group content producer final post

It has come to a close…no more fashion zeitgeist!! I was getting into user-generated fashion media content so much more towards the end of this assignment as well, I suppose to continue this on I can work towards my career at fashionair.com. This was the most rewarding and useful task of the production project course in my opinion. Thinking about it properly, once some people had gotten over their hatred for mytribe and creating content, it was clear to me that this was just like working on a production as we have in previous years, only we could choose to do exactly what we wanted!! Upon reflection, this was fantastic for me because it was an avenue other than just film that I could explore. I believe I am one of the few that does not want to go into film making after the degree, and in this sense the group content producer task has helped me.

So what worked and what didn’t now that all is said and done? Facebook groups. They don’t work!! Not for a project like this anyway where the majority of our joiners and producers would need to see us come up in a newsfeed for the project to be advertised; being a group initially, we were not advertised. So we quickly changed to a “page”, much like the mytribe that our tutorial was creatively working on and building up. Assessing this, did the page work? Initially, yes. We had fans, we were showing up in people’s feeds, we had lots of fashion images, videos, links and more. It was going really well. While the facebook page was doing well, the tumblrs theme was letting us down and thus the project was counterbalanced. I found this happened most steps of the way during the production of Zeitgeist. While the facebook did well, our tumblr site didn’t and vice versa. Can I explain this? Yes. Having not worked as social media producers before (I’m sure we have in a way, just without the flashy title) we we’re not able to balance the work between all trans-media platforms. Essentially, when we created our short vox-pop style films, we focused all our energy into these, leaving the facebook and tumblr sites without new content for quite sometime. We we’re so focused on getting content from users that for a time there, we sat back not knowing what to do; how many links and photos of ourselves could we upload?

Then came the rough-cut presentation and the feedback really helped us so that we could balance the work literally ,’cross-platform’ and make each avenue as successful as one another, but make separate uses for them. Please refer to the link here for the blog post on our group content producer rough cut: http://hollyam.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/the-cut-was-so-rough/

After we implemented the ‘tagging’ photo phase of the Zeitgeist project on facebook and changed our websites theme to a magazine style, things we’re back on track.

Assessing the content of what we created, the short videos could have been a lot better I must say and for this I am going to mark myself down. We had this idea in our head that we we’re a website production, an online/cross-platform/social-networking project and didn’t need to be film savvy for this task. We thought wrong. This was clear in the rough cut presentations where the quality of our first vox pop video was heavily criticised, for the better though. For the second vox pop video, Sam and I used a Z1p camera instead with an outer attached mic. The previous time we just used Sam’s digital SLR. This made a huge difference. however due to the rushed nature of our shoots, they still turned out not nearly as good as some of the other online groups’ videos we saw on presentation night. I know I always dub myself as not very well technically minded, but here I should have thought of quality and content on the same level. This is the part that let our project down I feel.

Our website really projected our content well and showed up just as the fashion magazine we wanted. I do wish I was more HTML savvy though because it would have been fantasic to have our site in BETA format, just like the fashionair.com one.

In terms of the presentation, well, our sound didn’t work. You’d think being media students we could overcome all technical problems, but apparently not! Still, Kendal did a fantastic job of narrating over the top of the ishowu video we had made to showcase all our content. This worked really well in the end despite there being no music, compared to other groups who we’re navigating around different sites. It was good to show the progress we had made on the facebook page in the video as well.

Thanks to Kendal and Sam for all their great work and enthusiam throughout the whole Zeitgeist project. Their deep interest in the fashion world and Melbourne street fashion and life really brought the project, and our group members, together. Thanks also to Kyla for the input and constructive criticism throughout the semester; without her help we would still just be posting status’ trying to get people to create content!

MARK: 79/100

mi1 final blog post.

Time to sum-up Media Industries 1- already!?

