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Today I am just going to carry on with my unit 3 task 1 and 2 work.

Update: 14:50

I have carried out a couple of questionnaires about interactive media and my interactive website

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Today we are doing more unit 3 work on understanding audiences. We'll also need to prepare for the open evening tonight.

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Today we are starting unit 4 which is contextual research on interactive media. We will look at social media, pop up ads, interactive museums and gaming.

update: 15:52

I have completed 3/4 of the research and will do the rest tomorrow. I am confident I will have enough research to complete the practical work when we come round to it

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Today we are carrying on with our different newspaper reviews. I am going to carry on writing my reviews on word and then uploading them to padlet afterwards.

update: 15:25

I have written some more analysis on different newspapers such as the Guardian and the Sunday Mirror. I compared their style, audience and layout.

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Today I don't have anything to finish off on my unit 6 so we might start the unit work on audiences.

update: 15:48

I have started some research and comparison work on different newspapers and what their target audience is. Tomorrow I will carry on with this.

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Today is the first day back and we are carrying on with units 5 & 7. We will be with Delta this afternoon.

I was having a little think over Christmas about college and I found that I am starting to lose the love for media a little bit. I have found that I am not doing any media activities in my spare time anymore and I'm just not sure at the moment.

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Today I need to finish the documentary with my group and put it all together. We might be doing a bit of the new unit 5 & 7 with Cliff.

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Today we are back with Cliff just finishing off our unit 6 work. I need to get together with my group where can hopefully put all of our documentary pieces together.

update: 15:34

I have finished a first draft self evaluation for my film documentary. Tomorrow I will do a second and final draft when everything is complete. That's all we have left to do.

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This is the final week before Christmas and I think for today before lunch my group will go through what we've done for our film documentary. After lunch we are going to start units 5 & 7 interactive media with Delta.

update: 16:06

I have done a lot of research ob promotion materials online for the Harlow College media, journalism and photography department. Tomorrow we are back with Cliff again and just finishing unit 6.

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Today I will be working with my group on our animation that we wan to put in our intro for our documentary. I will also continue to plan for what I an going to say and show for my area, Church Langley. Tomorrow (Thursday) I will do my recording on my day off. Thursday appears to be the only day between then and Sunday when the weather is nice (not raining)

update: 15:54

I have finished the animation with my group and all have to do now is do my filming then edit it. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow if the weather is nice.

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Today I am finishing putting my photo essay pics together on a powerpoint ready to upload to my padlet. I am also going to start mind mapping my ideas for my part of the photo essay which is about where we live. I am doing my bit on Church Langley so I will need to do some contextual research, but not a lot because I am Church Langley born and bred.

update: 15:47

I have finished my photo essay and my group has done a solid job on planning our film documentary. I'm pretty much ready to start filming. Tomorrow we'll be doing a little bit of animation as a group

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Over the weekend I completed most of my photo essay and I chose to do it on where I grew up. I went round Church Langley, Potter Street and the hospital to take pictures. This included where I was born, my old house, schools, parks and shops that I went to. I know that I still have both Passmores sites left to take pictures and I think I'll go to the Harlow Mill Beefeater. And I still have my current house to take as well and the college. This weekend I would like to try and get out to do my film documentary.

update: 15:54

I have uploaded some of my photos to powerpoint and padlet but I will bring in more tomorrow. I feel I have worked hard today and I will carry this through to tomorrow.

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Today I have counselling at 12:00 so I can't do a lot before then. But this afternoon I will finish off planning my photo essay, after that I will be in a group with Chloe, Charlie and Joe planning our documentary. We are thinking of doing it about where we live.

update: 15:49

I have completed my planning for my photo essay and I'm ready to go. My group have started planning for our film documentary as well. I will try to do my essay over the weekend but with stuff planned already I'm not sure if it will be possible.

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I am not in the mood at all today so I won't be speaking much or at all to people. I'm just gonna get my head down and do my work and that's all today. I just want to be on my own today. But work wise I think I'm still doing more photo essay research.

update: 15:43

I have a couple of good ideas for my photo essay that I am going to develop and I'm pretty confident that I will do well at this. Tomorrow I will be carrying on with my ideas.

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I'm back today after going home ill Tuesday afternoon and not being in Wednesday either. Today we are making sure we are up to date with deconstructing adverts and photography. The if we have time we will start talking about and planning our photographic essays.

update: 15:51

I have started some research on photo essays and have taken screenshots, etc of what I have found. I feel ok at the moment about this. I can't guarantee that will last though. Tomorrow I will be doing more research.

