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Archive: 2006

London: A-Z

A trip to London, the challenge: to visit 26 sights, from A to Z, in order. Yeah, so, we didn’t actually plan this and instead just turned up in London with some cameras, a map and a travel card. We made a good job of it though, we got to all 26 sights. Piccadilly Circus [...]

October 26 / 2006
Author Hugo King
Category Design, Trips, Videos
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MorningTV

A couple of weeks ago I got involved with a project designed to give school children an experience of TV production. Our project group conceived of a short live TV show that the children could put together. We titled the show morningTV – a GMTV style variety show. We put together a script for a [...]

July 30 / 2006
Author Hugo King
Category Videos
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Crime Seen

Crime Seen is the second group project we’ve undertaken in video productions, but this is much bigger than Science Friction and we’ve expanded the group to 10 people. The brief was to produce a 25 minute live show with several pre-recorded segments, using a variety of facilities and techniques. The Crime Seen logo We chose [...]

June 30 / 2006

Science Friction

Science Friction has been a labour of love. It’s been our first piece of group work in video productions, the brief was to produce a 7 minute VT package on a technical subject (although the subject could be completely fictional). The 5 of us chose to create a single episode from a science documentary series [...]

March 16 / 2006

Marble run fun

As a kid I dreamed of having a train set around my whole house that would deliver things from room to room, just like in Wallace and Grommit, but failing that I wanted some kind of marble run. Well it turns out I’m not alone; Iain has always wanted to build a marble run too. [...]

February 11 / 2006
Author Hugo King
Category Mischief
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Photographic society poster

I’ve created this poster for the photographic society competition. My aim was to create a simple, eye-catching poster to tie in with the theme of the rest of the society’s publicity. Heavy use of photography would’ve been too overpowering in this case so I chose a limited colour palette. I used Illustrator to create the [...]

February 07 / 2006
Author Hugo King
Category Design
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Brighton – Shine On

This is my first big editing project at uni. The brief was to create a 1 minute short on Brighton life, edited to music. I chose the track ‘They Can’t Buy the Sunshine’ by Turin Brakes which I chopped down to 1 minute and put together and edit of appropriate clips with this. Brighton – [...]

February 01 / 2006
Author Hugo King
Category Uni work, Videos
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Computer generated graphics

I’ve been working on these photo-realistic images in my 2nd year computer generated graphics course. Each image is based on a real world scene. Computer graphics modelling and rendering I examined the original scenes, noting down measurements and taking photographs, before translating these into a 3D model of the environment within 3D Studio Max. Producing [...]

January 19 / 2006