opted for a style change. I've been creating the banner so far with placeholder images and what not and have now thought of a slightly different approach. I'm going to borrow one of my friends graphical skills to sketch a few images for me for my banner so I can get the correct feel. Lets hope it goes according to plan.

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So yes, I was correct, my idea on the previous post has started to hurt my head. Alot. I wanted the movie within the banner to respond to the slider control when it goes over a certain point on the slider, but for some reason I cant get it to work unless you press the slider. This is rather annoying. Other then that the banner is working fine.

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So as I was thinking of ideas for my country banner I got to speaking to a fellow Multimedia-er and she told me about her idea, and well, with her consent, I was allowed to borrow a few ideas to expand on for my banner.I will now keep the volume control, which as it suggests control's the volume but also create a movie within the banner that is also controlled by the volume control and will

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So now I have basically finished the main part of my seasonal banner I just need to think of a suitable intro and outro to the banner as it is currently just a game. I feel Motion Tweens will be involved somewhere...

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Banner: CountrySo I know have a 'fully' functional design for my second banner, this being for a country. I have the main design concept constructed, but not in anyway that is graphically pleasing. I am rather pleased with the volume control slider thingy that's on there aswell, but thats all, I just need to think of what else I could possibly include now.

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If no-one has heard of this site, go check it out for all your design needs. Its truely amazing and has helped me a lot during this project...It seems to have everything I need for my project, expect the ability to actually create the banners!

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So as I had previously said, I built a mini game in Flash and was wanting to use the same technique on my banner. Although I grasped the concept and it worked last time for some reason it won't work this time round, what am I doing wrong? I hope that it can be fixed relatively easy...I'm slowly starting to dislike Flash now.

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Banner: Seasonal.Below is the first stages of my seasonal banner. It consists of an image of santa and a snowman which is split up into 6 pieces to make the puzzle [yes, only 6, but it's the concept, right?]Now to add the correct coding and an intro and outro. Then thats one down, one to go!

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With this my first project of the year I think its about time I came up with [and jotted down] some initial ideas.Banner 1: Seasonal Product.Size: LargeConcept: Automatically thinking of Christmas, wonder why?! Anyway, I want to create a simple puzzle game that somehow incorporates Christmas [possibly Christmas shopping]. I will aim to use the same coding I have previously used for a mini game I

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In order to find out what I would like to design for my banners I need to research more into them. I found quite a look of examples of banners over at BannerBlog which gave me a better outlook. In particular I really liked these two banners:1 - http://www.bannerblog.com.au/2007/10/air_nz_holidays.php2 - http://www.bannerblog.com.au/2007/06/guitar_hero_2.phpThe first is a very simple idea and the

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Finally, our first task of the year! We have been told to produce two flash banners/adverts, one for a seasonal product and one for a country. All to be produced within IAB's banner size guidelines.This should be interesting!

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So for the third tutorial we have been told to comment on our 'Reflective Practice' using examples from our work. I aim to talk about my thoughts on web design before university and my thoughts on web design now."Before I started university I had no real clue as to the in's and out's of web design and thought that entirely flash-built sites were the way forward. With the internet and everything

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So, our task for the second tutorial [of which I missed] was to write a synopsis based on one of the books from our reading list. I chose to write a synopsis on 'Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works' by Erix Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger. I first thought about the book because of the interesting title, and knowing that my graphical skills aren't that great I'd have a flick through to see

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So today we looked at the various forms of pixel art and the skills required to develop an image. And, its bloody hard, it took me 45 minutes to create a house that looked remarkably like a Monopoly hotel.

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So after the Web 2.0 we had a seminar based around setting up a server-based database [or more so a Wiki]. After a little guidance as to what to do, David Downes mentioned the name of the server we were using 'Maeda' and said to research the name, or more specifically John Maeda. I went onto my new found soure of knowledge, this been Wikipedia to find out a little more. I then became rather

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This lecture was based around the text used in websites and which ones are the best for which type of site.We were given three tasks to complete, these were: 1. Find a web 'magazine' that you find easy to navigate and read. 2. Find a website that uses more then two dimensions of information 3. Create a Mac/Aqua style button [Use this link]

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I think I missed this lecture also...hmm.

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I missed this lecture, whoops...

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First Tutorial of the term and one simple [hopefully] task: to ask a series of questions to someone in your pathway [basically ask a web designer web design questions that you want to know the answers to!] and present in any way shape of form by next week [22/10]. I aim to contact Nottingham based Web and Graphic Design company Petrol Designs with a few questions.

