Thursday, 30 September 2010

Discuss how the film Fish Tank represents and explores youth culture in contemporary Britain.

My initial impressions of Fish Tank were that it featured a very pessimistic representation of youth culture. While Mia's lack of respect for authority is admirable, her relationship with her family appeared to be based on a constant stream of insults and abuse.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

HTML5 & Ogg video

Last year Ms. Kate mentioned we'd have to display our practical coursework on a custom website, and that the deisgn of the website could form part of the coursework. As before I'm still enthusiastic about open standards and I've tried a few experiments in implementing them. If the IT department doesn't allow us hosting it might be quite difficult, that's something we can come to later.

Friday, 3 September 2010

Motion Capture

I remember at the start of these holidays I said I'd try to do some motion capture to see if we could use it in a coursework piece, I carried out the test two weeks ago with the help of Matty. As expected there were some problems (but this is why we do tests, so that problems can be anticipated for later):