Flex: Student Newspaper Issue 13/

Now that i had some previous experience working on the paper I knew that we could do better this time. After having a meeting with the editors we proposed that there was much are feedback between the designers of and editors of each section

The team for this issue was Me, Morwenna, Rachel, Nadya, Lou, Henry and Guro For this issue below I had to put together Sports and heavily alter another section as well put in a lod of last minute adverts and prepare the paper for the printer. The cover was designed by Guro.

This issue the paper was much better. There were only issues with names of certain sections of the articles. To counter this I have made myself a strict checklist to run through before sending the paper off to print. One of the strength of this issue was in the process; the idea of having more feedback between the editors and design team made the work much smoother and meant I had to do much less tweaking in the end. I hope next issue there will be zero mistakes as it will be the final issue before the christmas break.

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Flex: Student Newspaper

Before I had even arrived at University College Falmouth I knew I wanted to get involved with the student newspaper. I signed up at the freshers fair and before I knew it I was the only designer. The previous designer Ben Satchell, now in his third year studying graphic design, has had to hand over the existing designs as his course takes priority.

The new design team currently consist of Omari, Morwenna, Rachel, Nadya, Lou, Henry and Guro. We have one designer per section although there are 7 design and 6 sections. This way someone can cover if a designer decided to drop out. For this issue below I had to put together Arts, Sports, heavily alter the lifestyle section as well as prepare the paper for the printer because such an issue occurred. The cover was designed by Rachel and Nadya.

When the paper was finsished it was not perfect. There were mistakes that would only be noticed by those who worked on the paper, and the editor was not pleased. As I was design manager a lot of the responsibility fell onto me as I am the last person to see the paper before it goes to print. We evaluated the process and had a meeting with the editors to dicuss what went wrong. Next issue we will definiely be stornger. Considering we are all first years I think we did a very good job.

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Falmouth University

I have been in Falmouth attending university for a week. There are some good things and some bad things but you deal with it. Thats life. I love Falmouth itself. The people are friendly (despite some of the looks I receive of old men) and the weather is nice. I have been surfing for the very first time (pictures will be up here soon). The course and the tutors are nice.

Although I am shearing accommodation (not only because Falmouth have taken on more students that they can provide accommodation fo but also because the government has given additional places for student within the creative industries because of our importance to the economy) the people I am with are great. I could not ask for better flatmates.

I may also have the opportunity to write for the Falmouth University newspaper 'Flex'. I may be able to get involved in not only the design side but the writing side also. More on this as i get it. In the meantime here are some pics of Gylly Beach in Falmouth.

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Missile Experiment

It occurred to me I had not done any animating in a while. I decided to experiment with some of after effects built in tools. Using one of the tutorials from video co-pilot and some new plugins I was able to create this in after effects.  Believe it or not but this has been made from a stock image of New York city and a photograph or a single cloud.

Missile Tutorial Test from Omari McCarthy on Vimeo.

Missile Tutorial Test 2 from Omari McCarthy on Vimeo.

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