The Final Cut

Here's the final edit of budget toy story. Go on have a gander!

http://youtu.be/2dl2c9tw6Mw

Merry Christmas!!!!

Holiday! Let's Celebrate!!

Tis the season to be jolly...pfft, aye right! The amount of work to be done is a horrifying prospect on top of work and Christmas preparations. God help me I will need a miracle.

Bonnie and Clyde

Back to Video Skills and we are having to shoot a music video of sorts. I will have to be honest I have sort of forgotten the name of the song but when reading the lyrics we were inspired by the sort of rebellious theme that ran throughout it. The song as I remember was also about a couple getting away from it all, after a we brainstorm we decided to recreate our own Bonnie and Clyde story. All of us play a cameo in the film, starring our fabulous Amy Downs and Roisin Gallagher (Sorry Roisin it won't let me do the dashes on your name) as Bonnie and Clyde. It is by far our most elaborate movie yet and also our last one second year. I'm actually gutted, Video skills is one of my favourite classes, I actually get an excuse to be weird!

A snapshot of the action

Networks

Here's some networking worksheets that I forgot to post. Its basically showing the connections that we have with one another's goals and ambitions, explaining how we need to get to our chosen career.

 

STOP!!! Camera time duh duh duh duh!!

Our first shot at stop motion and I love it. Despite the amount of time it took to take a shot of each individual movement, it was well worth it to see the result even if an hours work only amounted to about a minute. Working in a group with the girls from my class was great as well cause not only did we all enjoy the process we were enthusiastic to create a story, which is sometimes difficult to find in some group activities. Getting a group of people who were actually excited to make something made it so much more precious.

We have titled our little masterpiece Budget Toy Story, the editing is still in progress, so watch out for a link in the coming weeks!

Research On Writers

Continuing to look at writers for the brief. Currently looking at Arthur Conan Doyle who was studied medicine in Edinburgh and found inspiration for the infamous Sherlock Holmes under the tutorship Joseph Bell. Bell never got a diagnosis wrong and constantly forced his students to observe and perceive the overlooked. Sounds scarily similar to Mr Holmes.