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i now know that there is no way to recover my deleted work from yesterday.

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i have come in this morning and discovered that my evaluation had not been saved from yesterday. i had pressed save on numerous occasions throughout the day but i guess that because i opened the copy that was on the desktop that was the only one that saved. i have 1,500 word at the moment but yesterday i got to over 5,000. yesterday was a complete waste of time.

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Today i have started my evaluation, i am trying to be in-depth and analyse to a level of distinction but i am worried that i am writing too much but not to enough quality. i had to leave at lunchtime due to a funeral, i had emailed my partner about this on monday to let them know.

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Bingo's Great Adventure is all about a little fox called Bingo who lives in the woods and is bored because it is winter. One day she finds a map and decides to go on an adventure. This is an eBook for children from ages 0-11. Harlow College Media level 3.

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Today i was not supposed to come in but i wanted to get the work done as i won't be able to be in wednesday afternoon due to a funeral. i had also gotten an email form dave telling me that the animation we were doing would have worked but it could work on the macs due to their lack of performance - so i had so scrap this idea and stick the the original, i wasn't happy with this but i don't have a choice.o went onto after effects and finished the animation for scene 4 and this went very smoothly with no problems. i then had to moved computers as a class needed the ones we were on but luckily i only needed premier pro which the other macs do have.i added the music and sound effects to this scene easily but i was worried because when i watched the clip back it was really jumpy and looked bad quality. fortunately after i rendered it and exported it it still looked great so it was just the programme not being able to cope. i then started to put all the clips together including the map scene that Tabitha completed and had emailed me. it was a little difficult because the programme had to render it after i put the clip on one by one but it got it done and i could watch it back and it would look smoother so it was easier to edit. one thing i had to fix was Tabitha's line - she had giggled during the recording and didn't scene keen for word another at the time and i had though i could cut out the giggle and put in the practise one she had done but when i looked back i don't think it was recored or it was lost. so instead i cut the clip and lowered the sound a bit at that point so isn't as easily noticed but i can still hear it. all the clips were put together and when i tried to render the clip took a very long time but i am very happy with the end results as it is now complete.

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Today i have looked back at the audio form yesterday and i think the problem is the mac computers speaker that are not good and not the audio itself. then i started the animate for scene 3. this was difficult because the scene is of bingo walking in - i used the same walking techniques i did in the last scene by copying the walk of the first scene and this went well and works nicely - and Kyla the kangaroo jumping gin and meeting bingo. this was difficult because i need the kangaroo to look real in its movements when jumping and falling and this took many, many attempts to get it right in time with the jump as well. then after the talking i needed kayla to jump twice to leave the scene with the actions, this took a lot of trail and error and starting over. in the end i did it by planning the jump and marking the positions, then copying the puppet movement kayla made when she endeared the scene and then timing and cutting the movement to fit the on scene action. as this jump was the same length but happened much quicker i cut the middle part of the jumps and mostly just have the puppet movement of her jumping and falling. this looks nice in the end and i am happy with it. the i exported the clip and put it onto premier pro to add the music and sound effects. the sound effects for this scene were the sound of the "ocean" we tried to record water noises in college but it sounded a bit pathetic, luckily when i got home yesterday my mum had been painting and was washing off the brushes in the bath and the flow of the large taps was much closer to what i wanted so i recorded it on my phone. today i could them import the sounds and use them for the sound effects and the results are much better. then o added the music that Tabitha made i was a little disappointed with it as i don't this it sound very Australian -i would have loved to have had a didgeridoo or something similar sounding - but Tabitha still did a good job with the equipment that she had available to her. the end result for this clip is very good and i am happy with how this scene has turned out. i then started the final scene when bingo goes home, and one of the things that i tried was to get bingo to look directly and the audience and then sit down - i had the pictures to do this but i didn't like the way it suddenly did this, when i asked dave what he thought he said he knew there was a techniques that could do it but he didn't know what it was so i took a look on youtube for a video and found one, it was good but i had some problems as when i tried to create a mask the video had only one and i would have two - at one time i had 57. dave came back and we found you could delete most of the masks and have just one and it would still work, it eventually tries to do the "morphing" but it was tacking a long time and by this point it was 50 minutes after the class had ended so dave said he would try it over the weekend and get back to me by monday if it was possible.

