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post production

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 Over the last few weeks be, and my group have struggled to get much of the project has we have all been busy and unable to meet up this was due to having other exams and projects due. We did agree to try to meet one of the weeks, but it was cancelled due to storm Barra, and we talked online instead. We have all recorded our part in the video separately at home and discussed how the video will be laid out. Not only that, but we have decided that we will show some images during our video, so it will be more interesting to watch rather than us just talking for the whole video. I am currently editing the video still as my group only sent the videos earlier today. This will be the first draft of our video and I will be sending it to my group tomorrow, so I can get their input before we finalize the video. My group emailed me their videos in clips to make it easier for me to edit, and they have attached another file with the images they would like to be shown as they speak in the video....
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media representation

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 This week for our blog works we are continuing the topic of media ethics but this week we are focusing on the topic of representation in media and how it affects all people in relation to gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicities, cultures, nationality, religion and creed. Some of these groups are underrepresented and unfairly represented in today’s media, and the videos we were asked to watch showed this. Video one: The first video titled “Why Representation Matters” was a short video with many different speakers who were all asked the same question “Why Representation Matters”. My favourite opinion from this video was given by Jasmine C. Leyla, in short, Jasmine said when you create spaces online where people of different races, body types and different sexual orientations don’t exist you are creating a lie that is harmful to the viewer. Another opinion that was given by a few different speakers was having content that they can relate to and having the ability to see some...
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media compression

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  For this week’s blog, I have been asked to different watch videos on media compression and to share my experience and what information I have learned from these videos. Media compression can be done to videos or images, it is the process of making a file smaller without removing any of the content, This is done by removing unimportant information within the file, so it can be compressed. There are only 4 different ways that the data size in a video and photo can be compressed. The first way would be by lowering the frames per second (FPS) in a video, for example, let’s say for every minute of video you record is at 60 FPS, that means every minute has 60 pictures within it and by lowering that to 30 FPS you could cut down on the file size with a noticeable difference, but this can only be done so much before it becomes noticeable. From the video showing examples of different frame rates is seems that anything below 30 FPS looked choppy and unrealistic, most games nowadays run ...
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Peer Review #2

 For peer review, this week I was asked to give feedback on two different blogs instead of just one, both blogs I read were very well written, and I enjoyed reading both, this also made it harder to give feedback on them as there was not much too critic. The blogs that I gave feedback on had two very different themes, one blog discussed media ethics and the other was about cameras. The blogs also had two very different styles of writing, one blog was written as if it was being presented to an audience, while the other blog felt as the writer was speaking to just the reader. It was nice to see how other students’ blogs are written, and seeing their blogs helps me structure my and give me ideas on different ways I can approach writing my blog. I noticed as I was reading the blogs and giving my feedback on their blogs that there were many ways I could improve my blog, for example, the addition of an intro and outro to the blog makes it look a lot better. I feel like the peer review he...
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technological evolution

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  The videos for this week started with a timeline showing the evolution of technology over the last ten million years and ended by discussing how technology and media may influence our future. The first video starts by showing us the first tool made by humans which tool made from stone, wood, antlers, and bones and ends in the year 2020 with the invention of quantum computers. Even though the video starts off with an invention from ten million years ago, most of the significant advancements have only then placed over the last two thousand years. I noticed that there were a lot more technological advancements after the invention of the printing press, and the time between advancements also started to shorten, this was because as reading became more accessible to the public and as a result more people could be educated. The second and third videos are on the history of media literacy, and start by telling us that the term or field of media literacy only became a thing around the 1...
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media literacy

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 I found the week 4 reading tasks a lot more manageable than the week 3 reading tasks as the first two opinion pieces really helped me, I found this to be a much better experience than the previous reading week as the opinion-based articles were much easier for me to understand. Some of the things I found interesting from the first opinion piece was some statistics were very surprising to me, I thought there would be a higher percentage of people would say that there was misleading information across the first month of the lockdown as this is when I remember seeing lots of false information on social media mainly and even people denying that the virus was real. Across the first month of the lock-down (48%) of northern Irish people reported seeing misleading information, and even though this is still a very high percentage of people, I thought it would have been higher.   After reading the second opinion-based article and comparing the surveys from last year in Northern Ireland...
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towards production

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 This week my group as sat down, and we have decided which sub-topic we will each be talking about when discussing online shaming and cancel culture. The sub-topic I have chosen to talk about is people who have been cancelled and was it justified, for this topic I will mainly be focusing on celebrities who have been cancelled online and how they dealt with it and how it affected their career. Other subtopics we have chosen to discuss were what social media platforms does online shaming take place on and the effect of online shaming and cancel culture on people’s mental health. We haven’t decided how the script will be laid out yet, so we decided to each do our own sub-topic done first and figure it out after because at least then we will have most of the script done.   I have also taken on the role of editor for this project as I have experience in graphic design and video editing and it something I enjoy doing, I will also be teaching some of my group the basics of editin...
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