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Showing posts with label Caroline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caroline. Show all posts
Friday, 10 May 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
editing!
This morning Amy and I have finalized our music video. We have added in some starting credits including our names and a title of the song Crash. We have also edited our digipack so that it includes a link to our webpage and the symbols of Facebook YouTube and Twitter, so that viewers are able to know that the band have these social networking sites and go and search for them themselves!
We have also put our music video into student drop as it is due in today!
We are also going to work a bit more on our evaluation as we still haven't finished question 3! But we almost have :) Caroline and I will put our evaluation in the student drop asap! We have also put a JPEG image in the student drop of our digipak!
Love Amy and Caroline xxxx
We have also put our music video into student drop as it is due in today!
We are also going to work a bit more on our evaluation as we still haven't finished question 3! But we almost have :) Caroline and I will put our evaluation in the student drop asap! We have also put a JPEG image in the student drop of our digipak!
Love Amy and Caroline xxxx
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Editing evaluation!
Since the last time I blogged, Amy and I have been consistently working on our digital answer for question 3, "What have you learned from your audience feedback?". For this answer we have ourselves verbally speaking the answer, and then using final cut to add in images, video clips and effects over the top. Through doing this we have been using a range of different technologies, for example and YouTube converter and downloader. In my free this afternoon I decided to continue doing this! We have a reasonable amount done, and I think it's safe to say we are nearly finished with the draft answer to this question.
This is how much editing we have completed so far:
Tomorrow the final copies of our music video have to be put in the student drop for marking!! Amy and I finished ours quite a while ago luckiy. However, we have decided that we do want to include titles in our music video, so we are hoping that in our free tomorrow morning we will have time to do this!
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Evaluation Question 3!
Over the past two days Amy and I have been working on question 4 of our evaluation "What have you learned from your audience feedback?" For this question we are filming ourselves speaking and then using final cut to add in relevant images and video clips alongside the clip of us talking.
Yesterday we managed to film the majority of our answer, but it did take us a long time as we kept messing up and ended up writing on the board behind the camera so that we were able to read it whilst being filmed, and so that the camera wouldn't see the script. Once we had done this, the filming went a lot more smoothly, and during our first lesson today we managed to film the rest of the answer!
In our second free of the day Amy and I imported the footage onto iMovie and the exported it into final cut where we began our editing process. We managed to cut out all of our voicing mistakes, as we did find it hard not to laugh :) Amy and I then proceeded to download some YouTube Videos, for example 'The Fray - How To Save A Life' so that we were able to use it throughout our evaluation when we talk about how we were originally going to do the idea of how to save a life.
Finally, Amy and I got the original script for the answer to question 4, and started to annotate it with ideas of what we could possibly put on screen with us during the evaluation answer. After doing this we went on to download a series of images for the first paragraph, and then imported them into final cut so that we were able to use them as part of our evaluation!
So far we have edited in a few clips and images, but this is how much we have done over all:
After Amy and I have finished editing this answer we will be completely done with our evaluation! (Unless our teacher suggests any changes! )
P.S. Below is a draft version of our evaluation, including all question answers apart from the one we've been working on this week! Sadly we couldn't import the answer question 4 as a powerpoint, as it just came up as another Prezi, and we can't really use that technology again! So instead as it is the last question, we have inserted it as a hyperlink, which when clicked will take you to our Slideshare of the powerpoint we made! Also. another issue we had with this answer was that we made our powerpoint very technical, with lot's of transitions, effects, etc.. but when we proceeded to upload it onto Slideshare (and some other powerpoint webpages) all the effects and transitions didn't work. Because of this, Amy and I had to edit our powerpoint and remove all the effects so that anyone watching would be able to clearly see all our text without images in the way.
Yesterday we managed to film the majority of our answer, but it did take us a long time as we kept messing up and ended up writing on the board behind the camera so that we were able to read it whilst being filmed, and so that the camera wouldn't see the script. Once we had done this, the filming went a lot more smoothly, and during our first lesson today we managed to film the rest of the answer!
