Assignment 3-Weblog

On Friday 25th of May my production crew I was involved in completed our first "Hello Riverina" Assessment. I thought we performed particularly well, especially the control room and Marcus as DA. I was in charge of tapes and I think I performed reasonably well, having my tapes ready on cue for all the practices and in particular the recorded run-through. The floor was good from the acting talent to the cable bashers with perhaps a slightly more energised room could be one of the few comments I could make.
On my overall performance, a few things i could have done is get to the studio a bit earlier- i got there 9 minutes early but the rest of the crew were already there and had started setting up. I could have gotten there a bit earlier and helped out on the floor once I had my tapes in and had found all the times to mark out on the tapes. Another thing I could have done is make sure that I had stopped the tapes once I no longer needed them as I apparently left one running at the end of the session.
My comment on working as the tapes operator is that it is a reasonable job as long as you stay focused, pay attention and keep calm. I found the tasks such as finding the right places on the tapes and playing certain tapes at the right time pretty comfortable. I think if you listen to the DA and stay focused tapes operator can be done pretty successfully as long as you don't mind the slightly cold temperature and the isolation.

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Even though i liked the 3rd pirates movie and Johnny Depp was as funny as ever there was something about it that seemed to be lacking. even though the characters in it were already developed from the last 2 movies it just seemed that there was not much to each of them other then lies and betrayel. It seemed they were there to fill in the big sequences or something.As mentioned before johnny Depp was flawless but others were merely background such as Orlando Bloom and Captain Norington. kiera Knightlys Miss Elizabeth was in it more then i liked and her charcter fighting off monsters and pirates with ease made the baddies less scary. The 2 pirates from the last 2( the one with wooden eye and short fat 1) were not in this nearly enough as with the bad guys in Davey Jones and the Captain from the East India tradeing company. The movie did have good special effects but so much was happening all the time it was hard to follow in some places. There were 2 many characters, 2 much going on at 1 time, 2 many double crosses but due to Captain jack Sparrow and the comedy throughout the film was still entertaining but would of been better to cut out some of the characters and special effects and concentrate more on story and characters. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End is satisfying but a bit shallow.

Sick Of it All at the manning bar

On the weekend i was in Sydney and saw one of the greatest hardcore punk bands of all time- SICK OF IT ALL.
They played at the manning bar at Sydney University with comeback kid and junglefever. I missed the supports and got snuck in the side entrance about 5 minutes b4 sick of it all started. Tbey played a tight aggresive set which mixed all there songs from past 20 years. A paticular highlight was DEATH TO TYRANTS from there last album of the same name. They came back out and played 3 encore songs which was great and everybody left sore but smileing. to check out sick of it all click here

Technorati

I started using technorati today and it looks to be pretty useful and it also has some rankings system so may make it fun and competitive. Here is a Technorati Profile link

New Harry Potter news

Today i found some kool new information on the 5th Harry Potter movie.
# That it will include thew character Tonks in it
# Kreacher the house elf will also make an appearence
# That it will show young versions of Harry's Dad, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Snape
# That Dumbledoors brother is in it
# you see Harry and Cho Chan kiss
Personly cant wait for movie to come out and above is a still from Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix.

Aesthetics

Aethetics may be narowly defined as the theory of beauty, or more broadly as that together with the philosophy of art.
A website that i found aestheticly pleasing due to the bright colour layout with Light blues, yellows and pinks and the easy to understand Headings and links aswell as the many assorted pictures over the page was plus fortyfour and a page that i found aestheticly unpleasing is this awful page DOKIMOS due to its awful flashing background, its boring text, the links that are clustered and hard to read as they are the same colour as parts of the background and with no interesting pictures or anything on there. Above is a one of the many pictures from the plus fortyfour website that is atleast 1000000000 better then the disturbing dokimos webpage

RSS

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Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link of the feed into the reader program. The reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it was checked, and, if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.
If you would like to find out more about RSS click here

Harry Pottter

The new Harry Potter movie which is coming to cinemas soon i think will be the best and darkest movie so far. It will contain the fight between Dumbledoor and Voldemort which has the potential to be some of the best 5 minutes of cinema ever. It will also have the potential to bring back awesome characters such as madeye Moody and Lupin and my favorite Sirius Black, while also introducing new characters like Tonks and professer Umbridge. It could have centaurs and giants along with a massive fight between the deatheaters and the order of phoenix. to find out more about the new movie or the new book coming out this mugglenet site is possibly the best Harry Potter site around

Assesment 1 Post

Over the past few months i have created 3 accounts, a blog, a delicious and flickr account. In my blog I added several things such as a news reel, updated my profile, created a list, created a favorite links bar, created links in my blogs, added pictures and also added a lot of useful and useless information to share with people on the Internet. After experimenting with different templates and colours I found the one I'm with now the best suited for my personal blog. My 17 blogs range from movie reviews to music bands, to debates on alcohol and the Simpsons and even Chuck Norris with appropriate links throughout. I have also commented on other peoples blogs.
On del.icio.us i have made bookmarks to sites that interest me, and have bundled each of my bookmarks are labelled and have the MPI104-2007 tag. I have also recommended sites to other people.
On Flickr i have added my favourite photos and joined groups of my interest.
I think my blog has interestingness as it covers a wide range of topics whilst mainly being entertainment ones such as music and movies. I assumed the people reading my blog would have found it by the topics i covered such as entertainment and tried to provide informative, witty assessments on the topics i blogged about. To add range i added links wherever possible that would be useful or of interest to other people and also added pictures of topic i was talking about. I also talked about other things such as favourite wines and also Chuck Norris so that anyone of any interest could take something away from my blog.
On Deli.ic.ioucs i added bookmarks that i thought other people would find interesting and also myself whether it be the Rollingstone or the WWE wrestling website i tried to cater for a wide scope of peoples interests.
On Flickr i tried putting photos of what i thought were really good pictures and ones people would like to look at. I put up a lot of music band ones as they have a certain energy that i think comes through really well in photos.