I am really enjoying my second year back so far and I'm loving all of my current units. Yesterday in broadcasting techniques we set up the recording studio and played out our own news programme, complete with sport headlines and the weather - I was the weather reporter and so I had to devise a script from researching the Belfast Telegraph newspaper.

Being in front of the camera is so intimidating - the studio is a fully operational set, just like what they use when recording news programmes and the like. Three huge cameras, bright lights beaming down on you. floor crew - it's so much to take in when you're standing in front of the cameras but you do get a buzz from it all.

Today, thankfully didn't require being in front of camera, instead we got to work our magic behind camera. Stop Motion Animation is one of my favourite units so far, it is so creative and there are so many possibilities that can come to life.

My tutor Sharron kindly brought in some of her sons toys for us to create our masterpieces with - my group opted for a police car and a dinosaur, how original!

The idea was simple; dinosaur chases police car, police car does a U-turn, presents it's weapons and scares the dinosaur away.


The process was even easier - hook the camera up to the iMac and use iStopMotion to take still images of each movement. Once you have taken all of your stills, play it back and it becomes a short film. Basic stuff, but so much fun.