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| Reuben presents the latest sporting headlines |
Monday, October 29, 2012
3105HUM - News and Current Affairs Production - Week 9
For week 9 of Griffith Uni News my job was sports news presenter for the show which meant I had to come in to the studio early to do a pre-recorded sports news segment. This was a role I found fun and suited me down to the ground due to being an avid fan of most sports. Below I have attached a picture and two videos - one of just my sports news read and the other of the entire news show.
3105HUM - News and Current Affairs Production - Week 8
For the first show of the year for Griffith Uni News my role was Panel member and I was given a number of discussion topics by the Anchor Sherie which I had to discuss with the other panel members during the show. Below is an image and a video from the first show:
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
New Media Art - Blog
Explore Rhizome.org and the art they list here:
http://rhizome.org/announce/
Reception in conjunction with Rose Marcus and Andy Meerow:
Café
What is self-portraiture in the expanded-field? A charcoal
drawing is one example, but this research will probe more direct and physical
forms of self-positioning. The artists will review the supposition that they
are working just by correctly moving their bodies around and assess their role
as part of a larger body of people helping each other make sense. Together, the
creative populace projects bolstered self-images into the void, or the bounty?
"Tide Study" by Ryan James MacFarland:
Charles Bank Gallery is pleased to present Tide Study, a new
photography exhibition by Ryan James MacFarland, July 12-August 19, with an
opening reception on Friday, July 6th.This will be MacFarland’s first solo
presentation at Charles Bank Gallery. In MacFarland’s newest body of work, the
artist shows a concern for the seemingly intangible and transitory qualities of
landscape.Through these photographs, MacFarland has attempted to interpret and
reconcile his own experiences of nature.
Bound, Unbound: Lin Tianmiao:
Asia Society Museum presents the first major solo exhibition
in the United States of leading Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao (born 1961, China).
Surveying the past 20 years, this exhibition highlights the remarkably
consistent focus on women’s issues that is subtly embodied in her work. The
exhibition — a series of installations and sculpture with a textile focus —
will fill Asia Society’s entire museum space with several new installations and
many works never seen outside.
Yogyakarta:
Five Artists From IndonesiaMarc Straus Gallery
will be presenting an exhibition of five Indonesian artists, four of which have
not been shown in The United States yet. The show will include paintings and
sculptures from Jumaldi Alfi, Fendry Ekel, Erianto, Abdi Setiawan, and Yunizar.
This important event brings these Indonesian artists to New York along with
their influences and culture. The opening for the event will be on Wednesday,
June 27th at 6pm.
New Media Art - Blog
Talk about collecting content such as collecting files, code, images, and sound to use in later work.
The importance of collecting files to use in later work is essential for everyone in this digital age especially journalists, web designers and the like. For video, print, online and photo journalists these days it is doubly important especially since most potential employers want to see a portfolio of work and if you can give them a website with all these different examples of work then that will impress them more.For myself personally I soon found how vital it is to keep all the photo's video's and articles I have done over the course of my university studies as I have used many of them to display in the portfolio websites I have created over the past two years.
The importance of collecting code as a journalist has been perhaps less important until recently, however with the surge in online news publishing if a journalist has the skills to create online news stories and design websites then potential employers are more likely to consider employing them. Having a collection of sound files is also less important perhaps as many sound effects can be found on websites such as www.soundbible.com and journalists do not often have a need for them except occasionally with video journalism making a news story which requires sound effects. As mentioned earlier images are important for photojournalists to keep for portfolio purposes and videos are important for video journalists who require a solid news reel when looking for work as a TV reporter.
The importance of collecting files to use in later work is essential for everyone in this digital age especially journalists, web designers and the like. For video, print, online and photo journalists these days it is doubly important especially since most potential employers want to see a portfolio of work and if you can give them a website with all these different examples of work then that will impress them more.For myself personally I soon found how vital it is to keep all the photo's video's and articles I have done over the course of my university studies as I have used many of them to display in the portfolio websites I have created over the past two years.
The importance of collecting code as a journalist has been perhaps less important until recently, however with the surge in online news publishing if a journalist has the skills to create online news stories and design websites then potential employers are more likely to consider employing them. Having a collection of sound files is also less important perhaps as many sound effects can be found on websites such as www.soundbible.com and journalists do not often have a need for them except occasionally with video journalism making a news story which requires sound effects. As mentioned earlier images are important for photojournalists to keep for portfolio purposes and videos are important for video journalists who require a solid news reel when looking for work as a TV reporter.
