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

A reflection I think the concept of Selfies of Leicester has turned out amazing! We have reached our goal of connecting with people and giving them interesting content whilst also linking to the view from Leicester concept. We have shown of Leicester in a way thats unique and original and its something that easy to […]

So the end is here the group project has come to end after weeks of creating awesome content and experimenting and exploring new ideas the end of the road is here……. but fret not where does this project go from here? well I am going to leave that choice to you… do I continue it … Continue reading So long… partner….. Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you!

So for the final blog for #VFL18 we decided to a mash up of 2 things and experimental on how we could create these things. In the end we decided to use the Call on Me dance that I would try and re-enact the dance but make it as funny as possible and try makes … Continue reading WHEN YOU HIT ROCK BOTTOM #VFL18

Then next step in the Selfies of Leicester journey was taking the images! Charlotte and I went our separate ways to go around Leicester and get the perfect selfies for the insta page! We both used our iPhones to make the selfie taking as straightforward as possible. I saved the old images to my phone […]

where do we take A-Z Leicester from here then? what next? When we finished uploading the photos this was the end result So as you can see it reads A-Z like we wanted to as Instagram put the pictures in chronological order. we decided to bring the opacity down on each picture so that you... Continue Reading →

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!?

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!

The growth of the account 15th April After creating and uploading the first initial pictures we started posting a lot more. Including hashtags and linking locations. This helped the page to grow a lot as people were interacting by likings and following. On my personal account I updated my story asking my followers to go […]

Selfies of Leicester! Now that I have an Idea established some planning needed to take place to get the ball rolling. Firstly I created an Instagram page to put my images on. This was simple and I started following people I know. (insert Instagram image here) I then needed to find some images of old […]

For the VFL group project we were asked to come up with an idea that remixed or re-used film from The British Film Council as a creative stepping off point to explore Britishness. We were also asked to create the media around Leicester to show the city in different ways similar to the BFC films giving the project its name. View From […]

April 05th 2018….THE JOKER RISES So to start off with I came up with an Idea of a person who had his face burn’t off due to a chemical reaction in a chemical vat similar to The Joker, this is why he becomes obsessed with The Joker and wears Joker masks to cover up his … Continue reading THE JOKER STRIKES AGAIN……….#VFL18

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….

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??

To get started on the project we took ourselves out to famous landmarks and not so famous places in Leicester and started taking the photos we needed. For our project we took inspiration from last years ‘Leicester Lego Man’  This day we took the photos and also decided to make a little vlog which shows... Continue Reading →

For our group project we thought of a couple ideas. What we had defiantly decide was that we weren’t going to do anything to so with animals because of my horrific phobia. Sorry Not Sorry. We thought of stuff to do with people and different ages. One idea we had was to do a ‘What would you... Continue Reading →

20th March 2018 – THE MADNESS CONTINUES #VFL18 So we decided to have a little meeting to discuss more ideas and were we can take this project next. We also reviewed our previous work as well as saying what we can do to improve future projects, we decided to do this as a 9 minute … Continue reading The Madness Continues…… #VFL18

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

07th March 2018 – #VFL18 #VIEWFROMLEICESTER – TV SHOWS So myself and Matthew got together once more this time we wanted to recreate a TV show as well as create our own from scratch but base it around a 90s theme looking show so we spent a while coming up with ideas and testing things … Continue reading TV SHOW’S FROM THE ARTS OF LEICESTER #VFL18

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…

February 22nd 2018 – The Madness Continues #VFL18 #VIEWFROMLEICESTER So me and Matthew Letts had discussed parodying the film The Room and making the famous scenes from the film, and making them even more funnier than they already where. We decided to film in the green screen room as there is more space and has … Continue reading The Room Parody & Green-screen Madness

So this is the start of a new project for this module. This project gets us to get more involved with making social media and making spreadable medial. understanding how things go viral and why people share things. What is it that makes us share that funny video or that moving, inspirational story. As a... Continue Reading →

February 20th 2018 – It starts here #VFL18 #ViewFromLeicester So me and Matthew decided to do some audio based projects and then edit sound effects and music into them to spice this group project up a lit bit more, and add some much needed pzazz. We decided to do some The Room scenes and make … Continue reading Jigsaw takes over the AUDIO?! I did not do it I did nawt!?

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Last week we had a meeting regarding what we where going to create and contribute to the ‘View from Leicester‘ project. We took notes on everything that was said in that meeting and discussed the ideas further so we got a better understanding were this project was going, and what direction we was going to take. … Continue reading Finding The Project #VFL18 “LEICESTER’S ART OF THE FILMS”

Last week we had a meeting about what we were going to create for our contribution to the ‘View from Leicester‘ project. We took notes on the meeting and made brain storms for our different ideas for the project. We had several ideas that were inspired by the ‘Humans of New York‘ project and the … Continue reading Finding a cause #VFL18 →

I created the GIF from a video on the collection site and added in a glitch effect to the text to make it look like the olden days TV with things glitching out. There where loads of the clips on the  ‘British Council Film Collection‘ site and it was hard to choose from as there are … Continue reading My GIF’s to you #VFL18

I looked through the ‘British Council Film Collection‘  and came up with quite a few ideas for a mash up videos, and some parodies which would be hilarious for this blog. One of my all time favourites on the site is Country Town this I quite enjoyed watching It’s very few I have seen that shows people growing … Continue reading #VFL18 The Mash-up Video

I decided to create my GIF using the same video that I used my mash up video and screen grab for. (These children are safe) There were many clips of the film that I thought would be a good idea to use for the GIF. In the end I settled for the children being evacuated … Continue reading My GIFt to you! #VFL18 →

So today I was introduced to our next project  ‘View from Leicester’. I am really excited about this project as I will be doing solo work and group work with someone else in my class doing the project. I have taken a look at previous work to gather some inspiration and too see what is needed for … Continue reading #VFL 18 Getting Started