Supervised arts award review

This is a review of my silver arts award project titled ( supervised arts leadership)

to begin with the project was to get into a group and create an original idea and to be able to show leadership threw that project the group I was in was 2 people me and my classmate Lewis Raywood the project we decided to create was an animation using the industry standard software Adobe Flash. The role I decided I wanted to take on was the animator and my classmate chose to be the director of the project as an animator I didn't have that much leadership roles in the group but I did help out quite a lot since there where only tow people in the group in other posts on this blog I have discussed many things such as been able to communicate together as a team and since we didn't have class all the time I came up with the idea to use the comment system already encoded into blogger to communicate outside of college.

But to continue working on this project I did encounter some problems along they way such as the fact that I was was basically doing all of the work and most of the creativity that went into the animation was my own and not the directors so I was basically the only one working on this project most of the time my team-mate helped a little but other than not getting the help from my team-mate that was expected of him there was no problems with the project if there where they where minor things but no major ones.

the things that went well where quite a few because I am the person who likes to work alone so that's why I am not complaining about the fact it was basically me in my team and just me so I got to just be alone in my head and create what I wanted to create so I really enjoyed that.

to summarise the end result of the animation I found was very good for the time we were aloud and the fact I did most of the work on my own i find the end result is funny to be I really enjoyed creating something in the best way to put it is just stupid and fun just thing I like to create and it really made me laugh if I was to change anything in the project i would of liked a more involved team-mate because I know if I had more help the end result might of been a bit more creative and good  

Feedback

the picture is my padlet and all the feedback I have received .

how well did i work in a team

I knew the person in my team from level 1 we get along and we are very comfortable around each other so we work very well together and to show how we worked together we were sat next to each other but to show that we communicated effectively we commented on each others blogs for instructions

below are the print screen of the comments.

That print screen is just one example just to show that we have been communicating threw the comment system. 

link to my padlet

http://padlet.com/spudling333/hdds07oa1and

what I have done today 29th april

in todays lessons i say lessons because i have had three lessons to do this i have encountered a lot of problems with flash things kept on coming up and i have had to deel with them with the help of my teacher but i eventually overcome them but what these challenges have done is waist time for me so i am a little behind on schedule but i will complete this by the end of the week

what i have done today

this is what i have created in flash so far

the Idea

The idea that me and my team have come up with is that we have decided to do a parody of harlem shake with cartoon characters so what the idea is, is me and Lewis the director are going to pick three of our favourite cartoon characters and we have decided that we are only aloud to pick three of our our favourite cartoon characters mine are 

1. Johnny bravo

2. Dexter out of Dexter's laboratory 

3. spongebob squarepants

practical issues and planning with new project

To start of with since we are doing a flash animation the first software is adobe flash to create the animation. We are using flash because it is the industry standard and me as an animator i have only been introduced to that software so it will make things easier than using a software i know how to use that learning how to use another piece of software to animate.

 The other software we are going to be using will be: adobe premiere to edit because again it is the industry standard.

and Google chrome for our blog post and to obtain any imaged we might need to use providing where we got them images from and also in case we need a tutorial to look at.

to communicate with the director threw the comment system.


the hardware we will be using will be a mac and thats about all the hardware.

our crew consists of 2 people the director of the project Lewis Raywood and me the animator James Carling.

Target audience

for the target audience we will be aiming it at 16+ because we are in college and that is who will be viewing this college students so the age is unpredictable but you do have to be 16 to start college so that is why we have chosen 16+.

(we have no props or models)

for our time management to animate we have two lessons to animate what we can if we have not finished by then we will continue animating in our own time and for editing another two lessons to edit which will plenty of time. 

My role in the new challenge

In the new challenge we have been separated into groups and I have one person with me, Lewis. In this challenge we were told to go out and make something new and be able to apply leardership skills in the project we  had three thing we could choose from they where: video , computer aniamtion aka Flash or there and stop-motion aniamtion aka clay aniamtion, lego ect we chose to do computer based aniamtion because me and lewis are both skilled in that programme and we thought it would make it easier on both of us.