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ABSENT

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Today my targets will be to use different camera techniques such as long and short depth of field, aperture and composition. I hope to get some nice images to upload to my padlet.

My eye strain is doing my head in right now. Every night when I go home they ache so much. I really don't want this to become an issue because we are staring at screens all day. I have turned the brightness right down to the minimum on my screen.

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*PrayForParis*

Today for the first hour we are having a radicalisation talk about the Paris attacks and then doing some more film documentary deconstruction. This afternoon we'll be doing something else in photography.

I have finished watching my two documentaries for today and uploaded them on to my padlet. Tomorrow I will probably find other documentaries to deconstruct

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Today we will be doing more photography work and learning new skills and camera techniques. Hopefully then we can go out and take some more photos.

update: 16:02

I have uploaded my photographs to the mac and then uploaded them to padlet with annotation. I feel that I have worked hard and done a good job this week and with this project so far.

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Today I have to watch my third documentary which is an obsessive compulsive cleaners episode, and if they're not on youtube then Educating Cardiff. We might be able to do some photography today.

update: 15:40

I have completed some photography practical work with my group today and took 104 photos. I feel that we have done a solid job and I have uploaded several photos on to my photography padlet page, explaining the techniques I have used.

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Today we might be going outside to experiment with the photography cameras. I still have to finish some more research and upload it to my padlet at some point today as well.

update: 16:00

I have started some research and watched a couple of documentaries already. Tomorrow I will continue with this.

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Today I have a very clear plan of what I want to do, which is get tons of research done as we have to finish an hour early because of an open evening. I have also created a new padlet page which I can put my media work on.

update: 14:56

We have to leave early because of the open evening tonight but I have got quite a bit of research done today.

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Today is the first day back after half term. I think we'll be doing some research today on some photography and different photographers and the types of genres there are. I'm sure that I'll get some solid research work done by the end of today.

upadte: 15:50

I have managed to complete some research about Lewis Hine and started some research on Sebastio Salgado and Mathew Brady. I know what my plan is for tomorrow so I'm very focused on that right now.

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Today is the final day before we break up for half term. Unfortunately, it looks like it's only going to be me and Luke today as Gabbie and Aimee are not it for whatever reasons. All we have left to do is to complete is our second self-evaluation (which I believe is on the College cube website) and possibly a bit of pixilation. It's very possible that we could even go home early because my group is so far out in front at the moment.

update: 15:28

Breaking up for half term no and I have done all my work and finished by self evaluation on how me personally have done this half term. I have just stayed behind for a little bit to help Paul, Greg and Luke.

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Today all we have left to do really is complete our questionnaire and get our class-mates and staff to take part in it because it will be great feedback for us, so we know what we did well and what we can do for next time. Also, I think our group is going to start working on a presentation about our animation. Other than that we really don't have that much work left to do and we'll probably start a new module after half term because theres only today and tomorrow left of media.

update: 15:38

we have completed our evaluation and questionnaires. we have started work on experimenting with some pixilation techniques. Tomorrow, we will do another evaluation in more detail and might finish early

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This is the first day of the final week before October half term. We don't really have a lot left to do so today we are just mainly focusing on the write up / self-evaluation. This basically where we say how we felt it went, how we think we could improve it next time and what our class mates thought of it.

update: 15:34

Today, we managed to get our editing pretty much sorted and typed up our self-evaluation and questionnaire. I also took part in another group's questionnaire. Hopefully tomorrow we can start work on our presentation for our Fishin' Fools animation that we are probably going to present to he class on Wednesday.

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Today is a great chance for my group to get our filming done. We have everything we need so all should run smoothly. It should take us the whole day (4 hours) to get everything perfect. Hopefully by the end of the day we should have some solid work done.

update: 14:48

Our group has done a good job with the animation we made called "Fishin' Fools" However, I have felt like that I've been the one doing the dirty work such as taking pictures on the iPad and cutting out bits of paper and not actually getting a chance to involve myself in the practical stuff. Maybe they just see me as an easy target? I don't know if this is the case in reality but that's certainly how I've felt this afternoon.

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I came in early this morning to finish what I didn't get done yesterday afternoon due to leaving early for the doctors. That included finishing off contextual research on TV idents, updating padlet, etc.

update: 16:17

Today felt good with my group and we got a lot of work done. Tomorrow i'm pretty confident that we can get some filming done as we are a strong group and work well together.

