Feedback for Transmedia Storytelling presentation....

Recently I have received feedback for our group presentation based on transmedia storytelling. Having been awarded a mid 2:2 grade I am fairly happy, as although the presentation was not the best we put a lot of effort into the content and a lot has pulled off. I found this peice of work very challenging as exploring this area of media research proved to appear very vague and hard to grasp. I definately think that if i was to improve this in the future I would make sure I fully grasped the area I was going to present during presentation, as although i put a lot of research into the group I found it particularly hard to explain parts.

Apple Essay feedback & mark..

 

A couple of weeks back we received our grades and feedback for our digital media essays. My mark of 50% means that although this proves to be a 2:2, I have realised that I had described too much in my work and need to analyses more often. I the next assignment, where I am working with my group on the topic of Popular Music I will makec sure I thoroughly analyse throughout, in order to increase my mark!

TV Show feedback...

After submitting our DVD for the TV show assignment, we were told that the disc would not play on any machine around university, leaving us with one option....a resit in the summer. Myself and the group are not overwhelmed with happiness about these circumstances however that being our only optin , we know we have to deal with it if we aim to pass the module. Exam will be capped at 40%.

Research for group storytelling presentation...

Over the last month or so I have been gathering information with my group for the group storytelling presentation. We have been assigned question one which has proven to be a tricky question however as a group we think we that we had collected enough research to throughly explain our answer during the presentation. Some of the research I gathered at first is listed below.
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Q: The Internet, social media and other open systems have allowed for user-generated content (UGC), crowd – sourcing and other forms of audience participation to prevail in digital media. But how do we translate these features into storytelling experiences, without treading on the toes of the author?

 There are a number of ways to translate features into storytelling experiences, such as involving the audience in a project. One project that successfully does this is Digital fiction Factory’s social film (first ever) called ‘inside’ that engages and involves the audience.

This project uses Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to let the audience communicate directly with ‘Christina’ , the main character who is trapped in the main room.

Interactive movie ‘Inside’ / Digital Fiction Factory project:

·         First ever social film

·         Internet connection proves to be the only method of letting the audience in to engage with the issue that the character is faced with ie: being trapped

 

 

 

 

 

Another example that we have is Digital Fiction Factory’s story that engages with and uses the audience, called ‘Take This Lollipop’. This is a features that, with your permission, accesses your personal information via facebook, and interprets in the short film as part of the plot, to set the user up as the victim of a someone who is spying on him/her and looking to find him/her. This is a powerful attempt to tell a story that involves the audience, as it take upon itself the horror theme which automatically grips the user, as would a normal film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Alice for ipad’ is a further example that takes audience involvement into account, as this is a game for the ipad that lets the user move items about in the game by shaking & moving the ipad. This doesn’t completely convey to a large extent how the audience can be involved, as much as take this lollipop does, however it still gives the audience the opportunity to alter effects in the game just by moving the ipad itself.

 

 

Beyond The Camera!

In our most recent sessions of beyond the camera, myself & Orlagh have pieced together an audio file of sounds in a school during breaktime, so that we can add this to a moving image & photographs for our project! We are currently up to date and just making sure our audio file is saved in a secure location to prevent any of it from being lost/deleted.

Digital Media Cultures question...

During our last session of digital media cultures last week, we all handed in our plans for which question we had chosen to answer. After looking into a few of the questions I chose to base my question on how Apple Inc has impacted on the contemporary media industry!

TV Studio assignment!

For our tv studio assignment we orginally planned for a local DJ to come in, for our group (group 7) to interview and broadcast a performance on 'the decks' however as we have been assigned two singer/guitarists, we have changed our personal guest and are yet to confirm our new plans. Once we have this sorted we plan to then approach the lighting/set technicians in the studio with our requirements for the layout/look of the set!