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Interaction Design, now that is something I didn't think would be much to do with Web Design, and more for the Interactives Pathway. Wrong! In this, the summary of the first lecture I realised how wide the world wide web really is, and what you can do with it. This just keeps me thinking about what I want to do as a career after university.

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So, this been the first lecture/seminar to the Web Design area of the Web Pathway and well, just the basics, full of links, websites and information on CSS, Rules & Regs, and Flash sites. Oh the visual enjoyment! I'm all giddy with excitement [what's wrong with me?!]

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When I first thought of choosing the Web Pathway last May I didn't assume there would be things that I wasn't so keen on, but after todays lecture they are quite a few areas which could confuse/bore/frustrate me, which is nice. But, I don't think that I would be interested if there weren't any challenges. And if that wasn't enough, Adrian is leaving. Rubbish!If things weren't complicated enough

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Does exactly what it says on the tin, an Introduction to the 2nd Year SPP module. This module will run throughout the year and will still have the same concept as last year; which was, in my opinion, to strengthen your knowledge on Multimedia. Should be fun, again.

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So this was a basic outline to the 2nd year as a whole, and I think it's fair for me to say it made me a little scared. I don't want to have to do 'real' work.It also seems that the timetabling for this year looks, well, shall we say, messy? Day One and the VLP [yeah, no events list this year] already is incorrect, and we were given our first lecture manually, which happens to be first thing

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Six months off really does something to you [or moreso me], in the sense that I cannot be bothered with 9am starts. Woo Hoo.So there's an Introduction lecture to the 2nd year sometime soon, in some building, which sounds fun. Let's hope I figure out where it is in time. But first, let's get rid of the last few days of 'summer' [which for me, seems to be enclosed in the kitchen of my workplace for

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Although, it was a while ago now, just thought I'd let you know that the Stella Rimington Performance [from the Fast Exercise with Dominic Shaw] will be going in this post, right here, when I manage to upload a small enough version of the file as it's a tad on the large size at the minute! That is all.

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Although I was glad this series of tutorials were over, purely because I still hadn't got used to the program, a part of me still wanted more... This week we used the model from last week in Hierarchies to show how something is dependant on something else. Nice, and not that complicated.Again, visual stuff soon, sorry.

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Remember the octopus from last time? I didn't. This time we had to model a person in exactly the same way we modelled the octupus. The things I got stuck on last time I got stuck on this time...rubbish!And we had to make them move!Visual content soon, promise.

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Finally, I'm about 95% finished on my website, good job really, the deadlines tomorrow! Just so you know the website can be found here Enjoy! Please tell me if there are any errors that I might have missed! I'm also making badges as a way of advertising Trent Media, but they haven't turned up yet, oh dear...

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Even though the deadline [10th May] is fast approaching, I'm reasonably calm, for some reason. The website is about 80% complete with a few things to be finished and [possibly] a few things to be added. I have decided not to insert rss feeds into the site, but to put example information of what it should look like, and to explain in the presentation and write-up why I haven't used it.After

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In this, the second seminar we were asked to create an octupus, yes an octupus! With two hours experience on 3D Studio Max I somehow managed to complete it. A Picture will appear shortly below...

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After long afternoons and various talks with tutors about importing rss feeds into my flash site I have decided [for now] not to use this method. It was brought to my attention [by Andy Love] that although this is a very good idea that I may be veering away from the task itself, and that what I'm wanting to accomplish will/should be covered in the second year. So for now, I will be finishing off

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So far, this series of lectures/seminars on 3D Animation have been well, interesting. I think Andy might just have more energy then my 9 year old brother who's just drank a litre of coca-cola, that, or one too many coffee's!I really like 3D Animation, and it's not just Pixar now! Although 3D Studio Max is slightly complicated.Having missed the seminar [due to timetable issues] where you got to

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So, finally over the past few weeks I've started to put my wesbsite together after thinking about every aspect for so long, I've a had few hiccups along the way, which thankfully have been ironed out by Adrian and/or my 'How to us Flash...for Dummies' book, until now!One of the main aspects of the site was to have a 'News' section on each area [Fly FM, Trent TV and Platform], so that everyone

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We pieced all the images together and created a mini-site so that it was easier to present. Unfortunately it isn't online yet, but it will be soon hopefully.We were given positive feedback in the appearance of the presentation and were also given other options which we could have included.

