Welcome September 19, 2008
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedWelcome to the FdA Digital Media Production web site. This site is intended to allow you to access information, timetables, news, tutorials, unit handbooks and blogs relating to the course. This on-line resource will grow over the coming weeks and months as we add content to give you the student experience we think you need. If there is something you think is missing or you want to make suggestions to improve the site please let us know.
Phil Beards
Course Leader
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot February 8, 2010
Posted by admin in : Interactive, Performance , comments closedI love this performance piece, it’s one of those pieces that is so blindingly simple that you wish you’d thought of it yourself.
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape.
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/thecurve/b…
new perspectives February 3, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedHello. We start at 10am on Friday for the New Perspectives Debate and Discuss sessions - please come equipped with your brain - and if you haven’t talked about your book before, your chosen ‘best book’ from the library - be prepared to tell us WHY you chose the book. The statement that is up for debate and discussion this week is GIRLS ARE RUBBISH AT VIDEOGAMES so those who are arguing FOR and AGAINST please come equipped with your presentation/arguments.
February 2, 2010
Posted by admin in : 3D, Interactive , comments closed
This is a really interesting drawing package, dig out your 3D goggles and have a go.
Touchable Holography February 2, 2010
Posted by admin in : Interactive, New Technology , comments closedTouchable Holography: New projector lets you “touch” 3D objects with your hands (video)
Thanks to Phil Andrews for finding this:
“As if looking at floating images in free space produced by mid-air displays isn’t cool enough, a research team from the University of Tokyo now makes it possible to even touch (kind of) those images with a newly developed projector system.”
Apple’s New iPad February 1, 2010
Posted by admin in : Gadgets, New Technology, Sustainability , comments closed
Finally after month’s of speculation Apple have revealed their new product iPad. At the moment opinion seems split between the hard core Mac fraternity and the speculative Windows users. There is no doubt though that Apple are going to sell millions of iPads and just like the iPod and iPhone it will make a massive difference to our lives, the way we access the web, view video and still images, read books and manage our lives.
LIke the iPod, iPhone and iMac, MacBook Pro etc it has been designed by English designer Jonathan Ive. Ive’s and Apple’s Steve Jobs attention to detail and functionality is remarkable.
new perspectives unit January 28, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedThose of you who missed the briefings last week will need to see Bob or Amanda to (a) be briefed on the unit and our strategy of debates and discussions; and (b) you will need to select a book from the library that reflects your interest(s) - ‘choose the best book in the library’ from your personal perspective. Bring it in to the New Perspectives session on Friday - starts at 10am in the ground floor base-room.
Level 5: PPRD lecture in room UH112 Thursday 21st at 9:30 January 20, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedLevel 5: PPRD lecture Thursday 21st at 9:30 has been rescheduled from the small editing room H016 into a larger seminar room UH112 ( On the first floor of University House on the right.
9:30 prompt start Phil Peel
Level 4: Rescheduled Launch of Short Form Video Unit. Tuesday 26th Jan 9:30 January 20, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedYear 1
The Launch of Level Short Form Video Unit has been rescheduled to Tuesday 26th Jan 9:30 in H016 (downstairs in the EP)
It is very important that you attend. We have a complex multi-stranded drama project with the potential for you all to be involved in something really exciting, but it will need good communication from the start, for it to be sucessful.
We start sharp at 9:30am
Phil Peel
new perspectives for new contexts unit intro and briefing January 15, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , comments closedOn Friday 22nd at 10am, Bob and Amanda will be introducing the New Perspectives unit to all second years who plan to join the third year and complete a BA degree. We will be giving a general introduction to the unit, and setting some interim projects, as well as starting a series of one-to-one personal tutorials, so please make sure you attend promptly.