Sunday, 30 November 2008
Saturday, 29 November 2008
2 many DJ’s not enough study
A short 4 minute documentary
By Danny Peachey
Chris James. DJ and president of RaveTrent to some and a forth year student to others. For our documentary we are looking at a forth year student’s struggle to succeed in both his work and personal life, in the documentary we want to show how he balances these two aspects out.
The story starts by us showing the main character introducing him on air at Trent radio recording studio. This automatically shows you that he is a DJ and presenter, but as the story progresses you learn more about who he is and how he copes with his busy life.
We want shot this documentary from the eyes of Chris James; we don’t want to do a typical sit down documentary. We decided to interview him while he is busy in the middle of his work and social life, we have already filmed him while he was on set DJ’ing for Trent Radio, our next stop was to film him at RaveTrent his social club meeting in the golden fleece, where after the meeting, they perform for there audience, and our final piece of filming will be of a event that he has got together at the Igloo nightclub on the 19th of November.
In my opinion this story will appeal to a wide audience of students, the reason being is because students take nights out clubbing for granted, they dont think about the time, money and amount of effort that goes into producing just one night, the reason I feel this will be personally interesting to me and other people with similar interests is because I use to do djing when I was 16 and I know the time and dedication you have to put into it, there are also a lot of other people who practise djing to pass the time while they are at university.
the main character and prehaps the only chacter is Chris James, the viewer sees both aspects of Chris's life, they see him at university, studying and trying to pass his final year and then they see the other side of him, his personal life, where he does djing for Trent Radio as president of RaveTrent social and the stages of how, why and what it takes for him to set up a preformance night at a nightclub.
For our visual approach we wanted to use a multiscreen as and introduction to the documentary with silent videos playing in each of the screens and a audio voice over to introduce the topic of the documentary. We also had the idea that whenever we are seen or heard in any of the shots, for example when we are asking chris questions, we wanted the footage to be in black and white, this shows a creative shot bt also that its not as important as the other footage, which will be in colour. Another good idea we came up with was to intergrat a laydown of stills to help progress the story at an outstanding rate without having the audience follow video footage.
Friday, 28 November 2008
Monday, 24 November 2008
Film Idea
Story about a private eye ( private detective)
assigned to a case to find a women killer who leaves behind a single match to each on of his victims. he has earned himself the name of blue swan because he leaves behind a swan match with a blue head on it.
no words are spoken in the film, there is a voice over throughout.similar to sin city. or the animatrix episode " the detective story".
Starts of in a ugly office. ashtray full of fags, detective sitting in the chair legs crossed on the desk, trilby over hes face and the phone rings.
( the office is usually quite, he just about manages to pay his bills lol, and he is trying to sleep in his office )
throughout the film the detective lets call him bob, is looking for clues to the whereabouts and who the killer is, throughout the film, bob is shown as always taking one step forward and two steps back on getting close to finding the killer
In the final shot bob discovers who the killer is and infact it is him himself, wel the other half of him, bob has a rare illness, that when he sleeps his subconcious thats over, the other him, he has a split personality disorder.
bob is always tired at work because the other him is out all night murdering young women, so in the final scene bob has to face his greatest enemy, himself.
He is posed with the biggest question, should he hand imself in, live a life of misery but know others will be safe, or does he try to overcome what is happening to him, keep his secret quite and try to surpress his inner evil?
Film Idea: stay position
shows a student drunk at night after clubbig, drunk and stumbling home on his own, shows mainly flashbacks throughout the walk home, showing you the reason why he got so drunk. his in love and she not with him anymore but she pregnant with his baby.
the lyrics are:
Cos this world swallows souls
And when the blues unfold
It gets cold -- solids -- burns holes
You're going mad
Perhaps you always were
But when things was good you just didn't care
This is called irony
When you most need to get up you got no energy
Time and time shit'll happen
The dark shit's unwrapping
But no-one's listening your mates are laughing
Your brethren's fucking and then you start hating
Your stomach starts churning and you mind starts turning.
So smoke another draw
It won't matter no more but the next day still feels sore
Rain taps on your window
Always did tho but you didn't hear it when things were so-so
You're on your own now
Your little zone you were born alone and believe me you'll die alone
Weed becomes a chore
You want the buzz back so you follow the others onto smack
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Feels nice and still
Good thing about brown is it always will
It's easy, no-one blames you
It's that world out there that's fucked you
You're no less of a person and if God exists
He still loves you
Just remember that - the more you sink the further back from that brink
Maybe you've lifetime scars and you think tattoos might be more fitting
But who's picking?