We are going to make a short animation using Flash because that is the industry standerd software and it is less comlicated to use we do not have a long timeframe to accomlish this so we want to choose the programs that we are familer with so it goes faster.

My role in this new challenge is the animator of the project so what that means is i will be the one who makes our idea an actaul thing using my own knowladge in Adobe flash and me and lewis will talk about what we want to do and i will give my input on if we could actaully do that using the software that we have availebele to us.

This will help me develop my leadership skills through the anaimtion side because lewis may be the director but he does not have the knowledge i do off flash so with him next to me iI can develop my leardership skills by helping him devolop his skills in animation by teaching him what I know.

Lewis' job inb the project is to direct and make sure that all stages go according to plan and schedule.
I will then look for possible characters to use and place them onto flash and parts of them move in a funny way.  My main role is is to make tcharacters move on screen and colour them in. This will be trough either retracing the original graphic or developing and editing original ideas straight into Flash where there will be no copyright involved

The skills I will develop in this project are the skills i already have but with this project I will be able to develop them further to be able to add more creative graphics and better quality animations.

For a further description on all the skills required for an animator please click on the link below

http://creativemediajc.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/dream-job-and-skills.html

Job opportunities at the BBC

Job Opportunities

What jobs you can get in the BBC?

At the BBC there are many jobs which you can do, there is a wide range of career paths and you will be able to choose a job which fits you the best. There are 5 different division all with different types of jobs in each of them. The 5 divisions are Content Making, Journalism, New Media and Technology, Business and Support and Commercial Ventures.

There are new jobs which are coming to the BBC every week. The latest job which is going is a Live Events Co-ordinator, Popular music and Radio,  The job will have a fixed term contract and it will full time. This means the working hours are around 8 hours per day. You will need to have a experience in operating business/broadcast systems, archive systems and general office IT packages. You will also need to have good teamwork skills and the ability to work with a wide range of colleagues and creating good relationships.  The job will be on a 6 month attachment.fixed term contract.

Another job which you could get at the BBC is a production co-ordinator, Gaelic. This job will be located in Glasgow in the United Kingdom. It will be in the TV production sector.  It will be full time like the working in the radio and it will be a fixed contract. Doing this job you will have a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working across a range of Children's, Factual, Current Affairs, Events, Music and news content across TV and online.  To get this job you will need to have strong organisational skills as wellas the ability to multi task and adjust to changing deadlines.  Good team work skills will also be needed and the confidence to deal with higher employee's like senior management.

Changing from TV and radio you can also be a ''Junior Software Engineer''. This job will include helping and educate children of the future. You will work alongside talented people across the BBC to enrich children' lives through the next generation of media.  To get a job like this you will need to know how to use Javascript, Html and CSS, you will also need an experience of industry standard engineering tools and techniques and you will have the opportunity to work under the guidance from senior members of the platform development team to know how to code specifications and standards.  You will be working full time and it will be a fixed term contract. The job will be located in Salford, in the the UK.


I have discussed job opportunities in much more depth in a separate blog which can be found at:
http://creativemediajc.blogspot.co.uk/


What I got from my  research into job opportunities and Visits to Arts Organisations:
I learnt More than i know about a job opportunity and how to get a job previously I was just taught on how to conduct and interview but visits to BBC has really helped understand on what you need to be able to get a job and all the opportunities a simple intern ship as an example can reward you because going to the BBC there is one thing that I learnt from the people I talked to was that experience is always the key factor to getting a higher job opportunity

A Review off what I have done so far

I have put all of the work I produced each week for my challenge up on my blog. This has been shared with others in my class and there is a comment from one of my peers in the comments section at the bottom of this post.