In our second free of the day Amy and I imported the footage onto iMovie and the exported it into final cut where we began our editing process. We managed to cut out all of our voicing mistakes, as we did find it hard not to laugh :) Amy and I then proceeded to download some YouTube Videos, for example 'The Fray - How To Save A Life' so that we were able to use it throughout our evaluation when we talk about how we were originally going to do the idea of how to save a life.
Finally, Amy and I got the original script for the answer to question 4, and started to annotate it with ideas of what we could possibly put on screen with us during the evaluation answer. After doing this we went on to download a series of images for the first paragraph, and then imported them into final cut so that we were able to use them as part of our evaluation!
So far we have edited in a few clips and images, but this is how much we have done over all:
P.S. Below is a draft version of our evaluation, including all question answers apart from the one we've been working on this week! Sadly we couldn't import the answer question 4 as a powerpoint, as it just came up as another Prezi, and we can't really use that technology again! So instead as it is the last question, we have inserted it as a hyperlink, which when clicked will take you to our Slideshare of the powerpoint we made! Also. another issue we had with this answer was that we made our powerpoint very technical, with lot's of transitions, effects, etc.. but when we proceeded to upload it onto Slideshare (and some other powerpoint webpages) all the effects and transitions didn't work. Because of this, Amy and I had to edit our powerpoint and remove all the effects so that anyone watching would be able to clearly see all our text without images in the way.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Draft Evaluation!
This is a draft of our evaluation.
We have made a slideshow on slideshare for question 4 but we were having some problems uploading it on to our prezi... So, we are actually further along than this draft!
We have made a slideshow on slideshare for question 4 but we were having some problems uploading it on to our prezi... So, we are actually further along than this draft!
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Even more evaluation!
In my free today I aimed to completely finish our podcast!
I have changed quite a lot at the beginning where previously we had images of sentences of what we are saying. For example, we had us saying our piece and then just an image of the whole sentence: "We learnt about all the forms and conventions of real music videos so that we were able to interpret them into our own music video, in order to create a successful media product". Because this seemed too the same I have now changed several of these images of writing to smaller clips and images.
However, I still have not yet managed to finish the podcast! Hopefully one more lesson doing it and it should be finished.
I have changed quite a lot at the beginning where previously we had images of sentences of what we are saying. For example, we had us saying our piece and then just an image of the whole sentence: "We learnt about all the forms and conventions of real music videos so that we were able to interpret them into our own music video, in order to create a successful media product". Because this seemed too the same I have now changed several of these images of writing to smaller clips and images.
However, I still have not yet managed to finish the podcast! Hopefully one more lesson doing it and it should be finished.
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Unsupervised lesson
Today we had an unsupervised lesson in which we had to continue editing our evaluation and ancillary tasks and then post them on the blog! As Amy was absent I just continued to edit the podcast for part of our evaluation, however we still have some gaps at the end and need to chnage some of the repeated pictures
Here are the gaps:
The other questions that we have done are on Prezi, but I don;t know our login so i can't actually post it here yet!
Here are the gaps:
The other questions that we have done are on Prezi, but I don;t know our login so i can't actually post it here yet!
Monday, 4 February 2013
Friday, 1 February 2013
More evaluation
In my free this morning I decided agin to continue with the editing of our podcast!
As we will be needing to use clips from music videos I have found a website that downloads YouTube videos into any format.. and it even works of the iMacs! So all we have to do is copy and paste the URL into the box, and it downloads the video into any format we need!
This website is: http://www.clipconverter.cc/
I have only added a small section today, as i have left a gap.. this is because I was very unsure as to what to put in the space; so I will wait and see what Amy thinks on Monday! Over the weekend I will hopefully be completing our answer to questions 4: "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?".
Thursday, 31 January 2013
Thursday Update
Check out my flow chart of what I have this afternoon!
