“We've just put the undergroundmap on the wall and are fighting about who is on the coolest line(that's teachers not students by the way!)Initial reaction is that we can't wait to use it in the classroom -could be a few more bigger images in there...We'll use it with students next week (weds) and email you some more feedback”
Mary Berrisford, Islington
“MediaMe looks great. Works really well with the colour, etc. Mega achievement.”
Jenny Grahame, Media Magazine editor & our client
This feed back is really encouraging, especially that from Mary Berrisford because she seems genuinly enthusiastic and excited about using it as a teaching tool. it is even more complimenting because we dont know her and have no previous connections with her so it's not just her being nice to us!
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Accounts
This is how the MediaMe accounts look so far...
Outgoings
500 copies from newspaperclub £500 inc VAT
postage for first three orders £11.40
Income
advert Junction £350
advert Lincoln £100
advert OCR £100
Guernsey 20 copies £10
Reigate 120 copies £60
Islington 40 copies £20
Netherhall 30 copies £15
free samples and copies for group members, moderator etc (50 copies - £25 off profit)
still to sell 240 copies
With all of this information taken into account, we have already made £115 profit and still have 240 papers to sell, i am very confident that we will sell these copies with in the next week. 240 copies will be a further £120 making our total profit about £220 once postage has been taken off.
I am very impressed with myself and Alex for securing the adverts and making so much money on this project. This was the first time we have ever done anything like this and it has gone very successfully. At the start we were told that the printing was going to cost £500 and that we had to find a way of paying for it ALL our selves. we thought this was going to be hugely difficult but it has turned out really well.
Sunday 25 April 2010
Xtended Project Reflective Assessment
How well does it meet your original intentions?
Our Original intentions were to produce a revision guide by media students, for media students in a style that would be more accessible by media students than a big old textbook. We definitely achieved this. How ever, the validity of some articles is questionable. I feel that considering this was our first print product we have ever produced and the first piece of revision material we have tried to collate, we have produced a strong product.
How does it look?
I am very pleased and impressed with the look and style of the product, the layout is conventional and easily readable whilst the colours give it a bit of an edge and make it more interesting. We were briefed to use the colour to make the paper more interesting; whilst to an extent we have done this, I don’t think we have made the most of it. For example we could have coloured quotes instead of just making them a larger font and the header/footer info could have been more stand out.
How pleased are you with your contributions?
I have never been a strong student when it comes to writing, I find it extremely difficult to get what I want to say onto the page. Because of this, I have found this project, over any other to be the most difficult. I found it very frustrating when I had almost finished my article, to be told it wasn’t right for the paper. However I didn’t take it to heart, I took my article and re-worked it, only for it to be turned away a second time. I then came up with a third idea, good enough to make the cut. Only to find there wasn’t enough room for it to be put clearly in the paper. I feel I put in a strong contribution, writing my own article, helping secure adverts and producing a flat plan. I would have liked to of had my contribution recogised more than it was, but that’s just how it goes, you don’t always get recognition, things still have to be done regardless. I am happy with the amount contribution I put into this project.
How effectively do you think you worked in your role and others in theirs?
At the start of this project I was quite apprehensive about working in a large group because, in previous large group projects there has been a lot of arguing and people taking other peoples roles etc. However I think over all in this project, everyone stuck to their roles, and we all worked together pretty well. As far as my contribution goes, I was originally pretty apprehensive about being a team leader because of my lack of confidence in written tasks. I soon got to grips with the idea and realised there wasn’t a huge amount of leadership role to do anyway. As well as my tasks I also helped Alex with some of his tasks when he needed it. Tasks such as article planning and securing adverts.
What could be learnt from this experience?
From the experience of this project I have learnt a lot about print products in general, it was a good chance to gain a wider base to our media knowledge (we have previously only worked on digital media projects). More specifically we learnt that when we all concentrate and have set targets as we go we are able to work well as a team.
What has been learnt from previous experience?
Right from the start of the project we were drawing upon previous project experiences, like when assigning roles. We knew some students took the power of being in charge to their heads and were controlling and some students couldn’t work with other because they distracted each other to easily. This knowledge was vital to making the project work.
Thursday 1 April 2010
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Article draft 2
David Gauntlett
When you’re revising for the media A2, David Gauntlett could possibly be one of the most useful names you could know. Being a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster, and having written countless books on all things media, David has the knowledge to help you pass this exam.
You can find all of David’s work on his website www.Theory.org.uk/david , a site he has been using to share his knowledge with students and anyone interested for 13 years. However around 3 years ago, he realised the growing success of the website YouTube and decided that videos could be a new and interesting way to reach even more people. Often, media studies students, like my self are far more visual learners and find little benefit from text books. David’s videos eliminate that barrier and make it far easier to absorb all of the information.
On David’s YouTube page http://www.youtube.com/user/davidgauntlett01 you can see all of the educational videos he has made, amongst them is the video Media and Everyday Life, an extremely useful revision tool in it’s self. Despite being 7 minutes long, the video is incredibly descriptive and covers a whole range of points. Points like an easily broken down description of the difference between web 1.0 and 2.0, the progression of the internet and how key time used to be for media but is no longer an issue.
When you’re revising for the media A2, David Gauntlett could possibly be one of the most useful names you could know. Being a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster, and having written countless books on all things media, David has the knowledge to help you pass this exam.
You can find all of David’s work on his website www.Theory.org.uk/david , a site he has been using to share his knowledge with students and anyone interested for 13 years. However around 3 years ago, he realised the growing success of the website YouTube and decided that videos could be a new and interesting way to reach even more people. Often, media studies students, like my self are far more visual learners and find little benefit from text books. David’s videos eliminate that barrier and make it far easier to absorb all of the information.
On David’s YouTube page http://www.youtube.com/user/davidgauntlett01 you can see all of the educational videos he has made, amongst them is the video Media and Everyday Life, an extremely useful revision tool in it’s self. Despite being 7 minutes long, the video is incredibly descriptive and covers a whole range of points. Points like an easily broken down description of the difference between web 1.0 and 2.0, the progression of the internet and how key time used to be for media but is no longer an issue.
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This is 1/2 of the 2 Mini articles Pete suggested i split my previous article into, it is short, to the point and contains more direct info for students.
Charecter Profile article 1st draft
Character Profiling
The rapid growth of the internet has meant that small time video producers have gone from nobody’s in one generation to viral sensations in the next. Media in the online age has benefited and changed how many people and businesses reach the public through this sudden explosion of information and access to it. Everyday average people like Simon Panrucker and David Gauntlett are perfect examples of people that have taken full advantage of this.
