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My latest article talks about some of my top tips for the open source content management system - Drupal. If you use Drupal or are considering it as an alternative from Mambo or Wordpress then its well worth a read.

Read more about My Top Druapl Tips on ImAFish Articles.

So I’m thinking this morning, what shall I do today? Then it suddenly dawned on me to make a film and after enlisting the creative expertise of Matthew we set about working out what we can make a short film about.

We decided to make a film about Shrewsbury, more specifically the run down areas of the town. I have never seen a TV show about the run down areas of Shrewsbury so it was easy to make an original show.

After listing then filming from my car different areas of the town we set about editing and writing a script to go over the top of the video. In almost all scenes we cut out the original audio for our comments narrated by Matthew.

The editing was all done in iMovie on the Mac as its so easy to use and doesn’t require much brain power (can be kept for the creativity ;)).

After 7 hours of work we had our first film, it might only be 5mins long, and the video quality could be better but its original and quite witty in places.

Well worth taking a look and if you have any comments post them below.

http://imafish.co.uk/pwhite/film/shrewsbury_imafish.mov (37mbs)

Note: If you do not like bad language or any sort of humor please do not download this. This film is a work of fiction. The entire film was filmed on location in Shrewsbury which is a nice place really.

Requires Quicktime 6+.

(The audio sample is Coburn - We Interupt This Program)

Its coming to the end of a busy period with loads of coursework being handed in over the past couple of weeks. Last Sunday was my 20th birthday and we had a big night out Wed that was a really good night out. Was pretty wasted but still got loads of cool photos.

Tomorrow is my last shift (ever) at Greggs! I have been there for over 3 years but cant really face it anymore and fancy a change. Its not been too bad there but experience in selling sandwiches, cakes and pasties can only take you so far.

Next week is the last week of term, in-fact a lot of people are going home this week. Not got a lot to do over Easter work wise but exams start a couple of weeks after we come back. I failed the Cisco semester 2 this week (passed the skills test) which was slightly annoying and means more revision for after easter.

We got a house sorted for next year a couple of weeks back. It's a nice size house with 4 large bedrooms. Going to be living with Ben, Chris and Rob (who I live with this year). It will be good cause we will have a living room however the kitchen is quite small. It's the same distance from the Uni as our current accommodation so wont have to get up too early before lectures.

I also brought a Mac Mini this term (for which there is a review on ImAFish). Its an awesome machine and I use it most of the time. Got myself a nice iPod Shuffle as well for all my tunes.

My music tastes have changed somewhat since Christmas, as well as the usual Trance I have been listening to the Stereophonics, Snow Patrol and the Killers. I'm going off the majority of Hip-Hop etc not that I listened to that much before anyway.

Switchweb has been going well but ImAFish is in some serious need of work. I have some plans to combine ImAFish with my blog somewhat but until I work out the details and have the motivation to do any work I cant see a lot happening.

Just to clear somthing up from mills column when he means "the new site design proposals from pwhite, " he means the new software section - not a total redeisgn :) That should clear any queries people have been asking me about.