Looking at what I have completed throughout this project and looking back at what I done in level one with my animation which is shown somewhere on the blog I can safely say that I really improved on my detail in drawing/tracing a picture of flash even though I have not completed the background yet looking at what I have done I am very proud of it and in my mind I have really improved on my animation work on flash, saying that I have not moved anything yet which was my original aim but as with this background it had took along time spaning about 1 month of work with working on it in either 1 lesson a day or none at all.

so with the amount I have produced within that time I also am very proud of that and speaking of that that is also something i have improved on the ability to not work so slow in a matter of words on animations because on level 1 i took one lesson just to do one part and now going into level 2 and working on this i have really improved on productivity by working just a little bit faster.

If I had to say if i achieved what I set myself to achieve i would have to say no and yes because my original aim was to make a original character i have done that and to make that character move which i have not done but my overall aim was to improve my skill in animation which in my opinion i have done.

since I have done animation before and even last year without any experience I dint find it difficult  it was just about learning new things and I can pretty much say the same thing about this it wasent difficult at all and thats not me bosting it just fun learning new things.

I really enjoyed doing this background because it is detailed and I like doing detailed things because its a challenge to me and I like it when i overcome that challenge speaking of that there were some problems on the projet like on the picture above you see the gate which i had to draw myself on flash because on the original image there where characters in the gate about to enter the castle so with this just being a background I had to remove them and improvise on drawing a gate and the other parts so that was one thing that iI had to overcome.

If I was ever to do this challenge again I would of not done the character and just focus on the background so I could have doen more of it and in my own opinion I dont think I have to improve anything.

Finished result of my arts award challenge

 

To begin with as I said when I started the project I was going to create my own charecter he is shown below it was a simple design to get me started his name is smiley.

 That is my finished design of my own charecter I tried cropping the image on photoshop but when i placed it on blogger it would not show up.

The next thing i wanted to do was tarce a background that i got of the japanese aniamtion claled fairy tail I have a picture off the castle not the one i used but its the only one that allowed me to give the credit on the one i used it would not allow me on the website.

credit for image - http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/First_Fairy_Tail_Building

 That is the castle as i call it it's called a guild hall technically. Below is the end result off what i mageged to get

tuesday march 11th 2014

I continued on with the building but in my spare time i have been working on it so from the previous ost you will be able to see how much i have worked on it but not done a post on it because this was done in my spare time.

As usual the original image is behind the drawing to show what else i have to do to complete the background.

This is the full image without the background and you can see the considerable amount i have added since last time i posted.

Film Club Review of The Big lebowski

This is a review of the film "The Big Lebowski" which was shown at Middlesbrough College Film Club in February 2014.

The Big lebowski

The person who chose this Film was called clive and he told us that he picked the film because he followed the directors carrer and it technically was a cult film but from what i can remember he chose it because he likes the directors who are called the Coen brothers who are two brothers called Ethan coen and Joel coen.

I didn't choose the film but i have just went into who chose the film and why he chose the film.

IN the middle of watching the film i personally think the overall genre of the film is a comedy because to be truthful i did fall asleep during the film but at some parts i did wake up when i heard interesting things and from what i seen some parts were funny an example of this is the ending scene wich was were the Dude was scattering the ashes of the other character and the wind blew the ashes back into the face of the dude that was the only funny sort of thing in the film.

The age rating for the film is 18 because due to the law if there are drugs present on the screen the age rating automatically goes to 18 rated because the film includes illegal usage of drugs.

The film tells the story not that well i got really confused by the actual story were it is technically a parody of the great film nior genre and i just got disgusted by the way the film just ruined the film for that genre for me it just ruined it was overall a disappointing telling of a story i just was not interested for my i have to be hooked in the first 15 minutes if not i just loose intrest in the film and since it was film club i couldn't exactly walk out or turn it off which i would do with any other film if i didn't find the story interesting or the telling of the story in the film. The writers of this film which were the Coen brothers they are good directors but thee writing and the performances just confused be if i had to pick one thing that i just hated was the constant use the word dude its a good word for the modern age but for a guy that age its just sad.

The names of the main characters are the following: Jeffrey Lebowski aka the dude, Walter Sobchak, Maude Lebowski, Theodore Donald 'Donny' Kerabatsos,  Jeffrey Lebowski aka The big lebowski.