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Today we will be starting to work on our object animation. The first thing is to finish my contextual research. My group's idea is to use money as our object. Two 1p coins will come together and turn into a 2p coins. Then they will turn into 5p coins, then 10p, etc.

We will also start looking at some TV indents and creating mood boards for our research.

Unfortunately , I had to leave early for a doctors appointment but I felt like I did a solid job with the time I had available at the end. Tomorrow morning I will be in early to get what I didn't finish today, done in the morning.

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This morning I will update my padlet diary and unit work page to make sure I've added everything and updated everything. Hopefully after lunch we can continue with our contextual research and start doing some practical stencil animation work. Hopefully cut-outs and Lego people can help us with our work.

update: 15:45

I have finished my meteor showers stencil animation and added photos of it o tony padlet unit work page. I also started looking at object animation such as Lego and some TV indents that they use on channel 4 and BBC 2, etc.

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Today we are pretty much drawing our animations all day. We need 10 pages of drawing per second, that's 80 in total as our animation lasts 8 seconds.

update: 16:00

We have finished our hand drawn animation but decided not to bother with sound effects in the end. Also this afternoon, I started some contextual research on stencil animation, such as Monty Python and the first ever South Park animation.

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This morning I will update my padlet and carry on with my contextual research.

update: 15:53

I have come up with an idea with Luke for our hand drawn animation task and typed up my synopsis. I have also screen shotted evidence of my work on to my unit work padlet page.

My target for tomorrow is to start drawing our idea out. We need 80 drawings

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Today (mostly this morning) I will be continuing with my contextual research on animation and pixilation. I'll be extending my notes in my work book and on my unit work paldet page.

update: 15:43

I have got a lot of my contextual research done and have drawn my own little animation on eight pieces of paper of someone waving. Next week we will start making more of our own animations.

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This morning I am going to be sorting out anything else I can add into our group valuation sheet.

After lunch I will be starting my contextual research for animation and people who are well known in the animation industry.

I managed to research some animation adverts and pixilation music videos to add to my contextual research on this topic. I wrote down some notes in my note pad and screen shotted some clips from videos off of youtube and on to my padlet as evidence of my work.

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There is 1 hour of working before lunch, so during that time we will be finishing off any sound effects/audio that we have to put in our advert. After lunch we will put everything together so that the advert is complete. This shouldn't take all afternoon so I'm pretty confident that we will get it finished.

We managed to get everything pretty much done along with receiving our questionnaire results from other groups to identify our strengths and weaknesses and where we can improve fro next time. Tomorrow morning I will make sure that all of my folder is sorted and in the correct order and see if I've missed anything on my unit work padlet.

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I think today me and my group are pretty confident about getting our filming finalised and we will push hard to make sure our editing is absolutely spot on. The weather is nice today so we will retake our scene that is supposed to film a bright and clear sky to represent happiness after eating Doritos, because yesterday the sky was pretty dull and grey.

By the end of the day we managed to get all of our audio, voiceover and finalised shots done. As a group we feel pretty confident about our advert now that it's all finalised. We also added effects to our advert too which makes it seem more realistic.

When I come in on Monday I will work with my team to try and get the finishing touches done to editing our advert.

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Today we are going to experiment with our advert idea and the different camera techniques. We might make a few mistakes today but it's all about having fun and just getting a rough idea of what we want to do. It could take a couple of hours to film or five minutes which we can then think about what we will edit into 20 seconds. Hopefully we will feel a little but more confident about our advert plan by the end of the day.

By the time we got to our finishing time (16:00) me and my group felt like we had a pretty solid filming idea for our advert. We got our location sorted out, what props we are using and the timing of each part of our advert.

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Today I started to deconstruct an educational advert. I thought I should put in more detail and quality into my educational deconstruction to identify the key points and content of the advert, as educational adverts are more serious.

I chose to do the ACT F.A.S.T. advert for stroke awareness. The advert made it quite clear how serious it can get if it goes for a long time undetected. The narrator gave a simple acronym. Face, Arms, Speech, Time = FAST.

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On our first official day, we chose a few adverts to watch on youtube which ranged from gaming adverts to educational adverts. We took down some brief notes on key points of the adverts, such as the target audience, emotional content of the advert and celebrity endorsement.

Once we had done that, we would go into more detail and deconstruct the advert further. This includes things sun as annotating, print screening clips from Youtube. My first choice of deconstruction was a Citroen C4 advert from 2006. I spoke about the timescale of the advert and what happened and what second. I explained the narrative and the purpose of this advert in more detail, is it effective? etc.