This is how far we have gotten with our podcast for question 1 so far!
OUR MUSIC VIDEO!
Here is our final music video! It is pretty bad quality because it is the only way which we could it to upload onto YouTube. We hope you like it!!!!
(We haven't included any credits but we may do in the HD version that we official hand in!)
(We haven't included any credits but we may do in the HD version that we official hand in!)
Thursday!
In our free this morning Amy and I have decided to do some more work on our evaluation! At the moment Amy is applying more images and video clips to our podcast for the question "In What Ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" She is including images and video from real music videos, as well as some from our own. To fill spaces we are including images and video of items that are relevant to the answers we have given to the question.
I have now began working on Question 4 of our evaluation; "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?" In my free yesterday I made basic notes on some of the technologies that we have used throughout the construction and evaluation stages. I have found this question quite hard to answer because we have used SO many technologies for everything we have done.
Here is a word bubble of some of our technologies that I created on worditout.com:
Word cloud made with WordItOut
From this I have started writing out the actual answer, I have set it out so we will answer each bullet point for each technology in one section. For example I have spoken about YouTube in the research stage all at once.
Once I have finished this, I will email it to Amy as I did before so she is able to add in our make any changes that she would like to make. The technology we are going to use to for this question will be a powerpoint, which will then be uploaded via Slideshare or a similar website. Amy and I have looked at some previous student examples of powerpoints so that we have a basic idea of the sort of thing that we need to do. Most of the ones we looked at were about 30pages long, but this was probably the most detailed:
This is the beginning paragraph on Google and YouTube:
I have now began working on Question 4 of our evaluation; "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?" In my free yesterday I made basic notes on some of the technologies that we have used throughout the construction and evaluation stages. I have found this question quite hard to answer because we have used SO many technologies for everything we have done.
Here is a word bubble of some of our technologies that I created on worditout.com:
From this I have started writing out the actual answer, I have set it out so we will answer each bullet point for each technology in one section. For example I have spoken about YouTube in the research stage all at once.
Once I have finished this, I will email it to Amy as I did before so she is able to add in our make any changes that she would like to make. The technology we are going to use to for this question will be a powerpoint, which will then be uploaded via Slideshare or a similar website. Amy and I have looked at some previous student examples of powerpoints so that we have a basic idea of the sort of thing that we need to do. Most of the ones we looked at were about 30pages long, but this was probably the most detailed:
This is the beginning paragraph on Google and YouTube:
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Another evaluation update!
Listen to the Voki to find out what Caroline and I have been doing in our free period today!
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Friday, 25 January 2013
Website and Evaluation
In our lesson today Amy and I have been battling with Prezi to start presenting our evaluation! We decided to choose to a very simple layout because the website is so complicated, we chose a layout that originally looked like this:
To begin with we were planning on putting Question One the first box, Question Two in the second and so on.. Then we felt that this looked really boring and so asked our teacher what we were doing. Ms Hill then showed us these two Prezi evaluations done by past Media students- http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ and http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ Viewing these was a good thing as we were able to see what we were doing wrong, the main thing is that we have to use a different type of media for each question as well as using different types on media within each question. So we have decided to do one of our questions as a Prezi and then link it to the next question. We then began to put together a new Prezi, and we changed he background to a images that was actually related to our coursework.
This is the image we chose as our Prezi background:
To begin with we were planning on putting Question One the first box, Question Two in the second and so on.. Then we felt that this looked really boring and so asked our teacher what we were doing. Ms Hill then showed us these two Prezi evaluations done by past Media students- http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ and http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ Viewing these was a good thing as we were able to see what we were doing wrong, the main thing is that we have to use a different type of media for each question as well as using different types on media within each question. So we have decided to do one of our questions as a Prezi and then link it to the next question. We then began to put together a new Prezi, and we changed he background to a images that was actually related to our coursework.
This is the image we chose as our Prezi background:
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Website..