Simon Panrucker started off making home made videos after his parents gave him a video camera at age 13, but had no real way to showcase his talent, other than gathering a group of friends round a TV. When he got to Sixth Form College Simon turned his talents to music by making comedic songs for his friends. He also uploaded these to a very basic website, where they became very popular. This was the start of his online career. After discovering the new website, Vimeo while in his first year of university he realised he could now upload his videos as well as music. As video uploading and Vimeo evolved, so did Simon Panrucker and his fan base. Websites like Vimeo and Youtube started to become widely used web users across the globe. For Simon this meant his following grew not only in number but in geographical size, people that had never met him were watching him all over the world. These videos are just for fun, there is no real financial gain from them. In order to pay bills Simon does, in his own words “For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires”. His online endeavours have helped him gain international credit and therefore, clients. Simon has also been approached by multiple advertising agencies but thus far has turned them down because he says “I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need.” Simon isn’t a big believer in the world of advertising and would like his videos to be shared spontaneously because people enjoy them and not because they feel pressured to. The internet is one of the few places where this is still possible.
David Gauntlett, like Simon Panrucker realised the possibilities the internet gave people in the media industry. Whilst Simon decided it was a new and innovative way to share his video work, which previously only family and friends could see; David Gauntlett noticed the growing cult following of YouTube and realised it would be a perfect way for him to share his views and re-create his lectures. Currently David is working as a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. He uses the internet in order to broadcast his lectures, thoughts and opinions to a far wider audience than ever before. Unlike Simon, the primary purpose of his videos is not just to be a video to entertain. David uses the media of video to express his lectures in a new and easily accessible way; so David has adapted the use of conventional video to become a useful and effective teaching tool to reach students as opposed to a traditional face to face lecturing scenario, but the content is still the same.
The rapid growth of the internet has meant that small time video producers have gone from nobody’s in one generation to viral sensations in the next. Media in the online age has benefited and changed how many people and businesses reach the public through this sudden explosion of information and access to it. Everyday average people like Simon Panrucker and David Gauntlett are perfect examples of people that have taken full advantage of this.
Simon Panrucker started off making home made videos after his parents gave him a video camera at age 13, but had no real way to showcase his talent, other than gathering a group of friends round a TV. When he got to Sixth Form College Simon turned his talents to music by making comedic songs for his friends. He also uploaded these to a very basic website, where they became very popular. This was the start of his online career. After discovering the new website, Vimeo while in his first year of university he realised he could now upload his videos as well as music. As video uploading and Vimeo evolved, so did Simon Panrucker and his fan base. Websites like Vimeo and Youtube started to become widely used web users across the globe. For Simon this meant his following grew not only in number but in geographical size, people that had never met him were watching him all over the world. These videos are just for fun, there is no real financial gain from them. In order to pay bills Simon does, in his own words “For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires”. His online endeavours have helped him gain international credit and therefore, clients. Simon has also been approached by multiple advertising agencies but thus far has turned them down because he says “I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need.” Simon isn’t a big believer in the world of advertising and would like his videos to be shared spontaneously because people enjoy them and not because they feel pressured to. The internet is one of the few places where this is still possible.
David Gauntlett, like Simon Panrucker realised the possibilities the internet gave people in the media industry. Whilst Simon decided it was a new and innovative way to share his video work, which previously only family and friends could see; David Gauntlett noticed the growing cult following of YouTube and realised it would be a perfect way for him to share his views and re-create his lectures. Currently David is working as a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. He uses the internet in order to broadcast his lectures, thoughts and opinions to a far wider audience than ever before. Unlike Simon, the primary purpose of his videos is not just to be a video to entertain. David uses the media of video to express his lectures in a new and easily accessible way; so David has adapted the use of conventional video to become a useful and effective teaching tool to reach students as opposed to a traditional face to face lecturing scenario, but the content is still the same.
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My Simon Panrucker information came from emailing him directly and his website : http://news.simonpanrucker.com/
Wednesday 31st
Once again, we were unable to access our classroom for the first of the two lessons. We spent pretty much the entire first lesson having a group discussion as to what order the articles should go in. Nick had printed off all of the articles and stuck them to the board, we then took it in turns arranging them how we each thought they should go.
My suggested layout was:
- Front Cover
- Time to turn off TV (Matt & Tara)
- Question 1a (exam tips)
- Wiki World Tour (Tim)
- Wikipidiea is a Blessing (James)
- Tube Map on center pages (tim)
- Tube Map on center pages (tim)
- Activities and Adverts split horizontally
- Activities and Adverts split horizontally
- Gaming Life (Ash & Dave)
- Twitter (Alie)
- Zeitgeist Forecast (Hayden)
Originally, Nick had Adverts and Activities on 2 separate pages but i suggested it would look better split across 2 pages horizontally, because you naturally read one page then the next, so it will seem like its more broken up, as opposed to one page of adverts which people would probably just skip.
When we got back to our main classroom we were able to put this plan into place, i set about making up the activities/adverts pages, i positioned the adverts, a comic strip and a word search and was waiting for loz to finnish another activity he was making but i had to go to the dentist so i left Alex in charge of finishing it off.
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Tuesday 30th
When i got to class on tuesday, Alex had more feedback from Jenny, which said my article had usefull information but there wasn't really enough room for it in the paper. Pete decided that David Gauntlett and Simon Panrucker's work were both very valuble revision tools and asked me to try and come up with a new way of getting their work into the paper. the final deadline for content was today at 4:10 so i didn't have much time at all to think of anything. how ever, fairly quickly i came up with a 'TopTrumps' style charecter profile, i suggested to Pete that i made one for both David and Simon and perhaps a few other practioners and he thought it was a brilliant idea.
I decided the front and back pages didn't need charecter profiles, and neither did the center double page spread, so i made 8 of them, one to go at the top of each page.
i made them like this:
Name: So people know who they are researching
Job: So they know what area they are going to be usefull to learn about
Location: So they know what kind of background they work from
MediaMe Power: Why we think they are of such a high value to the media industry
URL: To enable people to find their work and more info on them
Twitter Feed: Because Twitter is a ground braking revolution to the media industry and just by the fact most people have a feed gives students somthing to write about. also people like David Gauntlett and Julien Mcdougal give a lot of usefull information over their feed, things like links etc.
I actually think doing these will be of much more use to students instead of my article. When we got feedback from other students, most of them said that shorter, more to the point information would be more usefull, also i my self see big chunks of text and avoid reading them at all costs because i don't learn from just reading somthing.
Dispite wasting my time writing my article multiple times etc, i'm glad things have worked out this was and wish i had thought of the idea in the first place.
I decided the front and back pages didn't need charecter profiles, and neither did the center double page spread, so i made 8 of them, one to go at the top of each page.
i made them like this:
Name: So people know who they are researching
Job: So they know what area they are going to be usefull to learn about
Location: So they know what kind of background they work from
MediaMe Power: Why we think they are of such a high value to the media industry
URL: To enable people to find their work and more info on them
Twitter Feed: Because Twitter is a ground braking revolution to the media industry and just by the fact most people have a feed gives students somthing to write about. also people like David Gauntlett and Julien Mcdougal give a lot of usefull information over their feed, things like links etc.
