Football in the Blood

Our ‘Its Liverpool’ assignment was done and dusted and edited to the bnest of our ability and look it’s on YouTube!

http://youtu.be/1eJwkMdBQlM

This for me was a happy moment as I had never had any of my work broadcasted to millions on YouTube and to look back now and see we have had views is amazing! I can’t wait to upload the rest of the films we make as a group.

Personal Profile

So our group was filming a small film ‘Personal Profile’. After a lot of pestering and phone calls we managed to arrange a meeting to speak to a man that works at Next Generation NMA gym in Liverpool. After the meeting we arranged to film there the following day and we would be doing a personal profile on one of the men that work there who gladly agreed to help us. Unfortunately I won’t be able to help film this film which is annoying!  But I am off on my holidays so I don’t mind too much hehe. I can’t wait to see what the rest of my group produce and look forward to seeing it as I know it will be good.

'The Fact'

After living in Liverpool I began to think when I started university everyone was going on about going to this cinema called ‘Fact’ this too me was something I had never even heard of which I found odd?  So I decided to take a visit there, when arriving the quality of everything was just very much over the top

·         Lighting

·         Picture

·         Seats

·         Sound

·         Image was on a larger scale

·         Quality

After this experience sitting there I felt like royalty or something sitting in a posh cinema. I think if you serious about going to see a good film with everything to the best quality then Fact is the place to visit, if I was younger and childish and going for a laugh I wouldn’t recommend it as I think you my get kicked out with the least little noise!

Overall I was very pleased with the experience and I can see myself going there again, I can’t believe I have never been there before to be honest.

Living in Liverpool

Living in Liverpool and going to university is something I didn’t think I would end up doing, when I was in sixth form I never knew what I wanted to do or go to university, I didn’t think I was bright enough for something like that even though I feel I try my hardest.

After these first few months of university I have realty enjoyed it, the work is nothing like I would have expected. I wasn’t prepared for this part of media as it wasn’t anything like what I got taught in sixth form.

I look forward to the future in university and hopefully doing well J

Living in Liverpool is amazing I love being from here and knowing that so many people come to university here because they enjoy it just as much is nice to hear.  I don’t think I will ever be able to move from Liverpool so hopefully there is a successful job here for me!

Website Mock Up...

Before I began my website I thought it would be a good idea to make a mock up one to look at how I could lay it out in different ways and check it fitted in with the boundaries.

·         Size

·         Not too much white space

·         Consistent

·         Not too many different colours

The mock up website was very easy and fun to do, messing around with different looks and styles. Photoshop isn’t my strong point but I gave it a go and found if I just messed about with it, good came from it. After this I felt happy with what I produced and decided to move onto the Dreamweaver software. Once this is done I will post a sneak preview, but might I say now it won’t be amazing as it’s my first time.

Liverpool Museum

 Our trip to the museum was to say the least fun and eye opening!

So because myself and Natasha are from Liverpool we thought that when going to visit the museum we would no more or less everything there was to know about it. When we arrived we didn’t realise how big it was! A massive building with 3 floors full of useful and exciting information about Liverpool. We went the museum for a project in university but found it was a useful experience to just visit even if we wasn’t doing a project.

Character Identity

A couple of week as a group we were set a task of creating a fake identity on social networking sites. Before going off and doing this we spoke about what we actually as a individual thought identity of a profile even was. When asked this question for the first time it makes you think a lot as I have never thought about before now. Questions began to be asked and it was noticed we all had different opinions on it even though all of these were different they were all connected to identity.

• Online presentation for example Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo.
• How we present ourselves for example Fun, Outgoing, Shy or Different

After we spoke about all the different way in which identity can be present we moved on to the assignment which we then spoke about different ways in which we could link this character up to social networking websites.

• Facebook – Unfortunately got suspended
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/AngelicaBrooke1
• YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAngelicaBrooke  
• Blogger - http://angelicabrookeslife.blogspot.co.uk/

Above is our characters different account. After a few days we began to really get into character with this assignment and felt ourselves checking them every day. It was a unusual assignment but fun. We did find that we got a lot of responses from men all different ages sending rude messages that I won’t post on here as I don’t think there appropriate but they were commenting on our images assets a lot. The images we used as profile pictures was a friend of ours we asked could we take pictures of too use for this assignment, luckily she was glad to help! But still doesn’t know about the messages we received about her hehe. Im not sure if I like the experience because when I think about it I wouldnt like to be on the other side of the joke in a way.

This assignment gave us a chance to see what is like to be someone else and to basically put on a mask and create any type of person you want to be. It’s interesting that there are people actually out there today that do this every day, cover up who they really our by using these fake profiles. In a way really is sad because they feel they can’t be like this themselves, maybe because there scared of what people say? Or are they using these things for other things, I dread to think! Overall I think the experience was really good but I dont think i will be carrying on with Angelica Brookes profiles or making any new ones any time soon.

Blogging - My Opinion

So I have been blogging for a good few months now, I still don’t understand why I am doing it but I did find it helpful when it came to essay writing. Maybe blogging too me can be used as a way of remembering things that I have done over the year that I need to write essays about. In my opinion I don’t find blogging a interest I feel like it is more of a task for me to do as I don’t feel confident enough with myself writing things about stuff I have done or going to do. I think a lot can be found out about a person from reading there blog, from the way they write to even the text. My feelings towards this is I don’t think I get my point across well with words when typing. I am a more vocal person so maybe doing a video blog maybe easier to me? Overtime I hope I can come to terms with blogging and eventually start enjoying it as it is a good thing to recap on.

Production Practice - Treatment

At last our final film for production practice was in touching distance. We were each asked to write a treatment with an idea for our short factual piece. This was strange because even though we was in groups of 4 or 5 we each all still had to write one individually. After each writing one we would all meet up and decide which one we felt would work best with the factual piece. My treatment was about an older male or female that had a tuff life as a child and maybe got bullied at school. I wanted the film to be shot at a school nearby and have them speaking in maybe classrooms and on the playground. I thought that maybe the person we found could talk about his or her experience when they were younger and how it has affected them today as an older person. After we all delivered our ideas as a group we chose to go with the “bullying” idea. I felt a bit nervous about this as it was my idea we was going to create, I felt that I had a lot of pressure on me to make this work and come out a good film overall. So hopefully in the end it will!

Why Creativity and Concept is Important

Why do we have a lecture on Creativity and Concept and what does it have to do with our course in media? In our last session there was only a few students in and this gave us the chance to speak our minds without a lot of people there voicing the same opinions. Overall the main concern we found for us all was what is the relevance? For some reason people couldn’t get round the idea that all of the other subjects and lectures each had some sort of connection apart from this one. So our questions were answered, at first I didn’t think there was an issue and I didn’t think that other people had a problem with the lesson. I did feel that I didn’t really no why I was doing it but at the end of the day it was something that had to be done as it was part of the course. After a few people started to ask questions it got me thing they were right and I got involved myself asking question which any other day when all of the class was in I necessary wouldn’t have because of confidence. After our little discussion we were handed job application forms for BBC, reading over it was a massive shock to me as I had never seen such a complex and strange application form for a job! After reading through each of the questions together it made it clear to all of us why we do this module on this course. I feel now that I need to look out for more of these application forms and even if I’m not applying for the job maybe just fill it out and see how I go for experience. All of the different techniques we learnt in the first semester all made sense to me now and the group, it gives you the ability to think out of the box without just thinking but by using techniques and getting somewhere from them, in a way these are just stimulators for us. So after all that I finally understand why we have this module on the media course and overall it could be the most important to us when we leave, anyone can be taught something once they have the job its getting the job!