Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Universal Overhaul: Back From Print

One of the assignments for my last year of university focuses on making a website and a print material, making sure that both are equal to a brand. Does that make sense? I don’t know, all I know is that I have a headache while writing this. Joyous times. Anyway, the print section of this...

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Friday, November 08, 2013

FAQ Me: Shutter Speeds In DSLR Video

Something something REDmatter. Something something writing about common mistakes in something. Something something things about shutter speed. Something. 1 – Normal Lighting (or to get a cinematic feel) I am going to give you a simple formula. Shutter Speed = 1/2(Frame Rate) So, let’s use an example that I use all the time. I usually...

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Friday, November 01, 2013

Past Vlog Editing Exploits

I used to do a bit of editing, back in the day like. For some reason, my favourite genre of video editing is indeed vlogging. There’s something about editing vlogs that is both nice to do and entertaining at the same time. Mainly because it’s fun scrubbing between two or so frames and making people...

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Friday, October 18, 2013

Video Game Review: Pokemon X

We say goodbye to one gaming generation and welcome another, but some gaming franchises seem to survive the jumps. And Pokemon is a fine example of this. The franchise, focusing on angering animal cruelty activists and people against Darwin’s theory, has at least two releases on every version of Nintendo’s portable system. And now, for...

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

FAQ Me: Where To Learn Good

Note – Again, I’m doing this thing called REDmatter. Again, I’ve left it to the last minute. Again, the featured image has nothing to do with the content in this piece. I don’t always have people asking me stuff frequently, but when I do, I use a meme before I answer properly. And for any...

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Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Universal Overhaul: Introduction

I am now in my last year at, apparently, the fifth largest university in the UK. One of the modules is named Computer Based Media Production, where I am expected to create a brand, produce a logo, website, (possibly) print work and and radio/video advert. All this in one year? Easy, is what a more...

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Thursday, October 03, 2013

The Noob’s Guide To An Illustrator-After Effects Workflow

Note – This is an idea I had for ages, making a tutorial website called The Noob’s Bible and having different stuff in it that discusses Photoshop, Illustartor, Premiere Pro, After Effects and other stuff. And thanks to the fact that I’m doing this thing called REDmatter, I’ve decided I’d give my idea a shot....

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Things That I Would Tell People Starting A University Course

In less than seventy-four hours, it’ll be about forty-eight weeks until I wear a stupid hat and cape, with rolled up piece of paper in hand, facing forty years of debt, possible unemployment and never-ending loneliness. Yes, I’m about to start my last year at university. I started my course three years ago, and as...

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Sunday, September 08, 2013

Logo Development // Battle Of The Bands

My last year in university is drawing near, and with that in mind, I had the urge to do something productive this weekend which would hopefully help me improve in Adobe Illustrator. As such, I though I’d create a logo for something. The bad thing was, I didn’t really know what I could create a...

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Killing In The Name

I was going to write a blog post about my first few days of my second placement, but I forgot.

I then wanted to write a post about how I wished that life had an RPG aspect to it, so you could measure how good you are at stuff just by looking at your stats, but something else has come up which is, to me at least, more important.

I've been thinking for a while now, and I'm wondering about killing some stuff from my life, either forever or just for the time being.

The first part is the CLICvlog project. I'm in two minds with this, as it feels like there's no point continuing with it. It was only there as a means for me to pass my second year in university. Now, a year later, it just seems kind of pointless to continue. I don't have as much time as I dod to continue with it, and it seems that all it brings now is just shit.

So, for at least the time being, CLICvlogger is no more. And if I can't find any reason to revive it, CLICvlogger is dead.

The other thing, which might not be as immediate as the demise of CLICvlogger, is that I'm considering  either deactivating my social media accounts, or only using them as a means of private communication with people who I usually talk to.

Oh, and on a Wicid point of view, I've decided that I'm no longer an editorial team member. Again, many reasons, none that I'll share here. But on the eve of my fourth anniversary of being involved with Clic, I've sent an email saying I'm no longer going to be part of Wicid's editorial.

There are many reasons why I've been thinking this. Reasons, reasons, reasons. The main one is that I just don't care about it all anymore. Facebook's just a pool of people who just try to convince themselves that they are whatever they delude themselves to be. Most of Twitter just seems filled with attention seekers and men faking kindness just to get attention from women.

But yeah, this is what has been going through my mind these past few weeks. Some thing needs to be changed, whether it's small or large.  I'm not completely sure if these will work, but it doesn't matter, that's life, eh?

- FIN you, I won't do what you tell me.