Hi
Right one part done, on to the next :)
So ye after you're born, you start a gang fight and obviously win (unless you are awful at Creed), and then have to go to your secret lover's house and undress her... Yourself... With the controller... Enough to get any gamer/computer geek excited ;). I'm actually not gonna write a review about this.. because I really CBA and it isn't exactly my area of expertise, unlike COD :)
One thing I will talk about is, is the hench-ness that is "Cause an Affect" The AWESOME song by the late amazing actor Heath Ledger's rap band "No Fixed Abode"! Seriously YouTube it, it is absolutely awesome!
But ye that's all folks!
So I'll see you tomorrow!
x
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Jeez, hard time keeping up...
Hey, sorry I didn't post all weekend... and Monday... I was well busy playin L4D on Sat/Sun ;) lol Then on monday I just totally forgot...
So ye I've played Assassins Creed 2! Only a bit, but I managed to get the jist of it.
"SPOILER"
You start off from the end of number one, in Abstergo Industries Laboratories. Where Lucy Stillman - who has blood splatters on her - wakes you up hurridly and tells you to get on the Animus. When you do, the first thing you see is Maria Auditore -your mother- in labor. You then see her giving birth to a baby; Ezio Auditore da Firenze (You). You are handed to Giovanni Auditore -your father- who then proceeds to talk to you in a loving way. you have to respond by moving each of your limbs by pressing the corresponding buttons. Much like later when you have to get your lover ready for some late night passion!
Okay I cba to write anymore now, but I will tomorrow!
x
So ye I've played Assassins Creed 2! Only a bit, but I managed to get the jist of it.
"SPOILER"
You start off from the end of number one, in Abstergo Industries Laboratories. Where Lucy Stillman - who has blood splatters on her - wakes you up hurridly and tells you to get on the Animus. When you do, the first thing you see is Maria Auditore -your mother- in labor. You then see her giving birth to a baby; Ezio Auditore da Firenze (You). You are handed to Giovanni Auditore -your father- who then proceeds to talk to you in a loving way. you have to respond by moving each of your limbs by pressing the corresponding buttons. Much like later when you have to get your lover ready for some late night passion!
Okay I cba to write anymore now, but I will tomorrow!
x
Friday, 20 November 2009
"It's Friday, it's field trip day, it's Friday, it's field trip day!"
Hey all! END OF THE WEEK :)
Sooo I've got a party tonight! Nothing serious just lots of alcopops and some friends involving an XBOX... Lol hopefully it'll be a laugh!
Work Stoof
Date of advert:
Advert title: What Will Become
Charity: Barnardos
Mise en scene: Alone, generic locations. Solitude of the locations reflects the loneliness of the child. Audience targeting through scenes, for example, bus stops, swimming pools, estates, living rooms.
Editing: Very little editing, true camera shots. It's shot as it's seen.
Sound: Only the children's voices, no music or other sound, except the live sounds. E.g. Wind, waves, sound from TV.
Camera angle, movement and positioning:The girl starts off with a close up to pull in the audience on the child's cuteness. All the shots are close ups apart from
Date of advert:
Advert title: Lost
Charity: Missing Peoples
Mise en scene: All lonely park objects, all in black and white. Meanwhile there are sounds of kids laughing and having a fun time. Also carnival music is playing the whole time.
Editing:All prolonged shots, no fast movement. All images shot for effect. All focusing on slow moving props relating to children. For example: swings, roundabouts and toy horses.
Sound:
Camera angle, movement and positioning:
Sooo I've got a party tonight! Nothing serious just lots of alcopops and some friends involving an XBOX... Lol hopefully it'll be a laugh!
Work Stoof
Date of advert:
Advert title: What Will Become
Charity: Barnardos
Mise en scene: Alone, generic locations. Solitude of the locations reflects the loneliness of the child. Audience targeting through scenes, for example, bus stops, swimming pools, estates, living rooms.
Editing: Very little editing, true camera shots. It's shot as it's seen.
Sound: Only the children's voices, no music or other sound, except the live sounds. E.g. Wind, waves, sound from TV.
