TV studio show

Once we had our guests decided for our televisions show, we researched about fashion shows to see what would be a good set to have and what would be suitable questions to ask our guests. We also researched what our pilot was for our show so that we could get a better understanding of what way to decorate our studio, colours to use, seats, how to stage our cat walk and any other extras that needed to be added to make our set look professional.
We decided to have a plain white background but add splashes of colour from the chairs, balloons, and lighting. I thought that our set looked very modern and matched the pilot that we had been given.
Our show went very well i thought and looked very well. There had been a few mistakes that our guests had made referring to football dates but unfortunately we were not able to edit this out because he was continuing on with an important sentence.
I thought overall out television studio show went great. I was very proud of what we created.

Qualitative and Quantitive research

When starting Applied media research, we started of by learning about qualitative and quantitive research. We looked at the differences between both qualitative and quantitive research and the positives and negatives of both types.
Qualitative research is a more in depth form of research. When we are trying to find out qualitative information, this is a more detailed source where it involves questionnaires that have room for people to write their own answers rather than just yes/no answers. It also can be focus groups to find out what a group of people think of you are researching. This allows you to take into account different peoples views on things and also gives people a chance to explain why they think in one particular way.
Quantitive research is also a good way of finding out information however it is not as detailed as qualitative research. When researching with quantitive research, it is easier to get a clear answer as you are only asking people yes and no questions. Even though it may appear you are getting a clearer answer, this does not answer the question as to why they are picking those answers and therefore you do not get the full benefit from this type of research.
From using both qualitative and quantitive research, i found that qualitative research you were able to get more specific information where quantitive you where able to find answers quicker however you may not get the best information from them.

Television ideas

Once we had been put into our groups and had picked production roles, we then discussed and researched different ideas for what we could have for our television production.
When researching, we had to take into account the pilot we had been given so that we could find guests that would be appropriate.
Our group discussed several different guests such as boxers, dancers, footballers and fashion designers. When we researched some guests, Stevie found two fashion designers from Liverpool who had their own website and had very unique clothes. We all agreed that they would fit with our pilot so we then contacted the men.
They had agreed that they would do our show and also take clothes in to be modelled.

Beyond the camera

For our first class in beyond the camera, we were given a brief introduction into what we will be doing throughout the year. This class has a lot to do with software equiptment such as dreamweaver, after effects and photoshop.
For our first class, we were introducted to the green screen. The green screen is to show us that if we are planning to add in a background that we do not have, we can use this to create that illusion. For this, the teachers split the class into two groups so that they would be able to show us more with a smaller group.

Once we had been shown the green screen, we were then asked to create a photo using Photoshop with a background that is not real. We had the option of using the Green Screen to do this however I did not. I chose to make my image a funny image, although I had a few different ideas that I think would have worked better than the option that I had chose.

First Week in our Television Studio

When we first went into the television studio, we were giving a class in what happens in the television studio, the rules we have to know and the layout of the studio we are going to be working in. 
Our class were all able to have a chance to work on the HD camera's, were shown the editing room and taught about different parts within the television studio.

Afterwards, the teachers then put us all into individual groups of 5 or 6. I was put into a group of 5. Once we had all been put into groups, we had to decide on what roles we each wanted to take for our production throughout the year. I had chose to be floor manager as I thought this seemed like a good role that I would enjoy doing.

The start of Second Year!

My second year at John Moore's University studying Media Professional Studies started on the 17th September. We were given our new timetables for our new term and talked through all that we would be doing.
Each lecture we went on our first week was explaining what each different module is going to contain.
My favourite module for this term is the TV studio. John Moore's had a new television set built for us students that has all the latest camera and lighting equipment. In this module, we get the chance to film our own live programs in this set. I think this gives us all a great chance to work in different roles in making programs and also gives us a sense for how it would be working in a real television studio.

The creation of John Flavel

For our last task for contempory media issues, we had to create a fake character using facebook. Unfortunately the week that the teachers had given us this task I was sick so was not in class. However, instead of joining into a group the next week, James McKeown and I decided to create our own group to make a character. We discussed different ideas for different types of personalities and how we would be able to convince other people on facebook that our character is a real person.
James and I decided to create a character that is really religious. Although this character is religious, we wanted him to be very critical of what other people around him are doing. An example would be teenagers writing on their facebook profiles about going out and getting drunk, John would not approve of this.
James and I added our own friends using John Flavels account. We were suprised as to how many of our friends accepted a man that they did not know just because they seen they had mutual friends with this person. However, we did have some people report abuse against John Flavel and also had one of my friends having an argument with "John" although it was actually me writing to her.
I thought it would be a good idea to have Johns hometown as a place in Ireland called Knock. Knock is known for being quite a religious place and people may thing that this is why he has become so religious if they seen that.
We also added a Twitter account to make it seem as though John was a real character with more than one social networking sight. On this, we talked about religion and followed religious groups on Twitter. I found that it was harder to have people follow you on twitter because when you add them as a friend on facebook, they can either accept or decline but when you follow someone on twitter, that doesn't always mean they will follow you back.
Below are links to both John Flavels facebook account and his twitter account.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100003619638228&sk=wall
https://twitter.com/