I actually think doing these will be of much more use to students instead of my article. When we got feedback from other students, most of them said that shorter, more to the point information would be more usefull, also i my self see big chunks of text and avoid reading them at all costs because i don't learn from just reading somthing.
Dispite wasting my time writing my article multiple times etc, i'm glad things have worked out this was and wish i had thought of the idea in the first place.
Monday 29 March 2010
Monday 29th
Over the weekend i worked on re-writing my article to work in the points i had gotten from Nick, students from the other class and Jenny, i got in on monday morning and Pete said it was good but though it would be better as two seperate articles, so i had to pull them appart and work them into two articles for tomorrow. This is quite difficult becuase i've made refrence to Simon Panrucker quite a lot in the part about David Gauntlett and vice versa.
Saturday 27 March 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
Friday 26th
The quality control group came up with a template in pages that will automatically apply all of the house styles that had been agreed when you put text in. The file was passed around and put on each computer so we could copy and paste our articles into them. We did this to find out exactly how long each article was so that an acurate flat plan could be drafted. My article, almost finnished, took up 1 1/2 collums and by the end will take just about 2.
(House style application list)I have noticed everyone has been writing really long articles, regardless of the amount of space we have, with this in mind i've been trying to keep mine as short as possible, which in some respects has made writing it harder becuase i have to think about it more.
Thursday 25 March 2010
Thursday 25th
More feedback, from Jenny Grahame:
Jenny said " Needs a better clearer title. Interesting but...
Would like to get more of a sense of what makes these two people's work special, and what their online presence does for them. - i.e. What makes Panrucker's vids so enjoyable and why does he have so many fans? Why are Gauntlett's lectures particularly good online, and how does he use the medium to communicate his ideas? Can you get any evidence on what sorts of people visit their sites, and how they respond - e.g. from user comments, etc?"
Jenny said " Needs a better clearer title. Interesting but...
Would like to get more of a sense of what makes these two people's work special, and what their online presence does for them. - i.e. What makes Panrucker's vids so enjoyable and why does he have so many fans? Why are Gauntlett's lectures particularly good online, and how does he use the medium to communicate his ideas? Can you get any evidence on what sorts of people visit their sites, and how they respond - e.g. from user comments, etc?"
With this feedback in mind, i can go back to writing my article, research kinds of viewers by checking out simons facebook page, find out what people think of the videos by including user comments from simons vimeo page. and for david gauntlett i can do similar things, although he doesn't have a facebook page and his website doesn't have a fans section or anything.
I spent most of the lesson working with Alex to make a big, basic flat plan to work out how much content we have and how much more we needed, if any.
Alex stuck up 10 A4 pages and 1 A3 (center page) and i wrote a list of every article we had and rougly how long each one would be when finnished, i then sketched on roughly where each article was going to go, this allowed us to work out where to put the adverts.
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Wednesday 24th
Wednesday was a pretty short lesson, we all designed style sheets on paper and then Matt took the best parts from all of them and made a new style sheet on the computer using Pages, i tryed to help him but there was little i could really do so left him to it.
Instead i continued writing my article.
It wasn't a hugely productive lesson individually but the fact we got s style sheet produced was good and Matt did a very good job of it.
Instead i continued writing my article.
It wasn't a hugely productive lesson individually but the fact we got s style sheet produced was good and Matt did a very good job of it.
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Tuesday 23rd
We went to Colleridge today to ask the year 12 students our questionnairs, we decided to split our team of four in two and did 1/2 of the room each and collaborated our findings at the end. i worked with Matt L, i interviewed while he wrote down their answers. After we had interviewed them we colaborated our info and had to leave because Nick was taking their lesson.
when we got back to long road later that day we were given feedback on our articles from students in the year 12 group and from Nick
Nicks main points on my article were;
when we got back to long road later that day we were given feedback on our articles from students in the year 12 group and from Nick
Nicks main points on my article were;
- A couple of terms i use are a little out of place and sound odd
- I don't explain what Vimeo is and don't give a URL for it
- I mention Simon using a website but don't say what site
- Using Jeffrey Lewis could be a better example then David Gauntlett
Student Feedback;
- Split it into smaller paragraphs
- Give more examples
- Use a better title
This feed back is quite usefull, but a lot of it i was already aware of because my article is only half finnished due to not having replys from Simon and David for a while. I will deffinately consider using Jeffrey Lewis in the article (this is somthing i hadn't previously thought of) and a new title was somthing that was obviously needed.
Monday 22 March 2010
Monday 22nd
We started off today by annotating an article Pete had written for Media Magazine on the OCR Media A2 critical perspectives exam (the same exam we are making our paper for and taking in the summer.
here is a picture of what we were doing, we baisicly highighted/underlined/circled the Key points of the article, thinks like titles, crossheads, strap lines, layout, different fonts etc etc. we then discussed what we liked and disliked and what we thought would be good to bring to our paper.
After that, in our groups we wrote up questions for a questionairre we were going to have filled out by the year 12 Level 3 students.
The questions my group asked were
here is a picture of what we were doing, we baisicly highighted/underlined/circled the Key points of the article, thinks like titles, crossheads, strap lines, layout, different fonts etc etc. we then discussed what we liked and disliked and what we thought would be good to bring to our paper.
After that, in our groups we wrote up questions for a questionairre we were going to have filled out by the year 12 Level 3 students.
The questions my group asked were
- Do you use Wikipedia as a research tool? (if so is it more for college work or personal use)
- Have you ever edited a Wikipedia page before (if so was it for fun, to sabotage or for a genuine pupose)
- Are you part of an online gaming comunity? ( if so which)
- Do you own any games consoles? (if so which)
These questions were designed to try and help us with our articles but i feel questionaires in genral arn't very useful, to gain enough information for them to make any real impact they need to be fairly lengthy and be very carefully thought out and we just didn't have enough time for this sadly
Sunday 21 March 2010
Saterday 20th & Sunday 21st
On Saterday morning i recived this email from Alex (Liason)
Hey everyone,
Just to let you all know, I'm sending the articles off to Jenny Grahame tomorrow between 1 and 2 PM.
So do what you can with them until than, any articles I receive between now and then I will send instead of the ones you gave me yesterday.
Make sure you get them to me by 1PM tomorrow!
Cheers,
Alexander.
With this in mind i got down to trying to write my article, i say trying because for some reason i'm finding this article EXTREMLY hard to write and i don't know why.
By the deadline, this is what i had come up with and sent to Alex.
The rapid growth of the internet has meant that small time video producers have gone from nobody’s in one generation to viral sensations in the next. Media in the online age has benefited and changed how many people and businesses reach the public through this sudden explosion of information and access to it. Everyday average people like Simon Panrucker and David Gauntlett are perfect examples of people that have taken full advantage of this.