Camera angle, movement and positioning:The girl starts off with a close up to pull in the audience on the child's cuteness. All the shots are close ups apart from
Date of advert:
Advert title: Lost
Charity: Missing Peoples
Mise en scene: All lonely park objects, all in black and white. Meanwhile there are sounds of kids laughing and having a fun time. Also carnival music is playing the whole time.
Editing:All prolonged shots, no fast movement. All images shot for effect. All focusing on slow moving props relating to children. For example: swings, roundabouts and toy horses.
Sound:
Camera angle, movement and positioning:
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Gah forgetting to post...
Sorry I keep forgetting to post guys :(
I'll talk about L4D later, for now I have to write about my charity and stuff like that :)
Soooo, I have to start off by talking about the Codes and Conventions of Media... So a code is something you associate with a particular genres of different types of media. Probably the easiest way of explaining this is with movies and television. For example if you think of a knife, chances are you'll associate it with horrors or thrillers. Guns, with action movies and sunshine with happy fun filled movies. Although when Zoe first said sunshine, I associated it with a bad horror movie... ¬.¬
A convention is an unwritten law of sorts when it comes to making media. A rulebook for example, defining what has to be in certain types of media. For example, with charity adverts, they always put their charity REF number. In comedies they have to have a lovable character and with happy feel good movies they always have to a have weak bad guy or problem for the protagonist to overcome.
Right, next I have to write about this Christian Aid advert we just saw... not my favorite charity ever, but hell at least they're a good cause. So Intertextuality is the referencing of one piece of media and it's text, through another. For example in the Christian Aid advert, it plays the soundtrack from the 1994 Tarantino classic "Pulp Fiction" throughout the ad. Also at the beginning it refers to it by quoting the cheese burger quote from the movie.
Right now on to good ol' Mise en scene... They've really thought about it in the CA ad. The room is made to look very poverty stricken, very bare and dirty. It's quite obviously a hospital, but it has no equipment or the machines and monitors we stereotypically think of when we think of hospitals; the machines that are needed to save lives. The sound is very bare and plain.
In the "Make Poverty History" "Snap" advert, they use silence to provoke emotion. If you were watching TV and the advert came on, you'd really notice the difference between that and all the loud noise adverts and TV programs you're subjected to in everyday life. It would make you think about the advert you're watching, make you analyze it. Also they use celebrities to put the point of the advert across. We relate to celebrities everyday and we follow their lives, therefore if they endorse something or believe in something we are more likely to relate to it and want to follow it.
That's all for this lesson and post... Please don't die of boredom ;)
x
I'll talk about L4D later, for now I have to write about my charity and stuff like that :)
Soooo, I have to start off by talking about the Codes and Conventions of Media... So a code is something you associate with a particular genres of different types of media. Probably the easiest way of explaining this is with movies and television. For example if you think of a knife, chances are you'll associate it with horrors or thrillers. Guns, with action movies and sunshine with happy fun filled movies. Although when Zoe first said sunshine, I associated it with a bad horror movie... ¬.¬
A convention is an unwritten law of sorts when it comes to making media. A rulebook for example, defining what has to be in certain types of media. For example, with charity adverts, they always put their charity REF number. In comedies they have to have a lovable character and with happy feel good movies they always have to a have weak bad guy or problem for the protagonist to overcome.
Right, next I have to write about this Christian Aid advert we just saw... not my favorite charity ever, but hell at least they're a good cause. So Intertextuality is the referencing of one piece of media and it's text, through another. For example in the Christian Aid advert, it plays the soundtrack from the 1994 Tarantino classic "Pulp Fiction" throughout the ad. Also at the beginning it refers to it by quoting the cheese burger quote from the movie.
Right now on to good ol' Mise en scene... They've really thought about it in the CA ad. The room is made to look very poverty stricken, very bare and dirty. It's quite obviously a hospital, but it has no equipment or the machines and monitors we stereotypically think of when we think of hospitals; the machines that are needed to save lives. The sound is very bare and plain.
