Me and blogging have not gone in hand in my time at University. This is bad and I need to reticfy this. I need to understand the importance of it in my ambitions to work in the media. Then again - I also need to lose weight and I'm currently chewing on a Mars Bar. Here's to 2014!
DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURES
One of the modules I seemed to embrace the most as this most reminded me of my days in A-Level Media. Not on an intellectual level but more because I love finding out about the 'culture' and the media as an industry. It's something that fascinates me. I also found Keith Marley as a lecturer to be interesting and informative. This showed in my efforts in the essay we had to do for this module in which I got a 1st - a study into the changing relationship between the audience and the producer - in particular with the growth of social networks and UGC. This is an aea that fascinates me greatly and I do feel that platforms such as YouTube and Kickstarter are the futue for prospective people wanting to get into Media.
BEYOND THE CAMERA
This module tested me technically as I had to get to grips with programmes such as Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. These are area's I'm not strong in, but I had a good team in Mark Nugent and Ian Gardener who helped and supported me through it. I soon found myself embracing such programmes and could see the benefit of them in any future productions I plan. Here is my final product from this module: Fatale.
I didn't get marked on my voice acting, for the record.
TV STUDIO PRODUCTION
If I were to pick a module in which I embraced, loved and felt I got the most out of it was this. I initially had some fear going into this module after talking to friends with experience of doing such things in college. However, thankfully, I was placed in a group consisting of Gemma Blaney, Josh McDowell, Amy Palin Tune, Phoebe Ruddock and Ceri Dack - a bunch of people with the same ambition and work ethic as me. We had to come up with a lunch time magazine show suitable for Channel 4 - complete with guest and music performance piece. Our offering was the 'Alternative Lunch' - a show aimed primarilly at the student age range with a tastte of the perculiar about it. I was picked as presenter, given to me for what I hope was my experience in performing stand up comedy - not because I was useless at everything else. I was initially disappointed with this as I had hopes for being producer but I soon fitted into my role as presenter and embraced it. Watching back on our final product I am totally proud of what I and my group achieved. This has definitely opened up my interest into a potential career (this is television production - not presenting. Justin Lee Collin's has killed all market for potential fat, bearded television personalities. 'Good times'? Yeah right, Justin).
APPLIED MEDIA RESEARCH
I have talked about this in great length in another blog but strangely I think this module taught me the most in terms of the media industry I wish to get into. As someone who is interesting in the 'creative' side of filmmaking (i.e writing/directing) studying the idea of the role of writers in today and potentially the future of Media has given me some food to think about and, potentially, some idea's of what will be expected of me if I ever reach the levels I want to in this industry.
CONVERGEANCE MEDIA TEAMWORK
Multi platforming media seems to follow me around...
At the time of writing this I am half way through this module. However, like I said in the above section, the importance of multiplatforming in media is significant and growing and this module is giving me the chance to embrace it. Once again I'm in a great team of Gardener and Nugent and the project we have going on is exciting. I'm fully embracing the idea of telling a story across a range of platforms and I'm seeing the benefit of something I've studied throughout this year practically. What we're making exactly is in it's early stages, all I'm saying is simply beware the suits...
THE OUTSIDE WOLD AND I
This year I decided to embrace doing media work outside of my course. In particular this led to me taking on and experience the fantastic experience of being a runner for the official music video of "You'll Never Walk Alone". It was a fantastic couple of days working a with a kind and knowledgeable crew which I got so much out of - the effort everyone put in can be seen in the video. Great stuff.
http://youtu.be/OV5_LQArLa0
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