Two of my final three modules involved doing something live. For the Radio module, we had to make a 12-15 minute-long radio package, involving an interview and such, and then perform it live. Me and Bing were the presenters, and we used the idea of a fictional robot uprising during a (different, also fictional) radio show we were doing to talk about the future of technology. We got some great voxpops from people as well as an interview with a robotics professor at the Uni. The original one also had the full soundscape we made earlier, but we cut it out for length.
Go go DJ Spock.
For the other assessment, the TV one, our entire group of 17 people had to make a 15 minute kid's TV show about a certain country. We picked China, and spent a ton of time researching and scripting and making sets and costumes and oh god we all nearly went insane.
It went like this:
Gareth as a panda is the best.
It went good. However, had we handed in this version I have no doubt we could have increased our marks tenfold:
Oh, Bing.
COMING SOON TO SKAG'S UP!: Guns and frisbees. Watch this space.
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Saturday, 23 May 2009
Monday, 2 March 2009
Drowning In The Flood: It's A Soundscape!
Short update today, but here we have Drowning In The Flood, the experimental soundscape I helped make for my Radio module.
Click here to listen to it, yo.
The aims for it were fairly simple; we set out to create a narrative of a protagonist rejecting the cacophony of above-ground and finding a harmony beneath the waves. We wanted to show the contrast between the two worlds, as well as see if a narrative could be established using just ambient sounds.
The group - consisting of me, Jason Baster, Luke Clarke, and this one cunt called Bing, recorded a ton of different things for the soundscape. The most fun part was the first thing we did, where we got a big plastic box, filled it with water, and recorded our heads being dunked into it, as well as coming out and gasping for air. We made a mess and Bing's flatmates loved us for it. We also recorded heavy breathing as well as random banging and ambient background conversation sounds and stuff, a lot of which made it in. Most of the distortion you hear throughout the piece was done with Luke's awesomely fun amp and a guitar and a whammy bar. Some of the music you hear was done by putting Luke's headphones on the pickups of the guitar, so it came out of the amp and created the really sweet effect of almost making it seem like it's coming from a broken radio.
After recording, Bing edited the whole thing together into what you hear there, with the rest of us offering ideas and generally hanging around and being cool. You know, my usual MO. We then got to write the paperwork and made ourselves sound mega pretentious when describing the piece. It was fun!
Not much else to report on as we've just had a week off, but there's stuff coming up soon with Mute and Production Planning and all that. Be sure to look for more updates!
Click here to listen to it, yo.
The aims for it were fairly simple; we set out to create a narrative of a protagonist rejecting the cacophony of above-ground and finding a harmony beneath the waves. We wanted to show the contrast between the two worlds, as well as see if a narrative could be established using just ambient sounds.
The group - consisting of me, Jason Baster, Luke Clarke, and this one cunt called Bing, recorded a ton of different things for the soundscape. The most fun part was the first thing we did, where we got a big plastic box, filled it with water, and recorded our heads being dunked into it, as well as coming out and gasping for air. We made a mess and Bing's flatmates loved us for it. We also recorded heavy breathing as well as random banging and ambient background conversation sounds and stuff, a lot of which made it in. Most of the distortion you hear throughout the piece was done with Luke's awesomely fun amp and a guitar and a whammy bar. Some of the music you hear was done by putting Luke's headphones on the pickups of the guitar, so it came out of the amp and created the really sweet effect of almost making it seem like it's coming from a broken radio.
After recording, Bing edited the whole thing together into what you hear there, with the rest of us offering ideas and generally hanging around and being cool. You know, my usual MO. We then got to write the paperwork and made ourselves sound mega pretentious when describing the piece. It was fun!
Not much else to report on as we've just had a week off, but there's stuff coming up soon with Mute and Production Planning and all that. Be sure to look for more updates!
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Oh wow it's been nearly 3 months
I apologise for the lack of updates! First there was nothing to update for ages, then there was lots and it was just like "OH GOD"
Anyway, the first semester ended, and with it, we said goodbye to the Digital Media, Photography, and Script, Screenwriting & Realisation modules. Choices was filmed, edited, finished, and handed in. When they've finished the marking, we'll get the tape back and I'll be able to put it on the internet and show you lovely people. I also handed in my projects for the other two modules, but to be honest they were nothing really amazing or worth showing. My original idea for Photography fell through so I had to do this whole guitar playing thing, and I wasn't very happy with it. Digital Media I was pleased with, but the photos I took of my house were definitely the coolest/best things about it, before I drew all over them and ruined it, haha. I'm pretty sure I got a good mark for that one.
So now we're doing three new modules, and for the most part they're incredibly fun. First up is Production Planning, which is pretty much just another way of saying TV. We get to use the small TV studio (Students who carry it on next year get to use the large studio, which is one of the biggest in the country) and the final assessment is for the entire group to work together on a children's TV show based on a certain geographical area. Despite the deadline not being for weeks, our group's getting a head start. We've already chosen China for the topic of the programme, and everyone has their parts. I will be assisting in the scriptwriting, as well as one of the three cameraman for the final piece. So far in the workshops we've all done different jobs for certain things, swapping round each week. I've been the sound guy, a cameraman, director (It was a catastrophic failure) and last time around I acted, which was incredibly fun as it was the first week we got to improvise something and not just work from a script we were given.
