Wet Paint

So im blogging LATE as per... well not that late but im going to be talking in past tense about yesterday!... We had to bring in articles (relating to the media) now i wasnt to sure what we where going to do with them but i brought one in anyway and found out. We were going to seperate ourselfs into groups juding on our articles content sooooo it could have been T.V or Cinema, however i placed under Issues.
I brought an article in which wasnt clearly relating to the media, however it WAS an issue!.. It was about job losses etc.. and i found it interesting because if things like that are happening now does this mean things are going to get worse? I mean its scary when your in full time education working hard for a degree to get told your going to be on the doul once youve finished it! Anyway staying in the issues category i got given another article, which was about a teen blogger, i actually found it quite fascinating to read because at the age of 12 she was blogging about fashion and making a name for herself! Now she's a mini entrepener launching her own online magazine! This made me think of the sucess that could come from blogging... and this is media interaction! In our groups we had to sort of link are articles together in a way, and use wetpaint.com to thread all of our articles, ventalaiting what we thought about different subjects. I havent really got the hang of this wet paint thing just yet but i kind of see where it is going and im sure when i re-visit it ill be able to crack it... practice makes perfect and i suppose god does love a trier!

...Speaking of triers, trying to use that photoshop is like me trying to score a goal! USELESS! ... I Mean its times like these i wish i was one of then vain teenagers who photoshop every inch of their profile pic on facey. I suppose ive just got to be patient with it, i picked a photograph of one of Gaudis buildings which i took during the time i got standed in barcelona (i think i want to keep a theme runing with this barca thing haha!) i wanted to bring out the main part of the bulding which stupidly is kind of in the way of trees :( .. I wanted to mover the trees! but apparently thats for photoshop pros...(not me then). So i decided to sort of highlight the bit i wanted to bring out, using the lighting (neverrr) .. oh and i think i pressed a button which give the sky and some other parts like a sketchy look so yeah i 'photoshopped' a photograph...Here it is!

Things & Journeys...

So this post is a day late but you'll get used to that.. i must say i am a very organised person (most of the time) and i remember to do everything! ... whether it get's done on time that is a different story!

Good job i date all of my notes! -4/10/2011.... Today in media issues we had to bring in an object that meant something to us, or had some kind of story behind it (i remembered!). My object was a train ticket to Barcelona from when i was staying in Salou, the story behind it?.... Well i will tell you! cutting a verrrrrry long story short (because people on my course must be sick of it by now) i went to Salou for a nice relaxing five day break before my exams, when we all decided to go to Barcelona for the day, which is not that far on the train! Spending the day in 'Barca' was lovely, untill the moment i decided to ask what time the last train was whilst sitting enjoying a posh meal with the last of our days money, and to nobodys suprise none of us new the exact departure of the train hence why everyone of us pulled out out blackberrys and although vowing not to use the internet whilst abroad it was a must to ensure we got back in time....Thankfully we found what time it was too leave....

The time then was 9.30... the last train was 9.45 and we were a half hour walk away from the station, however were a 10 minute drive, could we make it? Obviously NOT! .. after lashing the bill at the waiter, jumping in two taxi's and near leaving my friend behind  we got to the station were the trains status on screen was -ready to depart- ... We jumped the barrier, we really thought there was a chance we could make that train! Anyway due to missing the train we walked round Barcelona in circles for five hours trying to find a 24 hour bus... No luck!

It was one of the worst night's of my life!.. However everytime i look back at the little ticket of that trip, i laugh because as much as i was hungry, cold, tired, and irritaited i shared a once in a lifetime experience with my bestest friends!... I mean come on, how many people do you know who have been stranded in Barcelona!

After we had discussed all our storys we decided to link them to travel, as whether it be a journey to a place, a journey to sleep or a career journey they were out 'Things' where all related to 'Journeys' we had taken or were going to take!... Then we got creative and used Prezi.com to present are objects individualy aswell as linking them together! We took picutures of ourselves with the objects and incorporated our photographs into prezi, giving little information on the story behind our object.

To be honest with you i think we approaced our presentation in quite a creative way, we used one of the templates as it just so coincidently related to the Journeys we had all linked to our objects.. and we used different angles to make it spin when it zoomed in which i thought quite effective!.. The only thing i would of liked to include in our 'PREZI', after seeing other presentations, is music and also some effects on the pictures. I thought this looked really effective on the others and made a real impact, especially the music if the song related to the theme!

After me going on about it if your really interested in viewing my PREZI here is the URL: hhtp://prezi.com/n4yeqznhy3py/objects/            ... I hope you enjoy it! 

....Oh and by the way Prezi.com get's top marks from me when it comes to the style of presentation, depedning on how you want to present i think it is definately something i will be returning to use!!