The Cabinet of Curiosities.

This is primarily a list of all the stuff I like that is media related and some stuff that I hate as well. So I’ll get started by listing some of my favourite films. Donnie Darko – this is my second favourite film but it’s the film that made me realise just how good an [...]

letter to the past

Dear past Dave I’m sorry to say that the first year at university didn’t live up to your expectations, quite a lot of the tasks for the first two terms were boring and pretty pointless except for documentary which was pretty good even if that’s not the area of media you wanted to go into [...]

Under Represented Groups in the Media (Disabilities)

The under represented group in the media that I have chosen to look at is people with disabilities, from people in wheelchairs to missing limbs or mental problems. People with disabilities just aren’t herd of much in the media even the Paralympics doesn’t get half the attention as the Olympic games and they happen around [...]

My extra curricular activities

Throughout the year at Coventry university I have to admit I have done less extra work than I should have mainly in the first term were I can’t really say I did any extra curricular activities. But around the start of the second term I made up for that by starting a new hobby. Learning [...]

Three things that have inspired me this year

Games have always been an inspiration for me and there are a few that stick out of the crowd as quite exceptional and the two games that come to mind that I have played in the last year that have inspired me are, uncharted 2 and Heavy rain. These two games are quite a bit [...]

Coventry conversation pod cast Lucy main – working in the British film industry

Lucy Main is a graduate of Coventry university who studied in communication, culture and media CCM she starts her talk by going over how she broke into the media industry which can be a hard thing to do as it seems to be that its more to do with who you know than what you [...]

Goemon Review

Goemon was the second east Asian film I watched and from the front cover of the case I had a good idea of what sort of film I would be about to watch (a typical ninja kill ‘em all). And I wasn’t to far off. To start off this review I would like to take [...]

The future of gaming Philip Oliver

Philips talk on the future of gaming didn’t hold that much of my interest for the first 20 minutes as he talked about hoe games had come along in the years and bits about his company, as a veteran gamer for almost all my life I am quite aware of the history of games and [...]

Assassins and bodyguards review

Assassins and bodyguards is the third east Asian film I watched directed by Teddy Chen. The basic plot of this film is that a revolutionist named Sun Wen is coming to Hong Kong to discuss his plans of revolution in china (this much I gather is based on real events.) only he is being targeted [...]

Autocar a Coventry Conversation

Steve Cropley is the editor in chief at auto car magazine, now normally I’m not interested in journalism in the slightest but I found this talk quite interesting to listen to but like most of these famous media people that seem to come in to give these Coventry conversations Steve found his way into the [...]