Chloe Dilley by Chloe Dilley

Monday 14th December 2015

chloe_13a — 2015-12-14 15:56:55 UTC

I had to explore a range of promotional media related to the media, journalism and photography area of Harlow College, that are already created and online. I created a visual mood board to show evidence for my research of the media that promotes this department. This will help me later when I am creating my own interactive website.

for my mood board I collected all my research and infomation from the following;

Website (blogs, social media, images,
graphics)
Video (cooperate video, advertisement,
trailers, promo video)
Audio (radio, podcast)
Text (newspaper articles, blogs,
twitter, Facebook, course details)

Monday 4th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-04 13:16:06 UTC

We had to individually download and explore a range of existing audio

apps and comment on how we might use them for our own cooperate video or podcast.

1. Voice Recorder

2. Garage Band

3. Spreaker Studio

4. imove

Then we had to write a short review on each audio app commenting on the advantages and disadvantages and how we might use each apps for our own podcast or video.The we had to find another app or technology that might be used to create a suitable audio for your podcast.

Monday 11th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-11 11:48:30 UTC

We have had to download an app called Simpl onto your ipad to create our interactive website. Find out and demonstrate how the Simpl app would be effective in presenting our interactive media production. Then we had to produce a short report explaining following;

Theme and Menus - you can create your theme by selecting one they give you on a menu. You can do whatever you want for each individual page of you website, whether it be text or quotes or videos.
Home page logo - it gives you a home page that you can write your own descriptions and put your own logo onto.
Website details - on the settings you are able to write the descriptions that people will be able to type into a search engines to find.
Uploading photos and videos - there is a tab on each web page to upload photos and videos, select it and then what you want to use.
Upload audio - you can upload audio you have pre-recorded on each individual page the same way as the videos.
How to publish - go to settings - publish - and click publish website.

Tuesday 12th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-12 15:55:24 UTC

today i have been researching interactive media types; advertising, exhibitions, websites and gaming. we have had to creating mood boards for these and what they are like to use, using photos and videos to help demonstrate what they are about and are like to use.

Wednesday 13th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-13 11:03:51 UTC

I have completed the interactive media research and am now looking into unit 5 task 4, planning my website; what i am going to use - audio, interviews, videos and graphics, photographs and text.

Wednesday 13th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-13 11:26:08 UTC

I have created a mind map of the things I may use on my website.

Wednesday 13th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-13 15:47:05 UTC

Today after creating the mind map I then created a mood board about different websites, photographs, events calendars and college tours. these are some of the things that I may use in my website and this will help to give me some ideas of how to arrange everything. After We created a questionnaire to ask people so that we can find out about what people like or don't like in a website sop we can avoid anything that would turn people away from our website. Next time we can print copies out and then go and find people to ask. This makes me nervous, but i need to overcome this problem.

Tuesday 26th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-26 13:52:51 UTC

Yesterday and today I have been creating a mind map for my website. We have been placed into teams of 3 and each person has to do either; photography, audio or visual. I chose to do audio. this means that i will be the person conducting interviews and podcasts. some of this will be purely audio and some will be using footage of the interviews. originally this would have been the last subject that i would have chosen because i can't stand the sound of my recorded voice. but this was also the same feeling of the other people in my group. i chose to do this because it will include filmed based work and that is what i want to do and one of the Lewis' I am working with loves to film and to edit and also does some of this in his spare time, so it was decided that he would be best for the visual, which would have been my first choice. I also knew that the other Lewis hates to hear his voice but he wasn't in that day so I decided that I could do the audio.

Tuesday 26th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-26 14:00:00 UTC

This is my almost finished mood board for the audio I will be doing for my website. It is the best mood board I have ever done.

Tuesday 26th January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-01-26 16:08:52 UTC

Today I have been finishing off my mood board and research on what other colleges have done for their podcasts and what I would like to copy or not. I am proud of my mood board because it is the best I have ever done but was also quite time consuming so I will likely not do it often. I am now up to date and have no other work to do and will hopefully move on to something else tomorrow.

Monday 1 Febuary 2016 - task

chloe_13a — 2016-02-01 16:06:41 UTC

This is the improved and completed mind map because I have added shots of the influences that I would like to imitate. I need to get permission for the places that I am planning to film in, the window corridor, pods and the motion room. With my production team, in our focus group, the suggestions that I was given were to film in front of the trees and grass area and to use my English teachers Leila and Jane because they also teach in this department. I also need to ask people to interview and get some other students to be able to have spare time for me to take part in the interviews.

Wednesday 3rd January 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-02-03 15:12:47 UTC

Today I have created a flow chart for my final media production toy help communicate my ideas and planning. I have also created a powerpiont to show people what i am doing for my final media production and to clearly p[resent the stages of my production. This could also help me to keep track of what i am doing and will need to do next when i begin to make it.

