Homework

1. What's the website where you can find the creative tube maps?

The website that i would have posted had been shut down due to copyright infirngement or somethying, but i found this one with some other creative tube maps on.

http://www.petercooper.co.uk/archives/001169.html


2. How do you get from Blind Boys of Alabama to Steve Earle in five steps? (put the linking factor up so we can hear it)

Blind Boys of Alabama, Tom Waits, the Neville Brothers, DoMaJe have all covered the theme song to the Wire. Steve Earle is set to do it next.

3. If 'The Grove Family' were to be at Ongar, what would you expect to find at West Ruislip?
ummmmm.....


4. Why do you think Omar is our favourite character from 'The Wire'? Paste one of the videos from Youtube featuring him onto your blog and write a short paragraph about what you can tell about the character from it

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLvic55FXs

From this clip, you see that Omar is clearly in some form of gang, and is used to doing things like this. He appears relatively calm and confident given the situation he is in and can guess when someone is lying to him. He also appears to be used to being caught in gun fights as they got jumped by about 6 other people, and all knew exactly what to do and how to escape.

5. Ash showed us a machinima video of 'House'. Find a lego one based on another TV drama and paste onto your blog, ready to talk about it.

http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=lego+lost+animation&search_type=&aq=f

Underground TV Drama Map

Today we were trying to recreate the London Underground Tube map using different TV drama shows as the different stations. At first, this task seemed relatively simple, though as the day pregressed we realised how much harder it was getting.

At the start, we were al a bit of a mess all looking for the same thing and whatnot, and we didn't pregress very far at all. After break, however, we realised this and started to do things slightly more constructively. We started with Kings Cross as that is the station that has most lines running through it and tried to think of a show that could be connected to at elast 6 others. We chose Eastenders. We then had to set about naming all the other lines so that we could think of shows that could match up of the lines crossed.

This became increasingly difficult as time went on, so we started to do the crossovers first, and work our way fromt there.

Unfortunately, we had to stop to do a fun little maths test, though if we continue i think we had a good system going and we shoudl continue to work as we had been before we stopped. It will be difficult to conplete the map, ot complete it properly at least, but if it works, it'll be great :D

UK Detective Drama

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Cadfael
The Chinese Detective
Crime Traveller
Hercule Poirot
Inspector Morse
Inspector Wexford
Midsomer Murders
Miss Marple
Paul Temple
Public Eye
Rosemary & Thyme
Shoestring (TV series)
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Last Detective
A Touch of Frost
Van der Valk
Wycliffe
Waking the Dead