Twitter!

In Contemporary media issues, we have been looking at what way people behave online and if it is how they would act when they are in person. Our teachers discussed social networking sites and if we are actually ourselves when we are using these sites.
To give a better understanding of using these sites, we were each asked to make a fake twitter account and by using "weavr" we were going to describe what type of person we wanted to create. We were asked diffferent questions about the persons personality, words used to describe them, words that they might use often, gender and many other things.
Unfortunately, I was not able to make my fake twitter account due to technical problems with google mail however I did try to follow other members of the classes fake accounts.
Once the class had their fake profiles set up, they were asked not to log on as their fake person because the person they made in weavr will take over the twitter account and make his own statuses. Next week in class we are going to find out how everyone got on with their twitter accounts and who has the most followers.

Ghost Stories!!

For our final film of our first year, we have been asked to make a 5minute documentary of anything of our choice. My group sat down and discussed different ideas and positives and negatives of each idea.
We as a group then all decided to make a documentary about ghost stories and why people love them so much. We are going to base this more around peoples views on what makes a good ghost story, why they enjoy the ghost stories and also talk to people that work for haunted walk groups.

I think that this will be a very exciting project to do and to find out why we all love ghost stories so much. Our group have already began researching places around the liverpool area to have the best shots and best locations that we can have for our final first year film.
I am very enthusiastic about working on this documentary and I am looking forward to seeing the outcome to our project.

Personal Profiling video!

For our class Production Practice, we had to make a perosnal profiling video for someone who had an interesting life and that would be a good speaker for a video. The group that I was in decided to make a personal profiling video on a teacher that we have for a different class called Keith.
Keith used to be a DJ and was offered jobs in different places over the world. He has a very strong passion for music and had a very interesting story behind his career as a DJ.
Keith took in his DJ equipment which we then got images of him setting up his equipment, plugging in the speakers and hooking up all of the wires. We also got Keith actually using the equipment and playing some songs for us.

I thought that we had a really good person to do our personal profiling on. However, because our location was in a classroom I thought it didn't quite set the mood right for what we were trying to achieve. Our teacher also gave us the same feedback as he thought it would have been better if we had showed his setting up his equipment in a nightclub. I still thought that it was a very interesting personal profile but I think we could have made it alot more eyecatching for the viewers.

Tahrir Square - Egypt!

In class, we were asked to make a wiki on wet paint to show how we can recieve information of the internet about particular topics and events. Each group consisted of four or five people. We had five in my group. We were then given a topic of what we had to write our wiki on, our topic was Tahrir Square. We were each given a bullet point which we had to write a thread for our wiki's on.
I had to write my thread on Social Networking and identity. For this I had to talk about the riots that happened in tahrir square and how people uploading images and videos of footage to their social networking sites would effect peoples judgements of them online.
We also had a main page that everyone contributed to. We added pictures, links to social networking sites and videos so that people reading our wiki could get a better understanding of what was happening in tahrir square during the riots.

Before I started writing about this topic, I had very little knowledge of what had happened in tahrir square. I found out most of my information through the internet which I also think helps to show how important the internet can be sometimes. I also learned alot about how people want to make themselves appear online and how that can be different to the person that they genuinely are.

Below is a link to our Wiki that we created based on Tahiri Square.
http://contemporarymediaissues.wetpaint.com/page/Tahrir+Square