Tuesday, October 21, 2008

All work no play

For this assignment we split into groups of 5 (roughly) and given a DSLR camera for one hour to take around 100 photos around Preston that would convey the average day in the student life. At first I was unsure about the task as I still felt relatively new in Preston and considered myself a "fresher" rather than a "student". The first idea that our group came up with was a visit to source (the su bar) for two main reasons; Beer and the fact that it was a short walk away.
We left the C&T building and headed towards town and then realized it was too far away and that we would not be able to take enough pictures. At this point we took a few pictures mainly to learn how to work the cameras but we did get a few good photos out of them.
The next stop was the library, as James had forgotten his student card that day Tim and myself went into the library with the camera to take photos. We began by taking some photos on the ground floor as this reflected the library's recent refurbishment, after this we then headed up to the first floor and took some pictures whilst posing with computing books. After taking a dozen pictures or so Tim and I headed to source to meet James and another group on the assignment.
In source we mainly took photos of the group playing pool as the majority of the group was playing pool (we occupied both pool tables).
After this a few of us went to essentials as we got slightly bored of watching people play pool. This provided a good opportunity to showcase the student diet, which in my case involved me taking a photo of noodles and my hand in the "thumps up" position. Oh and Tim bought some bread sticks so he could look like a walrus.
We then returned to source for a quick pint, which was admittedly was quite early in the day but as a student turning down a free pint is a big social no no. We had just enough time to finish our drinks and compare our photos with the other group before we had to leave.
Upon retuning to the class room we debated how best to distribute the pictures amongst the group. My first idea was to upload them to Tim's web sever but after multiple attempts at trying (failing) to get ftp to work this idea was abandoned. Uploaded to facebook was another idea however as the pictures were of such a high resolution we concluded it would take far too long. So we finally agreed to simply copy the photos the a memory stick and copy the images to each group members F drive on the UCLAN network.
We were then set the task to create a presentation of these photos using whatever software package we felt comfortable with I chose PowerPoint as I have used it a lot in the past and was already installed by default, the presentation will be posted at a later date.

Whilst doing this task we made sure that we had everyone's permission to be shown in all the photos we took and spoke to the management at Source to take pictures inside.

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