Simon Panrucker started off making home made videos after his parents gave him a video camera at age 13, but had no real way to showcase his talent, other than gathering a group of friends round a TV. When he got to Sixth Form College Simon turned his talents to music by making comedic songs for his friends. He also uploaded these to a very basic website, where they became very popular. This was the start of his online career. After discovering the new website, Vimeo while in his first year of university he realised he could now upload his videos as well as music. As video uploading and Vimeo evolved, so did Simon Panrucker and his fan base. Websites like Vimeo and Youtube started to become widely used web users across the globe. For Simon this meant his following grew not only in number but in geographical size, people that had never met him were watching him all over the world. These videos are just for fun, there is no real financial gain from them. In order to pay bills Simon does, in his own words “For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires”. His online endeavours have helped him gain international credit and therefore, clients. Simon has also been approached by multiple advertising agencies but thus far has turned them down because he says “I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need.” Simon isn’t a big believer in the world of advertising and would like his videos to be shared spontaneously because people enjoy them and not because they feel pressured to. The internet is one of the few places where this is still possible.
David Gauntlett, like Simon Panrucker realised the possibilities the internet gave people in the media industry. Whilst Simon decided it was a new and innovative way to share his video work, which previously only family and friends could see; David Gauntlett noticed the growing cult following of YouTube and realised it would be a perfect way for him to share his views and re-create his lectures. Currently David is working as a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. He uses the internet in order to broadcast his lectures, thoughts and opinions to a far wider audience than ever before. Unlike Simon, the primary purpose of his videos is not just to be a video to entertain. David uses the media of video to express his lectures in a new and easily accessible way; so David has adapted the use of conventional video to become a useful and effective teaching tool to reach students as opposed to a traditional face to face lecturing scenario, but the content is still the same.
It's currently at about 550 words, and im only about half way through writing about David Gauntlett. although i fear that we have over estimated how much content we need...
Hey everyone,
Just to let you all know, I'm sending the articles off to Jenny Grahame tomorrow between 1 and 2 PM.
So do what you can with them until than, any articles I receive between now and then I will send instead of the ones you gave me yesterday.
Make sure you get them to me by 1PM tomorrow!
Cheers,
Alexander.
With this in mind i got down to trying to write my article, i say trying because for some reason i'm finding this article EXTREMLY hard to write and i don't know why.
By the deadline, this is what i had come up with and sent to Alex.
The rapid growth of the internet has meant that small time video producers have gone from nobody’s in one generation to viral sensations in the next. Media in the online age has benefited and changed how many people and businesses reach the public through this sudden explosion of information and access to it. Everyday average people like Simon Panrucker and David Gauntlett are perfect examples of people that have taken full advantage of this.
Simon Panrucker started off making home made videos after his parents gave him a video camera at age 13, but had no real way to showcase his talent, other than gathering a group of friends round a TV. When he got to Sixth Form College Simon turned his talents to music by making comedic songs for his friends. He also uploaded these to a very basic website, where they became very popular. This was the start of his online career. After discovering the new website, Vimeo while in his first year of university he realised he could now upload his videos as well as music. As video uploading and Vimeo evolved, so did Simon Panrucker and his fan base. Websites like Vimeo and Youtube started to become widely used web users across the globe. For Simon this meant his following grew not only in number but in geographical size, people that had never met him were watching him all over the world. These videos are just for fun, there is no real financial gain from them. In order to pay bills Simon does, in his own words “For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires”. His online endeavours have helped him gain international credit and therefore, clients. Simon has also been approached by multiple advertising agencies but thus far has turned them down because he says “I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need.” Simon isn’t a big believer in the world of advertising and would like his videos to be shared spontaneously because people enjoy them and not because they feel pressured to. The internet is one of the few places where this is still possible.
David Gauntlett, like Simon Panrucker realised the possibilities the internet gave people in the media industry. Whilst Simon decided it was a new and innovative way to share his video work, which previously only family and friends could see; David Gauntlett noticed the growing cult following of YouTube and realised it would be a perfect way for him to share his views and re-create his lectures. Currently David is working as a Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Westminster. He uses the internet in order to broadcast his lectures, thoughts and opinions to a far wider audience than ever before. Unlike Simon, the primary purpose of his videos is not just to be a video to entertain. David uses the media of video to express his lectures in a new and easily accessible way; so David has adapted the use of conventional video to become a useful and effective teaching tool to reach students as opposed to a traditional face to face lecturing scenario, but the content is still the same.
It's currently at about 550 words, and im only about half way through writing about David Gauntlett. although i fear that we have over estimated how much content we need...
Saturday 20 March 2010
Friday 19 March 2010
Friday 19th
Todays lesson was cut short because Nick was in London so we had nobody to take the second half of the lesson. This meant we only had one and a half hours of lesson. Barney used the first 45 minutes of the lesson to talk to us about Media in the online age and Viral music videos.
He showed us videos like Lady Gaga's 'Telephone', the modern day equivilant of the leading popstars music video epic (it's 9 minutes long).
After we had watched a few videos and disscussed them etc Barney let us have the rest of the lesson to work on our articles, correct feedback ect, or in my case finally make some headway on writing mine!
He showed us videos like Lady Gaga's 'Telephone', the modern day equivilant of the leading popstars music video epic (it's 9 minutes long).
After we had watched a few videos and disscussed them etc Barney let us have the rest of the lesson to work on our articles, correct feedback ect, or in my case finally make some headway on writing mine!
Thursday 18 March 2010
Thursday 18th
Today we were unable to use our normal classroom again due to the other class needing it. This was a bit of a problem because we couldn't even access the internet in the first lesson meening we were unable to make any direct progress on the project, so intead we discussed how things were going, gave feedback to each other and planned what it was we needed to do next.
In the second lesson we were able to have use of a computer room, this meant we could access our emails and articles to make some more progress on the project.
David Gauntlett has finally replied to my email so i was able to read through the reply and plan what i was going to write.
Davids reply wasn't AS usefull as Simon Panruckers, but still very usefull, here is the email he sent me;
Hi Sam
Thanks for the email. I have answered the questions which were relevant – see below – and deleted the other ones (e.g. I wasn’t making videos before the internet, so I can’t comment on that) … which means it ends up being only 4 questions long. Hope this is ok. You can send me a couple of follow-up questions if you want.
Would you be able to send me a copy of the newspaper when you’ve done it, please? It would be nice to see it.
(David Gauntlett, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP)
Good luck with the project.
Many thanks
David
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David Gauntlett - http://www.theory.org.uk/david Professor of Media and Communications, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster d.gauntlett@westminster.ac.uk
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Did you make videos for an audience when you were at college or university?
No. Back then, around the start of the 1990s, it was reasonably hard to get hold of video cameras etc – although I might have been able to borrow one – but in any case there wasn’t much point making videos because you couldn’t show them to anyone. Well, you could show them to people you knew, if you could force them to sit down while you popped a tape into the VCR. But otherwise getting an audience was almost impossible – unless you happened to own a TV station.