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Today i started off by cutting and organising the audio i have for scene three and this went well and was done soon. after break dave came over to show me how to do a certain type of ahi,at ion that i wanted and that i had told him about on friday. so we started by getting Bingo in the London scene to walk like the Bingo in the woods scene, this was easier than dave had thought it would be because instead we could simply copy the woods bingo over to the London scene and put in the same positions numbers and scales to make it work and copy the keyframes from one to the other. then i finished the audio on this scene because i realised we had skipped the paris scene but that was still on the audio so i removed this and but in the clip of traveling to Sydney at the end. i also made the map go to Australia instead of France. i then tried to render and export the clip but it kept telling me that after effects was not re[ponding and i had to close the program but i hadn't been able to save the work i had done and so had to do it all over again. fortunately before i ddi all of it i saw that my computer was auto saving the work i was doing so i found a folder on my desktop with saved files and found that the 3rd save was all the work i thought i had lost, this saved me from doing a lot of extra work and i realised that the map has still needed work so that it moved off the screen, so it turned out better. then i put the clip onto premier pro to add the sound effects of traffic, this was tricky to get it in the right places and to get slightly quieter and less busy traffic sound in between these clips but it was ok then i had to get the sound level right so it could be heard clearly but not block out the narration, then i added the music that Tabitha had created for this scene which was using string instrument on garageband, this also was difficult because i had to make sure it wasn't too loud and blocked out the sound effects or the narration but wasn't too quite and could be heard.i thought i had gotten it right but after exporting it i listened back to it on the headphones and it sounded good but when played throughout the mac i couldn't really hear it so I'm not sure if i should leave it or try to change it.

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today we were in the PCs room and this makes it difficult to edit because the software is not compatible with what we need to do to continue with the eBooks. we decided in the team meeting that because we really only had three to four days left to finish the dying and then we have to write a survey and evaluation by Friday the 10th, we do not have enough time to finish. so we have made there decision to cut the Paris, Rome and New york scenes and focus on finishing the woods, London and creating Sydney, the final woods scene and the map scene for in-between. this morning we went to record the rest of the sound effects we would need this includes traffic noises, and the splashing of water. this went alright but the splashing was from a sink in the girls bathroom and i wasn't happy with this so when i was at home i recorded some sounds on my phone that i hope will be better. Tabitha had completed the beginning track for the music and i put this with the woods scene - she recorded this on a guitar at home and not on garage band, it is nice and work well if we can get the music and the narration and the sound effects to all work together and not block the other out. scene 1 is pretty much finished and scene two is almost but i need some help from Dave. i still need to create the Sydney scene, the final woods and the map in between but Dave said he would learn how to make dots appear on the map as throughout it could tract Bingo's journey.

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today i have had an interview for some work experience, i got in contact because i know one of the owners mothers. their names are Vickie and Louise. they run a company called Managing mischief co and the make stickers for life planners. they want me to organise and improve their social media profile and to make them promotional videos for their company. there is only the two of them in the company. when we talked it sounded like a good idea and i look forward to it.

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I came in early before my English lesson so that i can do some additional work on the eBook and the animation of the London scene. i have now made Princess(the corgi) walk nicely and move from one side of the screen to the other with a pause in the middle. i did have to start over 1/3 of the way in because the screen zoomed out strangely and i could get it to work so i had to start over.

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Today i gave in early so i could meet with an actor I had arranged to meet with. she is practising to be an actor and at the moment it is reading an old script in an old fashion voice which is perfect for this project. when we met up we went to find Dave and we took out a clip on mic as it is much easier to use and i have used it for interviews and i thought this would be best. we practised the script a few times and then did a couple of recordings. i then downloaded it onto my computer but when i listened back the background noise was awful and made the clips unusable. then we decided to use a boom mic. Leila booked it out for us and when I set it up there was no sound coming through, i thought it was the boom mic as i could here static from the TASCAM, i asked Leila if it needed a battery but she didn't know and one of my class mates said that it didn't. instead i decided to use my phone to record it and it went OK but then Dave came in and i asked him what he thought might be wrong and he said that it was because there was no battery in the boom mic. once we fixed this it worked well, then when we started recording again we perfected the actors voice so she stressed the correct parts but wasn't too forceful. then Dave came back and asked if we wanted the air con turned off and when he did it was much quieter and made the clip better quality. after this i put it on the macs and the sound quality was much better. Tabitha was not there at the begining and when she came in before we got the boom mic she didnt try to help or seem interested in what we were doing. then i put the audio onto after effects and began to edit it then after i could see exactly how long the clip would need to be and this fixed the problem i had last time when the animation was shorter than the audio. i started to create the London scene and began with traffic which i had practised the day before. this time it went much smoother and was very effective. the London scene is almost complete but i still need to add sound effects and background music, and make Bingo move like he did in the first scene because this time it looked a bit stupid and didn't work well because he was moving so much and Dave said he could show me how to get him moving like he did in the better scene.

