The Duddy Magnus

I enjoyed doing the continuity test. The test was simple enough you film a person walking into a room - opening a door - entering the room sitting down talking to a person and then they leave. But when I started filming all these ideas of shots and cuts just flooded into my head. I started to really enjoy what I was doing, i began to find interesting angles to put the camera and had loads of fun just filming. There was a certain you had to adibe to: you can't cross the line - or else it would seem as if the character you are filming has jumped across.

I should have gone somewhere sunny :( / Media Diary 9

I really really wish i went somewhere this half term, to be honest the past week has been me doing pretty much nothing, just vegetating in front of a TV waiting for someone to call or respond to a text I sent seeing if they were free. Problem is, everyone else has gone somewhere sunny, and I'm left with nothing to do, okay i have been out a lot this half term, but no where near the amount i expected myself to do. Then on comes DOE and another load of people disappear. This half term has been rather well bland, just leaving a rather okay taste in your social pallet and then goes off to Majorca to be with everyone else..

Media Consumption has been pretty much TV, Internet, Ipod and Xbox 360. Oh and that really cool advert for that new mall, can't remember what its called but yeah.

Media Diary 8 and flu.

Monday started off as any normal morning - GMTV i then went on the bus and listened to my Ipod for the journey and during school watched and analysed Yasmin and the mise en scene in some extracts. After school i watched some programmes I'd recorded - Never mind the Buzz cocks and Mock the week and some other programmes in between. It was then i realised that i had quite a viscous headache and sore throat so i retired to bed at about 10 - o clock.

The Tuesday was again the same pretty much as Monday - except this time i went to bed at 9 - 0 clock due to a roaring temperature.

From Wednesday to the Friday morning i was in bed, slipping in and out of sleep and only waking up to eat - the television i did watch was normal boring day-time TV slob: The Jeremy Kyle show, Judge Judy, repeats of Stargate or Bones and any other rubbish that Sky regurgitated on its many many channels - there was simply nothing on worth watching. It makes me realise how scammy sky is. - apart the single perk that when something good comes on and your going to miss it - you can record it. Why is there nothing to watch on so many channels? is it just me?

Media Diary 7 and Louis Vuitton

FRIDAY

-7.00-7.30 - BBC breakfast

- 7.40 - 8.30 - Ipod - White Stripes - Blue Orchid

- Axwell - I found you

- Stompbox (spor remix)

- Nirivana - Breed

- Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

8.45 - 9.15 - Music - Alright by Supergrass

8.00 - 12.30 - Party - Music and lots of it.


SATURDAY

9.30 - 10.20 - BBC Breakfast

12.00 - 5.00 - Working at the ODEON Cinema so it watched
:Bits of Tropic Thunder + Adverts before films

- Louis Vuitton -

this advert was fantastic and made me watch it. I actually enjoyed watching this advert - but what was it or how did they make it so that they knew that people would watch it? (296,740 hits on youtube) And what is it selling? A Life style or a brand?


6.00 - 7.30 - Xbox 360 - Team Fortress 2 - it is suuch a good game!!!

9.00- 11.00 - TV + Movie - Big Daddy.

Media Diary 6

THURSDAY

7.00-7.30 - BBc Breakfast + GMTV

7.40-8.30 - Ipod - N.E.R.D - Everybody Nose
- HotChip - Ready for the floor
- Drum n Bass Area - Andy C Album

6.30 - TV - Simpsons, Scrubs, Mock the Week,

8.30 - facebook, blogger.com, youtube

9.00 - 10.30 - Xbox 360 - Team Fortress 2

Three weeks in.....

The past three weeks have probably been the most fun I have probably had at school since Nursey were you played with Lego and were occasionally asked to spell "Duck" until your heart was content.


All the new people who have come into the school have simply now melted into the rest of Year 12 and it is hard to tell apart new from old, eveybody is so nice to one another. :)


This informal teaching and conversation with the teachers is something which has made me actually look forward to school that little bit more. As well as, of course, the "Free's" we get. As the homework hasn't hit us hard yet most people are actually finding a Free boring - it was the case for me today about 45 minutes into my 1 hr 15 min free I actually caught myself thinking "I'm bored - when does geography start?"


I now love the way homework is handled - especially in Media Studies - a simple E-mail to Mr. V or Mrs. F will surfice, and finally! Some people in this school who actually know how to enlarge a screen on Youtube without logging off their computer.


The Media Diaries we are doing for Mr. V will seem interesting - at the end of year or two year period of Media Studies. However I do find myself putting "Do Media Diary!" at the top of a list and slowly watch as other homework slowly push this "To Do" all the way to the bottom of the priority pile.


This blog website is now begining to look it could belong to someone who knows what they're doing on this website and - just like the new facebook - will take some exploring to do before i get totally used to the site. One thing that could turn out to be tiresome is having to link everybody else's blogg one at a time. :(


I'm in "Reeves" and it couldn't be better - for me anyway. For House music we're doing "Alright" by "Supergrass" and I find that me and the rest of the year 12 are struggling even at singing in just one octave.


In Young Enterprise I left one group for another, call me a traitor, but i know who will actually work in this whole thing and I'm going to stick to the people who you can rely on to get the job done. What I then didn't expect is to then become co-MD of the whole 12 person group...this concerns me slightly.


I have a feeling I'm in for many nights spent with a pen in hand and the desk lamp still on at 11.30 at night. This year is going to be fun.

Media 5

WEDNESDAY

7.00-7.30 - GMTV - news + weather
7.45-8.30 - Ipod - Nirivana - Come as You are
- N.E.R.D - Everybody Nose
- White Stripes - Blue Orchid
- Stompbox (Spor Remix)

1.30-3.00 - Internet (www.blogger.com)
3.15 - 4.15 - Dragon's Den Clip

6.00-7.00 - Nirivana - Breed
- Lithium
- Come as You are

7.30-9.30 - Facebook, Blogger.com