How long have you been making videos?
Only for the past two or three years. I realised that YouTube would give me a good platform to share ideas and presentations with others.
How has the internet changed your current career?
I’ve been making the Theory.org.uk website – a site about media studies – since 1997, which is 13 years ago now. This made a substantial difference to me as it got my work and ideas noticed. I didn’t start doing it because of any particular hope of professional reward – in fact the internet was a kind of minority interest at the time, and colleagues perhaps wondered what I was doing wasting my time on the internet. But of course the internet turned out to be at the heart of media and communications today (as I predicted!).
How would you describe what you actually do?
I’m a professor at University of Westminster, so I teach and I do research studies and write about them, and write books which are often connected to those studies, in some way, but are about ‘bigger’ ideas. The internet is another way of spreading information about this work, and making arguments in a public forum.
In the second lesson we were able to have use of a computer room, this meant we could access our emails and articles to make some more progress on the project.
David Gauntlett has finally replied to my email so i was able to read through the reply and plan what i was going to write.
Davids reply wasn't AS usefull as Simon Panruckers, but still very usefull, here is the email he sent me;
Hi Sam
Thanks for the email. I have answered the questions which were relevant – see below – and deleted the other ones (e.g. I wasn’t making videos before the internet, so I can’t comment on that) … which means it ends up being only 4 questions long. Hope this is ok. You can send me a couple of follow-up questions if you want.
Would you be able to send me a copy of the newspaper when you’ve done it, please? It would be nice to see it.
(David Gauntlett, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP)
Good luck with the project.
Many thanks
David
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David Gauntlett - http://www.theory.org.uk/david Professor of Media and Communications, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster d.gauntlett@westminster.ac.uk
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Did you make videos for an audience when you were at college or university?
No. Back then, around the start of the 1990s, it was reasonably hard to get hold of video cameras etc – although I might have been able to borrow one – but in any case there wasn’t much point making videos because you couldn’t show them to anyone. Well, you could show them to people you knew, if you could force them to sit down while you popped a tape into the VCR. But otherwise getting an audience was almost impossible – unless you happened to own a TV station.
How long have you been making videos?
Only for the past two or three years. I realised that YouTube would give me a good platform to share ideas and presentations with others.
How has the internet changed your current career?
I’ve been making the Theory.org.uk website – a site about media studies – since 1997, which is 13 years ago now. This made a substantial difference to me as it got my work and ideas noticed. I didn’t start doing it because of any particular hope of professional reward – in fact the internet was a kind of minority interest at the time, and colleagues perhaps wondered what I was doing wasting my time on the internet. But of course the internet turned out to be at the heart of media and communications today (as I predicted!).
How would you describe what you actually do?
I’m a professor at University of Westminster, so I teach and I do research studies and write about them, and write books which are often connected to those studies, in some way, but are about ‘bigger’ ideas. The internet is another way of spreading information about this work, and making arguments in a public forum.
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Email from Simon Panrucker
This is the email Simon Panrucker sent to me
Hi Sam,
Thanks for your email - I'm very flattered to be asked! Here are some answers to your questions:
Did you make videos for an audience when you were at college?
When I was at college I made mostly silly songs. I uploaded these to a rubbish free angelfire website account, and they became pretty popular on the net. The website is still up!
If you're curious you can check it out here:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme3/grubnuts/
The songs are kind of in bad taste, so be warned.
I made a couple of videos around this time, but only one was successful. If you search in google for "Atari Geeks" you should be able to find it, as it spread all over the web!
Did you make productions for an audience just after college e.g. at university?
While I was in my first year of University, I became aware of Vimeo. It was in its infancy back then, and was more of a place for people to post videos from their digital cameras, for their friends to see, or for people across the world to share moving snapshots of their lives. I started posting small clips, mostly with a sense of humour, and started connecting with people on that site. As the website grew, the type of videos I made changed and I started posting more short sketch style videos.
At university I studied Creative Music Technology. In my second year I had the opportunity to take a module focussing on multimedia production. At this point I started making more videos with songs or music I had written, as that was the requirement.
If so, how did you get them known?
Just by being part of the community really, I've never been one to pimp myself about. I prefer to be friendly, and for people to want to tell other people about me just because they like what I'm doing.
How long have you been making videos?
I've been making videos since my parents got a home video camera when I was about 13.
How did the introduction of the internet change how you distributed your videos?
It's the only method of distribution I know, really! When I was making videos on my parents' camcorder I suppose I would just show them to my friends, but no-one really watched them. We made a couple of birthday videos for girls, and gave them those heavily compressed on a CD, but the internet became widely used as I was figuring out how to make videos and music myself, so it's really been a part of how I make and distribute things since I started.
How did the introduction of YouTube/Vimeo change your audience?
See above.
How has the internet and 'torrenting' changed your current career?
It hasn't really. I'm still very early on in my career, and I don't feel like I know what it is, or what I want it to be yet. However, for the first time in my life I am able to pay my rent through freelance work alone, video editing and composing music, and I suppose the internet is partly to thank for that. I get work through my friends, but they would have seen my stuff on the internet and thought I was someone they'd like to work with.
I do not make any money directly from my output on the internet. I have made about £100 through download sales of an album I wrote and put up for sale, but that's it.
I've been approached by a couple of advertising agencies asking me to remake a video they liked after it went viral, but so far I've declined as that's not the reason I make these videos. I make them because I think it's fun, and I like to share that fun with no ulterior motive woven in. I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need. Maybe this will change if I have kids and realise I can't feed them with just baked beans and expect them not to have serious problems!
How would you describe what you actually do?
I make silly videos and music for fun. For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires.
Has the way you advertise your products changed as the internet grew in popularity?
I don't really have any products to sell! I have an album up for sale which I sell via bandcamp.com. It's a pretty sweet site as it allows independent musicians to upload their music and sell it for whatever price they want. At the moment they don't even take a cut! All the money goes to the musician, less paypal transaction fees. It sure beats giving Apple more money!
Also, I don't advertise this album. This is partly because I don't like the album and I don't think it deserves promotion (I've got better stuff up my sleeves, I'm sure of it!) and partly because I figure my videos that get sent around to other people bring them to my website. I don't like this culture we're in of constant bombardment, from advertising, from people on myspace trying to get more fans by spamming them, it's all just noise! I feel like people will share stuff that they like, and if they don't share it I don't mind - I'll keep trying until I make something people do want to spontaneously share with others, without my constant self-promotion.
I hope some of this has been useful. My answers about why I make videos, and my reluctance to go with big companies or 'sell out' may well change in the future. I'm pretty conflicted and confused at the moment, trying to figure out what my principles are and all that hoo-ha. I quite like the idea of being an champion of independence, but I also have terrible business skills, so maybe I'll end up being a champion of homelessness.