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today i have re-created my standing Eddie character. it was quite easy to do as i had to go o photoshop and put the outline on their with some texture and i luckily managed to find mostly the same ones as the first time and as flying Eddie has. then during break i was bit bored because we were going to record the audio after break so i created an "alternative ending" using after effect i created a scene where bingo(the fox) goes to Australia. then after lunch we recorded some of our audio with another group as i was being their narrator as well. Tabitha recorded her voice first and then when she was done she left and dint stay to record the sound effects.i recorded the sound effect with Kirsten and everything went well. when i came back i saw Tabitha had started on a random scene we hadn't talked about and we had already agreed that we wouldn't start animating a scene without recording audio.

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Today i have managed to put together some clips to create the firsts part of our eBook but i had problems with the is because every time i made and finished the clip i would take it back to the pc computers to view it and it would tell me that it doesn't work and when i took it back to the mac it then wouldn't work either. i googled the problem and it was complicated but when i tried it all the setting were how they should be. dave told me that it was because the PCs are really old and they don't work with the updated technology on the macs. i ended up making the clip 3 times before i found this out.

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today we are in the Peirs room and cant edit the clip of scene 1 because the computers do not have the right programme on them. and i started to arrange all the clips i had and which ones worked and which would not be used, then i discovered that i am missing one of my characters.

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got in this morning and took a look at the saved clip form yesterday and i have realised that it is a very poor quality but i decided i would have to use it anyway. i added another part to the scene of the map enlarging. when i tried to put the clips together the quality difference was horrible. when i asked Dave if there was anyway to fix it he told me i had to start over. luckily i had saved the file as well and didn't have to start form scratch. now the clips are together and they work really well. i also had to create the map which took a while a was really fiddly but i like the outcome of it. i created a title scene - which i had forgotten that we needed - this was alright but i had to find the best filter and to try to get the title to say what i wanted and to change the colours wasn't clear but it now works - i did have to pay attention this time with the graphic and make sure that they all were clear and easier to understand - something that didn't work last project. then after lunch we decided to record the audio for the first scene, we used Jayne Miles for Bingo's voice and i did the narration. this went well although we discovered you need good headphones to hear the audio as its being recorded. when i uploaded the audio to my mac and imported it with the animation i realised that the audio was much longer that the animation. i had to add time to the beginning of the clip which took a long time and was difficult because i couldn't use the original clip because the legs were moving and so had to remake the scene - making sure that the characters were the same size as the original. then when i tried to render it it took a long time again and i was still there at my mac when everyone else had left.

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Today i have created the rest of our characters; Princess, John-Paul(Tabitha created Mouse, beret and cheese), Max, Kayla, Flying Eddie and Standing Eddie. this was something that i am proud of because i completed them quite quickly and efficiently. it was quite enjoyable and i am glad that i remembered how to do it. Tabitha has finished the background - i tried to help and always tried to input some advise but she didn't ask for much but she got on with the work well. i have begun creating scene 1 but i have had many problems. i have learnt that when using after effects and then final cut you must have the original background and the scene needs because otherwise it wont work in final cut. i then had bingo move form one side to the other and moving his legs and this worked well. i did have to do some quick repair to the picture because the original had the legs attached to each other and this meant he couldn't move them independently, i went back to Photoshop and used the eraser carefully to make a gap between each pair of legs. i later tried to add a map to drift form the other side of the page to meet bingo in the middle. i figured out how to make it rotate and then made the edges move as thought it was being blown in the wind, i made pins in the corners and individually moved them as it went across the screen, it took a while and looked a bit silly at points but then in the end worked really well. then i discovered a major problem. i had been saving the scene when i thought it was done but had to make changes later to it - i saved it the way Dave showed us last week but when i tried to put the last clip on my memory stick it wouldn't - the file was too big. Dave helped and said that when its saved that way it saves it as a high quality file that uses a lot of memory space. we had to save it another way but this took a long time to get it one the right program and working correctly so i ended up staying till 3:45.

