I went to a BBC Blast workshop yesterday afternoon, which was held at the seafront in Aberystwyth. And it was great. It’s really obvious the huge amount of planning that went into it, and while I only went to one workshop, Film Music (I’ll explain in a minute) it was great fun and everything looked really well run.

I actually originally wanted to go to the Dr Who prosthetics workshop, they were doing injury makeup and such, but I missed my chance with that, and went to a different one instead, which turned out to be great fun. We made music, using Mac software called Garageband, either just to our own, or to go with some premade videos that they provided.

I chose to do mine to the blast video, hopefully I’ll be able to link it from Youtube below. We had a great guy, I don’t remember his name, who taught us all about how to use it, very quickly, and then stuck around to help us out making some cool music.

Garageband is a really cool piece of software, and yesterday was the first time I’ve really had a chance to play with a Macbook Pro, and I think their great. Really great. I love the way the touchpad works, that’s one of the first things I noticed.

I’m *hoping* that my first EVER upload to Youtube will be a success, and that it will appear *magically* below :D

There’s a red box on Wordpress, so hopefully it’s worked :)

Anyhow, that’s the first I’ve heard about any of the workshops the BBC have been running throughout this year, and it’s got to be said, this one was really well run, everyone enjoyed the various different workshops, and everything was great.

And I even got a free t-shirt.