Vans Off The Wall Tour - October 17, 2012

I went to the Vans Off The Wall Tour last night at the O2 Academy in Sheperd's Bush Empire in London. The line up was Marmazots, Your Demise, We Are The In Crowd, and Young Guns. IF you haven't heard of any of these bands then stop reading right now and check them out. I took my small Canon digital camera and took some photos. Here are some of the better ones.

Gustav Wood and Ben Jolliffe of Young Guns at the Vans store signing

Simon Mitchell and Fraser Taylor of Young Guns

Group of friends I made before the gig

Katie and Naveena

We Are The In Crowd

Taylor Jardine and Jordan Eckles of We Are The In Crowd

Simon Mitchell of Young Guns

Young Guns

Young Guns

Young Guns

Gustav Wood of Young Guns

Simon Mitchell and Fraser Taylor of Young Guns

Gustav Wood of Young Guns
(Favourite photo of the night)

Gustav Wood of Young Guns

Second favourite photo of the night

The venue

Rob Chianelli of We Are The In Crowd and myself

Taylor Jardine and Rob Chianelli of We Are The In Crowd

Film Assignment

Today Aiden and I went on a walk around Cambridge trying to find the locations we wanted to use for our film assignment for the Screen and Drama module of the course.

For the film assignment we are to make a short film, 3 to 5 minutes long, with the brief:
'A boy is attracted to a girl. It appears the girl gives him a sign. The boy chases the girl. The final twist.'

The next set of instructions we were given read:

'Try to enrich the story as much as you can; you can change the circumstances, gender of the characters, place the action of the film in different surroundings, make it a period piece, science fiction, a farce, comedy, tragedy, whatever.'

We've come up with a story line and found our locations so all we need now is to pitch the film and hopefully get the go ahead to film this. 

Here are some of the photos from today; with a few fun ones:

DigitalRev TV

Tonight I've signed up for yet another website where I'll be sharing my photographs and what equipment I have (and may possibly buy later on). It's for a company called DigitalRev. They've got a YouTube account where they review cameras, give you tips on how to photograph different subjects and do different themes. It's a brilliant channel to subscribe it. There are many videos on there that I would like to try like 'Bikini powder girl' which is their latest video.

I cannot wait to be able to go out to Cambridge in September, if I get into university, and take photos of brand new things and different people. I need a new scene.

Here are some links:
http://www.digitalrev.com/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalRevCom
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DigitalRevTv

End of era

There comes a point in life where you've got to say goodbye and move onto the next step. Tonight was the first night that this happened for me. It was the upper sixth boarders leavers' dinner. We had a pre-drinks session, a lovely 3 course meal, gifts and of course speeches. It was the speeches that did it for me. When you start to reminisce about a place where you've spent the last four years of your life, it does take its toll on you. When the speech givers said 'I'm going to miss you all', I love you' and that I felt my eyes well up and my throat start to tighten; I was literally choking back tears. This is the first night of these times, the evening of our Prom will be one of the saddest yet happiest times I think.

Here is some photos from this evening:

FutureProof

Back in December last year, I was proud to have organised the entertainment for my Sixth Form Christmas party. I was able to get FutureProof, a pop band, from Herts. The members are Jonni Wedge the lead man as vocals, Kiran Marshall the guitarist and Charlie Leftwich the percussionist.

 It started with a tweet to Charlie over the summer. I spoke to my head of year and Charlie, back and forth until it was all organised. I met Charlie, Kiran and Jonni the day before the gig as they wanted to set up the PA system beforehand and do a set run through. And we were all set for the gig; 9AM not exactly a rock star hour.

On the day, I borrowed a camera and decided to go shutter happy. Here are some of the photos I took:

Jonni during rehersal

Charlie

Kiran

Jonni

FutureProof fans

The boys with some students after the show

I'm so glad that the morning was a success after much unwanted comments from people at school.

They guys have just recently announced their first ever headline tour so if you live in the UK don't miss your chance to see them!

Here's a few links:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/futureproofmusicuk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/FutureProofBand
Charlie Twitter: http://twitter.com/CharlesLeftwich
Jonni Twitter: http://twitter.com/jonniwedge
Kiran Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiranmarshall

They've got two music videos of original songs up on YouTube which you can find here:
One More Chance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVRyICi2oRo
Maniac - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO6ggznSISY

Binham Priory, Norfolk

These are some photos I took at the Binham Priory in Norfolk; one of the places on my dad's random adventure list. This place was absolutely gorgeous; a lot of it was broken walls and towers which are the ruins of the original Priory. However, there is the main part of the church that is still intact and used which you are able to go in.