New Media Art - Blog
MY FINAL PORTFOLIO:
For my final portfolio I intend to completely redesign my website using a Wordpress theme which I will modify extensively. I will erase my old website and start fresh with a new more professional look which will include my latest published articles, photographs and videos. The theme I want will be minimalist in nature with lots of space on the home page to display my best photographs, it will also have a widget area for me to add a twitter feed and link to my sports photography Facebook page. My new website will have 5 pages called: 'Reuben Franklin', 'Blog', 'About Me', 'Contact Me' and 'Links'. The 'Reuben Franklin' Page will have a drop down menu with three different sub menus called 'Published Articles', 'My Videos' and 'My Photos'. The 'About Me' page will have a spiel about my skills and experience as a journalist and photographer; the 'Blog' page will link to a separate Blogger website; the 'Contact Me' page will have a plugin which will automatically email me peoples messages comments; and the 'links' page will contain links to my favorite websites. I will also install a plugin called Sociable so people can share my articles with their friends and a visitors counter plugin to see how many people view my website. I also intend to activate the Akismet plugin with my API key to avoid getting comment spam.
For my final portfolio I intend to completely redesign my website using a Wordpress theme which I will modify extensively. I will erase my old website and start fresh with a new more professional look which will include my latest published articles, photographs and videos. The theme I want will be minimalist in nature with lots of space on the home page to display my best photographs, it will also have a widget area for me to add a twitter feed and link to my sports photography Facebook page. My new website will have 5 pages called: 'Reuben Franklin', 'Blog', 'About Me', 'Contact Me' and 'Links'. The 'Reuben Franklin' Page will have a drop down menu with three different sub menus called 'Published Articles', 'My Videos' and 'My Photos'. The 'About Me' page will have a spiel about my skills and experience as a journalist and photographer; the 'Blog' page will link to a separate Blogger website; the 'Contact Me' page will have a plugin which will automatically email me peoples messages comments; and the 'links' page will contain links to my favorite websites. I will also install a plugin called Sociable so people can share my articles with their friends and a visitors counter plugin to see how many people view my website. I also intend to activate the Akismet plugin with my API key to avoid getting comment spam.
New Media Art - Blog
The Game I created is
called Parliament House Shootout. I used the free version of Game Maker to make
this game which can be downloaded here http://game-maker.en.softonic.com/
The objective of my game is to shoot the politicians as they fall from the sky in
front of the parliament house in Canberra. The cowboy shooter is controlled by tapping
the left and right arrow keys to go left and right and the space bar shoots his
gun. As the game progresses more and more
politicians fall from the sky and each moves slightly quicker than the last
with each one giving the player a higher score when they are shot. Eventually
even civilian’s begin to fall from the sky and the games ends if you either
shoot a civilian or if a politician runs into the cowboy shooter.
I designed the cowboy
shooter cartoon dude in Photoshop and gave him a cut out image of my face. I also
gave him a gun and placed him as a sprite and object in Game Maker. I also cut
out images of many well know politicians faces in photo shop including Julia
Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Bob Brown, Campbell Newman, Bob Katter, and Tony Abbott and loaded them
as sprites and objects into Game Maker. I then created an object in Game Maker
called controller_enemy which allowed me to designate when and where the
politicians fell out of the sky. I also added a photograph I had taken a few
years ago of the parliament house in Canberra as the backdrop for my game. I
also added some background music called Yakety Sax which I felt suited the game
well.
I also downloaded You-Tube
clips of each politician and cut out a small wav. sound file of them using Audacity.
I loaded this sound file into Game Maker
and designed it so the sound played whenever the politician ran into the cowboy
shooter. This took a bit of time and effort however it added
some realism to the game as each politician’s real voice plays when the
aforementioned action happens.
Furthermore in order for me to make this game work successfully I had to learn what variables were and how they operated within the game. For example if y is larger than room_height jump to position random(room_width)-65. Sounds confusing but this basically means that once each politicians face disappears below the screen it then reappears above in a random location allowing for the player to shoot it again, Simple right?