Searching for yourself you find demons
Try and be a freeman and grasp that talisman
Cos your the same as I am
We all need our fellow man
We all need our samaritan.
Maybe I'm better looking than you tho
Maybe I've got more dough - but am I happier... no.
Get the love of a good girl and your world will be much richer than my world
And your happyness will uncurl
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Stop dreaming
People who say that are blaspheming
They're doing nine to five and moaning
And they don't want you succeeding when theyve blown it
And you idols - who are they?
They too dreamt about their day
Positive steps will see your goals.
Whether it's dollars or control, feel the gold.
I aint helping you climb the ladder
I'm busy climbing mine.
That's how it's been since the dawn of time
If you reach a cul-de-sac
The world turns it's back
This is you zone, it's like blackjack
He might get the ace or the top one
So organise your two's and three's into a run then you'll have fucked him some
And for that you'll be the better one
One last thing before you go though
When you feel better tommorow you'll be a hero
But never forget today. you could be back here
Things can stray
What if you see me in that window?
You won't help me I know.
That's cool, just keep walking where you go.
Carry on through the estate, stare at the geezers so they know you aint lightweight
And go see your mates
And when they don't look happy
Play them this tape
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
I hope you understand me
Just try and stay positive
I aint no preaching fucker and I aint no do-goody-goody either
This is about when shit goes pear-shaped
And if you aren't or ever have been at rock bottom then good luck to you in the big wide world
But remember that one day shit might just start crumbling
Your bird might fuck off or you might loose your job
It's when that happens that what I'm talking about will feel much more important to you
So if you aint feeling it, just be thankfull that things are cool in your world
Respect to BC
Positivity
Positivity
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
Just try and stay positive
The Big Collaberation
2 friend
2 film director
2 different universities
and what do u get the big collaration of the century.
Mr Danny Peachey from Nottingham Trent University and Mr Tommy Elliot from Northhampton University, both studying film.
now the ideas are rolling and soon so will the filming be, its going to be big, its going to be unique, its going to be special, but most of all its going to be not wanted to be missed
Monday, 17 November 2008
THE EXTENDED HOME ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT
Today, the home network environment, is characterised by a lack of flexibility and by a non negligible complexity especially in terms of configuration upgradeability and management. In this context, it is quite common for audio video delivery, interactive communications and off line data access to still use different infrastructures, although the future is pointing towards a convergence at IP level. At the same time home automation is still based on a complete separate infrastructure, and the most common integration model is through a residential gateway providing the home external services access.
In terms of flexibility, the digital content value chain still follows a rather static “few to many” model. Audio Visual (AV) content delivery follows semi static models (prescheduled broadcasts, distribution on physical medium), and the download of content over electronic networks is just starting. The most widespread tool for AV content retrieval is still the TV guide, although we observe extensions from traditional search engines starting to appear (e.g. Google Video, Quæro) also in the context of projects in semantic searching. Very few are currently done by the distribution platforms for adapting and personalising content to the user or to the end device.
The management of the infrastructure (including the security features) often requires basic network management skills and remains an obstacle to the development of home networks.
In the years to come, major technological, standardisation and business changes in the area will bring to the market integrated solutions that will allow to seamlessly access to TV (live or recorded), telephone or web. These solutions will be a step towards the connected home that needs to be enhanced in converging towards standardised solutions and products.
In parallel, recently we observe a structural change of content production/consumption patterns that will request radical technology breakthroughs to create real opportunities. The explosion of digital cameras and video recorders, the democratisation of tools for exchanging content (blogs, vlogs), the forthcoming convergence of networks creates a shift towards user centric media creation and consumption environment. This creates a proliferation and omnipresence of content of various types, sources and qualities. In this respect, the content value chain is becoming very complex and the traditional separation between the various roles and business in the content life-cycle is more and more blurry, as AV content creation, production and distribution is becoming accessible to the non-professional users;
Jointly to this explosion of content, the second structural trend will be the ever increasing number of intelligent devices that will be embedded in the environment and will communicate with each others. In the future, this number of connected devices is expected to move from the billion to the trillion range and to evolve towards smarter (increased storage, processing, and sensing capabilities) networked objects. Their pervasiveness, their ability to intelligently support varieties of applications will create this intelligent infrastructure ( the “Internet of Things”) that will make available personalised applications and services anywhere anytime in a widespread range of domains, and particularly in the home environment.
