Friday, March 23, 2007

Week Twenty Four
19th March - 23rd March 2007

It's all over. Sob. Dimension 10 (the last ever, maybe) is at an end. It's painful, it's a day of sorrow, it's a day of trauma and devestation. On the plus side we're going bowling!

What an utterly brilliant six months it has been. I've learnt just an incredible amount and had the pleasure of working with some truly brilliant and unique individuals. So a big, big, big thank you to them for making the time here such a pleasure. I've made some great and (hopefully) long lasting friends. I'll remember you always guys n gals. Well at least until next week.

Also a HUGE mega massive big ass shout out to SuperG known otherwise as Gareth Davies. You're enthusiasm and belief in us has been truly inspiring and you're a propper legend.

Bring back Dimension 10! It's too good to die so young!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Week Twenty Three
12th March - 16th March 2007

This has been a week of extreme typing. Got a hell of a lot of documentation to work through and it's not dissapearing fast!

Had a couple of interesting visitors this week. Had a days CSS trainging from Jake Rays on which, while really informative and a great workshop, came a little bit to lste for the majority of people. Most of us had gone past the level at which Jake was teaching, although I did pick up a few pointers structure wise.

Next week is the grad show so we're all (particularly Nic) beavering away toward making that as classy an event as we can.

See you there! (eh, maybe)

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Week Twenty Two
5th March - 9th March 2007

Well we've had some debriefs back from the work experience had a nice catch up with each other. Seemed like everybody had a good time during their placements. Nice to be back in D10 though. We're currently all looking forward (eugh) to writing up our documentation and sorting the Grad show.

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Week Twenty One
25th February - 2nd March 2007

Well work experience at the Beeb is over and what an enjoyable couple of weeks it was. It really suprised me just how relaxed the working environment is in their New Media department. I had expected a chaotic mass of stressed out people, but it all seemed very chilled out. In fairness it may have just been a quiet period.

Well the Belonging site (or at least a couple of pages of it) were delivered to Osian the lead developer and he was pleased with my efforts. It was really satisfactory to produce a piece of commercial work to a standard that was acceptable for the likes of the BBC.

I've learnt a heck of a lot this week about CSS and HTML. My structuring has improved greatly and it was reallu interesting working in that kind of environment. The restraints on creativity in the BBC are quite heavy because of the accesbiloity standards they must adhere to, and it was interesting to see how they got around these problemss.

We were also given a tour of the Motion Graphics department which was awesome. They have a huge badass Flame Workstation,the newest in the country, and it's an awesome bit of kit. Very exciting for a Filmand TV geek to see. Editing rocks.

So that's that for the Beeb. The next two weeks will be spent writing up a huge and nasty amount of documentation. So I guess I should make a start, right after this beer.....