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...
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