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Social Media Evaluation

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
May 13, 2018

As I have gone over in the video above, social media is not as great as everyone expects or thinks it is. It is a harmful place where people get bullied, harassed and just ridiculed. It can take multiple forms such as, over text, Facebook, Twitter and would be based around blackmail with disgusting photos … Continue reading Social Media Evaluation
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This ship can’t sink!?

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
April 18, 2018

And so here we are ladies and gentleman…. The end of our fabulous journey. Above is our final video mash up of all our projects over the past few weeks. It has been a pleasure taking you with us on our journey. I wish we linked our videos together instead of making a mess of … Continue reading This ship can’t sink!?
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Dance your heart out sweetie!

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
April 18, 2018

This hands down was my favourite video to edit, I couldn’t stop laughing whilst making it. The idea behind it was to finish off our TV and adverts, we were going to make a music video, of which I filmed and edited, whilst Brandon danced. I felt we did this perfectly, as the gold digger … Continue reading Dance your heart out sweetie!
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Why So Serious….

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
April 4, 2018

This section of videos was a mixture of our ideas from the meet up, I wanted to do documentaries and they weren’t too bad however could have been so much better. I wanted to relate to The View from Leicester however we didn’t have enough time or production cost to travel around filming in houses … Continue reading Why So Serious….
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Is there anything else more to life then to be really, really, really RIDICULOUSLY good looking??

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
March 29, 2018

To start off with, me and Brandon had a quick meeting in the greenscreen room, to discuss where we will be taking our project and how were going to be linking it together instead of having random videos everywhere. We finally agreed on going down the TV/Advert route, as before we experimented with shows and … Continue reading Is there anything else more to life then to be really, really, really RIDICULOUSLY good looking??
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Even your grandchildren will find this funny

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
March 21, 2018

This as the previous blog was another one of my favourite videos to make. It was inspired by the comedy show “Too Many Cooks” on YouTube. I again got the idea from The British Council Film Collection, as they had really old videos with similar fonts. The whole video I edited was in the style … Continue reading Even your grandchildren will find this funny
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Don’t call me freak…

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
March 13, 2018

So to begin this blog, I’ll tell you how it became a thing. About a year ago I watched a show which was one of the bes shows ever made with my favourite all time TV how opening. It stars famous actors of which started their career. It only lasted for a season though sadly … Continue reading Don’t call me freak…
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I wouldn’t even watch this show for a Cornchip…

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated
March 7, 2018

Before we got fully into it we sat down and discussed possible projects we could work on for our group work. We thought back to ‘The British Council Film Collection’. We originally were going to shoot a war scene, of which we did, however it wasn’t perfect and most of the footage I couldn’t get … Continue reading I wouldn’t even watch this show for a Cornchip…
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Cover your ears, This is going to get rough…

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated
March 3, 2018

To start off with, me and Brandon decided we’d experiment with audio first, as it was simple and quick learning steps to professionally editing our videos and using Adobe Audition to make our audio sound good. Above are two photos of us planning, editing and recording our pieces. Below are the clips we acted out … Continue reading Cover your ears, This is going to get rough…
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I love it when a plan comes together

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
February 21, 2018

Next Wednesday me and Brandon are going to plan out what we are going to be doing for our project. We have been inspired by the British Council Film Collection and we hope to contribute to the View from Leicester page. Ideas we plan to discuss will be horror related, spoofs of TV shows and short … Continue reading I love it when a plan comes together
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Have a whiff of my GIF #VLF18

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
February 16, 2018

For my GIF creating section, I went onto the British Film Council Collection again and took a few second snippets out of the films I previewed. For the first GIF I made, I decided to go with a peaceful countryside walk with a mother and son, as I felt this represented the ‘view from Leicester’ well, … Continue reading Have a whiff of my GIF #VLF18
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War, War Never Changes (Mashup) #VLF18

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
February 16, 2018

In my mashup video, I used clips from the film ‘War Comes To London’, in the British Council Film Collection. I found this one was an important segment of the British collection, as it showed the impact war had on London in the 1930/40’s. I thought of videos I could use to mash in with … Continue reading War, War Never Changes (Mashup) #VLF18
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#VFL18 Getting Started

by @MatthewJLetts

| #VFL18, Syndicated
February 15, 2018

Today I was educated about the new project I will be working on with a partner for View From Leicester . I have chosen a partner who I worked with for my last Social Media project, which we did short handheld horror films, which we got an upper first for. I thought for this project we … Continue reading #VFL18 Getting Started
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Show Us Your Blue Steel

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Video
January 21, 2018

I was excited when I first read this assignment, as Zoolander is one of my favourite movies, back in college me and a few mates tried recreating Blue Steel as a joke. The objective for this assignment was to recreate Blue Steel with effects and music in your own way. I planned to have it … Continue reading Show Us Your Blue Steel
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Make Your Own Mixtape

by @MatthewJLetts

| audio, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

I enjoyed this assignment a lot, as I got to listen to a load of my favourite songs with my main being David Bowie’s Heroes, which I started the mixtape off with. The point of the assignment was to create a mixtape that people used to decades ago, with your favourite songs. It reminded me … Continue reading Make Your Own Mixtape
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Auditory Hell

by @MatthewJLetts

| audio, Syndicated
January 21, 2018

This assignments probably the easiest I’ve done so far. The aim was to create the worst sound ever. To do this, I used my Microsoft Headset, which has a very competent microphone that picks up every little sound. This allowed me to put the microphone in my mouth and just breath in, with a minor … Continue reading Auditory Hell
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Inappropriate Laughter

