Paintballing was AWSOME I loved it, I got so many awsome god dam shot's on people, I hit Rob on the side off the face, I hit matt on on the hand and the gun. I also hit Liam quite a few time's and this caused him to run and scream. After the day was done we had to go back to college and start and the evealution and the editing for our group film.

The reason for the group treatmeant forum was to put across what the groups main ideas and what our video was going to be about. "The main idea we have come across is to produce a music video that will fit to the song Sub Focus – Rock it, the video will express the motion of urban movement. The movie will be in the style of an action film such as Jumper." This is the first sententce in the treatmeant forum talking about what our project was about.

This is what I wrote in the treatmeant forum. "As for the music we will be using a series of tracks that we will synchronise not just with the beats but with the feeling for example when the Jumper is walking in with the crowed at the beginning we will have a nice feel good track such as U2 – Beautiful day. We will try and syncing it best as possible with the track to make it seem more dynamic and professional."

Today like yesterday I was learning the basics of premiere, I took out the audio that we used yesterday and replaced it with a different song but i keep the same music video.

My group is going to carry on with the recording of our project on tursday, then I have wait until Matt has edited the video

Most of today we have been learing the bacis off using premiere. John had us use a TakeThat song import it into Premiere then we had to pick a ponit of the song that we wanted to repeat then use the set in point tool to choose thw part we wanted. Then we had to drag the part down that we wanted to repeat into the timeline.

Here is some of the writen work that we had to do for unit3. These are the storyboards that the hole group made. The storyboards are basicly a plan for what our video is going to be about.

Under the pictures we have put a little writing saying what is going on in the clip and a possible place we could film the the scenes.

Today me and my group finished all the work that was given to us such as the Proposal, Storyboards,Animatic,Treatment and some of the meeting notes.

Here are some posts that I did for this project.

Here are some of the storyboard pictures that conor done.

So after this weekend when we come back to college me Matt and Conor can start film our project.

Today we started off with john telling us about our new unit. The new unit is video production. this is going to be a four week course. The first week we have to do 7 tasks mostly about the production and to think about what our project is going to be.

Today has been such a big waste of time because nuthink was working for me today from my computer getting turnt of then my flash crashing with out me saying it and then i tryed to do somethink new with my animation then it didnt work so i had to start most of it over again.

Monday

Today I finished of all my research for the animation unit then i went on to start my animation but I have changed my idea from what I did in my animatic. My new idea is two Gears of Was characers running up to eachother than getting into a chainsaw battle.
I think this task is going to take me a very long time to do as I have to cut every body part I want to move out.

Monday

Today started of quite bad as I had finished the key skils unit and forgot about and then I had to stand outside the class for an hour funnnnnnn.

But then after brake John showed us some videos of Rotorscope animation. Then after that I started finishing my research, In the research we have to do six slides off What is animation, the histroy of stop motion animation and what is is, this histroy of Cel animation and what it is and soo on. So far I have done about 8 slides on the research.

Today we had our first lesson with sarhah strickelt. The first task sarah gave us was making our own thaumatrope my thaumatrope was a bird going into a cage. It was quite fun to make as I have never done one befor.

Today we started our new unit and this is unit6 animation. Our first task today was to do six slides on power point about the histroy of animation also on Cel animation, stop mation animation and others . I have done three out of the six slides so far. They are, What is animation, Cel animation.

Today we started with key skills and in key skills we had to finish our level one e-portfolio as it is the end of the level one unit, and today I finished the hole unit.

....... Notes.......

Here are some notes on what we are doing in our next unit and that is animation.

Edweard MuyBribge - 1800 - stop motion photos= Bullet time

Zoetrope - Series of images in a revolving drum - Creates an illusion of motion -

Phenakistoscope - A picture disc with images mounted on it

Cel animation - made in 1910 - Disney animation 24 frames per second and film 18 frames per second

Mickey mouse steamboat wille was Disney first sound sync Film.

Monty Python - stop frame animation

Jan svankmaja - Claymation- 1980s

John Lassiter - Pixar animation.

