Why we need creativity and concept.

In our creativity and concept class, our teachers decided to discuss why we need these lessions for helping us become more creative.
From this lesson, we were given a BBC CV with all the different types of questions that they will ask when applying for a job in the Media industry. With this application form, there were alot of questions which we will need to come up with our own creative answers for so that our  application form will stand out against all of the applications that will be sent in for the same job.
This is why our creativity and concept class is so important for when we leave university. We need to be able to show that we can come up with good  ideas for programs, are able to problem solve and that we can use our own initiative.
Our creativity and concept class shows up different techniques that help us to come up with new ideas and also problem solving techniques. From looking at the BBC application form, I now understand why this class is so important for our university class.

You Tube!

In class yesterday, we were all given the name of something that we had to go and search for on YouTube. I had been given "Model Aeroplanes" to look up. Once we had searched for our topic, we had to take note of how many views there had been, how many likes or dislikes for the video, how many comments there were and what where the comments about.

Once we had wrote down our findings on our topics, we then came back into the classroom and discussed what we had each found. From this, we then discussed You Tube, how we would discribe it to people that don't know what it is and what You Tube means to people. After we discussed what YouTube is, we then watched a 55minute long video on how youtube became so big for so many people around the world. From this video, it was found that YouTube became a place where people were able to communicate with others all over the world and how this had mostly started from one man dancing to a song which people had seen and then joined in by adding their own dances onto YouTube.

From this video I discovered how much YouTube means to people all over the world. For me, I would mainly just use it for watching videos and listening to music but this has helped me to see that there are so many people that use YouTube as a way of communicating with people all over the world and even people that they don't even know.
I found this video very interesting to watch and has taught me more about YouTube.

Creating a website.

For our class Digital Media Tools, we have been asked to design and create our own website. So far, we have been shown how to basically use Dreamweaver which is what we are going to be creating our website on.
In my previous course which was a Btec national diploma in media, I had already created my own website with dreamweaver, however there are many things that I would have made differently and this time I would like to be able to make it up to a more professional standard. I thought that having a workshop of Dreamweaver again helped me to remember all the different tools that there are for creating a website which I had previously had forgotten about.

I have looked at different websites and different layouts to help me come up with an idea that I think will really work for my website. I also looked at what colours work together on the internet and which ones don't. I am going to draw out different sketches of what I would like each page of my website to look like. I think this will help me to visualise my aim for my web page better.

Google maps.

For our unit Comtemporary Media Issues, we were put into groups within the class and then given a specific place in Liverpool as our starting point. From this, we then had to create a story with five different places around the world. My groups starting point was the Chinese Arch. We then built up a story around this where it ended in China.
In class, our group then had to present what we had created on Google maps. I was in a group of four people so we each took turns to talk about one place each.
I think that our presentation went well. We all worked as a team taking turns to talk and also working together to come up with the story for our Google maps idea.