How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
This year instead of working alone, I decided to work with Ruth as a pair. We thought this would be a good idea and beneficial, as together we could combine our skills and knowledge. Whilst deciding which brief to do this year, we felt that we should pick one that would challenge us to create something which we hadn't already done, allowing us to develop our media skills. We chose to do the website brief as the internet is a world-wide phenomenon, and almost everybody within our society uses it, often in place of other media areas such as newspapers. The work we did last year and the skills we learned helped us with our research, planning and production of our task this year.
For the research, Ruth and I chose to each research two websites each. As we were working in a group but had two separate blogs, we published the two we had done on our own blogs, and added links to the other persons blog. I looked at the Channel 4 website and the BBC3 website. Whilst conducting the research, I was looking at the style of the website, layout, features, images etc. I wanted to be as aware of what a typical television channel website includes as I could be so as to emulate this in my own work. Ruth and I discussed our research and used it to help us create the website for 21TV. Although the websites we researched were not aimed only at females, many of the shows and genres were similar to what we created.
For the planning, Ruth and I had no strict plan of what we were going to create, but we had a good idea of the target audience, and the genres of show we wanted to include. We decided that we would each create shows, with images and information about them to put on the website. I created three shows, all of which fell into different categories. 'Ayre you Ready?' is a reality show similar to the popular MTV shows Geordie Shore and the American version Jersey Shore. 'Make Me Up' which is a beauty show and 'The Dark Side of Drugs' a documentary which is more on the serious side. Once I had created the images and text I added them to the website. We used a template from the wix website, which I feel was a good idea as allowed us to have a guide but fill it with our own ideas and content and so still following the codes and conventions of the professional websites.
This year, I used prezi slideshows to present my evaluation. I wanted to make my blog a little more interesting, and create something I had not done last year. I think they are a fun yet clear way of presenting work and information, and it allowed me to go a step further with the media technology and skills I have used throughout this project.
The only thing I would have done differently this year, is to have made my own posts of the editing and construction of the website, and to show more clearly the steps in how I went about doing things. However, I am very pleased with our products and think working in a group with Ruth was definitely a good decision as all the joint efforts and team work have paid off.
This year instead of working alone, I decided to work with Ruth as a pair. We thought this would be a good idea and beneficial, as together we could combine our skills and knowledge. Whilst deciding which brief to do this year, we felt that we should pick one that would challenge us to create something which we hadn't already done, allowing us to develop our media skills. We chose to do the website brief as the internet is a world-wide phenomenon, and almost everybody within our society uses it, often in place of other media areas such as newspapers. The work we did last year and the skills we learned helped us with our research, planning and production of our task this year.
For the research, Ruth and I chose to each research two websites each. As we were working in a group but had two separate blogs, we published the two we had done on our own blogs, and added links to the other persons blog. I looked at the Channel 4 website and the BBC3 website. Whilst conducting the research, I was looking at the style of the website, layout, features, images etc. I wanted to be as aware of what a typical television channel website includes as I could be so as to emulate this in my own work. Ruth and I discussed our research and used it to help us create the website for 21TV. Although the websites we researched were not aimed only at females, many of the shows and genres were similar to what we created.
For the planning, Ruth and I had no strict plan of what we were going to create, but we had a good idea of the target audience, and the genres of show we wanted to include. We decided that we would each create shows, with images and information about them to put on the website. I created three shows, all of which fell into different categories. 'Ayre you Ready?' is a reality show similar to the popular MTV shows Geordie Shore and the American version Jersey Shore. 'Make Me Up' which is a beauty show and 'The Dark Side of Drugs' a documentary which is more on the serious side. Once I had created the images and text I added them to the website. We used a template from the wix website, which I feel was a good idea as allowed us to have a guide but fill it with our own ideas and content and so still following the codes and conventions of the professional websites.
This year, I used prezi slideshows to present my evaluation. I wanted to make my blog a little more interesting, and create something I had not done last year. I think they are a fun yet clear way of presenting work and information, and it allowed me to go a step further with the media technology and skills I have used throughout this project.
The only thing I would have done differently this year, is to have made my own posts of the editing and construction of the website, and to show more clearly the steps in how I went about doing things. However, I am very pleased with our products and think working in a group with Ruth was definitely a good decision as all the joint efforts and team work have paid off.