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So, after choosing apples for our mundane object we wondered what aspects we should cover in the presentation. We came up with the following;- Colour- Size- ShopAlthough, very simple, there could be more then one option for each apple and vica versa.Below are some inital images I took of apples that I found of my visit to Asda.

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After a couple of seminars on Usability and Accesibilty within the web, we were given a series of questions to answer and also to think about how certain things affect certain people.Use of text equivalents (think about your experience with Lynx);OK: You can navigate the site using Lynx fairly well and I could gather a rough outline as to what information it contained and what it was

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At first these series of lectures and seminars didn't seem that appealling to me but after the first lecture it sounded more promising. We were told to get into groups and to take an everyday mundane object and to find lots of different examples of the same object but to look closely at the environment in which it is contained within. With the final result been a presentation it was necessary to

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So, after a lot of rushing around we finally finished and performed our piece on famous MI5 figure Stella Rimington. In my opinion, it was rushed but went well, with only a few hiccups, even if Jools said it was one of the best he'd seen, I think differently on this subject.We even got a nice third year student filming us for her project so I'll post up the video when I receive the final copy for

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...well in my eyes, that is PC vs. Mac!Recently I've been looking at Mac's, mainly because there shiny, when I came across Apple's newest advertising campaign starring Peep Show's Mitchell & Webb. Now, I dislike Peep Show but these videos are rather addictive!!

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This been our second meeting with Dominic Shaw I was unsure as to what to expect as I didn't like his first task much!We were again divided into groups and were given a name, our groups been Stella Rimington. "Who's Stella Rimington?" we asked, but with no usefull answer, only that she has some connection to Nottingham and that we have to find as much about her as possible and produce a site

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So after thinking about my next project I've decided to choose Trent Media...I made this decision as I thought I could be quite creative with my outcome. I aim to create a Flash based website as the main part of the project aswell badges and a desktop icon to go along side it.Now, down to the designs...

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So we have just been given a brief for our next project, which is quite interesting. We [as individuals] have to produce a Client Identity Package for either E4 Music, Trent Media or NTU's Multimedia Course.Interesting...I shall have to ponder this idea over the christmas holidays, I did however think of creating a website for Trent Media, but we shall see.

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So, after a lot of thinking and piecing together I finally completed my piece for the Interactive Narrative part of the SPP module.We were given a brief to produce an Interactive Narrative of our favourite place in Nottingham, seen as I hadn't been in Nottingham for long I had to think of things a little closer to 'home'. I ended up choosing the room in which I currently had been calling home

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After learning about Pinhole Camera's through childs tv programme SMart, I found this series of workshops to be rather appealing. To be able to create an image with a beer can [or in some cases a wheelie bin] and a bit of paper is amazing. After getting the camera set up with the photographic paper I set about choosing an area around me to shoot. Baring in mind I was currently situated within the

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Here is the report I wrote on my piece of Narrative A Day In The Life. Enjoy. Introduction The first assignment given for the narratives module of the course was to produce a short film that was no more then two minutes in length. We were given no other specification so it was 'up to us' what we produced (whether it was moving image, still image or animation). After been assigned into

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As promised, I've uploaded our groups video onto YouTube. It took multiple attempts after converting the file to get it on there, then i resorted to using 207's computers and did it in 30 seconds. Ahem. Cheers Andy. Anyway, Enjoy!

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Today saw 30 or so of us Multimedia folk departing Nottingham and heading towards Leicester's Space Centre. With the fact this day had educational value behind i decided to pay the fee and for once get up early on a Wednesday...Upon arrival we were given pieces of paper with a variety of questions [there was me thinking it was a non-educational visit!], these, along with the answers, are as

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Filming Take 3This, our final day of filming and another person behind the camera, this time it was Jennie's turn. Just the last scene to be filmed, but the most complicated as the same 3 second piece of film has to shot from a dozen different angles. After thinking about the continuity aspect of switching between angles it was very hard to remember which foot to start and to finish on!Now, on

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Filming Take 2With this, our second day at filming came a different person behind the camera. Owais offerered to film the shots for today, but after 30minutes of waiting I decided to film and act myself, which proved more difficult then I imagined. When he turned up we changed location and finished off the last few scenes. As we had already done some filming I had previously thought about the