Coming into the group late, I had to find my feet and work with the needs and wants of my other group members and where they wanted me to be and what they wanted me to work on. After a lengthy group discussion in class during week four it came to my attention that I had a slightly more advanced knowledge on the topic of our groups research project, How to Be Successful In Australia Cinema, having undertaken the course ‘Australian Cinema’ in second year Media and therefore, decided to take more of a leader’s role within the group. I helped each person who was not so clear on what we were trying to achieve in the overall project understand how they could apply the knowledge they already had into some of the sub-topics we were focusing on. For example, Natasha had not studied Australian Cinema last year, but has a strong and passionate interest in independent and student film and therefore, I was able to work with Natasha on this and together we implemented her strong desire for the topic into the overall project.

From here however, my main interest developed into more of a case study using research I had already undertaken and other case studies to compare the opinions I have been forming. The case study is based around cultural cinema in Australia and whether it is commercially viable. In this case, my role changed from administering the group and finding interviewees to video to being the “organiser” as Marty put it and creating text research and forming opinions.

In a way this change in role was good for me, because I am not particularly technically minded in the way of cameras and editing and although I did attend most interview shoot sessions and editing sessions, I was not a lot of help and offered my expertise in opinion rather than in technical excellence.

When it came down to crunch time and neared the presentation day, I played the role of producer as one would in a production and got everyone into gear. I organised necessary meetings and showed up on time to them, I ensured everyone knew their tasks that had to be completed by presentation day and helped out with this where needed. I took up the role of ‘Introducer and Concluder” on presentation day and my actual case study is shown in more detail on the website being handed in tomorrow.

In summary of my role throughout the project, I was happiest when I was constructing my case study and gathering text research from the AFI Research Centre and online and attending industry seminars. When it turned into me being the one who was ‘checking up’ and introducing and concluding, I didn’t enjoy this quite as much. It was a good job, don’t get me wrong’ but during the presentation, I had the feeling I may have been viewed as the one who didn’t have to do any research…please refer to our website for my extensive research!

As previously mentioned, I am not as technically brilliant as most of my other group members and thus, found my research capability in the area of video interviews not as substantiated as it is in other areas of research. My greatest research capability is being able to read for long long periods of time. Give me 6 hours in the State Library with some lollies and a coffee and I could read and take notes on Australian cinema, or any topic for that matter, for hours. I actually enjoy this, unless the topic is mathematics or something, as strange as it sounds. However, due to the intial idea and intended final product format, my skills didn’t come in handy as an overall contribution to the group.

Although I didn’t know what was going on when the group was chatting away about Z1ps and z7s and in-built mics and what not, I was able to show up to the shoots and I came in handy as the interviewer! That is the kind of thing I want to do anyway, if I don’t end up news reading or television presenting it will be producing so in essence, all tasks I have undertaken during this research project have been relevant to my future career (hopefully my future career!)

In regards to the creation of our website, Tim has to take credit for the most of it, but in regards to much of the textual evidence on cultural film I am pleased to say that this is where my favored research methods could be used. It was here that my technical weaknesses got in the way and at times made me feel as though I was not doing the same amount of work as some other members of my group, but I hope that the hours put into organisation and other forms of research can make up for that.

The strategies we used in relation to collaboration we’re relatively simply but worked very well for a group of 7 – facebook threads! There has been no better way, I have found, sometimes better than text messages, than communicating with the whole group via a facebook thread. Here, even if a member does not check it for a few days, is able to scroll up and sort through all the banter and new ideas that the group has been coming up with. Tim also created a “Australian Cinema- Media Industries” facebook group where we could communicate larger documents (reports and research material) via the discussion board. However, this sometimes proved to be a problem as the group is not notified when someone contributes to a discussion board. Essentially, it was not helpful for immediate communication.

The greatest strategy for our group was to work in pairs or individually on the assigned topic outlined in our project brief and then update the group on the material we had found by posting links to our blog where we had reflected on it, or to explain what we had found in a facebook thread. By everyone finding out who they wanted to interview and what they wanted to ask them individually, the group was just able to follow along and help out and when it was their turn to take charge of an interview, everyone would do the same for them.

