Blogging presentation part 1

~FIRST WEEK~ 

 

Today we got our second Introduction to Digital Media project with a given theme called “Culture”. This task has a wider variety of topics that I am familiar with, such as Youtubing, blogging, memes and selfies. I find this topic more relatable compared to the previous one because it allows us to be more personal for example, choosing Youtubing or blogging can give you a chance to talk more about your personal interests or hobbies. You can also try new things if you want to have a YouTube video.

I decided to do blogging for this mission since I already have an experience on how it works as we are required to blog most of our works in college. I also had an idea on what I would do for my blog, I want to share my artworks and photography from the day I started doing them and until now to show my improvements. I also want to let everyone know that everyone can become what they want to be as long as they work hard for it. I find this topic quite convenient since I already have artworks and photographs ready from previous years. The only challenge for me now is how should I deliver my idea to connect with the audience and make them understand my views, and I must also look and learn how to become more comfortable with the new layout of the blogsite that I will be using for this mission.

I was lucky to have formed a group immediately with the people that I'm already friends with. The people that I will be working with are Enoh Flanagan and Khang Pham from my group. I am also hoping that my goup and i will communicate and work with each other. 

Before we start our blogging presentation, we planned what we must do first by going through the mission information together again and discuss our ideas. All of us have good ideas for our blogging presentation and we came into a conclusion that all of us should find a blog-site to try and experiment its layout and other elements on each blog-site. At the end of this mission we will compare the blog-sites that we used to identify which one has the best blog site platform to use and we will also talk about our experiences and their advantages and disadvantages.

Enoh decided to do her blog about the types of music and singers that she listens to while Khang did a fan page about his favorite football player, Lionel Messi. Each of us have different ideas and topics about our blogs which makes it more interesting because we don’t do the same thing so we can all discuss the differences easily.

My goal for this mission is:

·             To improve my confidence when presenting

·             To gain more knowledge about blogging

·             Improve my communication skills

·             Improve my IT skills

·             Learn effective time management

Reflection in GIF presentation

~REFLECTION~

Today we got our second Introduction to Digital Media project with a given theme called “Culture”. This task has a wider variety of topics that I am familiar with, such as Youtubing, blogging, memes and selfies. I find this topic more relatable compared to the previous one because it allows us to be more personal for example, choosing Youtubing or blogging can give you a chance to talk more about your personal interests or hobbies. You can also try new things if you want to have a YouTube video.

I decided to do blogging for this mission since I already have an experience on how it works as we are required to blog most of our works in college. I also had an idea on what I would do for my blog, I want to share my artworks and photography from the day I started doing them and until now to show my improvements. I also want to let everyone know that everyone can become what they want to be as long as they work hard for it. I find this topic quite convenient since I already have artworks and photographs ready from previous years. The only challenge for me now is how should I deliver my idea to connect with the audience and make them understand my views, and I must also look and learn how to become more comfortable with the new layout of the blogsite that I will be using for this mission.

I was lucky to have formed a group immediately with people that I’m already good friends with. The people that I will be working with are Enoh and Khang from my group. I’m expecting that my group and I will communicate and work well with each other.

Before we start our blogging presentation, we planned what we must do first by going through the mission information together again and discuss our ideas. All of us have good ideas for our blogging presentation and we came into a conclusion that all of us should find a blogsite to try and experiment its layout and other elements on each blogsite. At the end of this mission we will compare the blogsites that we used to identify which one has the best blogsite platform to use and we will also talk about our experiences and their advantages and disadvantages.

Enoh decided to do her blog about the types of music and singers that she listens to while Khang did a fan page about his favourite football player, Lionel Messi. Each of us have different ideas and topics about our blogs which makes it more interesting because we don’t do the same thing so we can all discuss the differences easily.

My goal for this mission is:

·             To improve my confidence when presenting

·             To gain more knowledge about blogging

·             Improve my communication skills

·             Improve my IT skills

·             Learn effective time management

GIF Presentation part 2

~Second week blog~

During our second week, John and I meet up a few times to get a head start of our short presentation. Even though Natalia was away, she still tried her best to edit our videos that we had filmed last week before she left. I also want to note that we did a mind-map plan for our video to assign our roles on what and which parts we must do.

We found the mind-map plan very useful because it really helped us to keep track of what we were doing. This plan also helped us to concentrate on our tasks and to avoid getting distracted by other projects and assignments that we must do in other modules as well.

           

Making a video was also new to me so I was having a hard time talking in front of the camera (I was stuttering and keep messing up my lines!) and I was feeling uncomfortable as I kept making mistakes. Luckily, I have a very patient partners that they spared my life and let me repeat a hundred times!

During the second week, John put some extra information on the slides, and I was editing the presentations such as its transitions, fonts and the layouts of the slides. Natalia was still also editing our video, so everyone was participating in our project. Our presentation was shared to each of us which was very handy so everyone can see the process and we get to change things anytime we want. 

     

I also did the cinematographic GIF during the week and experiment it more with the filters creating a contrast. All of us used the website called  https://giphy.com/ to create our interesting GIFs. This is a really good website to use when making your GIFs especially for beginners like us because it has a straightforward instruction and it is very easy to use. This site also has a lot of finished gifs which helped us a lot at looking for ideas and we also used them to design our presentation slides. It has a lot of options such as entertainment, reactions, artist and stickers gifs. What I also like about this website is that it has a lot of editing choices for your gifs. You can change the speed and style, add filters, stickers and even draw in it which was good.

GIF Presentation part 1

~First week blog~

This week, we got our first presentation project for the Introduction to Digital Media. We got many options and most of them are very interesting ideas/themes such as the digital audio and interactive fiction.

I talked with other students in our class about the ideas and it’s good to see different approaches people had taken of the project. because of this, I was able to reduce the ideas I had and just concluded that I will chose "The Art of Animated GIF" because I want to express my skills and creativity and I also want to know how to create GIFs. I would also like to see other people's perspective on this project and learn from them.

I am also expecting to acquire computer skills and improve my creativity by observing my environment. I also expect working in a group would be very challenging to me as is takes a lot of effort and patience to create a good presentation. I also want to gain my confidence when presenting in front of our class.

During the first week of our project, we talked about how we will deliver our presentation. After brainstorming some ideas, we decided to create a video of us talking about the information of GIF such as who created it, its history and some other fun facts about GIFs. 

Each of us decided to create our own GIF to have more examples and to give each of us an experience making GIFS. Therefore, I decided to draw a continuous flower creating an illusion of it blooming for one of my GIFs using my creativity skills. I will also try to create few more types of GIF such as the cinematographic style by using the Ha’penny Bridge as the location and a loop GIFs of a fountain located in St Stephen’s Green. Hopefully I’ll be able to take good videos to make a good example of GIF.