Results & Goodbye

I have now officially recieved my results. I will be graduating from Nottingham Trent University with a First Class Honours degree! I recieved 73.3% overall. Here is how the marks broke down...

Client Project: 65%
Research Project: 75%
SPP & Exhibition: 90%

I am very pleased with these marks and would like to thanks all those who helped me along the 4 years!!

This post will also probibly mark the very last ever post as a student and therefore on this blog. However I hope to start a new blog(s)when I start new projects etc.

So GOODBYE TO MM-LOG! You've been fun this year!

Milk07

I am now exhibiting at Milk07 Final Year Multimedia Exhibition at the Waverly Building at Nottingham Trent University.

Here is a photo of my stand.

Client Project Evaluation

Click the PDF image to download my Client Project (compound) evaluation. It was a lot of work. It outlines the last nine months of work.

Business Cards

Have sent my business cards to be printed this week. They will be ready for the exhibition. Above is the front and below that is the image on the back.

The design is coherant to the rest of the portfolio and showreel work that I have been working on in the last few days.

Altitude - Trent Dance DVD

Above is the video that compound (+Ben Spray and Abid Khan) filmed at the union a few weeks ago. I edited this footage (both cuts from my camera - 1st and 2nd night) as a trailer. This appears on Facebook and YouTube.

One night, the camera was held still in order to get a full show that we knew was solid and then the second night I vaired the shots with closeups etc.

New Analystics

I recieved an email the other day from Google saying they had a new analytics engine. So i logged on to check my stats to find a totally new interface, new tools (at least new as far as I knew, i found them this time!) and such clear easy to use layout...

Love it!

April 2007
Visits: 81 (up)

Page views: 123 (up)

Returning / New Visitor: 86% / 14%
Number of posts: 7 (up)

(stats: Google Analytics)

Report Read through

Have just spent the afternoon reading through the draft of my Client Project evaluation report.
I was fairly happy with what I had written and marked some changes. The bits left include

- Plans for the future
- Inputing images to colour the work
- Quotes from clients and independant onlookers
- Research into real-world companies
- Work with the rest of the group to contextualise the document
- And a conlclusion.

After this, it will be the basic end to compound except the presentation at the Milk07 exhibition. It will truly be a sad time. I have enjoyed and benefited from working and being with the team. I will miss working with them!

Compound never looked this good!

Thanks James for his thoughtful remix of my biog video that compound created for the proposal presentations! Apparently there was inspiration behind this but you'd better ask him about that!!! Here is the original, I really like the way it has been put together, just hate the fact I sound like a muppet!!!

Compound hand in

The compound team handed in a box containing all the projects completed within the year. It was a very proud moment and the three has spent all night working on presentation.

Feedback has been posative.

PRP on hold

My Personal Research Project is currently on the back burner until the Client Evaluation has been done. I have also been busy with Easter People planning (see below) and the spring edition of /thoughts. I will start the Summer07 issue shortly too.

I did however, get part of my conclusion published in the very magazine that the project was based upon and it challenged readers to commit to their community.

Here is the page:

Easter People

I have just returned from an awesome week at Easter People in Blackpool.
There I was heading up the creative / acoustic venue with Sarah Frampton.
Here are some photos...
The room was much darker than they suggest (becasue of the flash)

Set-up: The get in finished as the venue opened!

Stage

Some of the awesome artwork produced in the week

Acoustic set by Myspoon on saturday night

The brief of the room was to start black andd white and colour would flow into it as the week progressed. The exhibition wall flourished, the graffiti wall filled and the easels were all painted.
Success!

March Stats

March 2007
Visits: 19 (down)
Page views: 34 (down)

Returning / New Visitor: 63% / 37%
Number of posts: 3 (down)

(stats: Google Analytics)

/thoughts spring released

The new issue of /thoughts magazine was released a couple of weeks ago. It has recieved loads of cool feedback and many say it is the best issue yet and it seems to be improving every issue.

It was also really nice to have a proper meeting with the production team and not over emails, phone etc.