WHOA! WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BLOG! Some of you might be thinking. Then again other people might never have been before and have no idea what im talking about. So to let you all know what im going on about I finally decided to download a template and change the style of my blog. Ever since I created my blog back in the day I had been using the same old boring, some would say ugly, style and coloring. With this new template I have taken some positive steps on the way to coolness.
The semester have been going way to fast for my liking. I have been tied down with alot of assessment. I finally decided to read over the requirements for the blog other then the basic one post a week etc etc. I realised that my blog needed alot of work if I wanted to get good marks. Considering my results from the last assignment I did for Network Media Production I realised I needed to get some good marks. I do not want to just get pass' and finish my degree Im at least aiming to get credits if not better. Getting a pass in the first assignment was not a good step in this direction.
So now that I have changed the layout and had a look at the unit outline I can blog about any thing I want. Ive also decided that in the next couple of weeks im going to go on a blog overhaul. Pretty much meaning I am going over all previous posts and adding some information, labeling them, linking to relevant stuff etc. If I am going to choose three good blog posts to be marked I really need to update.
So in keeping with the theme of assignments I have started to think about the second Network task. Ive been thinking that I will be making a story in google maps. However I have yet to decide if I will be making up something fictional or telling some kind of life story or tour. I think I will need to make some more decisions within the next couple of days on how I will approach this.
Finally I need to make mention of the Japanese oral that I have tommorow. Learning another language is hard especially when doing all the other assignments at the same time. Sometimes I just wish I could comprehend all languages. Then I would never have to worry about Japanese ever again. Oh well when I finally learn how to speak it I will be having a fun time traveling Japan.
Until next time
Peace
Whats happening out there fellow bloggers? To tell you the truth im having an up and down week. Good marks here, bad marks there, not finished tests. Its been an interesting one all around. I ended up doing the quiz today and i got within an acceptable range of guessing Michaels weight. I was pretty happy with this because so far I have been owning these quizes. Today we did an interesting topic in class. We had to talk about multiplicity and create an idea that which uses multiplicity and collective intelligence. My group came up with an idea called Digicity. The basic idea of this was that people would submit building plans to a database. The plans would then be turned into 3d models using software and displayed online. People could vote and rate on designs and create their own Digital City. Some good uses for this would be for people to get their building designs out there, for architects to look at popular designs, or just for some fun. It would require alot of work and intelligence so its pretty much well out of my reach. Unless I decided to dedicate my whole life to it or something. There were also lots of other good ideas presented by other people in my class. I wont go into detail about them just in case they want to keep their ideas secretive. Haha but I think if you go blog surfing you will be able to find all the ideas posted somewhere.
Just to lighten the mood from all this serious talk. If any of you are looking for a good movie to go and watch I recommend Kick Ass. I have seen a few movies lately, for example Clash of the Titans and to be honest not many have been really capturing my attention. However Kick Ass had great elements which kept me interested through the whole thing.
I would also like to mention that there is a new Halo game being released this year and a new Gears of War being released sometime next year. I hate knowing that when these titles come out I still still be at uni and trying to juggle all of my work around having fun.
If any one has any suggestions on some cool movies to watch or any thing like that please leave me a comment. Seeing as we are doing a media class im just gonna assume that at least some of you have some ideas on a good watch.
Until next time
Peace
So the week of relaxation went so quick I almost cant remember that it ever happened. I mean one week off. There was no time for any thing. I worked alot caught up on some sleep and maybe watched a movie or two. There was maybe 2 days out of 7 that I really got to unwind and just enjoy not having to go to uni. This week its straight back into it. I really enjoyed monday being a public holiday because I dont think I would of brought myself to wake up in the morning. The good thing about now is that I can smell the end of the semester. Only a few more pieces of assessment left until the end and I will have completed 1/8 of my course. Hahaha its going to be a long 4 years. Well ive just spent a ridiculously long night at work so im gonna cut this one short for now. Im rather sick of customers coming into work and expecting you to treat them like royalty when all they do is be rude. Any ways bed time for me and another day at uni tomorrow.
Peace
So I finished my hectic week 7 and I was going to blog all about it but ive just spent the last few days being a cool guy and forgot completely about it. I wasnt sure if we were meant to write a blog for this week but heres one anyways. On friday I handed in 3 assessment and then i worked all weekend long. By the time monday came around I was ready to relax. I spent most of this week doing the things I love. Sleeping, xbox, and hanging out with some friends. Only bad thing is that this week cant go for 2 or 3. Oh well I suppose monday is a public holiday so ill be looking foward to that. Any ways ive only got time for a quick blog today. I have to clean my house in preparation for some visitors. My room is terrible. lol Hope youe enjoying your weeks as much as I am!
So I wasn't quite sure if we were meant to do 2 post this week including the one for our rationale so I figured I would be better safe then sorry. This week has been the worst/hardest week of uni I have ever had. It started off with an oral being due which I am quite sure did not go so well. Followed by having 3 assignments all due this friday. Fortunately today I managed to have one assignment complete which was the network media production A. I posted it online and immediately set out to finish the other two. One of the two I have left requires me to use photoshop which is really troublesome. On tuesday I could not find a spare computer and I really needed to get some work done on it. Im banking all my marks on tomorrow by going into uni early to find a computer. I know exactly what I want to do to it I just need to find a computer. This assignment I am not too worried about. The final assignment that I have due is this stupid annotated bibliography for international studies. I have to choose 6 references and talk about them. I found one reference and talked about it and thought wow this assignment is in the bag. It won't take me more then 2 or 3 hours. 4 hours later and i had only found two more sources to write about and I immediately regretted my comment. The assignment is fairly straight forward I just need to find the relevant information.
