We're currently at school editing pictures of each other. This is the before/after that I've done with myself, and I've edited some other people in class. I'm currently looking at an Avatar tutorial on youtube, because I want to try doing that with one of the portraits.

On saturday we went to a beach called Golden Bay, and after a couple of hours we found ourselves on a speed boat to somewhere. We jumped from a 6 meter tall cliff and we were bathing in really blue water where we practically lit up when we jumped into it. We spent our sunday in Gozo. We saw the Azur Window, spent a few hours in Victoria, the capital in Gozo, and then spent some more hours in another city by the beach before we headed home.

Today, when we got to school, we got the message that our teacher was sick, so we headed back to the residence to continue our task there instead. We are currently working on a task where we have four portraits of people, and we're gonna manipulate them and i.e. make them look younger, older, give them huge eyes and so on. 

Yesterday we were in Valletta to continue on or other project, which is making a movie from Malta. We got a lot of clips, and we're probably going to continue recording whenever we go out. Other than that we've gotten more in contact with the students at MCAST. We've done some exercises with them and also talked a lot, and they seem really nice. 

Here's one of the exercises we did together. It's inspired from the surrealism, and it's called "exquisite corpse".

Other than that we've been tanning today, and generally having a really good time with all the people down here. Tomorrow we're going to the beach and then to a festival, and on Sunday we're going to Gozo, one of the six islands that makes Malta. Below are some other pictures from yesterday, when we were in Valletta.

Mandager og tirsdager er lange skoledager, til 16.30. Vi har ikke timer hele tiden, men vi jobber stort sett med skole hele tiden når vi er her. Siden i går har jeg laget skisser til logo + logo, som var for et tv-show på malta, og ellers skulle vi finne 10 manipulerte bilder og skrive hva vi syntes om dem, for så å lage et slags hefte med dem inni, og lage forside/oppsett til den. Nå skal jeg begynne å lage storyboard med bilder som passer til en valgfri sang.

Ellers har vi hatt det kos de siste dagene. På søndag var det litt regn, så vi var inne mesteparten av dagen. Noen av oss gikk ut noen timer for å se kamp, og senere på kvelden bestilte vi pizza hut og spiste det sammen. I går hadde vi pannekaker som vi lagde sammen, og utover kvelden gikk noen for å se kamp mens andre spilte basket og knakk tenner (!!! den store hendelsen i går).

I haven't been able to blog before this post because I haven't had internet on my computer due to a misunderstanding so I figured I might as well borrow some of the other students computers and blog now.

So far Malta's been great! We got here in the middle of the day on tuesday, and our first impression of the island was that it was a tiny island, about the size of Karmøy, but with way more people living in it, and with that comes way more (and crazier) traffic. The people in Malta seems shy but really nice, and so far all of them have been helpful when we've asked them stuff. Friday (yesterday) was our first day of actual school, and the class we had is called "communicating with images", and it was really fun. The school looks really nice, and has a lot of interesting classes and courses such as graphic design, tv-production, jewelry and a lot more. 

The pictures above are from MCAST (the school).

Other than that we've been to Valletta and Sliema with the people we're here with, for both shopping, eating and sightseeing. Today we went to see St John's Cathedral, and after that we saw a 5D movie, which was really cool. Below are some other pictures from the past days (including our messy room and last night's McDonalds visit).

Her er mine fire forskjellige forslag. Jeg er egentlig ganske fornøyd med alle fire, men de to i midten er kanskje de mest passende til en hjemmeside. Det er ikke en vanlig hjemmeside, heller et online magasin. Jeg var inspirert av sommer, surfing, australia, palmer og sol når jeg lagde skissene, og det gjenspeiles i alle fire bildene ovenfor. Boneyards eller bone yard som det egentlig heter er surfeslang og  er der bølgene bryter.

Designet på alle forslagene er veldig enkelt. Det ville vært lett å navigere seg på alle sidene, og en skjønner også hva det dreier seg om med bildene. Skrifttypene jeg har valgt ser bra ut og de er lette å lese. Jeg har valgt å ha det såpass lett fordi siden det er et online magasin er det bildene og selve artiklene som skal være i fokus, og jeg vil ikke at en skal bli distrahert av masse unødvendig. Den nest overste er tanken at en kan scrolle ned og de bildene+teksten som er der er de nyeste artiklene, og ved å  trykke på teksten ved siden av bildet kommer du innpå hele artikkelen. Har vi enda et egetprosjekt eller lærer om webdesign hadde det vært kjekt å prøvd å lage denne siden i dreamweaver. Så nå er rett og slett det å bli flinkere med det programmet målet mitt. 

Selvsagt kunne jeg gjort enkelte ting bedre, som for eksempel brukt en annen bakgrunn eller fått enda mer på bildet, ettersom det kanskje kan være litt tomt, men det går også veldig mye på smak og behag.