The biggest problem we faced was the decision to nail down one strong and creative final product for the project. From the beginning the group had been split in half on two different end results; some on a website and some on a short documentary. At one point the idea of having both got tossed around. Eventually, we came to realise that this was all far too much to get done in a matter of a months time. We can keep dreaming!

So after our second little progress meeting with Christina we called an urgent group meeting, as we only had one week until the rough-cut presentation was due. We needed to decide urgently on the final product and over the coming three weeks before the final presentation, who would do what. The urgent meeting to  place on the Tuesday before the rough cut and it was decided that the final product would be a website. A documentary with the video interviews we had would literally look just like a heap of long interviews pieced together in one; boring! Tim got the interview going before the rough-cut and we all had put our heads down and nutted our the main things we’d learnt over the semester to use as a little speech.

The rough cut didn’t quite go as we’d hoped, nor did the presentation for that matter! Please refer to my previous blog posts on these topics.

How did we resolve the problems of the rough-cut? We recognised the problems we faced while presenting and assessed what worked and didn’t work. What went wrong? Our timing, and my use of videos from the internet. You’d think doing a media degree would rid you of all silly technical errors; it doesn’t! Secondly, our indiviudal speeches went for way too long. We seriously seriously needed to cut them down, and have a much more coherent and whole visual presentation instead of 7 different disjointed ones. And we needed to make sure that each speech wasn’t covering the same as the other; that said, 6 out of 7 speeches spoke about funding, again, boring!

By the following Friday we had new strategies and plans for the presentation to tell/show Christina and everything came together nicely.

Other than the technical issues regarding our quicktime videos on the presentation day, I think each group member spoke very well and we had a very well structed, coherent and organised presentation.

I think Media Industries started out, to be perfectly honest here, as another research assignment where a lot of people would do no work until the last week of term and then slap a couple of written pieces together along with a bibliography and boom we were done. But no! It came to surprise me. It was a very industry-based and very hardcore research assignments that sometimes really tested a lot of us. We needed to ‘think outside the box’. If we did just do a few mini essays and read them out, we’d be the losers of the pack. It almost turned into a ‘who’s project is the most creative?’, ‘who’s is the funniest’, ‘who has the best topic’ and so on. Which essentially, is what made it so interesting and made everyone work so hard on it. At the end of the day, each presentation was extremely well thought-out and the research material was of a very high standard in my opinion. Most people had done more than hit the library.

Can I see the research and skills I gained from the project being used in my future career? It depends where I end up I guess! If I somehow end up slaving away in a retail store as I do now, then no. But of course I won’t be doing that will i! In many ways, I can see myself using it, mostly because I took on more of a producer’s role in the presentation, as this role seems to be coming to me naturally these days. Some days I see myself being a film critic due to the amount of films I watch and find myself unconsciously critiquing, so in that sense some of what I have gained out of the assignment would be used there. Other wise, I don’t really see myself using the ‘research’ itself, more the producing, organising and interview gaining skills I learnt. The most important thing I learnt was how to contact industry professionals and what not to do when contacting them.

In essence, I had a fantastic group to work with, all of whom I can honestly say pulled equal work effort throughout the entire semester. No one let anyone down at any point in time and this is what made our group get along so well but communicate and collaborate extremely well too.

Final SMP blog post.

