Long time no see

I thought I would post upon what I've been doing recently as I haven't actually posted for quite a few months. Shocking I know.

Basically, like every other student, I've been working for my keep. Earning enough money working a full time job for the next year of university (can't wait). So as usual I haven't had a great deal of time to find some work experience. I have however been reading up on, and practicing my subject (multimedia ofc).

I recently read a book by Walter Murch called `In the blink of an eye`. This book is spectacular. He gives views that I could not have understood through sheer wisdom and experience, something someone like me cannot gain quite so early on in this type of career. The book is based upon his thoughts about film editing and how it has changed from analogue to digital and linear to random access. The book gave me valuable knowledge on the area, and I doubt I will look at films in quite the same way again. Great stuff and I recommend it to anyone interested in films.




Ive also been practicing my "tool set" as my tutor likes to say. The online tutorials and playing around with different ideas has added to my knowledge. Recently Ive been using photoshop more and more. Il put up this example of my eye. I took this photo ages ago because I couldn't work out what colour my eye was (yeah I know silly really). My eye colour is a dull grey / green. So I thought I would play around with different techniques to boost the colour. To make this, I created multiple layers of the same image and choose overlay. This gave it a more colourful look. I then created a new layer and started subtly painting the eye with blues, greens, reds and yellows. Then by adding a Gaussian blur, it allowed me to meld those colours into the eye. So although the eye colour is changed, it doesn't look horrendously overdone. Click the image to get a bigger image and More detail.

Anywho, Soon I'l be starting my second year and I'l be moving into audio visual production, can't wait. I think I might create a fresh blog, bigger / better / bolder, to compliment my new work. It will come soon. Later.