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 :)

South Africa Pics

Few of the best pics from South Africa :)

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 :)

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 :)