At the beginning of semester, I was struggling understand the definition of a social media producer and was concerned and how I would literally become one and have completed a task only 12 weeks later. When you look at the title on a basic level, it may seem relatively obvious; you’re producing social media. But what is social media? Yes, over the past 2 years (2 and a half now) we have learnt that social media is where users are active, not passive and consume and eventually create their own media. They are interacting via the media. The most common forms of social media/social networking are Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube etc. Taking the definition at the literal form again then, I would take it to mean that I was creating something like Facebook or Twitter..which obviously we are not! I missed the first week of tutorials so it took me slightly longer than everyone else to connect with what a social media producer does. LINK: http://hollyam.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/production-project-1-pool-smp-mytribe-what/

Once I drew connections with the chapters of Henry Jenkins we read, plus the extensive research I undertook in TV Cultures course last semester and the job of a social media producer, I knew where I was headed- user-generated content. Community mentoring. Getting in touch with already active users and physically, getting them to use the content by creating their own content. And in relation to our tutorial project as a whole, finding a tribe. This would be my individual job for the coming semester. So what did I do first?

Once I understood the nature of the social media producer task of Production Project 1 and after we had the very informative lecture from David on what defines a tribe (I loved this lecture, it really just set me on my path to what I had to do for the course), I headed down the road I know best; fashion. What could be better than working in media and fashion for a third year project, particularly because that is where I would like to end up next year. I needed something more than stories about how much people loved fashion or what shops/labels they love though. So I bought it back to Melbourne, and back to the streets. Melbourne’s everyday cool fashion. And how could I make this a racy and vibrant fashion piece like we were seeing at the time of the job plan at the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival? It needed to be videos, racey music and inspiring everyday stylists. So that was the idea I handed in for my job plan, and it got very good feedback. LINK: http://hollyam.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/smp-job-plan-and-schedule/

Then along came the group content producer task and POOF! my smp task has merged into the group task. Which essentially, was fine by me, as upon reflection my smp task would have needed a lot more input and technical skill than just my own and the community I was fostering involvement from. Where would this take my SMP task now though? No where, for a long time.

How did this effect my progress a social media producer over the course of semester? In the beginning, it stressed me out. With my task now being a group project, I could not create a new job plan and find a new niche community to mentor with only 8 weeks left of semester. To Pool for me! http://hollyam.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/swimmin-in-the-pool/

I had been swimming through Pool for a little while but at the beginning of semester it was more about getting in touch with how Pool worked, working my way through the interface and thinking up ideas for content that I could upload. There was not a lot of mytribe material up there for sometime. Because of this, I became concerned with my lack of commenting and therefore, community mentoring of the mytribe gang and of my chosen niche community. This was when I started to think up a new avenue for SMP to get myself back into the world of user-generated content and do the work I set out to as an SMP. LINK: http://hollyam.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/mentoring-the-mytribe-community-and-other-communities/

Did I get the tute-specific activities done on time to an acceptable standard? Did I successfully recruit, grow and harvest the community I targeted? Was I a good ‘community mentor’ modeling recommended behaviours on Pool?

In relation to our tutorial activity, running our facebook site, I did each job I set out to here. I was first cab off the rank for this task and initially, I did find it hard to get into it. I didn’t understand why at first, as I spend so much of time on facebook. But this time it was different. I needed to be creative, thoughtful and really think about the types of things that would get the mytribe community and other users into our project. Firstly, I began two discussion boards, the first one being a voting system on the top 10 pieces of content uploaded to pool for the week. Here I was directing the community to pool, modeling recommended behaviours for pool. This would also create comments and popularity for the mytribe content up on pool. Did it work? The thing I found hardest about having the discussion groups was that they were not advertised in anyones ‘newsfeed’ and only if you contributed to the board, would you receive notifications about it. Essentially, this way of creating interaction did not work. I began changing the status extremely regularly, putting callouts, questions and links here. This would show up in everyone’s newsfeed, and it worked. In regards to some of my peers work on the mytribe facebook page, I liked the way Emma Judd and Stacey bought it back to the core of what the predominant number of members are concerned with; university, money, holidays and media-making! There we’re status updates about where we’d like to travel to and more in relation to the mytribe project as a whole. I did complete all tasks I set out to on time, and for the first week, I think Julian and I did a great job of making the facebook noticeable, approachable and vibrant. We really kicked off trends for the semester.

