Digital Journalism- Reflection

After watching all the presentations I do feel we could of added more and taken a different approach. I am still happy though with the things I learned. Seeing some flaws it did frustrate me. At the beginning of our presentation our slide with the heading moved to fast. Faster than how it did on my laptop somehow but fast enough that you didn't see what our Digital Journalism piece was on. I'm guessing people had to fill in the pieces once they heard our voiceover. 

I would of changed the voiceover on the quiz and had it more so as a game. It's easier to look back now and wish you could change things but that was our own fault changing that part so last minute. I did feel this mission was harder han the others.

I will admit yes I could of given alot more to this mission than what I did and thats my own downfall but it's a learning curve and I know that ive the potential if I push myself. The tools given by Shaun had been extremly useful and helped map out the presentation with alot more ease but more imagination could of been used on our part. Not my favourite mission but my favourite lesson. Hard work shows.

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Digital Journalism- Presentation

This assignemt did not go to plan. For the presentation we had some ideas floating around. Starting with history over the years talking about the most horrifying times to then doing a 2019 rewind. Going through music, movies and viral sensations. 

I thought the 2019 Rewind would be a great idea. Getting inspiration from the Google trends. This is a website where you can type in 2018 for example and any country and it will give you all the trends in the country over the year. It gave me a great idea for the Digital Journalism. A video of some of the best moments in 2019 and just in time for the new year.

We came up with the idea of doing a timeline of all the music hits of 2019 that way still using tools Shaun wanted us to use. This is where it got difficult. We were unsure of the best approach for the next part. We wanted to show the best movies of 2019 and wanted to do it in a quiz format. The presentation is a video presentnation and i was afraid it would look awful having it slow down in some bits and having an awkward silence. We agreed on a voiceover on this section yet none of use were too happy on the idea either but decided to change this part of the assignemnt very last minute.

A 2019 viral trend had been Tik Tok and this we knew we had to jump into ourselves and thought it would be something fun to add to the video.Tik Tok has been huge in 2019 with alot of known celebrities making quite an income on being Tik Tok famous.

The editing process wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Having experience using premier pro after the second mission. Voiceovers was a new challenge. It's something i had never done before and because I had recorded them on my phone I had to transfer them to my ipad, add to dropbox and then get them onto premier pro. That is something i found quite difficult but managed. Eventually the presentation came together and i was happy with the end result.

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Third Mission- Digital Journalism

Today i've been putting some thought into the best way to approach Digital Journalism. I have no knowledge on it first hand,  even though it's something I would see daily on the internet on news pop up's. Digital Journalism is a form of journalism where the content is published online as apposed to on newspapers or broadcasted.

For this mission we have to pick a topic and discuss it in a Digital Journalism format. This sentence alone makes my head spin. The role of a Journalism is to story-tell and to stay as close to the truth as possible. Picking a topic we want it to tell a story and also for it to be interest for our viewers to see. Online journalism has to grasp the viewers attention. Unlike news papers it's about colours used, different fonts, what pictures are shown.

Shaun has given us tools that he wants us to use in the presentnation and i'm unsure if like everything else he wants to see our use of using these tools mainly or if our main thing is to tell a story and having some small snippets of the tools that we used.

I can find this being one of the harder missions we have come across yet.

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Youtubing- Reflection

I've learned a lot throughout this mission and it was filled with its challenges. For a start seeing how this was my first time ever editing any videos, I found my first experience to be a good one. Using Premiere Pro and having the initial tutorials on how to use the app made everything so much easier. I will definetely be using it in the future and hopefully have it as a skill I can develop on further.

Once I decided on doing Youtube videos on something i actually enjoy it made the whole experienec a lot easier also. After myself and Leslie did our videos and comparing the analyitics,  it showed me that I was right with our approach in discussing at the beginning what our target market would be . Having a target market sets the tone for the videos. It changed how you talk in the videos, what you talk about and even the editing styles. Something I never properly realized before.

This taught me alot and gave me a huge boost of confidence. To be able to make content and to put it on a network that I myself watch daily is an amazing feeling. I have a video on Youtube. It might seem small to some people or even the fact it only got 90 views, but that is something big to me. Espically with it being such a big platform.