In today's lesson I have continued to work on our website whilst Amy works on the Digi Pack, we decided this was easiest as the Digi-Pack is saved on her Mac account.
My main aim was so sort out the 'Tour Dates' page, as at the end of last lesson it looked awful and unorganised. I spent the first half of the lesson on photoshop creating images of number in our chosen phone and then importing them onto Wix. Next to these images I included the date and venue information where the performance would take place. BUT the internet crashed and I was unable to save it so then i had to spend the second half of the lesson re-doing it, which was so annoying and stressful!
I was planning on adding images of the actual band to the bottom of the page, but I didnt not have time so I will do that next time.
My main aim was so sort out the 'Tour Dates' page, as at the end of last lesson it looked awful and unorganised. I spent the first half of the lesson on photoshop creating images of number in our chosen phone and then importing them onto Wix. Next to these images I included the date and venue information where the performance would take place. BUT the internet crashed and I was unable to save it so then i had to spend the second half of the lesson re-doing it, which was so annoying and stressful!
I was planning on adding images of the actual band to the bottom of the page, but I didnt not have time so I will do that next time.
More Wix Editing
In our Free today Amy is doing some more work on her evaluation questions, so I decided to continue editing our Wix page.
I have continued the title editing from yesterday - whereby I have changed all the page titles to images of the words that way we are able to use our chosen font! After this I went on to re-arrange some of the pages so they do not resemble our starting template as we are choosing our own style to use. For example I rearranged the music page, and in our gallery I have split the page into two. Half being images, and the other is now video bloopers from the filming of our 'Crash' music video! In our next lesson I plan to work on the Tour Dates page, as so far it is very boring and I don't really think it fits in with the rest of our website (even though there is not a lot on it at the moment).
This is what are gallery page looks like now:
For our merchandise page i have the idea that we could take pictures of their bands actual previous CD'd and other Merchandise EG T-shirts, and use them as our fake merchandise! I actually have some of the band's T-shirts and CD's so i will take photos of them at home and add them as the images on our merch page.
I have continued the title editing from yesterday - whereby I have changed all the page titles to images of the words that way we are able to use our chosen font! After this I went on to re-arrange some of the pages so they do not resemble our starting template as we are choosing our own style to use. For example I rearranged the music page, and in our gallery I have split the page into two. Half being images, and the other is now video bloopers from the filming of our 'Crash' music video! In our next lesson I plan to work on the Tour Dates page, as so far it is very boring and I don't really think it fits in with the rest of our website (even though there is not a lot on it at the moment).
This is what are gallery page looks like now:
For our merchandise page i have the idea that we could take pictures of their bands actual previous CD'd and other Merchandise EG T-shirts, and use them as our fake merchandise! I actually have some of the band's T-shirts and CD's so i will take photos of them at home and add them as the images on our merch page.
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Editing Wix
Today, we decided that we should sort out our fonts, and eventually we chose that we are going to use the 'Plane Crash' font that we used in our You Me At Six logo for all the page titles, and for all the other writing we would use the menu font!
At first I couldn't figure out how to get the font onto the website, but one of Wix's issues is that you can not import your own font. Because of this I decided that I would write out what word we wanted as images on Photoshop then change the background opacity to 0% so that the image would just purely be our chosen font and the words we wanted. At first this did not work as we were saving the image as Jpeg and transparency did not work with this and it came up as a plain white image. After this I googled what we should save the file as and it was a PNG. From this I have changed most of the page titles to images of the title word so they all match.
Here are some examples:
At first I couldn't figure out how to get the font onto the website, but one of Wix's issues is that you can not import your own font. Because of this I decided that I would write out what word we wanted as images on Photoshop then change the background opacity to 0% so that the image would just purely be our chosen font and the words we wanted. At first this did not work as we were saving the image as Jpeg and transparency did not work with this and it came up as a plain white image. After this I googled what we should save the file as and it was a PNG. From this I have changed most of the page titles to images of the title word so they all match.
Here are some examples:
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