Did I complete the tasks I set out to in my SMP job plan and did I harvest the community I wanted to? I did, but in my group content producer project and I feel this is a problem. So where did my community mentoring and fostering of involvement come from? I was still able to apply my knowledge and learn more through commenting on mytribe works on pool, and assessing the work of my peers and from here, understanding what it means to be a community mentor, a social media producer. It would have been easy for me to sit back and forget about my SMP task until it was time to write this blog and then trying and piece something together that would seemingly lie about actually taking on the role of an SMP. But I never take the easy road and although I did run into problems with achieving my individual job plan on my own, I recognised this a while ago and thus took part in commenting and relating to the fostered involvement on pool from different communities. I took in how my peers we’re working on community mentoring on the mytribe facebook, twitter and pool sites and how they we’re doing it in their SMP tasks as well. This helped me realise that my community and task I set out was too much for one person with the limited amount of time and three other university subjects and I should have narrowed my idea down at the beginning.

The aspect I am most happy about is that I am able to recognise that the task was too big, but that it is something that is more than achieveable in my future on my own, with more time and resources and more of a willingness to foster involvement and more of an understanding of community mentoring.

SELF ASSESSMENT GRADE: 80/100.

production project 2- analysing a doco.

For this part of the pp2 (or is it pp1?) assessment, I chose to look at two different documentaries (ones I have watched multiple times before), so I only looked at segments and their relation to the entire films, as I could not settle on one 30 min doco to write on. The highly explosive film Touching The Void, directed by Kevin Macdonald essentially capture Simpson and Yates’ moment that has been stated as “a breathless moment that combines great danger with the need to make a spilt-second decision”  that they came face to face with on Siula Grande. Touching The Void is a reenactment documentary and compared to my previous experiences with re-enactments never being that good, Macdonald has done a fantastic job in making the experience up on the mountain so incredibly real, which it really needed to be for such an epic and emotional journey. Touching The Void has been labelled a docu-drama, and in relation to the documentary Kath and I are wanting to create next semester, I suppose this is how we would like to label ours. As stated by Warren Curry in his interview with Macdonald, Touching the Void is “both a dramatic recreation of the events with a traditional documentary approach to the story”. Touching the Void’s highly dramatic effect is achievable through Macdonald’s meshing of found footage of Simpson and Yate’s journey on Suila Grande and the so very real re-enactment of their experiences.

Macdonald’s switching between shots, for example of the re-enactment of an extreme moment up on the mountain followed by found footage of the effect of this moment on either character gave emotion and I suppose closure and truth to the story. Without the found footage and only re-enactment, the audience would be left open to interpretation of whether the events actually happened in the portrayed way or not. The combination of the interviews with both Simpson and Yates themselves and the re-enactments of the climb provide a compelling and breath-taking account of Simpson’s “human capacity to overcome the most insurmountable of odds”(Curry, Warren 2004). Liam Ward stated during a class last year “you cannot just point a camera at guilt”  and I believe this is evident in Touching The Void where Macdonald re-creates Simpson and Yates’ treacherous adventure on Siula Grande, he basically  films the un-filmable.

An point that interests me is that in an interview with director Kevin Macdonald, he tells that he does not “necessarily like the whole notion of reconstruction” . Essentially, he felt that by utilising actors in the documentary, it often made them seem cheesy and thus, diverts from the aim of portraying reality. He saw  that “when you go from the real people to the drama, the drama is weak” . However, to avoid this happening, Macdonald explains that instead of shooting in a studio like other mountaineering films, they shot on location at Siula Grande, in very bad conditions, to create a sense that the audience was there on the mountain following them. So, Macdonald has basically successfully captured “catching life, ‘sur le vif’ (on the go).

