Light Drawing

Drawing with light is taking a long exposure photograph while moving a handheld light. We set the ISO between 100-400 over the different shots. Having a low ISO means that the camera will not be very sensitive to light - or in other words, wont let much light in allowing the strong light from the …

Child Protection

Radicalisation The increased use of social media and video games, and the anonymity they can provide is making it easier than ever for people with extremist views to spread their opinions – most likely an opinion they would never speak aloud in public. According to the Daily Mail, ISIS have been using Grand Theft Auto V to promote terrorism, saying that what happens on …

Community Manager

Community managers act as a bridge between the company/agency and the clients. They aim to create a loyal following and a group of consumers. Using mainly social media, they communicate with potential customers and also monitor feedback and engagement - they find out what people are saying about the company and report back. To be …

Light

Ambient light is the available light in a scene, or "natural" light. Photos taken in natural light use are lit just by the the existing light sources - for example, the low sunlight coming through the window. All three pictures below were taken by William Eggleston with ambient lighting. You use Artificial light when you want more …

Producer

It is a film producer's job to turn an idea on paper into a profitable film. They are responsible for organising all aspects of production -  hiring a director, approving the cast and putting together a creative, talented crew. A producer has complete creative control over a movie; they get to approve all the cast …

Marketing Executive

Marketing Executives are in charge of producing and planning marketing campaigns for the final film. They liaise with both the filmmakers and the distributors to determine the target audience which allows them to understand how they can make the movie enticing enough to draw in customers. Marketing campaigns should begin to reach the target audience …

Business Development Manager

It is a business development manager’s job to secure new clients for their product through advertising, publishing and broadcasting. They work closely with sales teams (and consult the majority of managers on other teams) to come up with ideas and pitches in an attempt to increase revenue and boost sales and opportunities. The majority of …

Modelling and Animation

Animators can work within a few different types of animation; 2D, 3D, stop-motion, computer generated, and stop-frame. But their job is still the same – to give life to characters and creatures; portraying their movement and behaviour using animation software packages. 2D animators create characters, environments, frames and scene transitions – essentially focusing on bringing …

Street Scene

After being introduced to the street scene brief, I used google maps to wonder around Asia looking for an interesting place to potentially model. I picked three street locations, one in Thailand, one in Japan, and one in South Korea. I mind-mapped all of these locations with details like what I thought gave the street …

QA Testers

Quality assurance testers test, tune and debug video games when they’re in their beta stages; they find all the game’s flaws and then suggest refinements before the game is released to public consumers. The job is to find errors in the code or animation, from bugs in the software, to minor glitches to complete crashes. …