Last Tuesday...

I always find Tuesdays a bit of a hassle because we're in from 10-4, it doesn't sound like much but when you're used to 3 hour days, it feels like running a marathon, without the running bit - although walking up the 2 flights of stairs can often feel as strenous as running 26 miles.

Tuesday morning we have 'Contemporary Media Issues' in which we were given our first project. In groups of 4 we have to produce a wiki page on wetpaint about an assigned book and answer a specific question. Our book is called 'Futuretainment' by Mike Walsh.

Getting the book from the library was stressful enough, there's just too many books, and codes, and librarians telling me to tie up my lace. But anyway, our question is, "What changes are predicted for the future relationship of producers and consumers of media and what are the implications of these?"
The author, Mike Walsh, has an impressive website that you may want to look at: http://www.futuretainment.com/

Anyway, the lecture to follow was 'Digital Media Tools' in which we were studying sequential imagery: the process of telling a story in a series of shots. In this case, we had to tell a story within 5 shots. Our idea was someone (me, unfortunate for my dignity) watching a funny video but laughing too much that they fall off their chair - my drama GCSE came into good use. Over the coming weeks we will be working more with photography and telling stories through the medium of pictures...it will be very exciting!