As-Live: 'Unsigned Live'

Yesterday I worked with the 2nd Years on their AS-LIVE project 'Unsigned Live'. I was assigned the role of 'band runner' by the floor manager which meant that I was there to assist the band with anything they need. I was also stand in audience which was needed for some of the shots that the director wanted! I really enjoyed working in the studio and thought that it was really beneficial. Really looking forward to the real shoot for the 'Unsigned Live' project in May!

Media Strategies Unit & Sound Unit

I've finally finished my first draft of my media strategies essay and its ready to hand in today for feedback! Ive not finished yet and hope that the feedback i get from it can help me improve it! I found writing the essay okay, just seems so long since I've written a formal piece of work and it took me a while to get into it, but once I'd written my introduction it all came flooding back!


Yesterday I went to London for the Day and really thought about my idea for my sound unit and my journey. Ive decide to focus my journey on my move out of London to Kent. I thought that this would be quite interesting to do but also quite challenging. As I can only use still images, I'd like to take some really nice images and photos from where I lived in London and contrast it to where I live now. I'd quite like to focus on the areas where I lived not specifically the houses and think that this could work well. Looking forward to getting my hands on a camera and getting Snap Happy!

Story Telling Unit; Uploading Footage

I arrived at the studios about 45 minutes ago and after some playing around and a hand from Simon, my clips are uploaded to my hard drive and are ready to be edited! I had to re-format my hard drive so that it would become compatible with my Final Cut documents using Mac, although I'd already saved Mac documents on it before! Now my Hard Drive is all Mac!

The clips look good and I'm really excited to start using them! I've chosen my music and have a good idea of how I want my trailer to look! I think I may just have time now for a coffee before I start my Sound Unit Workshop!  

Story Telling Unit: The Trailer

So today I finally finished my filming for my trailer! After my disaster over the holidays which was me accidentally deleting all of my previously filmed footage from my camera, Im really pleased with the filming that Ive done today!


Really looking forward to editing my trailer this week and next week as it's my first work I'll have completed using Final Cut! My filming today was shot within students halls, which went well! i had planned to do some filming outdoors but was unable to do this due to bad weather ALL day! But, just like with the hiccup with the footage before, all of these problems are helping me learn how difficult it can be sticking to schedules and left me to make quick decisions about what I was going to film differently if I could not stick to these schedules! 


I'm also really looking forward to the workshop tomorrow for our new sound unit! This looks like a great unit of work, but I'm sure this will be a lot harder than it seems, using only sound and not music to support just still images whilst portraying a story! Well.. looks like an early start for me in the morning so I can upload my footage and start editing before my workshop!