Monday 22nd February 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-02-22 17:19:53 UTC

Today we worked on the audio for the website, we wrote the questions we will be asking the staff and students-each student has to be from media, photography and journalism- and the we practised using the recording equipment, we tried to find what was best for us. I preferred using the clip on camera and an iPad using the iMovie app. Then we made a practise website to try and see what we might do with the actual website.

Tuesday 23rd February 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-02-23 15:45:31 UTC

We have been practising our interview techniques and how to use the equipment. We used an iPad for the camera and a clip on microphone. The problems are that the microphone is on a short leash, and it is difficult to keep everyone in the frame. Next time i would either use a boom microphone or move George to sit where Jayne is sitting so that he would not get his head cut out of the shot and Jayne's voice would be picked up more by the microphone. I like using the clip mic but the problem with it especially ion a group interview is that is on a very short wire, here we had to pu tit on a stool that is placed in front of the interviewees.

Wednesday 24th February 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-02-24 15:29:24 UTC

Today we have been again practising our audio recording and our interviewing techniques. It went badly. first of all we used a boom mic and camera to record our interviews, we first asked 3 level 3 media students our questions and then another media level 3 student. we have thought this person was a journalism student because he was in that area but it turned out to be a good thing because in the group interview only one person really answered. one problem we encountered was that there is a lot of wire that comes with a boom mic, and it has to be connected to a microphone. another was finding a camera, the first time we had no tripod with it but it has a nice shot when put on the window sill. the second time we did mange to get a tripod with it but the cameraman we had with it took a long time to set everything up the way we wanted it. Then we found out that journalists do not like being filmed. i approached at least 9 people and the only person who was willing turned out to be a media student. the worst thing that happened was when we reviewed the sound recording it was terrible, it had lots of background noise and you couldn't here the people talking. All the footage and the sound recording is completely unusable.
the only good thing that came from today was that we know how to use that equipment in the future and next time we will use the clip on microphones and an iPad to film it.

Monday 29th February 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-02-29 15:49:03 UTC

Today we have had to create qr codes and put them into a word document to be handed in for our submission of this unit. This has been extremely difficult because the internet has not been working so this task that should not have taken long has taken up a whole day we could have used for our interviews. We learnt how to publish our websiteTomorrow we will be interviewing people and doing some editing of the filming.

Tuesday 1st March 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-03-01 15:57:50 UTC

today we have been doing our interviews, we have done 2 level 3 media students and a level 2 media student, a journalism student and one of the teachers Delta. things have gone well apart from being moved around form room to room and finding the right people. two have been edited and put on youtube.

Wednesday 2nd March 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-03-02 15:34:25 UTC

Today we have completed our final interview with a photography student an Dave begun the editing for the other interviews. Over the weekend I hope to finish as much as possible.

Monday 7th March 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-03-07 19:46:19 UTC

I completed all my interviews and uploaded them onto YouTube, then linked them onto the website. I also uploaded the photography and the music video. Today was the first time that I had seen the video because the person who created it in our production group never asked us for help or our suggestions and when I watch the video I can't see that he used his mind map that he discussed when planning it with us. I do not feel as though I was in a group with him because he worked on the video with the person that he worked with on all his previous projects on all aspects of the video, even the planning, and had no interaction with the rest of his production group. On the other hand my other partner and myself worked with each other on our different projects and discussed different ideas with each other and got really involved with the work and I feel as though this helped a lot. I also worked closely with Jayne, another person who was working on audio like I was, we worked on doing the interviews together but edited them differently, she was good to work with and we got the work done faster together and it helped with being nervous when talking to strangers and using the equipment was better with two people.

Monday 7th March 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-03-07 20:02:09 UTC

http://chloedilley.simpl.com/
This is my finished website.

Wednesday 9th March 2016

chloe_13a — 2016-03-09 11:57:40 UTC

Luke Chambers is a fraud.
Today I had created and handed out questionnaires to ask people about my website, then I was asked to give an interview for Luke's website, this was the first time that I had watched his video that he had "created". As I watched it I became angrier and angrier because as I watched I saw that the footage was exactly the same as our groups video. The only difference was that he did different interviews and the rest of the footage was from YouTube and was of other people's work that he then put in his video. Or was from the original music video. I don't think there was any that was his own. I believe he should have a lower grade for someone else's work and their effort and taking the credit for himself, or he should be made to do it again properly like everyone else who created their videos had to.

chloe_13a — 2016-04-27 12:39:07 UTC

This is my photography student interview.

chloe_13a — 2016-04-27 12:40:52 UTC

This is my journalism interview.

chloe_13a — 2016-04-27 12:42:22 UTC

This is my tutor interview.