In the "Make Poverty History" "Snap" advert, they use silence to provoke emotion. If you were watching TV and the advert came on, you'd really notice the difference between that and all the loud noise adverts and TV programs you're subjected to in everyday life. It would make you think about the advert you're watching, make you analyze it. Also they use celebrities to put the point of the advert across. We relate to celebrities everyday and we follow their lives, therefore if they endorse something or believe in something we are more likely to relate to it and want to follow it.
That's all for this lesson and post... Please don't die of boredom ;)
x
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Finished COD review and L4D note
Hey guys
So I was at my friends house again yesterday... Finished COD... It is quite possibly THE best game ever in the the history of the world... The ending is awesome as well! I won't tell you bout it in major detail but I will give you a quick snippet of awesome-ness!
"SPOILER"
The game is set five years after the events of Modern Warfare 1. Basically during most of the Marine levels, you play as "Private James Ramirez". Although you do start off the game as "Private First Class Joseph Allen" A US army ranger at a US Army Base in Iraq (I presume Iraq). Unfortunately Allen gets shot whilst undercover in the airport mission (which I now know is called "No Russians"). As the SAS you mostly play as "Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson". During the five years in between the games "Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish" The much loved player's character in Modern Warfare 1, has been promoted to Captain in the SAS and is Roach's superior officer. During the last three levels of the game the player gets to control Soap again :) The first of these levels is an awesome level called "Just Like Old Times" Where you start off in snow suits reminding the player of the Gilly suit level in MW1. Like the Gilly level you play as Soap and you are with Price. Also the final level is a quick time event starring you (Soap) and Price having to kill the final enemy in a desperate situation.
Well that's all folks... Play the game, you'll love it! I'm playing Left 4 Dead 2 night and I'll have it completed by tomorrow so I'll write about it fully then.
Thanks alot
:)
So I was at my friends house again yesterday... Finished COD... It is quite possibly THE best game ever in the the history of the world... The ending is awesome as well! I won't tell you bout it in major detail but I will give you a quick snippet of awesome-ness!
"SPOILER"
The game is set five years after the events of Modern Warfare 1. Basically during most of the Marine levels, you play as "Private James Ramirez". Although you do start off the game as "Private First Class Joseph Allen" A US army ranger at a US Army Base in Iraq (I presume Iraq). Unfortunately Allen gets shot whilst undercover in the airport mission (which I now know is called "No Russians"). As the SAS you mostly play as "Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson". During the five years in between the games "Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish" The much loved player's character in Modern Warfare 1, has been promoted to Captain in the SAS and is Roach's superior officer. During the last three levels of the game the player gets to control Soap again :) The first of these levels is an awesome level called "Just Like Old Times" Where you start off in snow suits reminding the player of the Gilly suit level in MW1. Like the Gilly level you play as Soap and you are with Price. Also the final level is a quick time event starring you (Soap) and Price having to kill the final enemy in a desperate situation.
Well that's all folks... Play the game, you'll love it! I'm playing Left 4 Dead 2 night and I'll have it completed by tomorrow so I'll write about it fully then.
Thanks alot
:)
Monday, 16 November 2009
Monday Morning Apologies!
Hey guys,
Sorry I didn't post on Saturday or Sunday! On Saturday, I was working and then I had to get everything ready for my sister's 21st... Then I had her 21st... Dear god... Then Sunday, I had THE biggest hangover evar!! It kinda lasted all day... And only finished sometime after I went to sleep at 12:30!! Christ, but it was an awesome night :)
Sooo how is everyone? Ready for Left 4 Dead 2 coming out tomorrow? I've played the demo and it looks amazing! Valve updated the graphics and the game engine itself, which makes for an AWESOME sequel! They've made it bloodier, harder and funner (yes I know it's not a word). One of the most awaited and exciting aspect of the game, is the addition of Melee weapons! From guitars to frying pans and machetes to chainsaws, they are all great fun and VERY useful. That's all on this front for now...
