Monday, 29 October 2012

Beyond the camera

Our 1st task was to create an illusion, I tried many different pictures but didnt feel they were very good so this was my final photoshop piece...

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Qualitative research

For our Qualitative research we decided to interview another group. The method we chose to use was writing a letter, a letter that they would have to send to the university whilst pretending they were still in the process of applying for this course. Below is the question we wanted our interviewees to think about

 Here are the answers we recieved...

 
 
 
 
 
 
After we recieved our answers we were able to create a chart to show the statistics for the questions.


Wednesday, 10 October 2012

TV Sudio part 1

Week 1
Every one was put into groups, I was put in group one with Emma, Mark, Pete, Josie & Micheal.
We discussed everyone's different roles for the TV exercise.

Team Roles
Producer - Emma
Director - Mark
Floor Manager - Pete
Set Designer - Molly
Presenters - Josie & Micheal

Production Research
- People
- Location
- Sound (music &sound effects)
- Other visuals (archive & stills)
- Background Information

Set Design Roles in Production (my roles)
- Costume
- Set
- Graphics
- Make-up

Week 2
We tried all the different roles in the studio, including camera angles, technical direction and actors/actresses in front of the camera. After this lecture finished we had a team meeting to discuss the set design and script.

Week 4
The final recording
We came in early for a meeting and created each step for the paper plain exercise. When we finally went into the studio we set up the scene with our halloween sheets and tried going through the hole piece a few times. It didnt take long for us to get the final piece together.



Quantitative Research

Quantitative research techniques:
- Questionnaires
- Surveys online
- Voting Polls
- Census 

Measures a large group of peoples opinions and views

The question we were asked to answer by using quantitative and qualitative research 
'Whats the best way to market a degree course to potential students?'

For our quantitative research we used these questions:



From our answers we were able to see some statistics such as 'More people agree the location has a big impact on their chosen university' and 'More people disagree the achievements of the lectures has an impact on their chosen course'

Monday, 8 October 2012

The Digital Fiction Factor - Ian Wareing

The 4 main company's involved BBC, Channel 4, Conker Media, Creative England.

- Multi layered storytelling
- It all begins with the writer
- Each part must work independently
- Engagement across platforms = deeper experience of character and story
- New project = New model
- The creative network

Example of Audience participation 'The Well' by Melvin Burgess

Writer -> audience -> participation

Consider Innovations In...
TV, Radio, Film - Britain in a day & million pound drop
Online- The exquisite forest & bear 71
Mobile/Tablet - Alice for iPad & 99 reasons why
Social Media - Take this lollipop & Inside
Live Events - Ide hide you & wretch32 Invasion

They are all connected by audience participation

The Question...
'The internet, social media and other open systems have allowed for user generated content (ugc) crowd sourcing and other forms of audience participation to prevail in digital media. But how do we translate these features into story-telling experiances without treading on the toes of the author?

Help to answer my question by looking at the beauty inside