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Over the past few days; two new promotional videos for the latest series of Doctor Who have been released. One is a trailer that was screened a few days ago which includes things to expect including the Daleks in World War II, (which may mean we get to see Winston Churchill in Doctor Who finally). The second is a a 40 second clip from the first episode called The Eleventh Hour where The Doctor meets a young Amy Pond for the first time.
Anyway; enough of me describing the videos, please watch them below.
Update 26/03/2010: Thanks to Jordan Howell of iMediaMonkey I now have a higher quality version of the BBC America trailer which I was going to include and can.
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Please check back on Saturday where I will post another clip from The Eleventh Hour soon after the official website does. Doctor Who returns on 3rd of April for a one hour long episode.
Published on March 24th 2010 / Filed under Media
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Over the past week, three new Glee promotional videos have been released. Two of them are teaser trailers of what to expect throughout the rest of season one, while the third is a whole new segment of Sue’s Corner where she discusses the topic of “Sneaky Gays”, I wonder how much of what she says will actually make the edit.
Sorry about the watermark that appears about half way into the first two videos; they were the only ones I could find that were in high definition. Anyway, I really, really can’t wait for the season to resume on April 13th on FOX. Please enjoy.
Update 26/03/2010: A fourth Glee promotion was released earlier today, which prompted this post to be updated and renamed, enjoy!
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Steven, Administrator.
Published on March 24th 2010 / Filed under Media
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I love Charlie Brooker, he’s a bullshit free journalist who works for both the BBC and The Guardian. His television work includes Screenwipe and Newswipe, both of which are highly regarded on BBC Four and are usually top of the BBC iPlayer soon after they’re aired. Charlie doesn’t patronise the viewer or act as conspiracy theorist about why the news and television media are such bastards; he just tells you like it is and he’s jolly funny and good at it to.
Anyway, the reason why I bring him up is because for AS Level Media Studies we have to create a news report; as soon as this project was given to us I instantly thought of the perfect example of a generic news report. In episode two of season two of Newswipe, Charlie did a bit on how a news report is put together by reconstructing one himself while he was explaining it; it’s now startlingly apparent how copy and paste news reports seem to be now-a-days.
So below you’ll find the video in question; it’s brilliant, he’s brilliant, enjoy.
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Steven, Administrator.
Published on March 12th 2010 / Filed under Internet, Media
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Yeah, my brain is currently sitting like a blob in the middle of my head bobbing around in clever juice. I’m on about 6th Form of course, a lot has happened since I last wrote about it, (so long ago in fact I can’t find the post). Just to remind you, I’m currently taking English Language, Information Technology, Media and Psychology.
They’re all going alright; I handed in the first half of my Media coursework last week, I handed in my English Language coursework about a month ago. However I still have to complete two units of Information Technology and the second half of my Media coursework for before the Easter half term, so that shall be a test of my abilities.
Today I got results back for my first Psychology exam and first Information Technology exam; in the former I got a C, (which is apparently good for A Level), and for the latter I got a D. Now although a D sounds bad, students do worse in the exam because that’s the nature of exams and it’s 1/3 of my overall AS grade so I need to get 55/70 on my next two units to secure myself a good grade B which I think is do-able.
I also went to parents evening today; all subjects are happy with me so I think I’m on the right track, just need to finish lots of work before the Easter half term.
Anyway, not a really interesting update so not much else to say.
Steven, Administrator.
Published on March 11th 2010 / Filed under Education
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I’ve written a lot of posts a long the lines of “theme update” because I love designing and developing new themes for my blog. With this latest theme I’ve added a couple more design features that I feel have improved the feel of this website a lot.
Here’s what I’ve done in this new theme:
- Employed a very clean theme with lots of padding and spacing.
- I’ve used subtle textured backgrounds for the background and headers.
- I’m using sIFR for my headings, this means I can use custom fonts.
- The colours and themes are similar to Clear:Both for a universal house style.
- I’ve emphases the comments section inside of posts.
- The number of comments for a post is displayed on the homepage.
- I’m now using page numbers for navigation through this blog.
That’s all well and good, however the design is not perfect. Older posts that were designed when I used wide content areas which have large pictures/videos embedded into them may look out of place and may push the sidebar down, so those posts need to be edited.
That’s about it for the web developing side of my life; I’ve been really busy lately so I’ve been unable, (and unmotivated), to post on my blog so I apologise for that however I may be posting a blessay within the next week because a lot has happened lately.
Update 11th March 2010
I’ve got a few things fixed since yesterday; I’ve fixed the latest posts that were set to work with the old wider theme so now nothing should be pushed off the edge of the page. I’ve also now made the theme compatible with Internet Explorer 6 so that’s all sorted. I’ve fixed an issue that caused page numbers to appear on single posts and pages.
Oh and I’ve also changed the headings to gracefully download for visitors who don’t have Flash, (which isn’t many, but it effects iPhones). Speaking of iPhones I’ve activated this wonderful plugin that makes my blog beautiful and specifically made for the iPhone Safari browser which uses AJAX to make it work brilliantly.
Even though I have fixed a lot of errors, there may still be some bugs around that I have missed, (most likely ones connected to Internet Explorer 6), so if you don’t find any bugs then please do post a comment and I’ll get it fixed as soon as I can.
Hopefully see you soon, Steven; Administrator.
Published on March 9th 2010 / Filed under Website News
About the author, Steven Knight.
Steven Knight is a freelance blogger who also runs his own web development company called Clear:Both; he's quite good at designing websites too. He loves to write about his life as well television, technology and what makes him happy. You can follow him on his Twitter.