The second film I looked at and is probably my most favorite documentary is Forbidden Lie$, directed by Anna Broinowski. One of the best bits about this documentary is the clever title, before I watched it I thought it was a typo! But it is just so totally clever and really puts a spin on Khouri’s ‘stories’ for you. Broinowski’s aim of the documentary is to capture the actuality of Norma Khouri’s life and lies. Broinowski embarks on a journey to penetrate into Khouri’s web of lies and charge of deception that she has spun throughout her entire adult life it seems, from the age of 19. Like Macdonald, Broinowski insert an indexical bond in their films, engaging the audience with elements of the historical real.

The beginning of the documentary film appears realistic and immediately engages the audience with Khouri’s horrible account of her best friend Dalia’s ‘honour killing’ in Jordan when she was a teenager and why she decided to escape and write her book, Forbidden Love. However, the documentary becomes intensely powerful and interesting when Broinowski reveals Malcolm Knox’s 2004 Sydney Morning Herald article exposing Khouri as a “con-artist extraordinaire and her book as a publishing hoax”(Knox, 2004). From this point on, Broinowski attempts to film what essentially is not pro-filmic, from the words of the book that is, or perhaps even ‘Real’; the truth of Norma Khouri. Fundamentally, Broinowski uses Khouri in her film to take her on the journey to Jordan with a film crew “to prove that she had not been lying”. Forbidden Lie$ exposes the faction; fact and fictionof Norma Khouri’s tale, Forbidden Love and demonstrates that documentaries are about real life; they are not real life. They are portraits of real life, using real life as their raw material.

The cinematography of Forbidden LieS is stunning and my most favorite shot is where Khouri is placed on a studio set on a white photographic backing set on chair, looking at herself in a television screen, while Broinowski is off-set but asking questions to Khouri almost as though she is on the ‘wings’ of the set. It is like Khouri’s lies are not only spilling out for the audience, but for herself on the tv screen she is on as well. The dialogue in this scene is brilliant.

These two films are two of my favorite documentaries, man-o-man wouldn’t it be fantastic to be able to make something like this!!

production project 2- nicholas building doco idea.

We had the final pp2 intro studio two weeks ago and Kathryn and I have just been muddling our doco idea around further in our head since then. We are so excited to do our film noir/re-enactment style documentary but we really need to do a lot of research into the style and get a lot of practise in the filming/special effects before we actually begin-it is something neither of us have dabbled in before.

THE IDEA:

A Re-enactment style documentary using film noir effects in the style of Hitchcock and the old Sherlock Holmes films portraying a subjects experience with a private investigator, using the Nicholas Building top floor (predominantly the old-school ‘Private Investigators’ office door) as our location. The re-enactment style will make it as though all the action took place years ago at the Nicholas Building.

The biggest problems Kath and I are going to face is actually finding a film-worthy experience someone has had with a private investigator. I think we need to hit up some police stations, even getting in touch with Christina Pozzan who produced Carla Cometti, a P.I drama series for the ABC and see where they got their inspiration, research and ideas from. We need to really get cracking on this research right away otherwise semester will start, all other groups will be able to get out there and film their docos and we’ll still be looking for a subject and a story, and then will be far behind with casting calls (not something usually done for documentaries).

On the topic of casting calls, they will have to be conducted fairly close to the beginning of semester if not before, because unlike filming a fiction with actors all on one day, doco is film sporadically and thus, actors will need to be available sporadically also. In this case, I am thinking of not going with StarNow online talent agency which a lot of us students, as I have had quite negative experiences with them…very unreliable. We need someone who will be there for the long haul, not wanting to be around for one day of shooting then out again.

