For the volcano idea I have decided to get 3 separate videos and combine it into one enabling me to use different view pionts of the volcano and edit it together as one video file.
This tutorial was easy and took 10 minutes it did look rather complicated but with just adding a simple particle effect and an explosion modifier who would of though it!
Here I had a ago with the fluid I didn't quite understand the tutorial so I watched various ones on youtube that helped me understand it better then I had a shot at it with just purely messing about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVJaCCNuZk
Also I thought it would be nice to do a cloth tutorial as it seemed interesting. Both tutorials very easy and I had no problems once understood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-yIeKAvaOM
This is by far the easiest and most fun thing you can do on blender, this was very simple and I will try and include this method into my assignment. (logic, rigid body and choose the bounds to the object applied too)