by @MatthewJLetts

| Mashup/ Remix, Syndicated
January 18, 2018

Throughout blogging I have come across some hilarious and unusual assignments, but this is by far the most hysterical. The objective was to add laughing tracks over the top of sad or serious moments in a movie to make it funny. I chose to do the ending of Spiderman 3, as it was sad but … Continue reading Inappropriate Laughter
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Video Game Cover Mashup

by @MatthewJLetts

| Mashup/ Remix, Syndicated
January 18, 2018

In this assignment the aim was to generate a game cover that would likely been seen on the shelves combining two games together. I thought of two of my favourite games, which turned out to be “Overwatch” and “Battlefront II”. I wanted to have it saying Battlewatch II, however it was too difficult to find … Continue reading Video Game Cover Mashup
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Funny Singing Voice Over

by @MatthewJLetts

| audio, Syndicated
January 17, 2018

This assignment was one of the funniest I’ve had the pleasure of doing, as it involved me and a mate singing at 4pm in a recording booth to the most ridiculous songs we could imagine. We booked out a microphone with Av Loans, booked out a recording booth, set up the Apple Mac and Audition … Continue reading Funny Singing Voice Over
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Create Your Own Room

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Web
January 17, 2018

This was an interesting assignment, I don’t enjoy house redesign shows or anything to do with DIY, however I did enjoy choosing what I would like for my perfect bedroom and it turns out I would love to have a modern/futuristic space like bedroom, which would be amazing. Maybe the fact that I binge watched … Continue reading Create Your Own Room
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Google Draw Something

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Web
January 17, 2018

This was one of the funniest assignments I’ve had to do so far, as the aim was to use Google Draw to draw an object that it states, then a text to speech voice goes over its database of different objects it could be. It astonishes me how it does it however I think … Continue reading Google Draw Something
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Go Back In Time

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Web
January 17, 2018

In this assignment the objective was to use a website called The Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/web/). In this website you can enter any address you want and see what it looked like when it was first made onwards. The assignment asks to take a look at several different sights and see what they looked like a … Continue reading Go Back In Time
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Been There

by @MatthewJLetts

| AnimatedGIF, Syndicated
January 17, 2018

In this assignment, I was supposed to find a gif which I can relate to and for that I found a gif from the Disney movie “Inside out” with the character Sadness. I find this gif represents me very well, as I also do something wrong which I never meant to do and I always … Continue reading Been There
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Get Off My Porch

by @MatthewJLetts

| AnimatedGIF, Syndicated
January 17, 2018

The objective behind the assignment, was to show why Clint Eastwood was so upset. The original gif to show an example, contained my little ponys annoying Eastwood. For mine I decided to use a clip from the film “Wanted”, which is about a guy who has abnormal powers that make him extremely accurate with his … Continue reading Get Off My Porch
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I’m Ready For My Close Up

by @MatthewJLetts

| Mashup/ Remix, Syndicated
January 17, 2018

In this image the assignment stated to create a mashup of someone’s face in a dramatic scene. The thought process behind it was to think of the saddest scene in a movie I could think off, so the only one that came to mind was the scene in Pixar’s Up, where you watch these kids … Continue reading I’m Ready For My Close Up
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My Favourite Thing To Do

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Video
January 15, 2018

For this assignment the goal was to create a 30 second to 1 minute video of my hobby and blog about why I enjoy doing it. For my hobby, I chose gaming, as it is a regular activity I do with friends, which acts as a social hobby to chat and mess about. I captured … Continue reading My Favourite Thing To Do
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Return To The Silent Era

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated, Video
December 29, 2017

For this video assignment, I was excited and thrilled to create my own version of my favourite movie genre, as a silent movie. The aim was to create a modern day trailer and render it in the form of the silent era. I found my edit to go extraordinary well, as I reduced the quality and … Continue reading Return To The Silent Era
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Vintage-ify A Place

by @MatthewJLetts

| design, Syndicated
December 23, 2017

In this assignment I decided to choose a mythical place from one of my favourite movies, “Star Wars”. The objective was to take a place from my favourite spots in the world, home town or a fictional place that deserves its own poster. As the Star Wars movies are about futuristic wars between factions over … Continue reading Vintage-ify A Place
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Create A T-Shirt

by @MatthewJLetts

| Syndicated
December 23, 2017

The objective was to create a unique shirt with either a picture or text or both, which can range from funny to serious. I decided to place mine in the middle of them categories, where the quote “Sometimes I pretend to be normal” sums me up very well and has a sense of comedy to … Continue reading Create A T-Shirt
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Design Your Superhero

by @MatthewJLetts

| design, Syndicated
December 21, 2017

My superhero was created through the website http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-3-lab/. My hero was inspired by Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games Trilogy. I combined features from her like the hair, face and cape with features from cyborg, whos a DC character. I made it look like she is a half human, half machine, which is a reason … Continue reading Design Your Superhero
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Social Media Evaluation

Social Media Evaluation

This ship can’t sink!?

Dance your heart out sweetie!

Why So Serious….

Is there anything else more to life then to be really, really, really RIDICULOUSLY good looking??

Even your grandchildren will find this funny

Don’t call me freak…

I wouldn’t even watch this show for a Cornchip…

Cover your ears, This is going to get rough…

I love it when a plan comes together

Have a whiff of my GIF #VLF18

War, War Never Changes (Mashup) #VLF18

#VFL18 Getting Started

Show Us Your Blue Steel

Make Your Own Mixtape

Auditory Hell

Inappropriate Laughter

Video Game Cover Mashup

Funny Singing Voice Over

Create Your Own Room

Google Draw Something

Go Back In Time

Been There

Get Off My Porch

I’m Ready For My Close Up

My Favourite Thing To Do

Return To The Silent Era

Vintage-ify A Place

Create A T-Shirt

Design Your Superhero

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