Brian Minchin Confirmed as New Executive Producer of Doctor Who

BBC Cymru Wales has announced that Brian Minchin is to be the new Executive Producer of Doctor Who, alongside showrunner Steven Moffat.

Brian Minchin is an Executive Producer in BBC Wales drama, currently working on The Game, anew Cold War spy thriller from Toby Whithouse for BBC One and Wizards Vs Aliens, Russell T Davies' hit show for CBBC. He has also worked as BBC Executive Producer on Dirk Gently and Being Human.

Brian produced the RTS award-winning and BAFTA nominated series The Sarah Jane Adventures, as well as the UK sections of Torchwood: Miracle Day and was Assistant Producer on Torchwood: Children of Earth.


Taken from the official website.

Would You Trust Clara?

On Saturday we confirmed that the mystery of Clara Oswald will at last be solved in the series finale, The Name of the Doctor. "All I can say," Jenna-Louise Coleman told us, "is that Clara hasn't just met the Doctor three times before…"

But for now, the questions remain. How can Clara have died twice and yet still be alive and apparently unaware of her own impossibility and why has the TARDIS been so wary of her? Even the Doctor has admitted to his new companion, "I look at you every single day and I don't understand a thing about you…"

The Time Lord seems to have accepted she's not, in his own words, a trick or a trap, beaming with relief as he exclaimed during Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, "You're just Clara!"

But if you were in the Doctor's boots would you be quite so sure about 'the impossible girl'? With all the mystery surrounding her… If you were the Doctor, would you trust Clara?


Taken from the official website.

Almost Forgot...

Sorry this is from my first semester at uni. I'd almost completely forgotten about this, its most probably because I'm not very good at it. This was drawing in 3D, basically we had to buy some plasticine and sculpt the shape of our model's body.

Above are some work in progress photos of my plasticine. I didn't get much further I afraid, because I'm not really talented enough. The image below shows the very simple but best version of my plasticine model.

Drawing for Animation with Emily has been my favourite and the one lesson I looked forward to every week. I just hope that in my second year at uni we get to spend more than just two hours drawing!

Emily's One Day Sketchbook Challenge: The Zoo

I along with my friend Franki decided to set ourselves a challenge. Based on the one week sketchbook challenge our lecturer set us a just over a month ago, we made the decision to go to Dudley Zoo and try and fill a small sketchbook in a day. It was a great idea, it just all depended on the weather…

It was going great, managed to fill just over half of the sketchbook and then it started raining cats and dogs, which was weird cause we were in a zoo! Anyway we had a brilliant but wet time at Dudley Zoo and I can't wait till the next sketchbook challenge in May.

Not So Good With Tone

This was a sad day, it was our last drawing class. But we got to spend the day at the park, which was fun. Our final task was simple, get to know tone, yeah not as easy as it sounds. Our lecturer said we must master the tone scale, I thought it would be easy. Here's my attempt…

I decided to do it twice because I wasn't sure if I'd done it right. I had a go at this before and failed and I think I have now too, so I reckon this is another thing I should pay more attention to.

I also had a go at drawing things using just tone, believe it or not the following are a quarter of a tree, a rock and a leafless tree.

A Bit of This and a Bit of That

Our next lesson was once again without our regular lecturer, so it was a bit of a mash up. I think if I remember correctly, we did a bit of weight and gesture with a bit of quick drawing on the side. It really was a weird lesson, plus the fact that everyone talking over each other, which for some reason wasn't getting me into the usual flow of a Monday morning.

Live Storyboarding...

I had a great time in this lesson. Our task was to draw up a storyboard of what was being acted out, once again we had no model so it was passed to my lecturer. With a little help from Lucia and a bag they acted out the scene where Nancy is murdered by Bill in Oliver, we had to move around the room constantly thinking about what kind of shot we would choose. We didn't have much time on each shot, so as you can see my storyboard is not very detailed, but hopefully you still know what's going on.

For homework we had to choose our favourite movie and storyboard a scene from it. I chose Who Framed Roger Rabbit, I really enjoyed this. I only managed to do twelve, but I wish I'd had time to do more.

I've also added a video of the actual scene from the movie so that you can compare it with my storyboard.

I Hate Perspective!

I really struggled with this lesson mainly because a) I couldn't get my head around it and b) I was doing it completely wrong. But I'm glad to say that I kinda began to understand it towards the end of the lesson. To be honest I really need to give this a proper good go before I start complaining.