Tom Pearson's Multimedia

Well back to university in the harsh weather that is January. I think It tipped -10 C a few nights ago but at least it will be getting warmer soon.

So what can I say about the break. It was nice, Christmas as usual with the relatives round. Some nice clothes and money to keep me going through this next term of study. It was all very peachy! But back to work. I've been mulling over some Ideas for my script over the break which aren’t quite ready for showing as of yet. This term we must produce a script and pilot for an idea we have for a short film. (I will put up the exact details of what I'm doing in the next post). I'll also be posting these soon enough.

After our attempt at short documentary in the first term, alongside some criticisms that wasn't so great, I have taken on board what has been said and what I must do better to achieve improved outcomes (because If you don't do this you just become an ignorant & arrogant film maker). One point that I thought I'd pick up on in this post was that of royalty free music. Although we didn’t use any music other than a live recording of our subject playing his guitar, it was the content he was playing which might of infringed on some laws. Luckily this won’t be used for profitable outcome. But obviously this won’t happen again and something that will stick in my mind when creating something like this. Nonetheless, there are ways around this. Royalty free music is music created by someone that allows you to use it in profitable work. Fortunately I've found some websites that also give away free royalty free music. This is brilliant! Here is an example: incompetech

My last point of this post was the talk about Micheal Ribiger's book Directing, Film Techniques and Aesthetics. I bought this over Christmas as it was on the reading list and was highly recommended by peers and academics. I have to say it is quite amazing! Although I haven’t read the whole thing yet, it is very enlightening and gives knowledge that I wouldn’t have thought of.

That’s all for now, going to make sushi!