Best of luck with your studies, Sam. Say hello to Barney and Tom for me!
Cheers,
Simon
Heres a screen grab of the email
Hi Sam,
Thanks for your email - I'm very flattered to be asked! Here are some answers to your questions:
Did you make videos for an audience when you were at college?
When I was at college I made mostly silly songs. I uploaded these to a rubbish free angelfire website account, and they became pretty popular on the net. The website is still up!
If you're curious you can check it out here:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme3/grubnuts/
The songs are kind of in bad taste, so be warned.
I made a couple of videos around this time, but only one was successful. If you search in google for "Atari Geeks" you should be able to find it, as it spread all over the web!
Did you make productions for an audience just after college e.g. at university?
While I was in my first year of University, I became aware of Vimeo. It was in its infancy back then, and was more of a place for people to post videos from their digital cameras, for their friends to see, or for people across the world to share moving snapshots of their lives. I started posting small clips, mostly with a sense of humour, and started connecting with people on that site. As the website grew, the type of videos I made changed and I started posting more short sketch style videos.
At university I studied Creative Music Technology. In my second year I had the opportunity to take a module focussing on multimedia production. At this point I started making more videos with songs or music I had written, as that was the requirement.
If so, how did you get them known?
Just by being part of the community really, I've never been one to pimp myself about. I prefer to be friendly, and for people to want to tell other people about me just because they like what I'm doing.
How long have you been making videos?
I've been making videos since my parents got a home video camera when I was about 13.
How did the introduction of the internet change how you distributed your videos?
It's the only method of distribution I know, really! When I was making videos on my parents' camcorder I suppose I would just show them to my friends, but no-one really watched them. We made a couple of birthday videos for girls, and gave them those heavily compressed on a CD, but the internet became widely used as I was figuring out how to make videos and music myself, so it's really been a part of how I make and distribute things since I started.
How did the introduction of YouTube/Vimeo change your audience?
See above.
How has the internet and 'torrenting' changed your current career?
It hasn't really. I'm still very early on in my career, and I don't feel like I know what it is, or what I want it to be yet. However, for the first time in my life I am able to pay my rent through freelance work alone, video editing and composing music, and I suppose the internet is partly to thank for that. I get work through my friends, but they would have seen my stuff on the internet and thought I was someone they'd like to work with.
I do not make any money directly from my output on the internet. I have made about £100 through download sales of an album I wrote and put up for sale, but that's it.
I've been approached by a couple of advertising agencies asking me to remake a video they liked after it went viral, but so far I've declined as that's not the reason I make these videos. I make them because I think it's fun, and I like to share that fun with no ulterior motive woven in. I hate the idea of taking the joy my videos seem to bring people and abusing it by trying to sell them crap they don't need. Maybe this will change if I have kids and realise I can't feed them with just baked beans and expect them not to have serious problems!
How would you describe what you actually do?
I make silly videos and music for fun. For money I get hired to edit and compose music for videos, run workshops, and hunt vampires.
Has the way you advertise your products changed as the internet grew in popularity?
I don't really have any products to sell! I have an album up for sale which I sell via bandcamp.com. It's a pretty sweet site as it allows independent musicians to upload their music and sell it for whatever price they want. At the moment they don't even take a cut! All the money goes to the musician, less paypal transaction fees. It sure beats giving Apple more money!
Also, I don't advertise this album. This is partly because I don't like the album and I don't think it deserves promotion (I've got better stuff up my sleeves, I'm sure of it!) and partly because I figure my videos that get sent around to other people bring them to my website. I don't like this culture we're in of constant bombardment, from advertising, from people on myspace trying to get more fans by spamming them, it's all just noise! I feel like people will share stuff that they like, and if they don't share it I don't mind - I'll keep trying until I make something people do want to spontaneously share with others, without my constant self-promotion.
I hope some of this has been useful. My answers about why I make videos, and my reluctance to go with big companies or 'sell out' may well change in the future. I'm pretty conflicted and confused at the moment, trying to figure out what my principles are and all that hoo-ha. I quite like the idea of being an champion of independence, but I also have terrible business skills, so maybe I'll end up being a champion of homelessness.
Best of luck with your studies, Sam. Say hello to Barney and Tom for me!
Cheers,
Simon
Heres a screen grab of the emailTuesday 16th
Today college is closed so we are all working from home, most people will be making changes to their articles, trying to make the improvements suggested yesterday. Simon Panrucker finally replied with a very lengthy email, which was well worth the wait, he has answered all of my questions all with pretty in depth answers. With the email i can now start to draft out the first part of my article.
I have a University interview in Cardiff tomorow and due to the length of the journey i am leaving at about 2pm today and staying over night, this meens i wont be able to do a huge amount of work on my article today or tomorow but i will just have to try my best.
I have a University interview in Cardiff tomorow and due to the length of the journey i am leaving at about 2pm today and staying over night, this meens i wont be able to do a huge amount of work on my article today or tomorow but i will just have to try my best.
Monday 15 March 2010
Monday 15th
Today most of the class were annotating each others articles and suggesting changes to them, i was unable to do this because i STILL haven't recived a reply from Simon or David in order to write my article. because i couldn't do my article i spent the lesson doing little bits like helping Alex whilst he set the others work and researching Simon and David some more to give me an even better insight to what they're about.
I helped Alex by setting up the newspapers email account and adding all the contacts we needed on it etc.
the email address is 'MediaMeNewspaper@googlemail.com'
I helped Alex by setting up the newspapers email account and adding all the contacts we needed on it etc.
the email address is 'MediaMeNewspaper@googlemail.com'
Saturday 13 March 2010
Friday 12 March 2010
Friday 12th
In the first lesson of today, Barney helped us understand how to link our articles to the exam more and help us be able to write them to make them more accesible for the reader.
this is a photo of the work on the board in class.
as you can see in the picture there are 5 titles, each title with 6 catagorys underneath, we ordered the 6 catagorys in order of relevance. We then had a class discussion about weather we all agreed with how each person had ordered the catagorys to their article ideas.
this is a photo of the work on the board in class.as you can see in the picture there are 5 titles, each title with 6 catagorys underneath, we ordered the 6 catagorys in order of relevance. We then had a class discussion about weather we all agreed with how each person had ordered the catagorys to their article ideas.
Thursday 11 March 2010
Advertising
I could see Alex was clearly being loaded with a lot of work, and everyone seemed to only really be paying attention to their own work. i knew Alex was yet to find time to look for companies to contact, requesting money towards the costs of our project (£500 to pay for printing the newspapers). I offered my assistance to Alex for this because i am good at contacting companies and i am very persuasive. i also found this part of the project the most interesting because it's fun but also important to search think of possibilities, contact them, negotiate with them and be able to get somthing important out of it at the end.
