Cyfle-D10-Rob Lloyd

Week Five
22nd-27th October 2006

It's quite scary how quickly you (or at least I) forget stuff! It's only been a month since I stopped playing with html and CSS in my old job and yet I seemed to have forgotten the most basic stuff! The week has been spent learning Dreamweaver with Steve which I've never used before but is very simple to pick up. I think by the end of the week I'd got to grips with it all again and I'm looking forward to the brief!

Had a great D10 night out on Friday....(Note to self, lay off the Strongbow in future!)

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Week Four
16th-20th October 2006

Wow, the course has been going a month already! Time flies when your having fun!
This week was definately the most enjoyable so far as we spent the week learning Maya under the excellent tutorlidge (and patience) of Matt.

We were given the brief to produce a Ident for a fictional music channel. I've had great fun learning Maya and animating the project despite the experience sometimes being hair removingly frustating. The project is due on the 3rd Novemeber so keep an eye out for updates!

The premise of my project involves a firey comet rocketing trhough space..... At least, thats the theory! We'll see how it turns out....

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Week Three
9th-13th October 2006

This week was spent writing and producing our Digital Stories. I decided to tell the story of a Glacier Hike I did in New Zealand in June 2005.

The result is below. I'm pretty pleased with it though I still think it could do with some tweaking and some de-cheesifying. But I'll leave it alone, if only because we've got too much work to have the time to tinker!



The workshop with Catherine Lindstrum was extremely helpful. She helped me see that my story needed to be more personal and needed more detail in order to keep the audiences attention. I struggled to rewrite the script for most of the day but stumble across a wee bit of inspiration and ended up writing the main bulk in around five minutes. The day made me realise that writing a script requires you to be far more open and honest with your story than I imagined.

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Week Two
2nd-6th October 2006

Well this week was one to remember, despite it being somewhat of a blur being in Thailand and all. So many stories, none suitable for this Blog! There are some tales that are best left untold....

(One thing I will say is pack plenty of imodium, Thai food is a little fiery!)

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