Changing our hippie theme

In Beyond the camera, Emma and I where both working on our hippie theme, after we had collected visuals and sounds, we tried to fit it altogether within After Effects. Unfortunately, we then realised that we did not have a good enough storyline for our hippie themed artefact so we both had to sit down and try to figure out how we were going to piece our project together. After coming up with a few sketchy ideas, Emma and I both decided that we needed to change our idea altogether.
Emma then came up with an idea where we create an artefact based on a stick person that is learning how to play the piano for the first time. We had to create drawings on Photoshop to put into After Effects. I then used the internet to find sound files to match up to the visuals as Emma created the visuals in After Effects.
Once I had found a sound that I wanted to use, I had to download it and then add it into Audacity. When in Audacity, I needed to make sure the level of sound all matched up to each, check that I had the length of each piece of music to make sure it matches up to the visuals that Emma was creating. I thought that our piece was rushed and if we had more time we could have made a more professional looking artefact.

Researching

Once we had picked what question we wanted to do for Applied Media Research, Sarah put us into groups with people what wanted to do the same question. I was put into a group with Mark Nugent and Ian Gardner, I was happy with my group as I had worked with both members before and I thought we worked well together.
When researching, we decided to break it up so that we could all work on things that we know more about. I decided to look at the film aspect of storytelling along with some gaming online that had audience participation.
Mark and Ian then decided to base all of their research on gaming as it was the main aspect with audience participation that they were very interested in and that they know most about.
I decided to look at Life in a day which was a documentary that told a story through the audience participating by uploading their own videos onto YouTube. I also decided to look at dan 3.0 which was a boy who had decided to let the audience take over his life for a year by creating ideas of things for him to do, depending on how many votes each idea had got would depend on what he would do for the day.
We are continuing on researching more to make sure we look at all aspects of storytelling with audience participations so that we make sure we have the best result for Digital Fiction Faction.

Beyond the camera project

For beyond the camera, we had been given a project where we had to we had been put into groups of two. I was working with Emma Daffern. This project was to make a one to two minute artefact using After Effects adding in sounds and using as many techniques such as zooms, pans, spins and zoom outs on After Effects to help us show that we know how to use the software.

Emma and I decided to go for a hippie theme as we thought we would be plenty of things to work with for sound and visuals. Emma and I researched hippies so that we could get a better understanding of everything that they are associated with and what life was like for hippies.
We had visuals such as camp fires, smoking, acoustic guitar and protests. Emma decided to work on trying to put the visuals together on After Effects while I found more visuals through searching online to use and also found different sound clips to use from a free website that I discovered on the internet.

Digital fiction Factory

The next few classes for applied media research we had guests coming in to talk to us from different parts of the media industry. From this, each guest gave a presentation on what they do and how the media industry is changing. Once each presentation had been finished, the presented us with a question that was based within their field of the media industry and we were then asked to pick one of the three questions so that we could research the question we had picked and present them with an answer for their question.
The first guest we had was a man from the Digital Fiction Factory. Automatically I new this was a question that I would be interested in answering. Their question involved looking into how storytelling has changed more due to audience participation and what affect the internet has had. The main question  was to look at how we are able to change stories without treading on the authors toes? I decided to pick this question because I felt this would be good to look into and would be a question I would enjoy researching about.

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.