We need £500 to cover the entire cost of printing, we originally considerd having 2 adverts per page and charging £20 for each advert, but quickly disregarded this idea as it would have gotten very complicated. So we decided to narrow it down to between 2 and 5 adverts, one of which would be a front page banner and would be charged at around £200 - £300 and the others would be on the back and center pages at about £100 each. this would get us more than we need, but we figured too much is better than too little and these prices were not un-reasonable.
We started off finding companies/organisations by thinking of as many as we could that would potentially be interested, the list looked like this:
1) Media Magazine
2) The Junction
3) Picture House
4) OCR
5) Skill Set
6) Star Radio
7) Heart FM
8) Long Road
9) Haydens Dads Graphic design business
Alex and I then picked out the weakest ones, comanies that were not related to media or education. the ones we got rid of straight away were:
We need £500 to cover the entire cost of printing, we originally considerd having 2 adverts per page and charging £20 for each advert, but quickly disregarded this idea as it would have gotten very complicated. So we decided to narrow it down to between 2 and 5 adverts, one of which would be a front page banner and would be charged at around £200 - £300 and the others would be on the back and center pages at about £100 each. this would get us more than we need, but we figured too much is better than too little and these prices were not un-reasonable.
We started off finding companies/organisations by thinking of as many as we could that would potentially be interested, the list looked like this:
1) Media Magazine
2) The Junction
3) Picture House
4) OCR
5) Skill Set
6) Star Radio
7) Heart FM
8) Long Road
9) Haydens Dads Graphic design business
Alex and I then picked out the weakest ones, comanies that were not related to media or education. the ones we got rid of straight away were:
- Skill Set (because we already had a large grant from them for our last project)
- Star radio
- Heart FM
- Haydens Dad
This left us with:
- Media Magazine
- The Junction
- Picture House
- OCR
- Long Road
It then also occoured to us that prospective universitys like Bournemouth and Lincoln may have an interest in funding us becuase the paper will be going to students in the middle of making their university choices and if they find the paper usefull and see Bournmouth or Lincolns Logos the students may become interested in looking at these unis with the potential of applying.
With this in mind we added them to our list, the list now looks like this
- Media Magazine
- The Junction
- Picture House
- OCR
- Long Road
- Bournemouth University
- Lincoln University
We decided to stick with this list, it consisted of more organisations than we were looking for, but as i said before, to many is better than too few !
Thursday 11th
Today we didn't do much work on the Xtended project because we recived our results and spent 3/4s of the day discusing them with nick. When we got working, most of the class continued writing their articles for the paper, however i am still currently waiting for a reply from Simon Panrucker and David Gauntlett, the two practitioners i am writing charecter profiles on. because i was unable to write my article i spent the rest of the lesson brain storming possible new articles and genrally helped my team with theirs.
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Wednesday 10th (not in college)
I was unable to attend college today because i was ill, although it seems i didn't miss anything improtant because our regular room was unavailable so the class didn't have acces to our laptops or the internet.
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Day Five, 9/3/10
Dave came in again today, to give a more indepth talk about the processes of producing and publishing a news paper or magazine.
the first thing he said to us, is a key rule when it comes to the content, and a question that should be asked for every single article. that question is " Do we need this in our product". More specifically this meens, is the article interesting, does it serve a perpose, will it reach our intended audience. if any of these come out as a no or a maybe then that meens the article needs to be improved or even removed totally.
To make sure your article sucessfully checks 'yes' to all of the above questions, the writer needs to have a fairly indepth knowledge of the subject, or at the very least, come across as if they do.
Dave broke down the key to writing an interesting article;
the first thing he said to us, is a key rule when it comes to the content, and a question that should be asked for every single article. that question is " Do we need this in our product". More specifically this meens, is the article interesting, does it serve a perpose, will it reach our intended audience. if any of these come out as a no or a maybe then that meens the article needs to be improved or even removed totally.
To make sure your article sucessfully checks 'yes' to all of the above questions, the writer needs to have a fairly indepth knowledge of the subject, or at the very least, come across as if they do.
Dave broke down the key to writing an interesting article;
Research
Wikipedia is always a good start and provides basic knowledge on pretty much anything you may need to know.
Use the title's of people you know, for example 'Pete Fraser, Chief Examiner'. It makes the article and what goes into it much more impressive and professional to a reader.
Find experts in the area you are reporting. This is important for fresh and up-to-date information.
Angle
Look at other articles of a similar topic.
Come up with a fresh angle for the article that you're writing.
Tone (Think of the variety of articles you can have in your piece)
News
Opinion pieces
Features
Interviews
Advertorial (These look like articles, but are funded by third-party clients and promote the product in question. They are adverts.)
Monday 8 March 2010
Day Four, 8/3/10
My whole group were here today. In the first lesson of the day, we started with another steering group meeting, to discuss the new ideas we had come up with. The three group leaders (Myself, Loz and Philippa) spoke to our groups and wrote down the ideas each of them had come up with for possible articles and took the ideas back to the meeting. once we were all back we disscussed each idea in resonable detail, and then decided which were the best for the newspaper.
After the meeting, Alex and I continued researching possible companies to advertise in our paper to in return get money to pay for the project. Today we refined our list to more appropriate businesses, ones with either media or educational links.
After the meeting, Alex and I continued researching possible companies to advertise in our paper to in return get money to pay for the project. Today we refined our list to more appropriate businesses, ones with either media or educational links.
Friday 5 March 2010
Day Three, friday 5/3/10
Today Ash was able to be in college, how ever Matt L had a film studies trip so was not, Tim was in as usual and Alie joined our team because the rest of hers were away. Nick asked us to produce 2 reports in the class Red Team took one and Gold took the other (Blue were away). i was needed in a steering group meeting with Loz and the quality control group so i asked Tim, Ash and Alie to do the report.
In the meeting we discussed what article ideas our groups had come up with and sorted out the good ones. We then decided very roughly how to organise them into a flat plan so we know how much room we have and how many more articles we have to think of.
After this, Alex and I looked into who would potentially be interested in taking out an advert in our paper, we need to put adverts in to raise enough money to cover the costs of printing the paper.
the companies we came up with are;
In the meeting we discussed what article ideas our groups had come up with and sorted out the good ones. We then decided very roughly how to organise them into a flat plan so we know how much room we have and how many more articles we have to think of.
After this, Alex and I looked into who would potentially be interested in taking out an advert in our paper, we need to put adverts in to raise enough money to cover the costs of printing the paper.
the companies we came up with are;
- Media Magazine
- The Junction
- Picture House
- OCR
- Skill Set
- Star Radio
- Heart FM
- Long Road
- Haydens Dads Graphic design business
Gold Team
So far my team have been really good, Tim and Matt are both realy good workers and listen to what i ask them to do. Ash hasn't been in for this project yet so im unable to comment on how well he has worked, i was able to speak to him tonight on Facebook and update him on the project and ask him to start thinking about possible content.
