I spent a couple of days lending a hand with some third year media production students creating a feature film for their final media project. The film was called Dissidence and was set in the near future in a world where the IRA where still active in England. It follows a young lad through the [...]
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Day 20
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Day 19
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The traffic to my blog increased exponentially when I went away. I watched the site stats daily to see how many people were visiting and tried to use it to my advantage and generate more interest by seeing what was popular and sticking to similar styles within my posts. I can put this down to [...]
Day 18
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The point of the trip was to document my time in a country that I have wanted to visit since I was young and to document the culture I found there. This proved a difficult thing to do, especially as most of my time was spent in the cities where people had less time and [...]
Day 17
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Part of the reason I had two different film cameras with me, other than the fact that I like working with film, is that my DSLR is quite old and the quality is not the best. As well as finding out that being practical with your choice of equipment is a must, I think being [...]
Day 16
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One of the most influential and helpful people I met while I was away was Sana Watanabe. By a chance meeting a found a new friend that taught me more about Japanese culture than I could not have learnt in double the time. Certain aspects of the Japanese culture are extremely intriguing and very hard [...]
Day 15
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Learning by doing is always a good thing but can often be learning the hard way. The amount of gear I had with me caused me some problems on the trip and I would have to consider changing what I take in the future. I could have got away with a few less clothes (although [...]
Day 14
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I learn’t the hard way about photographic planning. I found that quite often I would visit places were no photography was permitted. In the interest of preservation of sights and objects I can see why photography is not allowed but if you are not using a flash then there is no risk of damage. This [...]
Day 13
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Before my trip I had contacted a number of photographers to see if I could meet them while I was travelling. The idea was that I could spend time with each seeing how they cope in a different country and also to talk about their business/practise to gain some insight. The people who I got [...]
Day 12
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After spending a lot of time with other tourists it was nice to meet up with Miki who was kind enough to show me around for a day. She is Japanese and studying in Kyoto but thanks to some time spent in the UK her english was ok. I had been meeting many Japanese people [...]
Day 11
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One rainy Saturday I met up with a local photographer in the form of Frederic Devos. It was my first meet with an expat photographer and although his job was in shipping he was a good photographer and his knowledge of the area was very helpful. As well as getting an idea about what it [...]