Users will thus rely on the networked behaviour of the devices and interact with them in their home and have access to many “digital belongings” at home (acquired or created). They will interact with other objects have access to other digital belongings when on the move through their personal area network when travelling, their local area network in their car, their secondary home network in their summer house. All these networks will create individual islands. With the observed nomadicity of both user and content, there will be an ever growing trend of accessing AV content on the move, supported by products and services already on the market (video displays integrated in cars, TV on the mobile phone, Portable DVDs). A predictable evolution is the seamless interactive access to personal and external content anywhere and at any time, and the seamless interaction with a homogeneous home environment built over heterogeneous devices and physical infrastructures.
This evolution will be achieved through:
- – The evolution towards a home environment that will
- • provide tools and services allowing the user to flexibly and intuitively access, create, store, retrieve, process and share in a secure way his/her acquired content
- • become a self managed environment integrating as well networked intelligent devices (e.g. sensors)allowing novel application within the home beyond home automation (support to health, inclusion, anti-mobility, government),
- – The federation of all the “home environments” in a virtual “extended home environment”, which would “distribute” the resources of an "evolved" home network over several physically separated domains, enabling the user to have similar application experiences as if he was accessing services in his primary home.
The Extended home will be an integration environment which will federate many challenges, at network, service and application level in order to ensure both service nomadism, enabling access from any home domain to the various services from public service providers to which a user is subscribed, and user nomadism, enabling roaming across home domains.
Therefore, this workshop will aim at identifying:
- – Tools and services to support and get benefit from the user interactivity and creativity (e.g. tools for intuitive creation, distribution, consumption , storage and retrieval, personalisation, context awareness ) and services that will emerge from the availability of the Internet of things,
- – Networked Solutions to support user and service nomadism, to support the integration of the triple play network and the internet of thing, to support the change of patterns between home network and public networks (explosion in volume and number of sources, modification of the asymmetry), and to support the interactive set-up of “extended home networks” that go beyond the borders of the physical house.
Robert Kelley
Robert E. Kelley has been described as an "entrepreneur of the mind." Included in Business Week's, cover story on "Management's New Gurus," he consistently stays a step ahead of the pack in creating new management practices used by world class or ganizations. Nurtured through innovative research and practical application, his brainchildren have gained wide acceptance in the marketplace of ideas.
knowing the right people
chris james - ravetren president and dj
chaice mackay - films studies grad student n director
NICK Mackay - freelance graphics designer, owns his own graphics company
tommy elliot aka glazes - student studying, film at north hampton uni
holly harrison - singer and ianlevine
stephanie - trent tv
personal network of my practise
Actively build networks. There are five key attributes of the networks of high-performing individuals.
Diversity: Knowing many of the same kind of people is not very valuable. Having connections with a broad range of different kinds of people means you are more likely to find resources you need, and to generate innovative perspectives.
Awareness: One of the primary aspects of a valuable network is being aware of the expertise of others and who you can draw on when required. This doesn’t necessarily mean being buddies with everyone; it means knowing what people’s capabilities are.
Visibility. Your capabilities need to be visible to others. Again, this doesn’t require being highly social. If others are not aware of what you can do, you will be isolated in the organization and you will not be able to contribute according to your abilities.
Dynamic. Personal networks should be continually evolving. You continually need to be forming new relationships, and sometimes moving on from others. Change is at the heart of successful networks.
Investment. Building networks requires investment. Developing relationships needs spending time with people to build mutual knowledge and respect, and maintaining relationships also requires time. However the personal and business benefit of that investment is immense. It is something you have to make time for.
Take initiative and calculated risks. Robert Kelley found that the single greatest determinant of high-performance was taking calculated risks, particularly in going beyond the boundaries of the usual job definition or expectations. This requires imagination and considered action.
Learn and develop relevant expertise. In an increasingly specialized world, we cannot rest on our existing expertise. We must continually learn. This needs to be strategic, in that we decide in which domain we wish to be world-class, and work at developing that expertise. This learning draws extensively on our networks – the people we know are the source of our greatest learning. True high performers have technical expertise, industry expertise, and discipline expertise, such as in project management or other critical business practices. If your expertise is limited to one of these domains, your skills are at strong risk of becoming commodtized.
SPP2 YEAR 2 ASSIGNMENT 1
A Personal Network is a set of human contacts known to an individual, with whom that individual would expect to interact at intervals to support a given set of activities.
Personal networks are intended to be mutually beneficial--extending the concept of teamwork beyond the immediate peer group. The term is usually encountered in the workplace, though it could apply equally to other pursuits outside work.
Personal networking is the practice of developing and maintaining a personal network, which is usually undertaken over an extended period.
Personal networking is often encouraged by large organizations, in the hope of improving productivity, and so a number of tools exist to support the maintenance of networks. Many of these tools are IT-based, and use Web 2.0 technologies.