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Today i have been catching up with the work that i have missed. most of the pre-production has been done. Tabitha had completed one background on her own and she began the others today. whilst she did this is began and finished the script. i found no major problems with doing this. i asked Tabitha for her advise but she was happy to let me get on with it on my own whilst she continued with the work of the backgrounds. the script is now complete but it might be adjusted when we cast the people for the voices - who is male or female - i then began looking for the characters and found a fox which i drew and then outlined. i will send this to myself and start putting it on Photoshop tomorrow. i might have trouble with remembering all the different commands but will work through this tomorrow.

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today we have been put into groups for our eBooks. i am working with Tabitha. we stared with doing a minutes of meeting

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Today we began with watching some clips form films that show how music can create an atmosphere, one was from the film "whiplash" and it was about how a teacher always put down a student musician and in the end they did a piece of music together in front of an audience and the music accompanied this. then we went to do our own voice recording when reading scripts, we did first the minions and then properly did the Simpsons, and with one section that we liked we swapped characters so everyone got a turn and the pieces that showed more emotion and had more to say. this was interesting, and showed how difficult it can be to put on a voice for a character, and it can be quite embarrassing so you need to get all the giggles out of your system before you do any real recording. in the afternoon Gabbie was injured by a student throwing paper aeroplanes and one hit her in the eye, she was seen to and she is getting better but this put us all off doing much in the afternoon, especially as when the student came back he was joking about it with his friend sand mocking Gabbie, so we were to angry at this to du much work. i understand that you have to work with people who you might not like or can be immature but this is something that is not acceptable.

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Today we have created some questionnaires to ask adults what children's books they used to read when they were young. then we went over to Harlow town to ask them, we found the easiest people to ask were people at counters because they had no were else to be. but we made sure to only ask people who were quite obviously not busy.

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Today we have been doing research into children's books and the text, illustrations,theme and narrative that they use. this was interesting to see how they changed according to the target audience they were aimed at.the younger children had bright colours and clear, large and basic text with a basic storyline that wasn't very complicated and was mostly happy and not negative for the most part. the older children had more complicated text and narrative with more detailed pictures because they can understand more. then we did research into audio problems and how to fix them. the is was useful and i picked ip on tips to use - warm water with honey to keep the voice working well. these things will help when we create our own project because it will give us better sounds to use and be far more effective.

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Today we have been using photoshop, final cut pro and adobe after effects. this has been an enjoyable day because using final cut pro was quite easy for the little things that we did and so i experimented with it and created something a little bit more than what dave asked us to do because i had the spare time. then we created our own little person which again was quite easy because i have gained experience with photoshop and am becoming quite confident with it, but when using adobe after effects i had a lot of problem with my work disappearing twice and for some reason the character vanished or the video would render properly. i learnt how to save things correctly and think that i will remember most of the command but could do with some more practise. i think that i will defiantly use these skills for making the eBook and am quite confident that i can use them well and will create a good product but will need to find out some of the more technical parts to make a high standard product which will also take quite a bit of time to vet it right and a lot of patience which is something i sometimes lack when a programme doesn't work gown i want it to and this jus something i must work on.

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Today we have been doing a self assessment for the last project about how we think that we did. then we created a SWOT analysis for ourselves writing about our strengths and weaknesses and how this will help or hinder us with other project and in the working world. then we have all written a project proposal for our children's animated eBook it has to be 600-1000 word and an in-depth version of the mind map that we created last week.

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today we have finished off the theme tunes for the children's book, which were experiments. them we created cartoon characters and gave the texture.

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audio diary

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toady we were supposed to have a tutorial lesson with Delta but she never turned up.then when Leila came we created a mind map about children's books and what it would take to create one, we did this as a group and discussed together the things that might be a problem or things we would have to include. then we did research into children authors and what makes them successful. this was interesting to see and learn about.

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today we have been doing dubbing for a peppa pig clip with our own voices, we could not stop laughing at this but we managed to get throughout it. when editing we came to relies how difficult it can be to match up the voices with the characters on the screen but with ended up with a good result. in the afternoon we then began to experiment with photoshop and creating background with existing images from the internet. with was interesting and i came up with many problems but had help with fixing then and hopefully next time i will remember everything that i have learnt today. i need to keep using these skills and get used to using photoshop.