Make sure you hand in your work on this time and day. If you have produced a DVD hand this in together with your clearly typed blog address.
If it is a Flash based piece and is not online save it to either CD/DVD/USB stick and also include a clearly typed blog address.
If your work exists [...]
Hand in Date Midday 15th December Main Reception Ellen Terry
Categorized in Presentation, Research
Tuesday 8th December
I would like to show some of the student work in the morning session particularly those that have worked with Google Maps and those that have worked with flash. There are a number of good examples that I would like to share with the group as well as an ineresting use of Dreamweaver.
Be ready to [...]
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Tuesday 1st December Notice No Morning Session
There is no morning session tomorrow. The Groups will begin at the normal time at 2pm in ETBO4. Make sure you bring your edited work ready to work on and talk with me about.
Categorized in Research
New Mapping and Digital Tools
I thought I would just share with you some new tools that I have been asked to find out about in relation to a local archive project that is looking at a particular street in Coventry and it history, communities and usage past and present.
The outline with links to useful tools and approaches is below:
The [...]
Producing Content
Time marches on. You need to be well on the way to producing your content elements. As discussed these may be filmed elements, stills, audio, text.
You need to think how the elements that make up your route are going to become discreet units that you can then add interactivity to.
That is you need to think [...]
Categorized in Experimental, Research
Reading Week Consider your research approach
Approaches to Research
by Samantha Bakhurst For the BFI
Why do research?
You cannot simply rely on your existing knowledge when approaching essays in Media Studies. Although you will have some understanding of the area being explored, it is not enough to enable you to examine the area in depth. If you were asked to write about the [...]
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Evocation, Atmosphere, Place, Experimentation
Before doing anything else read this piece on Experimental Film from the BFI
What I want to look at today are some experimental filmmakers who create work that is not primarily motivated by storytelling or narrative. The trails and routes that you are thinking about and will be presenting ideas for today also lend themselves [...]
Categorized in Experimental, Research
Mashable
Have a really good look at the possibilities of this software.
This technology is just mind-boggling. PhotoSketch may be the coolest program we’ve seen or written about since the invisible speakers.
PhotoSketch is an “Internet Image Montage” project from five Chinese Computer Science and Technology students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. The basic [...]
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Video Walls
I really like the creative use of multi-screens in this video. The music is rubbish but it’s a nice example of a music vid for the networked generation.
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Mashups using Streetview
Some of you were looking at the possibility of using streetview in your trails. The info below might be of some use.
The band, Editors have hacked Google Street View to create something new and wonderful. Whether you like the music or not the online application – which you can view on the Editors official site [...]
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