Care should be taken not to confuse a personal network with a Personal area network.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Miseenscene
Study, deconstruct and present analysis of each shot.
the main focus of this shot is the topless man smoking a fag. there is another man in the shot that is out of focus, the camera shot is over the shoulder of the blurred character, the background is also blurred.the viewer can see directly into the main characters eye.engaging the audience and capturing their attention
the man in the foreground is in focus where as the man in the background is not, they are both wearing dark browb coloured cloths, in contrast to the brighter background which is also a brown colour


Monday, 10 November 2008
if god is a dj
Friday, 7 November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
dj'ing documentry
alot of documentaries on djing are just about peopla standing around or sitting around telling you the music types they like what producers or artists they like. and our group want to do something different
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
RaveTrent. year 2 assignment
RaveTrent is a society of Nottingham Trent University dedicated to dance music, DJ’ing and the many other contributing factors that make up rave culture.
The society’s aims involve providing an alternative to the mainstream of student nightlife in Nottingham, achieving this by putting on their own event at a local venue, Igloo Nightclub. The music policy is varied but all styles of Drum & Bass and Jungle plus a good serving of Dubstep is regular. But with variation in mind, we listen to what our members want and respond to keep our nights fresh. We will also provide a trip out of town to a large scale event or festival in the second term and put on socials at local venue, The Golden Fleece.
RaveTrent also acts as a link between the students at NTU and the local party scene. Actively recognised among many local promoters and venues, RaveTrent aims to deliver benefits to its membership through further involving them with other nights and gaining discounted entry to events where possible. It also creates a platform from which it can promote its performing members ie. DJ’s or MC’s, to aid them in securing gigs.
So whether you’re a dance music enthusiast or simply someone looking to expand their social group in one of the most diverse and lively nightlife scenes about, join us and RaveTrent!
RaveTrent last year…
During the 07 / 08 academic year, the society put on 11 club nights at its venue Igloo Nightclub, booking big name DJ’s as Nicky Blackmarket, Hazard, Brockie & The Ragga Twins and DJ Heist, aswell as showcasing DJ’s and MC’s from the society. Some previous event flyers can be seen at the bottom of this page.
NOTE: RaveTrent members received £2 off door tax last year to society nights in exchange for their £5 membership fee. Take the opportunity to sign up and save yourself some of your hard earned student loan!
The Club
Igloo Nightclub is located in the city centre, a short walk from the unfortunately popular Oceana (we kidd!). Igloo boasts an immense… of sound, intelligent Dmx lighting, strobes, lasers, visuals and décor. Alongside student drink prices and friendly doorstaff, Igloo is the ideal venue for the society to hold its events.
Club nights are monthly on a Wednesday and will begin in the second week of each term.
Socials @ The Golden Fleece
Operated by Detonate, Nottingham’s leading Drum & Bass and Dubstep promoter, The Golden Fleece will be host to RaveTrent socials throughout 08/09. Tuesday night drinks will be accompanied by open decks on a first come first served basis, and RaveTrent members will have the opportunity to grab cheap Detonate tickets from behind the bar.
Take the opportunity to come and meet other society members, make new friends and get yourself involved in the complex social circles that exist within our society.
Radio on Fly FM
Fly FM is the Student Union’s radio station. Broadcasting from 11am til 10pm Monday to Friday, you can tune in online at FlyFM.co.uk or catch it LIVE in The Point Bar (Clifton Campus), Chaucer Late Shop (City) or The Brack Shop (Brackenhurst).
Thursday night on Fly FM is RaveTrent Radio Evening. From 6-9pm, RaveTrent DJ’s play 3 hours of Dubstep, Jungle and Drum & Bass to warm you up for your weekend! Many of these shows are recorded and made available for download; check the download section or facebook group for audio recorded live in 07/08.
documentary proposal: 1 man Band
chris james
07745553833
huw stevens
Text The Studio Now - 07833 153 961
David Walker (Station Manager): David.Walker1@su.ntu.ac.uk
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The Fly Committee 2008/2009:
Station Manager - David Walker
David.Walker1@su.ntu.ac.uk
Daytime Programme Controller - Dan Bunker
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Evening Programme Controller - Jack Sims
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Head of Music - Andrew James Stevenson
N018749@ntu.ac.uk
Head of Production & Online - David Roper
Heads of Publicity - Martin Young and Keith Bright
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keithbright@gmail.com
Head of News - Simon Conway
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Head of Speech & Downloads - Position Vacant









