Podcast

Today I have done editing for out podcast and at the same time I done screenshots of what I edited and why done it. I also had to make a word document of what I have done so far in the group. I also finished the research i started on monday. The research was about the histroy of jingles and why it is good to use them.

Today we sarted with a funny video then we talked about what we are going to be doing to day. I started making the jingle for my groups podcast, then I had to do some research on the history of jingles, I found out when they were made that all radio stations use them and that the most famous piece of music in the world is a jingle made for the Intel pc advert.

I also started writing my script for the podcast and we finished all the recoreding for the podcast, So when we conw back from the weekend all i have to do is finish the rest of the paperwork and editing the recording.

Today we started writing what we are going to do on our podcast. I am making the jingle, Hayley is going to talk about RAE5, me and Conor will be talking about the multiplayer on call of duty MW2 and Matt is talking about the company that makes Call of duty.

25th

Today we finished of are our mind map research of an mp3 file, Talk radio and a music station. The task that was given to us was fairly easy and only took a little while to do.
After this we got into groups of three and spoke about each others work and made some notes about there work.
After this we were than put into a group of 4 to start making a idea of what our podcast is going to be.
My group have chossen to do our podcast on WM2 aka Ally of Duty six. The people in my group are me, Matt, Conor and Hayley.

Today we finished of our reasearch work which is the three mind maps on mp3s, Talk radio and a music channel. The tasks are quite easy. I like it better when its easy and when i can under stand the task that is given to us.

Unit2

This morning we started of with key skills and in key skills we had to write a review about a video game or a song.

After key skills we started our new unit which is Unit2 Aduio production. Then we sat and listend to john as he told us what we had to do in the next research project. In this research we had to look at the history of an mp3, the cost, the pros and cons and the reason for having one.

Links

links to the song and game I reviewed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMr52bCXNdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo1X1Z0lCHM

work

Owl City music review


Owl city was created by Adam Young in his parents basement while he we working in a coca cola factory in Owatonna, Minnesota United States his home town. Young got noticed by uploading his music to my space and people and started liking his music and talking about it. The viral popularity helped him get his contract signing to Universal Republic in 2007. This lead on to him releasing songs like “Maybe I’m dreaming and the number one song in the UK “Fireflies”.

Description and Meaning

The song Fireflies by Adam Young is an electronic genre style of music what is computer made. The vocals in the song have a robotic kind of effect to it, Computerised vocals, the music builds up to a very full sound. Also it has a rock sound to the song as it builds up.
It's about this person who dreams of fireflies while he's sleeping. He likes to think that nighttime lasts for a long time, but his dreams always seem to end too soon. He'd rather be asleep dreaming about them then live in reality. He just describes the things that he and the fireflies do together. He starts to cry when he has to wake up, but he's consoled knowing that he might have the dream again
The man, who sang it, Adam Young, said he wrote this song about his insomnia and he wished he could day dream all the time.

Similarities to other songs

I think Owl city Fireflies is similar to other electronic, Emo and alternative rock bands/solo. Postal service, Innerpartysystem, Daft punk, Hellogoodbye, Breathe Carolina and 30H! 3.

What I like about it

I like the song Fireflies because the way Adam sings about when he was an insomiac and he wished he could daydream all the time. I also like the way he builds up music so it goes to a kind of electro rock song. Also the way he has put the effect of his own voice to have the same beat as the background music. I also like the way he has used a lot of different effects though out the song.

What I don’t like about the song

Over all the song is good but I don’t like how Owl city has copied the same style of music as Postal service, and the song Fireflies songs mostly the same as the Postal service song, The District Sleeps Alone Tonight. All music artists and their songs/music should be unique and I don’t this song or artist is.
Fireflies is a very catchy song but I think if you listen to it to much it will do your head in.

My overall opinion of the song

I think the song is unoriginal and repetitive. It is a song I have got bored of quick.




Rating out of ten

I will give this song 5 out of 10 because people must see something they like in the song even if I don’t.

