4th - Joyous

Today the plan was to treat myself to some Tartiflette (a French dish) but unfortunately they'd run out so the photo for today is my Grande Amaretto Latte & Amaretti biscuit which I got for free in Caffe Nero - I'd managed to get enough stamps on my card for one!

When I went to take the photo though, my camera didn't want to turn on as it had run out of battery, annoyingly. Hence the reason why this one's not quite as good quality as the rest as I took it on my phone.

4th - Joyous, a photo by YNWA Media Productions on Flickr.

3rd - Red

One thing that we all seem to pay more attention to at Christmas than at any other time of the year is the red post box - my Christmas cards are already in it!

3rd - Red, a photo by YNWA Media Productions on Flickr.

2nd - Favourite Holiday Movie

This one was easy, you just can't beat 'The Grinch'!

2nd - Favourite Holiday Movie, a photo by YNWA Media Productions on Flickr.

1st - Your View Today

Since I have an essay to finish writing and a Christmas tree to put up, the view that I've had for most of the day has been that out of the window in my room.

1st - Your View Today, a photo by YNWA Media Productions on Flickr.

Capturing December - Challenge Accepted

Whilst on Pinterest the other night I came across a photo-a-day challenge that someone had pinned. This challenge is entitled 'Capturing December' and lasted for the whole month and, being Christmas, had a Christmassy theme to it. I repinned it with a view to perhaps having a go at it. Now, I've decided that am going to take up the challenge! All of the photos that I take will be uploaded to my Flickr account and then posted on here with a little bit about why I chose that particular photo for the category of the day.

There will be no Instagram, but maybe a bit of Photoshop here and there.

So here's the challenge! Keep checking back throughout December to see how it's going.

Multi-platform in Action

Last night my flatmate and her friend stayed up to watch American election on TV, both of them being politics students. I stayed with them for a while watching it and it suddenly occurred to me that I was witnessing multi-platform viewing in action! The TV was on in the living, my flatmate was sitting on the sofa on her iPad and her friend was on the same sofa on her iPhone. Both checking Twitter and various other websites linked to the election.

It was quite a strange sight in ways as, in the Digital Media Cultures lecture especially, we often touch on second screen experiences when watching TV but to actually be able to watch it happen was quite funny in a way.

Britain in a Day - LJMU Playlist goes LIVE

The LJMU Britain in a Day playlist has now gone live on the site! Check out our selection for the playlist here.

To see what our involvement with Britain in a Day was all about, see the blog post from the time.

TV Studio - Recording

We've now had a shot at recording live in the TV studio! For our first group recording session we had to film a short piece for a children's TV show demonstrating how to make a paper aeroplane.

It was interesting to find that, once we got into doing our rehearsal, the whole camera script pretty much went straight out the window - but that's what happens in a professional studio sometimes.

For our time in the TV studio I will be acting as the Floor Manager and will also be operating a camera for parts of the shoot.

The first recording went down really well so that's given us all confidence for the big project and now it's time to crack on with the work for the real thing now we've had our practise run!



Image Composition

For the first assignment of year 2 in the module Beyond the Camera, we had to create an image composition using Photoshop.

I took my inspiration from the Liverpool Biennial art installation in Keys Court, Oded Hirsch's 'The Unexpected Guest'. Using a photo of this piece of artwork as the main feature of my composition, I wanted it to look as if someone had been in the lift when it had crashed through the floor.

I used 3 different photos in order to create my composition.

Cutting out the lift doors from my main photo I was able to layer this with the other 2 photos in order to create a realistic composition.

New Year...

...New modules, new building and so much more to learn. We're into year 2 of Media Professional Studies and the brand new Redmonds' Building - been waiting a whole year to get in here! Plus we get to play with the newest industry standard TV studio in Britain - £1.1 million worth of kit and I can't wait to get to grips with it.

I think this could be an interesting year so let's see how it goes!