Sunday 30 October 2011

Till I'm Gone

Most of you will not be aware of this yet, but I have a lot of love and respect for Tinie Tempah, and I mean A LOT! Well yesterday I decided to put on 'Till I'm Gone' - Tinie's track with Wiz Khalifa - on YouTube and as I was bored thought I might as well watch it. I'd seen the video before but this was the first time that I had watched it properly. When I originally watched it, the shots of the black Aston Martin caught my eye when France's Eiffel Tower (2:11-2:13) and the city lights (2:21-2:25) were reflected on the car. This time I noticed something which I never saw before - shots of different cities appear in the video:
Switzerland and Monaco on the car window (0:35-0:38)
Amsterdam, Milan, Australia and Singapore instead of the cityscape that is behind Tinie (1:34-1:38)
Night shots of New York and London's Tower Bridge (3:04 and 3:07)

I was quite surprised when I realised these images were present and I thought it was a really clever idea and one that I liked very much.


Looks like artists don't always have to travel to places in order to have them in their music videos.

Monday 17 October 2011

Wikis on Wetpaint

Wetpaint Central hosts wikis that have been created both professionally and by members of the public. Last week I set up an account to enable me to create wikis online.

In a small group we created a page and on it we wrote a piece about the article that we'd each brought in. Our page was about music articles. In future we are planning to use this site, as a course group, to collate research from tasks and other useful information.

We are also using this site for our first Contemporary Media Issues assignment. As a group we have a book to look at and a question to answer relating to that book. We are looking at 'Futuretainment' by Mike Walsh (2010). In the group we have chosen 2 chapters each which we think will be relevant to our question and then we will each post about our own chapters. As this is a group assignment we are going to create a Prezi together which will bring together all of our chapters so we can answer our initial question by coming to a conclusion.

This is a link to our 'Futuretainment' wiki: http://contemporarymediaissues.wetpaint.com/page/%27Futuretainment%27+M.Walsh+%282010%29

Monday 10 October 2011

BBC Academy

Today I attended a talk during my lecture by 3 members of the BBC about the BBC's College of Production and College of Journalism. I really enjoyed this talk as it opened up something that I might not have otherwise been introduced to - a fantastic website. The College of Production, or CoP, website has lots of videos on it, containing tips on how to do different things and all sorts of other useful information, that have been made by people working at the BBC. I think this is a brilliant and very valuable tool for students like myself who are wanting to get a job in the media industry at the end of their degree as it gives you a 'heads-up' from an industry perspective.

If there's one thing that this talk has inspired me to do today then that's to be proactive about getting out there any finding myself some work experience in the industry.

Getting to grips with Prezi

Prezi is an online presentation tool that lets you create a moving presentation, allowing you to zoom in on different parts of the information and move around.

I was introduced to it for the first time last week but unfortunately I didn't get to use the software myself - as we were working in a group we nominated someone to create the Prezi. I really liked the idea of using this tool to create presentations in the future and I'm looking forward to having a play around with the software and getting to grips with it myself.