Furthermore in order for me to make this game work successfully I had to learn what variables were and how they operated within the game. For example if y is larger than room_height jump to position random(room_width)-65. Sounds confusing but this basically means that once each politicians face disappears below the screen it then reappears above in a random location allowing for the player to shoot it again, Simple right?
New Media Art - Blog
Talk about your Video Artworks:
My video artworks are a compilation of dirt bike videos I have made by using a number of years of video footage I have collected during all the different occasions me and my mates have gone riding together. With all four videos I have simply added some transitions, such as cross dissolves, fade ins and fade outs to name a few and then simply added music and some catchy pretend sponsor logos to create some pretty cool videos.
The first video I made called Manar Park Supercross contains video footage of my mate Reece and I tearing up the Manar Park Supercross track. For this particular video footage I was fortunate enough to be able to use a mates HD 1080 GoPro camera which attaches to the top of your helmet. I managed to get a number of my mates crashes on camera which made for some cool action shots, including a shot of myself being roosted by Reece.
For my second video called QMP (Queensland Motorcycle Park) my brother and I went to the official opening day of QMP a few months back and we took a fair bit of footage on the day which I compiled into a short video clip. In the video it contains footage of Trials rider extraordinaire Jack Field doing a backflip on a motorbike from the worlds smallest ramp. It also has footage of my brother Ryan riding and Crusty Demons rider Matt Schubring and the Showtime FMX crew like Steve Mini do tricks in the new freestyle park. For this video I used my DSLR which is HD and my parents video camera which is not, so the video width changes in size and quality throughout the video which was annoying but there is nothing I could do about it.
For my third video I decided to go with a mix of all my best dirt bike riding footage taken of my brother and mates, Ben, Brodie, Nathan, Elijah, Dotto, and Aaron. This is my favorite video as it contains all the crashes my mates have had that I caught on tape. The footage is mostly taken on my parents property however there is also a small amount of footage taken on my mates property and on the road. For this video I used my parents video camera which is not HD so the lack of quality shows it this one slightly.
For my fourth video called Dirt Bike Dogs it contains video footage of my brother and mates Brodie and Ben riding their dirt bikes around the MX track at Black Duck Motorcycle Park. The footage has also been sped up slightly to make them look like they are riding faster. I used some commentary for this video and while its only trash talk it made the video more interesting than what it would be otherwise. I also used my parents video camera for this video as well so the video quality is only average.
My video artworks are a compilation of dirt bike videos I have made by using a number of years of video footage I have collected during all the different occasions me and my mates have gone riding together. With all four videos I have simply added some transitions, such as cross dissolves, fade ins and fade outs to name a few and then simply added music and some catchy pretend sponsor logos to create some pretty cool videos.
The first video I made called Manar Park Supercross contains video footage of my mate Reece and I tearing up the Manar Park Supercross track. For this particular video footage I was fortunate enough to be able to use a mates HD 1080 GoPro camera which attaches to the top of your helmet. I managed to get a number of my mates crashes on camera which made for some cool action shots, including a shot of myself being roosted by Reece.
For my second video called QMP (Queensland Motorcycle Park) my brother and I went to the official opening day of QMP a few months back and we took a fair bit of footage on the day which I compiled into a short video clip. In the video it contains footage of Trials rider extraordinaire Jack Field doing a backflip on a motorbike from the worlds smallest ramp. It also has footage of my brother Ryan riding and Crusty Demons rider Matt Schubring and the Showtime FMX crew like Steve Mini do tricks in the new freestyle park. For this video I used my DSLR which is HD and my parents video camera which is not, so the video width changes in size and quality throughout the video which was annoying but there is nothing I could do about it.
For my third video I decided to go with a mix of all my best dirt bike riding footage taken of my brother and mates, Ben, Brodie, Nathan, Elijah, Dotto, and Aaron. This is my favorite video as it contains all the crashes my mates have had that I caught on tape. The footage is mostly taken on my parents property however there is also a small amount of footage taken on my mates property and on the road. For this video I used my parents video camera which is not HD so the lack of quality shows it this one slightly.
For my fourth video called Dirt Bike Dogs it contains video footage of my brother and mates Brodie and Ben riding their dirt bikes around the MX track at Black Duck Motorcycle Park. The footage has also been sped up slightly to make them look like they are riding faster. I used some commentary for this video and while its only trash talk it made the video more interesting than what it would be otherwise. I also used my parents video camera for this video as well so the video quality is only average.
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