I want this whole experience to be the start of me growing my confidence with making content and pushing myself using different tools to make this happen. I thought the editing process would be my downfall and it was the opposite. This was a mission I had alot more interest in more so than the first, but that made it that more daunting becaus I wanted to prove to myself that bit more that I could do it if I put my mind to it.

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Youtubing - Presentation

Myself and Leslie are working together for this assignment and we were discussing whats the best plan of action. What way do we want to go about this. I learnt from the last mission its not the history or a load of writing that's the main aim of this assignment.It's  putting the practical work in and seeing what we learn first hand. Plan of Action.

First: What do we want to do? Myself and Leslie have talked about making our own seperate channels on You-tube and uploading videos and comparing them. See the different responses to the videos. This way were both getting to experience editing. I had the idea of using two different types of editing tools aswel so we get a different experience and that way we can document it and compare which one would was the best.

Second: What type of videos? Who are our target audience? Myself and Leslie both being girls it makes it a bit bias but realistically our target audience would be girls and within and general age bracket similar to ours,Between 18-24. I'm 22 and Leslie 21 so were in the middle of that bracket.

Realistically if we want an audience of girls to watch our videos we've to appeal to them. Make-up and Vlog's are a popular trend for girls at the moment and something myself and leslie both enjoy so i think that's something were going to go forward with. I's something we both have an interest in aswel and something people can hopefully see in the videos too. Realistically people aren't going to want to see us do something on the History of Ireland. I'm a culchie from Longford. Nobody wants to hear me talk about that espically our target audience.

Third: We are splitting the work load in order to make it fair. I will edit the vlog and Leslie will edit the make-up video. Like I said before it'll give us a chance to experience editing first hand ourselves. I can definately see it being useful in the future. It's something i've wanted to give a go for a while but didn't have the guts.

Let's hope this all goes to plan!

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Second Mission- Youtubing

Today i've been putting some thought into what i'd like to do for my second mission. I'm thinking along the lines of Youtubing. I've never really had the guts to do it and it is something I have wanted to start up for a while but afraid I would end up just making a fool of myself. 

Of course I had some reservations, I was afriad that people would make fun of me for putting myself out there on such a public platform. I decided to go ahead with it though because it was on a topic that I consume a lot of content on and one that i'm passionate about so that part felt natural. It felt like I was contributing to a community of like minded people that are all working to be the best they can be. 

The impression that I initially had was that Youtubing was only for people across the Atlantic and that it was this thing that was seperated from the real world. None of my friends or family have ever tried it so I was unsure how to start. So many questions ran through my head. Things like what equipment should I use, how long should the videos be, what type of content should be included. 

I looked towards some of the more famous people already on Youtbe for inspiration, people like James Charles,  Jeffery Star, Dani Mantsutti and some others. I tried to analyse their content to see what takeaways I could get. I was careful though not to steal ideas, I was looking for inspiration over all else. 

So I guess i'm officially a Youtuber in the making, trying to look at such a huge industry with so many moving parts is scary and hard not to become overwhelmed. I'm determined that if I just focus on what I am doing and do it for the right reasons that I will be successful. I am thinking of making a content calander for myself to set a schedule for myself to make sure I keep to what i say and really give this a good go. I want to be constantly looking forward and doing my best because I think people will connect with that, just an everyday girl taking a leap.

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Animated Gif's - Reflection

The Presentation's done and dusted and there's a few things i learnt come the end of it.

First: The main focus of these assignments isn't about the history or showing that in our presentations it's more so about the hands on practical work and how we adapt to it. Presentation's are not about having all the facts written up on the screen and reading it out word by word. It's about having the ground work. What we learnt. What we did to make this assignemnt Animated Gif's come to life.

Second: As a TEAM how do we get our end product what was our step by step. Showing the process and how we all managed it together. Splitting the assignemnt into different segments and them putting it all together is not important or the aim. Working together. Helping eachother in area's some people in the team might not fully understand. working together to get the best end result.

Third: What did we learn?What did we find difficult? We're not being expected to have everything perfect but good enough that we show that we made a hand's on effort as apposed to just typing a bunch of words onto a document.

It's simple to google a bunch of facts and find out the origin. Learing how to make Animated Gif's and the tools and sortware needed to be used thats where the real challenge is. That is how we really found out about this topic. My only regret is not giving more time to the actual making of the gif's.

This is all definately things ill be bringing forward onto the next mission!

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