Wednesday 30th September 

 

Today was a pretty good day, this morning we had to carry on with our blogs and then we swapped blogs with another person, so they could basically review what we had done so far. I swapped with Bridey and she wrote a lot of great things about what I had done, so I was pretty pleased with that!:)

Once our school day was over at 12:15 we went outside to see that freshers week was on!! We walked around for about half an hour laughing our heads off at everything that was happening, the students did a really great job of setting it up!! I had a quick 45 minute break and had to go back to school to do functional skills maths.

 After I had finished my maths I met up with Amy, Lawrence, Bridey, Dan, Callum, Sophie and Ryan and we all went to Nandos!! It was my first Nandos ever and it was yummy, however I was disappointed because I was expecting it to be amazing from the way everyone raved over it but oh well we had a laugh, at one point I was nearly in tears because I laughed so much!!

Tuesday 29th September 2015

Today we firstly had an induction on a film camera, telling us how to use them and set them up etc... Once we had done that we went down to the Barbican and took photo's using a film camera, we used black and white film and took some cool shots of things that took our interest. I also used my digital camera to take some photo's as well, I didn't take many because I was mainly focused on using the film camera.

 Later on in the afternoon, after lunch we had to do a pie chart on how much time we spend on doing things during the week, e.g. sleeping, school, relaxing etc... and change it into a percentage, this was to add in some maths to our course so we could use the percentages for if we have to use them in later life.

After we had finished that we had the choice on updating or blogs or going out and practising taking more photo's, so me and a few others decided to go to the park and take some more pictures. 

I couldn't choose whether to use this photo in black and white or colour, so I thought i'd try both. I feel as if the colour brings something to the photo but I also feel that the black and white takes quite a fun photo into quite a different perspective.

Monday 28th September 2015

Today we had contextual studies in the morning and had to make a manifesto on what we were against for example smoking etc.. however our group did David cameron and the pig situation. I don't actually know why we chose to do this I think we just thought it would be something funny to do that is in the news. But considering we didn't have a great deal of time I thought we did a pretty cool job of it. Others did things like women's body image and some did things on how noses are pointless, which i thought was quite funny.

In the afternoon we had a session on photoshop in which we had to learn how to create layers etc.. we had to do an adjustment layer and a black and white layer so when we start editing our photo's we don't completely change the photo because if there is a layer on top you can easily just switch between the photo's and see the difference etc.. 

Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2015

This weekend was a pretty boring weekend because I just worked both days. I do what I guess you call a 'part time job' as I only work weekends or in the summer etc doing waitressing. I enjoy the experience that I get at the job and also have hilarious people that I work with but it is very hard work and sometimes can put a lot of pressure on you. But hey ho, it pays the bills;) I took a selfie because I couldn't find anything to take a photo of at work that looked cool and plus im working so I cant just whip out my camera and start taking photo's like I wish I could but oh well, any way it's sunday now and im just catching up on all my blogging but I don't really think there's much else to say about today, except I had the most amazing beef stroganoff evaaa, thanks mum!:)

Friday 25th September 2015

Today I didn't really do a lot except chill out and make the most amazing hot chocolate in the world! I also practised doing some make up because I got bored and ended up taking a billion selfies that I didn't like and they all got deleted hahha. I also played sims 4 for a large amount of the day because I LOVE it. I then had my dinner and spent the rest of the evening chatting to my friends of facebook and listening to music before going to sleep. Such an eventful and productive day! (jk)

Thursday 24th September 2015
Today was my day off and what a great day off it was! I went and met my best friend who I hadn't seen for what seems like an eternity! We went and had a costa and had the biggest catch up ever! She didn't see me on my birthday because I was away and then she went away so she didn't get to give me my birthday present, so she gave it to me today and I loved it! She bought me a cute journal and a necklace replica from the harry potter movie!

When I got back from meeting her, I made myself some lunch and just spent the rest of the day on tumblr haha.

Tuesday 22nd September 2015

Today we had to go out and take photo's in the style of our chose photographer which was cool. I chose to take photo's in the style of music photographer, Tom Oldham. To do this I decided to take a picture of Bridey, who hates having her picture taken, so she covered her face with her hands and I thought it looked pretty cool. I didn't really like the background so I decided to do something that Tom Oldham had done and put in a background, obviously his is black but I chose to put white as Bridey was wearing a dark coloured jumper. I was also used as a 'model' for this task, as you can see I've been made to kinda look like a tramp haha. Lawrence took this really cool photo of me so I thought I'd add it into my blog. Thanks Lawrence:)
In the afternoon we had to be split into two groups and for the first session with Jen we had to tell everyone in our group who we researched from the music photographer task and talk about what we found out about them. We then had a lesson with Cass on contact sheets and how to make them. I made one but the printer didn't work so unfortunately I don't have it:( but I took a photo of one of the examples we were given:)

photo creds to Lawrence !!

lmao Amy took this