Right, on to business :) Zoe has now told us that we need to keep a diary every day. Soo I'm basically gonna write an extra post every day which will be my diary, explaining what we have done in the lessons we had that day. Fuuun... But it's good because apart from the first post about the charity and the reason I originally made this Blog I haven't actually written anything on here to do with college! :)
I'll write a full-short review of L4D later... But for now "It's goodbye from me and it's goodbye from music club, see ya later gang" :)
x
Sorry I didn't post on Saturday or Sunday! On Saturday, I was working and then I had to get everything ready for my sister's 21st... Then I had her 21st... Dear god... Then Sunday, I had THE biggest hangover evar!! It kinda lasted all day... And only finished sometime after I went to sleep at 12:30!! Christ, but it was an awesome night :)
Sooo how is everyone? Ready for Left 4 Dead 2 coming out tomorrow? I've played the demo and it looks amazing! Valve updated the graphics and the game engine itself, which makes for an AWESOME sequel! They've made it bloodier, harder and funner (yes I know it's not a word). One of the most awaited and exciting aspect of the game, is the addition of Melee weapons! From guitars to frying pans and machetes to chainsaws, they are all great fun and VERY useful. That's all on this front for now...
Right, on to business :) Zoe has now told us that we need to keep a diary every day. Soo I'm basically gonna write an extra post every day which will be my diary, explaining what we have done in the lessons we had that day. Fuuun... But it's good because apart from the first post about the charity and the reason I originally made this Blog I haven't actually written anything on here to do with college! :)
I'll write a full-short review of L4D later... But for now "It's goodbye from me and it's goodbye from music club, see ya later gang" :)
x
Friday, 13 November 2009
Photo Note and VERY Basic MW2 Review
Hey everyone...
Should just say, any S.A photos I upload will be a bit blurred when enlarged and will be "painted". This means they will look like a kind of watercolour style painting in detail. This is only because I took them all in 'Tiff' format, which on my camera seems to be a variation of 'Raw'. Meaning they have been taken without the camera editing them to look pretty :) They are exactly as they were seen, where as most photos in the world are 'JPEG' meaning have been edited by the camera. Elements of the picture such as the contrast, the exposure and the colour placement are all affected to look like the perfect picture instead of the real life.
So I played MW2 the day before yesterday on 360 at a friends house... There has obviously been a lot of talk about it recently. It's been talked about on the radio because of the fabled "Airport" level (The mission itself is called "No Russians"). Basically MPs wanted to get it banned because of the level, as it was said to be incredibly bloody and disturbing. Now it being good ol' COD, I nearly completed it in the 1 1/2 hours I played it, so I have played this level. When I first got to it, I first thought it wouldn't be that bad, you know, you're just killing pixels!
"SPOILER"
Basically, the level starts off with you in a room with 3 other men, all wearing casual clothes, wielding 'MK46' heavy machine guns. (You play as an American marine acting as a mole for the Americans) You then calmly walk out of the room and walk towards a huge group of civilians with two security guards standing next to them. The guards are both wielding 'Usp .45's. Not that they have time to bring them out mind... As soon as they turn round and see you, they start to move their hands to their holsters. And then bam... You all open fire and slaughter every civilian there... In a matter of seconds, all that is left is a pile of dead bodies and and a bloody mess. And basically the rest of the level is this and and killing SWAT members that have come to deal with the situation.
Anyway by the end of it, I was actually shocked! I've played games waaayyyyy bloodier than this, but still I couldn't believe I had just done that! It was saddening to say the very least! No game has ever made me stop and think about a level that deeply before...
As for the rest of the game... Awesome! It's amazing! Everyone's fears for it were unjustified! Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to play it online, but I did play it split screen, which you can now rank up on which is insanely awesome!! That was amazing as well! All in all a brilliant game and I totally suggest you get it! Although from the sales figures I expect "you" already have... $3.1 Billion worth of copies sold in the first day!
Anyway that's all for today, thanks for reading :)
Should just say, any S.A photos I upload will be a bit blurred when enlarged and will be "painted". This means they will look like a kind of watercolour style painting in detail. This is only because I took them all in 'Tiff' format, which on my camera seems to be a variation of 'Raw'. Meaning they have been taken without the camera editing them to look pretty :) They are exactly as they were seen, where as most photos in the world are 'JPEG' meaning have been edited by the camera. Elements of the picture such as the contrast, the exposure and the colour placement are all affected to look like the perfect picture instead of the real life.