All in all this has been such a terrible week. I have been trying to think of way in which to celebrate (time that could of been better spent working on my assignments). What I came across could possibly be the best celebration ever! Here.Just get naked. Haha but by this time tomorrow all my assignments will either be done or late and I will be feeling good about myself. The week of uni break is going to be very nice.
Peace
For my Production A Networked Media assignment I decided to create an online exhibition. The topic I chose to create this exhibition on was Anime and I decided that I would write reviews for various anime I had watched. At first I considered doing a series of blog posts but I honestly just do not like blogs. My next option was to create a website which I thought would be a better idea because I was interested in learning HTML. My main aim when creating this website was for it to be as straightforward as possible so the reader could get the information they wanted without any difficulties. In order to do this I had a standard black background, and an easy to read font. I set it out in a user friendly format with the links to the left side of the page, a heading picture up the top and all the main information down the middle. I also decided that I would link all my pictures back to their original sources so that people could navigate to these sites and view other pictures of interest of download the specific picture if they wanted to. I also decided to add a video down the bottom of all the pages to create interest and give the reader a bit of understanding of the reviewed shows.
I have also created links to other sites in the area that my website relates to. For example I linked it to an online anime streaming site and some sites that give specific information about anime. I also linked it to my blog because if I ever did post something like this online, if viewers liked my reviews they might also like my blog and could visit it.
I have visited quite a lot of anime review sites in my time because I generally like to look at other people’s opinions before I start to watch one. This goes for many other areas of Media, as I like to look at reviews for movies, music, games etc. The thing that I really dislike a lot about these sites is their layout is sometimes really congested. They have a lot of ads and links happening and then the information is in a little box that you have to squint your eyes at to read. I took this into account when I made my website so the information was nice and easy to read.
Another thing that I do not like about other review sites is that critics are usually really harsh. Speaking for myself and others that I have talked to about this, critics just seem to only find the bad points in things. They seem to overlook a lot of the positives. With my reviews I tried to get a happy medium between talking about the good and the bad points in all my reviews.
This was pretty much the first time that I had used HTML so when I started the production of this website my skills were non-existent. I picked up things slowly and had a lot of trouble trying to get certain parts of code to work. There was this one time that I spent 2 hours in the tute trying to figure out how div tags worked. By the end of the tute I just had no idea what the problem was an no one could shed any light on it. When I got home later that day I opened it up again and low and behold it was working. I also had a lot of difficulty trying to embed youtube videos in my html. I was looking up all this code on various tutorial sites. I could not get it to work so I asked a friend and he told me that youtube is very HTML friendly. You just right click on the video you want and an option comes up to copy embed code. You then paste this code on the HTML and your set. Whilst working on my website I encountered many problems like this and through online tutorials and help from classmates I slowly started to understand HTML a lot better. One website which gave me a lot of help was called w3schools. It pretty much had most of the information you could ever need to create both HTML and CSS aspects of a webpage.
Some of things that I would of liked to have done on my website was to create some drop down menus or some kind of javascript. For example a rollover feature where the picture gets larger or some sort of user search directory. I have also been working on making me own anime video compiled of different clips from different animations. I have been working on this for 2 months in my spare time but its no where near finished. These kinds of things I would of liked to have incorporated but due to skill level and lack of time I had to make some choices to make finishing the site realistically possible.
Overall I am very happy with how my final product turned out. Although I did no manage to finish it in the sense of doing everything I wanted, I created a polished product with what I could manage. I have also gained a greater understand on how HTML works even if it is not my favourite thing in the world.
Ohayoo Gozaimas
Or at least thats what I'd say to any of you out there who speak Japanese. Thursdays is really my long day of uni. Wake up at 7 30 to get ready. Drive from yass to Canberra start at 9 30 and finish at 5. Only to come home as quick as I can to go to work. I decided to skip my lecture this afternoon so i could have a little down time before work, but i find myself sitting here writing my blog anyways.
After spending the last week trying to figure out my assignment I have finally started to make some progress towards it looking half good. Not as much time has been put into it as i would of liked but what can you do when nearly every class I attend has an assignment due in week 7 (in some cases 2). We looked at each others blogs today in class and I have decided that in the weeks break of week 8 I am going to try and stylize my blog better. At the moment its just so simple and honestly rubbish looking. It needs a change from the bland colours and simple format. That being said I can only do as much as my technical skills allow. The good thing is that after next week I will have had 5 assessment items out of the way. During the second half of this semester I will be able to start paying more attention to things such as my blog. As with many assignments I have done I always find myself wishing i had just one more week to make it better. So for the next week I will be sleeping, going to uni, going to work and in all my spare time inbetween I will be working on all my various assignments. Hopefully I can get them all done and of good quality before the dreaded deadline.
