So with the next assignment being set i have to decide the following:

Do i do a Website in which i have alot of ideas for or do a flash animation in which i have no ideas...

Safe to say the website intrests me the most.

So...

When editing my video i first did a rough edit in microsoft movie maker so i knew what order to do the clips:

(again must state that you will have to click on the images because Reallifelog wont show my images for some reason)

Here...

I have used Avid for several years during college and for fun, the version i have been using is Avid Liquid 7, which is very diffrent than i used to use.
It is also very hard to use on monitor aswell.

So avid is pretty much...

 

This time round i changed some of the shots, showing the man running to the bombsite and then seeing the bomb blow up.

Il try to do one more cut and try to trim it down.

So after my other film being lost, which is annoying because i actually put quite alot of effort into it, i have cut together a new one:

 

I still have to edit some sound clips in and see about some effects but it...

So today i came home from doing my programming to check everythings ready to hand in.
MY external Hard drive to which i keep most of my work is busted, wont turn on and when i did get it to turn on, there was nothing on it.

apprantley...

Now this is a challange, trying to keep something so short.

I have done alot of videos that had to be long and i thought that was a challange.
The first problem was how can i make something intresting in 10 seconds?
Well the...

audacity is a free-ware program that allows you to edit audio, record audio and do pretty much anything you want with it.

The following will show some of the features in audacity:



these are the simple buttons in audacity...

so i havent done many blogs post over the xmas period because of certain aspects, one being that my grandma died and i didnt have the time to get anything done while i was helping family.

The assignment is due in next friday and...

This is a little short i threw together in about 5 minutes using movie maker :






it is a bit shoddy, i will edit a next video in Avid.

In this blog post i will be talking about using windows movie maker thats given free with windows and boy does it show.

I have used windows movie maker for sevral years, only my own little side projects that involved recording...

Fraps is a tool that allows you to record on your desktop or in game or well anything you want.

I have used it on secral games before for clan matches and testing but this is the first time i have used it to make a proper little...

In this blog i will be talking about the following:

A second by second look at my video including titles and dialogue.
Looking at scenes from films, talking about camera angles.
Titles in films


With me doing media for...

What sets a scene?
Is it the acting or is it the story that builds up to the scene?

some can agure that it is actually the music/soundtrack that sets the scene.
A musical score that makes you tingle and you just listen too...

This post is about the use of a DV camera.

While i was at college i used DV cameras on alot of diffrent projects so i know some of the best ways to use them.

I have used DV cameras on the following :

A 3 camera set up...

Here is the video test i did using Fraps :


 

Now i used a program to edit the main HUD of the game so it looks more like what you really would see when your doing it in real life.

My next video...

Our next assignment for creative tec is the 10 second video film festival in which we have to produce a 10 second video that has to be 10 seconds, no more.

Now when i come up with ideas for this one influence was this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NtBX0XEHT0

(note...

This final post for my bigstockphoto.com assignment is my evaluation of the whole assignment.

The following post will contain :

The idea process
How i took the pictures
Editing process
Looking into bigstockphoto.com
What...

So this time last week i sent of my pictures to bigstockphoto.com.
I have got word back today if they have been approved or not.
2 have been approved, 2 have not and in this blog i will talk about the feedback they gave to why they...

In this post i will show a few images and talk about why i didnt use them:


Image 1:


Although this image is very clear and in focus, the sky is bright blue along with the water i felt that it didnt really give off...

Although this will be covered in my final video blog post i thought i would talk about how i edited one of my photos using photoshop.

Rite i took the following picture :



This picture was taken with a 5Mega pixel camera...

I had ment to post this blog earlier but forgot that it was waiting in my drafts section.

After i had looked at my ideas i then started to look at keywords on bigstockphoto.com.
I would post some of the pictures i found but you...

In this blog i will be talking about some details of file formats and the importance of high resloution in pictures.

First is Jpeg:


Now this is a Jpeg File.
Jpeg is the most common used file format, Most digital cameras...

The following pictures were taken using a 12 mega pixel camera and have not yet been edited using photoshop.


This was the first shot i took, this was pretty much to get used to using the camera.
The sky is really clear blue...

During this assignment i will be using the following equipment:

Digital Camera
Memroy stick
tripod

During this assignment i will be using the following programs:

Adobe Photoshop CS


Focus Focus Focus:

Over...

This is my second blog update about my assignment for Bigstockphoto.com.

So since my last post i have had alot of thoughts about what i am actually wanting to do.

Idea one : Skateboarding

Being a big fan of skateboarding...

This is the first post on my web blog concering my first assignment for Creative Technologies. In this post i will look at the brief and talk about my posting plan for this blog.

The Brief :
At first looking at the...