Thursday 4 March 2010
Day Two, 04/03/10
Todays lesson we started trying to brain storm our ideas for content. To do this, Nick handed out pads of paper and we had to all write down ideas on the peices of paper and stick them to the bord, once we had a bord full of ideas we went through and got rid of the innapropriate ones and the un-useable ones like Nick charecter profile and a 'Dear Mike' section. these are either pointless becuse we are only producing one issue or a ridiculous idea.
I think this task helped us all realise how much we have to do and helped bring it all into perspective, although i still think people are all pretty confused with where to start and how to go about things. my self included. I would be able to be a better leader if i knew what was going on, but i think things will settle down better soon.
I think this task helped us all realise how much we have to do and helped bring it all into perspective, although i still think people are all pretty confused with where to start and how to go about things. my self included. I would be able to be a better leader if i knew what was going on, but i think things will settle down better soon.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Day One in our teams and start of the project
In college today (02/03/10) we had the first lesson on the Xtended project, and my first lesson incharge of Gold team. It was fairly hectic becuase nobody really knows what their doing at the moment so there was just alot of confusion and people trying to get organised. Alex was getting in contact with our client, Jenny Graham (editor of Media Magazine). Kirk, Mike and Tara were trying to get things started in a working meeting, dishing out instructions to the 3 production teams and the three production leaders (Me, Phillipa and Loz) were trying to give instructions whilst doing our own work as well. I set Matt and Tim to write out a list of possible things to go into the paper, articles, activitys etc. Loz, Phillipa and i had a small meeting to disguss what each team was doing, Red team were looking into designing the layout and look of the paper and Blue team were researching.
Towards the end of the lesson Dave (Media teacher) who has experience working for publishers, spoke to us about the template of how a publishers works, he explained how each role is performed, how to lay out the production and make sure everyone was working from the same copy of work.
this talk really helped me understand what it was we needed to do.
at the end of the lesson i set Matt and Tim some work to do for tommorow, i asked Tim to write an article about a game weve been playing using wikipidiea and asked Matt to create a crossword reating to media in the online age.
Towards the end of the lesson Dave (Media teacher) who has experience working for publishers, spoke to us about the template of how a publishers works, he explained how each role is performed, how to lay out the production and make sure everyone was working from the same copy of work.
this talk really helped me understand what it was we needed to do.
at the end of the lesson i set Matt and Tim some work to do for tommorow, i asked Tim to write an article about a game weve been playing using wikipidiea and asked Matt to create a crossword reating to media in the online age.
Initial thoughts
My initial thoughts on the project are of fairly mixed feelings, I'm not very confident with writing tasks and the nature of a newspaper kind of worried me, but at the same time i'm looking forward to the challenge. Being appointed a team leader also scared me quite a bit, and still does. When dealing with something i'm confident in i consider my self a strong, capable leader. But when it comes to something like this, that i'm not strong at, all my leadership skills brake down. I hope i'm able to pull through, i like a challenge so it's going to be interesting.
Project Q&A
After Nick had explained the project he asked us to all write down any questions we had, we then took it in turns to ask our questions, these are the most relevant ones asked:
- When does it go to print? - Everything has to be finished and ready to be sent off by April 1st.
- How new does what we talk about have to be? - Everything has to be up to date. It has to be for people our age, so there's no point talking about Napster and stuff. Try and focus on things teachers are less likely to know about. Under the radar stuff.
- What is the budget? - Nothing. We must raise production costs ourselves.
- What are the production costs? - 500 copies of full colour 12 page news is £500.
- Can we credit ourselves at the end? - Yeah, go nuts.
- Do we know anyone that might put ad's in? - Yeah, Media Magazine, The Junction, OCR.
- Do we choose who does what? - Yeah, you vote for who does what.
- Are we supplied with the information? - No, you need to source your content yourselves.
- What methods of distribution do we have? - Sold with Media Magazine, on the website
- Is there a limit to content? - No copyrighted material, no inaproppriate language. Aimed at our age.
Xtended Project schedule
1-5 march - defining the task, setting up blogs, allocating jobs, early research, project proposal forms.
8-12 march - research and planning, feedback from client, ongoing blogging of ALL activity.
15-19 march - draft materials and further feedback, ongoing activity blogging.
22-26 march - trial materials with year 12 and make refinements for finished product/ newspaper
19-1st april - completion of newspaper for client and printing, completion of activity log and evaluation activity.
8-12 march - research and planning, feedback from client, ongoing blogging of ALL activity.
15-19 march - draft materials and further feedback, ongoing activity blogging.
22-26 march - trial materials with year 12 and make refinements for finished product/ newspaper
19-1st april - completion of newspaper for client and printing, completion of activity log and evaluation activity.
Monday 1 March 2010
Assignment of Job roles
In todays lesson Nick handed out a sheet with all of the role on, blank and we had go away and fill in who we thought would be best in each position.
(here is a picture of the sheet nick handed out)
(here is a picture of the sheet nick handed out)Once we had all filled in a sheet we handed them back to nick and he collated the information and assigned to roles.
- Liaison = Alex
- Evidence = Tara
- Reflection = Mike
- Schedule = Kirk
Red Team
- Loz (Leader)
- Hayden
- Matt H
- Dave
- Phillipa (Leader)
- James
- Alie
- Joe
- Me (Leader)
- Tim
- Matt L
- Ash
Nick colated the information from our sheets to get the leaders and QC team and then the 3 leaders (Me, Loz and Phillipa) sat together and worked out what the most productive teams would be. We wrote down who was available:
- Tim
- Matt L
- Matt H
- Hayden
- Alie
- Ash
- James
- Joe
- Dave
We then decided out of those who were the least reliable with attendance, because we didn't want to put all the unreliable people in one group as there would often be nobody from that group in lesson and we would end up with big chunks missing from the paper.
The people that turn up the least are:
- Joe
- Ash
- Dave
- Hayden
with this in mind we put one of each in a team and Hayden and Dave together because they are slightly more reliable and we had to put two in one group. the rest of the teams we just tried to spread abilities and working styles out.
Introduction to the Xtended project
The Xtended project is our next project were doing for the diploma. For the project we are producing one issue of a news paper style revision guide for students taking the media A2 exam on Media in the online age.
We will be producing the news paper in a class, the class will be divided into 4 groups of 4. The 4 groups are Blue team, Red team, Gold team and Quality control group. The Quality control group is made up of:
- The 'Liaison' who is the person that will speak to the client.
- The Schedule manager who will keep everyone on track and remind them what they need to do.
- The Reflection manager whos job will be to keep an eye on everyones blogs and advise them of how to improve them.
- The Evidence manager who will gather eveidence and make sure everyone has relevant evidence on their blogs.
Each of the three colour teams (Blue, Gold and Red) have 3 workers and a leader, the leaders job will be to talk to the quality control group and take the points and needs of the paper to the 3 workers to get things produced.
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