Gears of war game review

History of Epic games


Gear of war was created by an organisation called epic games. The game came out on the 9th November 2006 and was created by Cliff Bleszinski. The company that also made Gears of war created the Unreal series, ZZT, Zill of the jungle, Epic pinball, one must fall 2097 and Shadow complex.
Epic games was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney in Rockville Maryland but back then Epic games were called Epic Mega Games
In 1998 Epic Mega Games released Unreal a 3D third person shooter which expanded in to the Unreal series and this would change the face of 3D third person shooters.
Awards
Due to the success of Gears of War, the studio was awarded IGN's "Best Developer for Xbox 360"Offical XBOX Magazines” Best Developer of the Year" and "Best Studio of the Year and Spike TV's "Best Studio

The game

Blending the best of tactical action games with the best of survival horror titles, "Gears of War" is the first game developed by Epic Games exclusively for Microsoft Game Studios and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. "Gears of War" thrusts gamers into a deep and harrowing story of humankind's epic battle for survival against the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet.
In this third-person tactical shooter, gamers live and breathe the role of Marcus Fenix. A disgraced former war hero, Marcus seeks personal redemption as he leads his fire team against an onslaught of merciless warrior fiends. You have to play very smart and tactical on Gears of war because there can be an enemy round any corner.

Similarities

Gears of war is very similar to the game Unreal tournament, Mass effect two. The reason it is so similar to these games is because they, are all made on the same Unreal engine and epic is mostly known for making games on unreal. Also the game play on these three games are pretty much the same kind of thing as well e.g. The cover systems on the game are the same, the guns, the storyline.

What I like about the game

I like Gears of War because of the amazing campaign storyline and the characters that they used. Also the graphics are amazing. But the best part of the whole game in the multiplayer even thought epic put the multiplayer at the last second the game still got multiplayer game of the year. But with put the multiplayer being put in at the last second there were a lot of problems and things needing to be updated.

What I don’t like about the game

Really I can not think of anything I don’t like about Gears of War. But if there was something I could say I didn’t like it would be. The lag on the game lag is where you respond slower than someone else.

My overall opinion

I think Gears of war is the best multiplayer game on the xbox360 because you have to be smart to be good at Gears of war and because of the graphics.

Rating out of ten

I will give Gears of war 9 out of ten just because of the multiplayer.

overview of the audio unit.

For me this has been the best unit so far because it is something I want to when I leave college.

For me the worst bit of this unit and every unit is the research. I find this boring and I prefer to do the practical part of the unit better.

I found my finished piece of work was very good because I did every thing you needed to and more, so I am hoping I get a better grade than a pass. The track I created was very good it sounded all in sync with the recorded clips that I recored.

The only thing I could of changed in my work was to have a bit more description of the work in my research.

Key skills

We started to day with key skills we looked at how to and where to use commas. As I feel I am not very good at this it was goood to have some practise.

After key skills we went up to the 7th floor of pelham and did a English key skills exam. The beginning of the exam was easy but when I got into the test it got a lot harder. I think I have done pretty good on this test and just wating for the results.

OMG post

We started today with key skills. We did some work about apostrophes and a quiz to help us with them.

Then we had break and when we came back, Adrian was telling us how to set up mics to a mixing desk. He showed us how to do this because we have a test to see if we can set up a mic to a mixing desk without making a mistake. The mics we had to set up were called condenser and dynamic mics. Then after lunch I didn't have much else to do because I have finished all my work.

Finished unit

Today I finshed doing my song ( Was very hard). But I am very happy with the out come of it.
Also, I done my screen shots off the tools and the way it was made.

After finishing the unit I have found out that I like Cubase more than Soundbooth. Because I think you get more freedom to do anything you like With the loops or clip than Soundbooth. But with Soundbooth you get a much bigger range of affects. You can also create your own loops in Soundbooth.

New unit

Today I have been making a song from some recoreded clips thae Matt and Connor recored while in college and also I used a song from YouTube for the background music. With all these things we recored we had to make a mix.

It was very enjoyable getting all the clips together and using them to mix with backgorund song that I used.

I found making the mix easy to make because we already used Cubase to make our normal song in the last unit.

Late post

For the past few weeks I have been making in Cubase. This has been the most enjoyable subject so for me, Because I have a big intrest in music and is one of the things I want to do in my life.

At the start of the music subject it was very hard to use Cubase, But I got the hang of it in the end and I think i made a really good song.