Inspiration wise, I have watched Touching The Void, which although has nothing to do with the topic on which we are basing our doco, it is a re-enactment style documentary and I also chose to write on it for part one of this PP2 (or is it pp1?) assessment. We also studied it in True Lies: Documentary course last year (along with the whole re-enactment theory/style if you like) so I will be digging up my old course readings and essays for more research on re-enactment in doco. Although I laugh at them (which I shouldn’t because I’m sure ours will look far worse!) but I always watch Channel 9′s “Australian Crime Families” documentary show on Sunday nights (mainly because I have a crazy obsession with the Australian underworld), which has all re-enactment sequences in it and I can get some inspiration from here too.

I think Kath and I will need to take some time in the edit suites before we start shooting, maybe get a few lessons from some of our fellow film/final cut guru students on special effects and how we should shoot a film noir style doco. If we pull it off (which we will!) it’s is going to look awesome.

I have also been studying Hitchcock’s Vertigo in my Histories of Film Theory course and taking it’s basic plot of the protagonist being a private investigator in a Hitchcock style film (thriller, dark, crazy cool), this is what we want to produce as a doco, but with a true story. I will be looking to this a lot for style conventions.

Let’s get to work!

presentation day!

First up is always bad, no matter what people say about getting the thing out of the way! As Murphy’s law says “anything that could go wrong will go wrong” and of course that happened to us today!! Man, I am sick of Quicktime and PC computers, incompetent! The same thing happened at my friend’s 21st the weekend before when I made a speech with a video I had made…made it on a mac, worked perfectly on a mac..got it onto a pc…image freezes and sound plays or vice-versa. The same thing happened to us today, so basically, the look and intention of our presentation was ruined! Oh well, there wasn’t a lot we could do about it once we were into the presentation because we were on a tight schedule. Luckily our team had good speeches without the videos so the show went on! It is just depressing to have done all that editing and timing and hardwork, to have it fail on the day. Never trust technology. (or just PCs)

Presentations that really stood out for me (excuse me here I have forgotten what the group names we’re) was Bridget Lodge’s group presentation. I thought their use of international case studies and evidence was a nice change from all the Aussie focused groups. The political case study in relation to the media was fantastic. Their use of video and audio on top of text (mostly statistics) really showed the culmination of all their evidence.

Another one was Milan, Em, Rose, Iasha and I’m sorry but I’ve forgotton who else was in that group! Their study of youtube and ‘how to be successful on youtube’ was hilarious. And it was positioned so well in the day; just before lunch so everyone was feeling happy from their presentation and full from the yummy lunch. Actually making a video to see how it went on youtube and monitering how it went is seriously the science project way of testing and I like it. Field work. Awesome stuff

To be honest, there was actually no group that made me think ‘wow, you guys have really done no work’. It was a totally different day to what I first apprehended, I was focused all day! It was pleasing to see everyone really getting into their topics and showing that they actually enjoyed the assignment. Another thing that really stood out was the way in which each member in each group was fantastic at presenting themselves and talking. Everyone spoke to the audience, projected themselves well and never spoke into their piece of paper or computer.

A really great job to all.

i Show u ;)

I don’t know if I have been living under a rock for this entire degree because I don’t seem to know about all these super cool programs on Mac that people have been using for various projects, but Kendall has just shown me my favorite by far…i show u. No more powerpoint presentations for me in the future!

Kendall has created an entire film for our groups final presentation using this program, which lets you capture your actions on your computer screen  i.e scrolling up and down a page or navigation through a website. You get the clips you want to use, it animates it, and then you pop it into imovie and edit it together . It looks awesome. It is just what we need to make our Zeitgeist presentation fun and give it the cool vibe it really needs, it would have been so boring just flicking onto our various pages and going, look at this, look at this blah blah blah. Now we have a film  do it for us! And we have one of Kendall’s muso friends racey songs to the film as well. We well be narrating over the video during the presentation just to show the steps we took to our final project and really hone in what we ended up with. I am really excited for the presentation now. Kendall also popped in clips from our vox pop video and finishes the film with the final dudes definition of Melbourne street fashion- cool. We will also put clips from the videos we are making this Friday into the final video, just to show our journey all the way through.

WOO!