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Filming Take 1So, we shot our first piece of footage today! Granted it wasn't alot, but we got what was necessary. Me and Artis filmed the sequences in his flat where the male actor [played by me] would be seen getting frustrated and upset for an unknown reason. We had to set the scene and decided to create carnage in his living room, whilist trying each of the shots from multiple angles.So thats

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After much thinking and speaking to Deborah to clarify the requirements of the task, I chose to respond to the Lostprophets music video. Although the video is on YouTube itself [found by searching Lostprophets - A Town Called Hypocrisy] I thought it would be a good idea to upload the video myself, incase the link I use on this blog breaks. Click here to view that video.I then went about filimg a

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My initial idea was to take a picture of my room and convert it to black and white [Using Photoshop] and create links for different areas of the image, so that when you hovered over them they changed from black and white to colour. Then, after you clicked on that specific area it would take you to a bigger image and a piece of information on that object. Below are some of those images.This is

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By using JavaScript we have been given a task to produce an Interactive Narrative. For this my idea is to create a single [main] image, which then has different hotspots, which when clicked on show a piece of information and a larger picture of the object!

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So, we were given a task a few weeks ago of producing a video in response to a video that we like from popular site YouTube.I had given some thought into what video I was going to respond to, after much thought I chose the music video 'A Town Called Hypocrisy' by welsh band 'Lostprophets'. I've loved this band from day one, so thought it was the perfect video to respond to. I particulary like the

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Object Chosen: Computer. Location: DeskCurrently Viewing: Scrubs [what else?]Functionality: This object has many different functions. I use it to mainly fill my entertainment needs and to communicate with friends and family via the internet. Also it plays all sorts of different media, which is nice. Aesthetic Beauty: There isn't much 'beauty' in this object, really [unless you class the fact

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So, today we presented our short film idea to propestive 'clients' [aka Deborah Tuck, Andy Love and Narrative Groups 10, 11 & 12] .Let's back track for a second......Since our first meeting a few weeks ago, we've stabilised our idea, come up with a plot and style for our film, oh, and found our 5th and final member, Emily. All in a days work etc. After much debating within the group we came up

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It seems that I may be getting a little sidetracked from what I'm actually paying £3000 for...After working all summer it's finally nice to have some 'free' time to do nothing, drink cups of tea, and watch Deal Or No Deal, because that's what University is about right?Ahem...

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Following a lecture with Jools we were told to look at, and analyse the narrative content of the following websites; Coca-Cola, Nike and Gorillaz.Coca-Cola: You have to interactive as soon as the page loads as it has a language and region selection to make sure you get the correct settings as a user. Good use of intetactive menus and use of scrollbars to show Coca-Cola products.Nike: Having to

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After spending the week finding other Narrative Group 9'ers we [Myself, Artis, Owais and Jennie] met up to discuss our thoughts and ideas for the project. Although, we believe we are one, possibly two members missing, but non of us have had any form of contact.Brief SynopisGroup Members : Artis Svenne, Ben Lill, Owais Mohyuddin, Jennie Shackleton, Emily Fichna Title: A Day In The Life. . . For

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For the first assignment under the narrative section of the course we [as individuals] had to look around the internet for short films and describe what we liked about them and the way that they were filmed. I chose the short film site Pawky to gain a look at some of todays short films. Pawky is a popular site, and has various categories [docmentaries, animations, music videos etc] so I thought

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In a workshop lead by [guest lecturer] Dominic Shaw we were given a task to bring in objects found on the street. Having no clue as to why this was we nervously brought them to the lecture. We were then told we had to make up a story [in groups] involving everyone of ours items [mine been packets of sauce!!]. We were told that if we laid the items out that we could get a better look at them as a

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So, I'm now into my second week of the course, and I have no idea where the last week went, at all! Suppose thats what you get from 'freshers flu' really, bugger...My main task/s are to now catch up with what I've missed, according to other narrative groups we are been told to produce a short film on narrative's, which seems like fun, except I can't seem to get hold of my narrative group (So, if

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Oh really, thrown in at the deep end now, excellent!We [as a course/tutorial group] have been asked to produce a 3 page presentation on ourselves to present in our Tutorial slot [mine, hopefully, been Thursday 9am-10am] to include the following information:- Name- Interests (Work & Play)- Favourite Bands- Favourite Designers- Favourite beer ...good thing is, you can lie, is it a good thing? who

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