SUBU Awards – “Dedicated Designer”

So, the SUBU awards were the other week. This is basically a night were people who have contributed to the student union get some acknowledgement for the work that they have done over the year. This years awards were different to previous years, with all areas of the SU under the same roof rather than having separate award nights for each.

I wasn’t able to go to the awards (in actual fact I didn’t really know anything about them until the afternoon before!) but as it turns out I won an award for working on Nerve Magazine. I was awarded the “Dedicated Designer” trophy. It’s a really nice glass engraved trophy and has pride of place on my window sill at the moment! haha.

I have designed every issue (barring one where I was on holiday for the deadline – Jan 09 issue) whether I get the articles a week in advance as its suppose to be or the day that its meant to be going to print. I’m a reliable designer! And enjoy the work that I do most of the time…having said that there is only so much that you can do for the sport section (zzzzzz)!!

I’m hoping to continue designing into next year, which will be my final year, and hopefully it will help set me up for a career once I finish. There are new changes coming to Nerve Magazine next year…it should be big and better so watch this space!

Censorship and Regulation Essay

Hmm…this seems to be a lot harder to write than it was suppose to be. The questions are too vague to choose which one to do so I don’t know what I’m actually writing. Not started writing yet, but I have started making some notes from the one book that I managed to find in the library.

5 days til hand in.

Dissertation

Just a quick noted about the dissertation…I have no idea what to write about and that lecture on Wednesday about it, really didn’t help!

I wonder if I’ll be better off expanding on my Identity and Diversity essay, but then how comes some current 3rd year IMPs have done things that aren’t related to media theory at all?!

Media Theory

Today is the essay hand in for Media, Identity and Diversity. My chosen essay title was; “Consider the performance of gender, and transgressive possibilities for sexual identities.”

Initially I started writing and really struggled to get words onto the page. I got to 600 words and decided to call it off. I arranged a chat with Chris Pullen as I had asked him to provide me with some documentary films about gender performance. During this chat he was able to suggest other books and films to look at and so I was able to understand the topic a little more, which gave me a better angle to write the essay. I actually understood how things fitted together.

David Gauntlett seems to make Judith Butler talk sense – if anyone has ever tried reading Butlers work, you’ll know its full of long winded and complicated ways of saying things, where as Gauntlett seems to put them into modern context so that you can relate to it. That guy is a dude!

I completed my essay in time of the original deadline before it was moved, which was quite handy really as it means now I have a half week extra to do reading and research for my Media, Censorship and Regulation essay (which is due in on the 6th May). I’m still not entirely sure which title I’m going to choose for this one, but we’ll see.

Long time no Blog!

So I have seriously neglected my blog recently, I’m sorry! I had ever intention to update it but hey ho…

The results are in – I collected the assignment feedback sheets for the Interactive Media Production Game unit this week. WOOHOO! I passed with a 2:1…I DON’T HAVE TO RESIT THE YEAR!! That was one of my biggest fears after having handed in the project. Once it was handed in I started spotting small errors that should have been sorted beforehand really.

Our game was a haunted house game with 4 mini games within the house that you had to complete to escape as you have become “Trapped” inside. As the feedback noted, there isn’t actually anyway for you to escape from the house. We were aware of this in the last week, but literally had no time to complete it properly so just made do.

“Trapped” is available here; Universally Challenged – Trapped Game.

There were a number of issues within our group, as a result I’ve clearly found that there are some people to avoid in the future. A few arguments where had in the last week where tempers were fraying but at least it got done. I was quite pleased with my essay mark, which was completed at about 3am the morning it was due in – my body clock did over time that day! Although I’m not too sure why they say that I need to reference properly, I thought I followed the referencing guide correctly – who knows!

I quite like the comment on the feedback sheet “where the work really shone was the game bible. Despite having hacked to pieces a lovely old Atlas the work was really quite impressive.” That was my bit! I poured myself into that part of the task, having taken it from what was being suggested to the finished article and it look ages to find somewhere to print it. I highly recommend the Print Emporium, Northbourne. Independently run local business – it is their life in that place.

Easter was quite a welcome break after the stresses of the project, shame it wasn’t look enough!

Web 2.0

In one of my many procrastinating moments, I came across this website called Name This.

Its basically a company that “rebrand” or come up with names for new companies/enterprises but are too lazy or not creative enough to come up with their own. Or are they? Could they be more intelligent than that and by using the online “world” actually be producing some of the most creative names in commerce?!

Someone had a seriously good idea with this site – but on the topic of Authorship…who is the author of the new name?! After all the people behind ‘Name This’ couldn’t have chosen the best option had it not been for the wider online community contributing to the site.

The site actually marks your suggestions with a comment i.e. Very Unique, Average and Not Unique. There are loads of completed ones as well as those still active. Each has a countdown of how long left there is to post a suggestion.

Pretty amazing stuff – lets just hope that these people aren’t getting paid LOADS of money for the work of other innocent people.

 

Anyway, I think thats enough for now.

DONE!!

PHP project completed and handed in – RELIEF! *phew*

Never again is what I say…!

Check it out in the link below
http://impserver.bournemouth.ac.uk/~cpaveley/ 

Create an account and add some details, even if its just a comment. Your help will be greatly appreciated!

The Wall…

…has been pushed over! Woop woop!

How long will it remain defeated is the question though?

Progress

Progress on the project is slow, very slow currently.

I’ve currently hit a brick wall and have been sat at the computer for properly around 2 hours now just thinking about not a lot and running out of other things to do – so it looks like I’ll be back onto the PHP sooner than I thought.

Just think it’ll all be over on Thursday – which is both a good thing and bad thing as it means that the deadline is fast approaching, faster than I want it to! Nevermind, it shall be done – if i don’t throw myself out the window first hahaha.

Over and out.

My SecondLife Avatar

 

After the fairly successful virtual lecture last week, and at the request of Joe, I have posted a snapshot of my avatar.

As you would expect, it looks nothing like me! I for one do not have pink hair, spikey yes, pink no. I just thought it would be funny to have it like that. The hair combined with the slightly camp looking tank top…I’m doing well for myself dontcha think?!