June 2009
4 posts
Reflective "Meta" Post
My blogs content is mostly made up of things that we looked at it class. With only a couple of outside links that I had found such as the swine flu data map. I found it really had to come up with something interesting to blog about each week. All I did though was talk about some of the main points that were said either in the lectures or in class. I didn’t even get any followers until the...
Youtube Video Rationale.
For my second assignment i chose to do a short youtube video which analyses an aspect of youtube. I thought of doing this after see’ing a video Nathan showed us in class which used just paper cut outs then editing it to fit. My video is called “The Success Of Trent” it is meant to represent how in only the space of a couple weeks the “Trent from Punchy” video shot...
Week 15
Assignment is due!!!!!!! It’ll be alright i guess. Now I’ve got my Mac sorted. My youtube video is turning really budget looking and poor quality. I don’t know how i can make it better but I need alot more practise at designing these sorts of things. Things like timing the voice overs right and using close up shots and what not. It’s actually really hard to get it flowing...
Week 14
Well I didn’t even go to class this day because my parents went overseas and I had to drive to sydney at 4am to go and pick them up from the airport. It didn’t exactly waste my time because it had to be done. However i did lose very useful class time to work on my assignment.
I’ve been looking at a number of different ways to lay out my assignment. Whether to do a stop...
May 2009
4 posts
Week 13
I just got a brand new Mac so i can keep up with all of my assignments and do my video editing. Guess what it doesn’t have a firewire port, great! So i couldn’t upload any of my video to work on it. Now i’ll have to go to the Mac store and spend some extra money on getting some kind of USB to firewire conversion. Not fun.
Week 12 Lecture
Today Michael didn’t plug his computer in properly and everything stuffed then he told us to blog about it. So i am going to blog about it. The lecture was about data visualizations it was pretty interesting but he showed us these videos that just went for way too long! But its incredible the amount of time, work and effort people have put into making some of these visualizations such as...
Week 11
Multiplicity. Pictures and videos that have been cut and edited together using lots of different photos of the same thing or theme. Some links on delicious were pretty good. The best one was probably of that video game replay that was done a thousand times then merged into one with 1000 cars. It has been redone except with 100 cars or even 4000 cars. Which is way over the top and just looks messy....
Week 10
This week I was sick and being really lazy so I didn’t really touch an computers.
We’ve been talking about our second assignments and I think that I want to make a video for Youtube about youtube. Maybe like a stop motion type video taking photos. I’ll make up a small set and just use paper and a pen to show what I want to. Or video tape it and cut it all up in an editing...
April 2009
5 posts
First Week Back
First week back at Uni. Today we looked at Web 2.0 websites and the result of social media. All about commenting and recommending or rating video, music, pictures or anything that you post on the internet. Web 2.0 is all about interactions. We looked at Flame-wars it was pretty funny because i’ve seen so many of them happen or even had my own video’s ripped on.
I had a video on...
Week 6 Tut
The whole lesson today was given to us to work on our assignments. Mine is still on paper but is definitely on its way. Still looking pretty messy but i still need to get it onto photoshop and make it look clean and presentable. Nathan was the biggest help with mapping out my website to all of its components. I’m going to be sitting on photoshop for a long time this coming...
March 2009
5 posts
Week 5 Tut
Working on our assignments, I’ve roughly mapped it out on paper and it doesn’t look very flowy at the moment. Working out a good colour scheme to display it on photoshop is also proving hard. It needs to be clear and readable, also I want a colour to show whether its going towards a link or going away from it and it has to be clear where a link is running when it crosses over two...
Week 5
So I’m going to get started on my first assignment for Networked Media Productions. I’m going to make a flow chart for the main parts of Last.Fm. Getting it too look nice is turning out to be a challenge because Last.Fm is such a large website with so many different pages and links. Everything from selecting your favourite bands to Last.Fm searching through itunes to make you a...
Week 4 Tut
In this weeks Tut Nathan explained to us exactly what the purpouses are of having API’s (Application Interface Interface) actually are. We also had a look at a few mashup or API websites such as wolfenstein Flickr or Neave Television. We had to sign up to an RSS reader site to check up on our favourite blogs and also sign up for a Yahoo Pipes account so we could make up our own simple...
Week 3 Tut
Today we had Nathan for our tutorial instead of Max. We were taught how to make basic webpages using Text Wrangler on the Mac’s and then editing the way it looks using a CSS file. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Basically when HTML was created it was never meant to be reedited or specifically define the content of a single document. When tags which allow you to specify what colour...
Networked Media Production Tut
The first computer lab session for Networked Media Production was today. We met Max who is our tutor. He explained everything that we are going to be doing for the semester. He showed as number of different blog sites. Got us to sign up for a blog site in which we will be posting for our assesment and where we will be posting anything else we would like to blog. Hopefully next week we get a bit...