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HI THERE!!!

Sorry this is my first Blog, but i have been trying to get this sorted out for the past couple of weeks but have failed miserably, hence the two other 'Journal of an MDF Cow's which don’t work... yeah sorry about that! Hopefully you can do something with them! I ended up having to kind of half guess, half get bits of info from other people on how to set it up!

ANY WHO...

... The reason i didn’t know how to set up my Blog in the first place was because i couldn’t make it to any of the Welcome Week shenanegins due to me being a freshers rep this year, so i had to do things for that all week.

SO HI TO EVERYONE! Guess everyone else talked to each other in the first week things!!!

Yes, so i am in my second year at the WONDERFUL Nottingham Trent Uni!
Last year i did Criminology, so have had a bit of change in direction, and from what it seems like this course is going to be like, it should be MILES better!

Well, what do I say, I’ve never blogged before, or kept the old school version of a diary either!

Hmm, well Freshers week was amazingly fun, but also absolutely nackering too, think it took me three days to recover after! Hopefully going to be doing it next year too!

Onto the course then...

I noticed everyone must have been told to write about what they want to get out of this year of Multi media studies, apart from a pass. Well without getting into too much detail, as in flash scripting etc, i mainly want to make some friends, have some fun with the projects and experiment as much as i can with every aspect of what we do this year so that i can make the right decision of which path to take for next year. I'm still pretty uncertain, and I’m sure i will be pretty much until i have to make the decision, and maybe a little bit after, but hey, what can you do.

The Course So Far!

I wasn't quite sure what to make of our first lecture, i didn't really take that much away from it, but the Lecturer seemed pretty fun so hopefully should be a good module! Andrew Love's Lec and Sem were pretty interesting, and some of the video's we were shown were amazing, so much so i ended up sitting down watching YouTube for a good few hours afterwards watching the likes of 'The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb', nearly all of PES's work that’s on there (especially liked the ‘sex on the roof’ pixilation), a lot of other random pixilation work mainly posted by other multi media students across the world and, well I can’t remember the name of it at the mo, but the one that 12 Monkeys was based on. The one 12 Monkeys was based on was really well done, I liked how it wasn’t pixilation as we are doing it, it was more like reading through a picture book. To be fair, I got a bit bored of the story and kept drifting in and out, and knew the story to 12 monkeys so didn’t end up watching the whole thing. Kind of did the same thing with Tom Thumb, watch the first few segments of it on YouTube which were extremely visually impressive but the story got a bit boring after a while. It must have been a painstaking process of pixilation with stop motion.

From the seminar work (which I was only there for an hour due to having to go to London for job training… which by the way is promoting PlayStation 3! How good is that, anyway) I got a couple of ideas of what I would like to do with pixilation. I had already had a couple of ideas, the first being a first person shooter game, I started a couple of test and it ended up being quite difficult so decided to go for a Mortal Kombat sequence. It took me WAY longer than I thought to draw out all of the writing and life bars for MK and I originally wanted the life bars to fall throughout and there to be the time ticking down, but this ended up being too much of a pain, especially as two of my friends were doing me a favour by participating in it as well. Due to all of this, it didn’t end up being as good as I hoped. I am still in the process of changing all of the pictures in phtoshop from this sequence. I am planning to do an even simpler pixilation, maybe in the market square in the next couple of days to replace the MK pixilation.
Before I started the MK pixilation I did a couple of test ones around my house too which I will post on YouTube when I figure out how the hell to animate them.

I’ve been thinking for a while of just doing some time lapse sequences in this project, maybe at the train station or market square.

WOOOOO

Just realized how much I have just written! So I will leave it at this for now but shall keep it updated from now on, that is if my laptop and internet ever do like this website, or the NOW for a matter of fact too!

Anyway, Toodle Pip! And anyone on the course… say hi to me when you see me next!!!