On Wednesday me and Hayley presented our idea for the Museum of Liverpool which was based on the target group of an Angler. We struggled during the build-up of the presentation as the target group we were given wasn't the most easiest of audience's to entice into coming to a Museum, therefore we ended up thinking of an exhibit to celebrate 30 years of the Mersey Basin Campaign set up by Michael Heseltine.
In the presentation we showed a Prezi that showed our tutors the stages we went through to think of a final idea and included research we had done, character profiles, initial ideas and our final idea. Here is a link to the prezi http://prezi.com/t5njrv8endqv/angler/ .
I personally don't think the presentation went very well as we didn't plan as much as we could have and also because there was only 2 of us, we lacked in creativity for our idea. I don't feel completely positive that we will get a good mark for this assignment but I am hoping to do well in my 1500 word essay which will reflect on problems we had, what we could have done and how we reached our idea.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Presentation of Our Online Fictional Characters...
Today we presented our online fictional characters to the class and our tutors through the 3 websites we produced for them. As you may already know from my previous blogs, my group's fictional character was Kyle Jackson, a Liverpudlian graduate who emmigrated to Australia to become a lifeguard instructor. Collectively we created a Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr account for Kyle to see how others would interact with him and whether they believed it was a real person or not. Successfully Kyle gained 62 followers and around 70 Facebook friends which was a clear indicator that people believed it was a real person.
I enjoyed tweeting and writing Facebook status's for Kyle as it allowed me to escape from my own life and imagine how another person would live in a whole other country with a different lifestyle.
I also enjoyed watching how other groups had developed their characters and had created short videos on Youtube and audio clips on Soundcloud as it made their characters seem more realistic in a sense and showed how easy it was to interact with other fictional characters for example Josie's group who were a set of friends living in one flat. I found this as a good approach as it allowed them to create the notion of a sitcom which may have been entertaining if it was a real programme.
The only problems i had with this task was that at times I found it hard to think of what to tweet for Kyle as he led a pretty normal life for a guy who lives in Australia and in the end taught me to try and think more creatively when developing a character online.
I enjoyed tweeting and writing Facebook status's for Kyle as it allowed me to escape from my own life and imagine how another person would live in a whole other country with a different lifestyle.
I also enjoyed watching how other groups had developed their characters and had created short videos on Youtube and audio clips on Soundcloud as it made their characters seem more realistic in a sense and showed how easy it was to interact with other fictional characters for example Josie's group who were a set of friends living in one flat. I found this as a good approach as it allowed them to create the notion of a sitcom which may have been entertaining if it was a real programme.
The only problems i had with this task was that at times I found it hard to think of what to tweet for Kyle as he led a pretty normal life for a guy who lives in Australia and in the end taught me to try and think more creatively when developing a character online.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Rough Edit of Factual Short...
In yesterday's Production Practice session, we went in a few hours earlier to prepare our rough edit to show Corin and Camilla at 2pm. We put all the footage we had together into a sequence and realised that the narrative for our factual short didn't have much depth as we were only able to interview one hairdresser at the salon which limited our overall views on male grooming. Once Corin and Camilla had seen our rough edit of the film, they suggested that we get in touch with local magazines and websites to widen our narrative and to make it seem more like a factual film rather than another personal profile. I think its going to be a little difficult for us to adhere to our tutors requests at this stage as we have less than a week before the submission deadline but i'll be sure to let you know how we get on!
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Developing a Realistic Character...
In today's session we were given the brief for our next assignment which shares similarities with the Weavr task we were given last week. However this time our tutors wanted us to be a bit more creative with the new character by setting up not only a Facebook account but three other online platforms that would represent our character to the social network. My group have already set up a Facebook and Twitter account for our character, Kyle Jackson and plan on creating a blog and Vimeo alongside these.
Here are a couple screen shots of Kyle's Twitter and Facebook but if you wish to look at his full profile then links to both follow shortly after the pictures, so take a quick look! :)
Here are a couple screen shots of Kyle's Twitter and Facebook but if you wish to look at his full profile then links to both follow shortly after the pictures, so take a quick look! :)
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