The second new module is Design & Visual Communication, which is really just what the title says. Our first assignment was to make something that we thought described us. While a lot of people made collages or cartoons or something, I booked out the photo studio and went a more slightly traditional route:
I was pretty happy with it, and people seemed to like it, so yay! The final assignment is to make a press packet/poster for a film or CD or various other things. I would do the Mute album but Ben already did that when he did the module last semester (more on that later), so maybe I'll just make up a fake Dogme film as an excuse not to put much effort into it. LOL!
Then there's the final module, Radio & Sound. I'll admit to not being massively interested in radio as a whole, but I've enjoyed this so far. I'm in a group with Bing, Jason, and Luke, and our first project has been to make a soundscape. Bing came up with the idea of making one that gives off the feeling of being underwater, and a sort of harmony that can be found there compared to above ground. This should be finished within the next couple of days, and then I'll post it up here. After that, we have to make a 15 minute radio show and present it live. It'll be interesting.
That's about it for Uni, but there's more to report on. I've recently started writing for Projectorheads, a movie blog, along with some of my friends from Ugmo. It contains reviews, features, and occasional videos. I'm currently writing a segment on my top 10 directors for it, so be sure to keep checking it out.
In January, I discovered Xtranormal, an odd site where you write a script and little robot people act it out. No good for making movies or animations you want people to take seriously, but the idea is comedy gold, so I used it to make a short web series called Excellent Jim. You can watch all the episodes by clicking on these links:
1 2 3 4 5
I stopped after episode 5 because, well, once you start to make jokes about ejaculating in Madeline McCann's eye, you've taken things as far as you can in the "tasteless" category, really. Some of my friends have made other videos though, which are pretty damn fantastic.
I guess the final thing to update you guys on is Mute. We've played a few gigs, and have a couple more videos up on youtube:
The Escape - Live at The Black Market 10th December 2008
Pennyword - Live at The Black Market 10th December 2008
We also have some new videos from our latest gig, but they're not up yet. The next couple of gigs we have lined up are with some fairly big local bands, so I'm quite excited for them.
Oh yeah, we also finished the CD.
Catch you guys later.
Anyway, the first semester ended, and with it, we said goodbye to the Digital Media, Photography, and Script, Screenwriting & Realisation modules. Choices was filmed, edited, finished, and handed in. When they've finished the marking, we'll get the tape back and I'll be able to put it on the internet and show you lovely people. I also handed in my projects for the other two modules, but to be honest they were nothing really amazing or worth showing. My original idea for Photography fell through so I had to do this whole guitar playing thing, and I wasn't very happy with it. Digital Media I was pleased with, but the photos I took of my house were definitely the coolest/best things about it, before I drew all over them and ruined it, haha. I'm pretty sure I got a good mark for that one.
So now we're doing three new modules, and for the most part they're incredibly fun. First up is Production Planning, which is pretty much just another way of saying TV. We get to use the small TV studio (Students who carry it on next year get to use the large studio, which is one of the biggest in the country) and the final assessment is for the entire group to work together on a children's TV show based on a certain geographical area. Despite the deadline not being for weeks, our group's getting a head start. We've already chosen China for the topic of the programme, and everyone has their parts. I will be assisting in the scriptwriting, as well as one of the three cameraman for the final piece. So far in the workshops we've all done different jobs for certain things, swapping round each week. I've been the sound guy, a cameraman, director (It was a catastrophic failure) and last time around I acted, which was incredibly fun as it was the first week we got to improvise something and not just work from a script we were given.
The second new module is Design & Visual Communication, which is really just what the title says. Our first assignment was to make something that we thought described us. While a lot of people made collages or cartoons or something, I booked out the photo studio and went a more slightly traditional route:
I was pretty happy with it, and people seemed to like it, so yay! The final assignment is to make a press packet/poster for a film or CD or various other things. I would do the Mute album but Ben already did that when he did the module last semester (more on that later), so maybe I'll just make up a fake Dogme film as an excuse not to put much effort into it. LOL!
Then there's the final module, Radio & Sound. I'll admit to not being massively interested in radio as a whole, but I've enjoyed this so far. I'm in a group with Bing, Jason, and Luke, and our first project has been to make a soundscape. Bing came up with the idea of making one that gives off the feeling of being underwater, and a sort of harmony that can be found there compared to above ground. This should be finished within the next couple of days, and then I'll post it up here. After that, we have to make a 15 minute radio show and present it live. It'll be interesting.
That's about it for Uni, but there's more to report on. I've recently started writing for Projectorheads, a movie blog, along with some of my friends from Ugmo. It contains reviews, features, and occasional videos. I'm currently writing a segment on my top 10 directors for it, so be sure to keep checking it out.
In January, I discovered Xtranormal, an odd site where you write a script and little robot people act it out. No good for making movies or animations you want people to take seriously, but the idea is comedy gold, so I used it to make a short web series called Excellent Jim. You can watch all the episodes by clicking on these links:
1 2 3 4 5
I stopped after episode 5 because, well, once you start to make jokes about ejaculating in Madeline McCann's eye, you've taken things as far as you can in the "tasteless" category, really. Some of my friends have made other videos though, which are pretty damn fantastic.
I guess the final thing to update you guys on is Mute. We've played a few gigs, and have a couple more videos up on youtube:
The Escape - Live at The Black Market 10th December 2008
Pennyword - Live at The Black Market 10th December 2008
We also have some new videos from our latest gig, but they're not up yet. The next couple of gigs we have lined up are with some fairly big local bands, so I'm quite excited for them.
Oh yeah, we also finished the CD.
Catch you guys later.
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