So I played MW2 the day before yesterday on 360 at a friends house... There has obviously been a lot of talk about it recently. It's been talked about on the radio because of the fabled "Airport" level (The mission itself is called "No Russians"). Basically MPs wanted to get it banned because of the level, as it was said to be incredibly bloody and disturbing. Now it being good ol' COD, I nearly completed it in the 1 1/2 hours I played it, so I have played this level. When I first got to it, I first thought it wouldn't be that bad, you know, you're just killing pixels!
"SPOILER"
Basically, the level starts off with you in a room with 3 other men, all wearing casual clothes, wielding 'MK46' heavy machine guns. (You play as an American marine acting as a mole for the Americans) You then calmly walk out of the room and walk towards a huge group of civilians with two security guards standing next to them. The guards are both wielding 'Usp .45's. Not that they have time to bring them out mind... As soon as they turn round and see you, they start to move their hands to their holsters. And then bam... You all open fire and slaughter every civilian there... In a matter of seconds, all that is left is a pile of dead bodies and and a bloody mess. And basically the rest of the level is this and and killing SWAT members that have come to deal with the situation.
Anyway by the end of it, I was actually shocked! I've played games waaayyyyy bloodier than this, but still I couldn't believe I had just done that! It was saddening to say the very least! No game has ever made me stop and think about a level that deeply before...
As for the rest of the game... Awesome! It's amazing! Everyone's fears for it were unjustified! Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to play it online, but I did play it split screen, which you can now rank up on which is insanely awesome!! That was amazing as well! All in all a brilliant game and I totally suggest you get it! Although from the sales figures I expect "you" already have... $3.1 Billion worth of copies sold in the first day!
Anyway that's all for today, thanks for reading :)
Thursday, 12 November 2009
New Blog Decision :)
Hey guys I've decided to also make this a photography blog so people can keep up with my photography...
I'll throw up some random stuff, for now just the South Africa (I went on an acting trip to South Africa) pictures and my Hambledon stuff :)
Enjoy :)
I'll throw up some random stuff, for now just the South Africa (I went on an acting trip to South Africa) pictures and my Hambledon stuff :)
Enjoy :)
First Day... First Blog... First Time To Shine....
Heyhey
Sooo today my teacher - Zoe - told me I need to make a blog for a project.... So Vondercatz was born :)
So, a little bout me...
I was gonna tell you loads about myself, but I think it's better if I just leave ya guessing. Besides the only people I'm expecting to read this are my friends that I'm gonna force to read it anyway! (Plus you can check my info out on ma page!)
So most of us got into groups and some of us went solo. My group consists of....
Emma Peirson-Hagger - Blog Name "The Charity Case-Files" (thecharitycase-files.blogspot.com)
Zoe Bull - Blog Name "Capture in Creative and Media" (mycreativeandmedia.blogspot.com)
George Gillbard - "GeoLipsh93" (GRJG.blogspot.com)
Sooo we've got a few ideas for our charity project...
1. Bike ride from Henley-on-Thames to Oxford, filming as we go with handlebar cameras.
2. Mountain climb in wales.
I might do a sponsored shoot. Trick shots and the like.
Well that's all on the Charity brief front :)
Sooo today my teacher - Zoe - told me I need to make a blog for a project.... So Vondercatz was born :)
So, a little bout me...
I was gonna tell you loads about myself, but I think it's better if I just leave ya guessing. Besides the only people I'm expecting to read this are my friends that I'm gonna force to read it anyway! (Plus you can check my info out on ma page!)
So most of us got into groups and some of us went solo. My group consists of....
Emma Peirson-Hagger - Blog Name "The Charity Case-Files" (thecharitycase-files.blogspot.com)
Zoe Bull - Blog Name "Capture in Creative and Media" (mycreativeandmedia.blogspot.com)
George Gillbard - "GeoLipsh93" (GRJG.blogspot.com)
Sooo we've got a few ideas for our charity project...
1. Bike ride from Henley-on-Thames to Oxford, filming as we go with handlebar cameras.
2. Mountain climb in wales.
I might do a sponsored shoot. Trick shots and the like.
Well that's all on the Charity brief front :)
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