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Fearscape Played in Wagga!

Well to little fanfare and ceremony one of Australia's best metal bands played in Wagga on over weekend. Their name is Fearscape. This is how they describe themselves 'A progressive mix of brutal riffs, atmospheric doom and fast thrash/black metal'. One special thing about Fearscape is that my brother is the guitarist. So as well as getting to see this cool band I was able to hang out with my brother which I am not able to do often because he lives some 5 hours away. The metal night at the Bass Bar was really quite exciting with many bands playing. Out of the three I and my mates saw Fearscape was definately the best. They played two of their older songs and two of their new ones. Their last some had me savagely head banging which for someone as reserved as myself is no easy task. The band will be recording a new album to followup their successful 'Sleeping in the Light' album. Check out some tracks on their mySpace.

Fearscape's MySpace
Fearscape's Homepage
unDark Metal Forum

My flickr Account

Check out my new flickr account. I hope to add images that are both interesting and unique. There are already some cool ones from a Coffs Harbour helicopter ride. It is just great that images can be so freely shared, opening the way for anyone to show what they have seen or experience and like they say a picture is worth a thousand words! I have often used flickr to see images other people have added so now it's my turn!

My flickr Account

flickr Homepage

My del.icio.us Account

I have now signed up for a wonderful del.icio.us account. This allows me to share links with everyone and allows others to share their links with me. It enable a free flowing of ideas and content. This sort of networking and sharing can only help people collaborate.
my del.icio.us account

Let the Last Year Begin

We'll it is the start of my last year at University. I know many people who loath to leave the safe confines of a tertiary institution but I for one can't wait to leave. That said there is a lot to look forward to in my last year.

One of the major highlights of my last year will be the projects that we will get to undertake as Television Production students. We get to pitch our own ideas and see them through to the finished product. We also get to choose own own crews. This is very exciting as up till now we have been placed into groups for better or worse.

Another highlight will be the two weeks of placement within the Television industry. Many student get jobs directly from these internships and I hope I will be able to as-well. Finally I look forward to conducting research into specific areas of television. I want to look into the technology and process of live links in television, be it through microwave, traditional telco lines or next generation data networks. I want to specifically focus on how data-networks are replacing and complimenting the traditional forms of link transmission. So I hope to keep this blog updated on these topics and any others that come up over the rest of the semester.

Here are a few television type links.
CSU TV Proddie Page
Microwave Link Wiki Entry
Free TV Australia

One particular area of television I am interested in is the area of Outside Broadcast. After reading some information about minimum requirements for sorting and concert Outside Broadcasts it is clear to see that they are major operations. Sports such as the cricket require over 20 camera's many of which need instant replay facilities and the new super slo-mo playback. Each camera needs an operator and many need an assistant as well. Add to this the sound crew, tapes crew, control room crew, engineering crew, executive crew, titles crew and statistician crew you can easily have close to 100 people working on one game of cricket. I didn't realise the scope of the this until doing some research.

Here are some links for Outside Broadcast type stuff.
Outside Broadcast Wikipedia Entry
ABC Outside Broadcast Facilities
Television OB Requirements

P.S. One other aim of this blog is to bring interesting internet resources for television production to light.

My First Post

As part of my university studies I am required to set up a blog to create a web presence for myself so here it is! My name is spelt with a ph as in Stephen not Steven. I also have a mySpace.