CCAD at London

Our course this week has had a trip to london. The reason for this was to have a chance of going to the Broadcast Video Expo 2011 in Earls Court.

BVE

We had to go on the last day because we are students, but I had a fun run around looking at all the fancey gadgets they had to offer and they was a lot! I also Decieded that it might be a good idea to vist the Avid Seminars as Iam hoping to specilise as a Editor and Im conferdent on Adobe Software New and Old and I have had a lot of messing around with Final Cut Pro but somehow always avoided the Avid suite , however im going to be spending a lot of time on that suite next week, and the coming months and thought it would be a good idea to see pro's at it first... I must say it looked wonderful but it was a lot to take in and I can see that Avid are changing at lot with their new software, and Im looking forward to trying it out and will update on how I feel about it.

I did also buy a book on editing and a new external Hard Disk Drive because everything is moving more and more to digital if not there and its no longer safe just one back up so I have my old 1 TB harddrive which is slower than this new faster and better in everyway model.

WE WILL ROCK YOU

While we where in london it would be a shame not to take advantage of the westend which was more or less a door step away, if you know of Queen which I hope you do you know that the name is from one of his famous songs, but I most say that this was a brilliant show which has tonnes of life, power, colour and comedy. It was a perfect way to enjoy your night in london.

specilisms

Last week was the week when we finalised our specilism groups.

my main focus is on editing and cinematographer.

I will be taking part in 4 projects, 3 editing projects and 1 cinematographer

The projects im having my main focus on is;

1) Peter silk - who just now changed at lot about it but is going to have a grindhouse (more B-movie now) style to it. (no working title) Im going to be digital cinematographer and back-up film camera.
Camera Format - P2.

2) Andy Harrison - which is fast pace story exploring the theme's of geek culture through four main charectors all with their own styles of geek, this does have a working title TBP but will be changing. my role for this project is editor.
Editing Format - Mac: Final Cut Pro.

3) Jess Shaw - is a project focusing around one charector who has had so much hurt from his past realtionship and to cope writes down all what he is thinking in a dairy. this is going to be a much slower pace film.
Editing Format - PC: Avid

4) Lee Charnley - this is a project arranged with my course leaders. Its a project we where hoping to last year however due to issues at the time we were unable, but now im including it into a specilism. The project is to make a promotional video to advertise the new course taking over the one im on now, showing the best pieces over the life span of this course.
Editing Format - PC: Adobe CS5