Tuesday 29 June 2010

Putting a film poster through Chandler's myth

We have to analyse a British film poster of a film which has been released in the last 2 years.

Monday 28 June 2010

Chandler's Myth

Last lesson we were meant to put our main task through Chandler's Myth, here's the result:

Sunday 27 June 2010

Trailer research 02

Yesterday I went to the Oxford BarCamp, and I'm sorely tempted to write something about that, however I've neglected the set curriculum for too long. On Friday, me and Jonny sat in the Media room discussing Kinect and watching more trailers, I decided to boil them down to their most basic components:

Thursday 24 June 2010

Guest post by Matthew Springett

Matty was kind enough to write a short piece about noticing my account was left logged on. I found it in the 'draft posts' pile, here it is published with his permission:

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Trailer research 01

First post researching trailers for films. I went to the Youtube Trailers site and took all my examples from there:

Newspapers are unaccountable and innacurate.

I'm supposed to be covering research for trailers however a quick glance at my feeds shows that Matty's the only one who's written anything yet. Jonny started a new blog but I don't know the url. I could find out quite easily, but that's for another time, what I want to write about here is how the newspaper model is unaccountable and inaccurate. I rediscovered Angry Mob's new site today and was reading this story.

Monday 21 June 2010

for Peace and Socialism!

Last week I did Journalism at the Morning Star.
I'm working at the foreign desk, here's a list of stories I've covered there:

Monday 7 June 2010

Revision and filming

Firstly I've done the basic storyboard and some early filming for that Modern Warfare machinima I've been talking about for a long time.