After watching the film as I said before the movie literally made me fall asleep thats how not interesting it was, it was a total ripoff of film nior which is one of the all time genres and this film was just awful the story was confusing of what parts i heard  but i have seen the film before and i didn't really pay that much attention when I first seen it which was in secondary school so i dont really think the writers and directors didn't tell the story well it was just a parody of film nior but a very bad parody.

The film didn't peek my intrest because i did fall asleep so i was wasent interested at all just because it's not really my kind of films i am not that into parodies except for the scary movie franchise if you count that as a parody In my own opinion the best part of the film was the end because i got to leave but also the ashes scene was sort of funny.

I do not think this film was a good choice for film club it does have critically acclaimed directors but this was not one of there good films i would of preferred a much more well known cult film thats actually more age rating as-well what i mean by that is it had a positive drug message and we are in college were some students are 16 and it might send the wrong message but another thing is that again in my own opinion that i dont think its that well known i really would of preffered a much better cult/ critically aclaimed drama such as one of my faviourete films of all time the breakfest club.

Here are two embedded digital video files from the start of the Film Club event with the video tutor, Clive, introducing the film and giving his reasons for choice. This is evidence that I attended the event.

what i did today 11/02/2014

I continued on my building/background and completed some more parts

This is the section that i was working on with the building behind it

This is it without the background













Enlarged picture

background in animation

This is the top of the tower which shows the tracing of it below will be just the tracing.






















Just tracing without the building

BBC Newcastle photos/Review

Look North sofa

the interview/ traffic room

The grey screen with lewis 

Full size grey screen

The lighting equipment 

The news table

Radio Equipment

Review of the whole event to start of the overall tour was interesting overall all I would have to complain about  is the amount of time we had in the building at the end we were getting rushed a little bit but overall i enjoyed the trip and i got more of an insight in what goes on in a television studio such as how many cameras there actual are like my second and fifth picture one was the camera that goes to a screen not a green screen but a larger size of the grey screen and the camera was green its hard to explain but its quite different from a green screen like you can change the colour of the camera in the second picture you can see it is green but you can change it to other colour such as blue and other. the fifth picture was the lighting equipment in the news room and you can see how much more there are than in the traffic/ interview room going further you can see the news room pictures such as the news room table which actual from the view i took it you cant see the secret computer within the glass where the presenter can control the teleprompter to move and other things in that room we also met the presenter colin briggs and i tell you he can talk a lot but probably that was the most interesting thing about the day for me other than that the other thing were at the end the group put on a little show were three members of the group one played a news presenter which read from the TelePrompTer one was the sports presenter and the last was the weather presenter who had to improvise what they said it was very amusing. aslo we went into the radio room where we got to meet another person who i cant remember the name of but he told us he got into the business by being a comedian. the archive room was were all the old footage is like all the important stuff mainly video of stories that are probably going to be used again. going back to explain the interview/ traffic room what i mean by that is its a pretty small room where the person that does the traffic films doing the traffic and the grey screen is wehre the traffic is shown so if she is talking about a specific highway the camera will place that image where its moving but that is just a loop of the cars moving on the road and you can see the last image is where the girl goes on the radio because the tour guide explained this to us before they placed that radio equipment in the room the presenter had to run across the studio to be able to report the things on the radio so what they did was place all the equipment in the same room so it helps the reporter and thats what that image is.

The fifth image is about 80 cameras/lighting equipment which generate so much heat that they cant even use them all at the same time other than that i cant explain anymore.

Final evaluation -  to talk about the full trip as i said before i complained about the amount of time we got there even the tour guide told us that they were rushing us but overall i enjoyed it because it was a day away and i got to see what real work look like and how people actual work in a media environment but seeing all of this hasn't discouraged me from pursuing a media career other than the point of the time i cant real say any other bad points on the trip but as i again said before my favourite part was meeting the presenter because he had some good stories to tell and they were very interesting what i liked about him that i would like to be able to one day is that he could talk in front of complete strangers with me i am to shy so i would like be able to do that one day whiteout being to shy.