Ollie Tristram

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Fantastic use of a pitch-shifter such as Melodyne. I never thought to put recorded speech through one of those to make a melody.

I have visited the website www.visit4info.com as well as YouTube to have a look at a multitude of different ads that I can draw inspiration from for my Simulated Client Project on file-sharing.

Here are a few that caught my attention and why:

The reason I like an advert in this style is that not only is it shot professionally, but it surprises you. It adds humour to the situation by showing the audience something out of the ordinary and they can relate to what they would feel like being at a funeral and then having a rugby streaker ruin it. Even after the streaker is seen we still don't know what the advert is about, and when the text confirms its for rugby everything falls to place in the audience's heads.



This is a very effective message making the audience feel guilty for breaking the law. It's hard to watch due to having a dead child on screen the through the whole advert which really shocks the audience into remembering it. With this message it is very personal as it only focuses on 2 people. File-sharing affects industries so something so direct would be much harder to pull off.



From the Hong Kong government comes a direct message that puts the audience into the crime world itself. Seedy clubs and sleazy people are seen thanking the audience for their contributions. It's intended to make the audience feel seedy and sleazy themselves. I feel it works in a way, because it does remind you that you are doing something illegal, but still you know you're not as low as the criminals seen in the ad, therefore wouldn't stop you.



Here is an example of a pretty poor student-produced advert on anti-piracy. It uses the same repeated message of comparing stealing other things, like shoplifting, is the same as stealing media content. However one way I think the message is affective is that it says it affects individuals rather than big corporations.

Related links worth visiting:

http://www.mredkj.com/other/sharing.html - A list of pros and cons for music file-sharing.

http://l3rady.com/2008/11/29/top-tips-on-how-not-to-get-caught-file-sharing/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/19/file_sharing_gamer_fined/

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/15/how-logistep-catches-file-sharers/ - A short bit of info on how anti-piracy firm Logistep can catch you.

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Just brilliant. And excellent music too!

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The things you can create with Post-It notes!

The set and the Foley sounds are amazing. It's inpiring. I might make a stop-motion with a similar style very soon!

Hello.

Results are in and i got a 2:2 for my first year. I'm satisfied with that result but I wouldn't say I was pleased with it. Although, I got a 2:1 in the module which was most suited to me (Narratives) becuase it was mostly AV and thats what my pathway is for next year so on that basis I should be aiming to maintain and improve that score for next year.

Also, I found this awesome stop-motion of someone creating a spaghetti meal using household items.


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That is all for now.

Right I have been looking for ideas and inspirations for my interactive showcase.

Hello blog.

Feeder (the band) have a competition in where they invite fans to make a music video for their new single "Miss You". As my friend is a big Feeder fan he pointed it out to me that we should make something, and as it is helpful towards Multimedia and AV in particular, we have begun.
Using past videos - primarily our Feeder music video from A Level (which can be seen at the start of this blog - we have re-cut them to fit with the new song, Miss You.
The prize for winning the competition is get your video in the bonus features of Feeder's upcoming DVD. Some of the videos already posted on YouTube are somewhat, er.. n00bish! So hopefully we have a good chance. When it's finished it shall be posted on here of course. I will also be using this as the 'work I have done outside of studies' at the review in a couple of weeks.

Another thing I would like to mention is a couple of ideas that I have for my next Identities project. I think I'm going to make it personal and by this I mean everything in it is going to be by me, or at least co-produced by me.
An idea for my layout will be my bedroom in its usual state as it represents who I am. Users will then be able to interact with different parts of the room to reach different aspects of my Multimedia personality. For example, clicking on the TV will bring you to be able to watch videos I have made or clicking the guitars will bring you to all the music I have made. Each of these sub-screens will give users an idea of my tastes and abilities - or even my potential. Somewhere in here my avatar will be included.

See you soon.
x

Hey everyone.

On Friday 22nd February I spent the day at a Multimedia company based on the outskirts of Nottingham (with St. Anns) to see what work they got up to and to gain an understanding of how a company of their size works.

After being in contact with them for a week or two before visiting, I was originally going to attend an on-location shoot for one of their client's DVDs. However due to the nature of the business, the client had some issues to sort out for themselves, so that day (Friday 15th February) did not go ahead.

So a week later, I was invited to spend a day with them. Now, to be honest, I was expecting a big flashy office block with D3 Design in big letters along the side and then to be greeted by a receptionist. Was I wrong! Instead, the company was run from an upstairs room of an ordinary house in which the Creative Director and his partner lived, with their son and two chocolate Labradors.

Adey and Jo were their names and after having spent the day with them they were nice people. Me and Adey in particular had a lot of similar interests, especially that we both dislike coding! It was weird because originally I asked whether to come dressed in a shirt and tie, but after being greeted by Jo in jeans and a t-shirt and then Adey in his dressing gown I can see why I didn't need to.

To cut to the chase, their work room was phenomenal! I walked into this average-sized room to see a desk near the back with two 30" Mac screens on it. I then saw hooked up to them was a graphics tablet, mixing desk, drum machine and full-size electronic drum-kit. Not to mention the machine that was powering everything. I asked him the specs of his Mac G5 and if I remember rightly it was a Quad 3.0GHz processor, 8GB RAM, 4 hard drives equalling 1.5TB and dual top of the range nVidia graphics cards. I might have got those figures mixed up a bit, but it cost £2500. I was quite shocked that a normal house could have such amazing equipment in it.

Anyway, throughout the day I was shown all the different software they used which was pretty much anything you can think of. As a company that produces video, animation, music, graphics, flash, websites, etc for clients - Adey was the one that did all of that, he was so multi-talented. As we went through all the programs I thought I'd take advantage of my time there and ask a few questions about how to do things that would help me on my course, such as music mixing techniques and flash advice.

At the end of the day I was welcomed back anytime and I will still be hopefully going on the next video shoot they have. I enjoyed myself and time went by fast which is a good sign of course. Now after having established myself with them I can hopefully pop round or contact them by e-mail if I have any queries about software, because they seemed willing to help me, and again, they were nice people.

Check out their website at http://www.d3-design.com

I thought this was a really cool stop-motion and I might have to steal some ideas in the future.


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