Jenny'sIDMBlog

  My final project blog! When we started the project, I was enthusiastic about working as a team, I usually love doing teamwork, I find collaboration great for brainstorming and coming up with ideas. Our group had to make a documentary on “Online shaming and Cancel culture”. We started off with four members, but it quickly became evident that one member wasn’t really pushed about participating, we tried lots of times to engage with that girl and get her involved even down to the last week, but she wasn’t interested. So, we were down to a team of three, I oversaw research and the script, I separated the script into three parts so myself, Kelly, and Kate could all share the screen. Now you would think that would be easy, wouldn’t you? Well, you try recording with a puppy and children in the house, by the time I was able to get a decent video recorded it was only two days before we had to submit the video. I had made Kelly aware of my recording issues so we decided that Kelly would ...

  The penultimate project blog, how exciting! The week started badly with the information that both Sophia and Kate were off College sick, as I was sick last week that puts our project nearly two weeks behind, we haven’t even started recording yet and myself and Kelly are starting to panic. This week Kate sent me an initial draft of the script, which was about five hundred words, I estimated that we need about one thousand words, so I edited and lengthened the script, and I made the final draft. I found it hard to edit Kate’s draft, it was stressful, but I managed to finalize the script. Kelly completed the animations and posters, and she also made a test recording on I Video to see how her animations and posters would look when played on screen together. Kelly and I broke the script into steps to co-ordinate with our running order for when we are recording. We then decided that maybe we should record ourselves to test out recording (and in case Kate and Sophia are too sick to re...

Ah, Final Re-Write, it feels so good to write those words! So, this is my final reading blog for Semester one in my module “Introduction to Digital Media” on our college course “Creative Digital Media” and I am going to discuss how I felt about getting reviewed by my peers and my lecturer about my blogs and my re-writing experience. Introduction to digital media has been the hardest module, with the most work involved but for me, it has also been the most enjoyable educational and enlightening module. When we were asked to give peer review, I didn’t really like that experience initially but when we learned about how to give positive feedback(feedforward) I realized that it benefited both me and the student who was receiving my feedback. This week I received feedback from my lecturer. The feedback was positive, which is good, but because I only really got one sentence about changing my blog for a re-write, I did struggle a bit to get started on my revised blog. Thankfully we had l...

                                                  What is Digital Media? Digital Media is how we use electronic devices to distribute media, by creating software, video games, websites, social media, and online advertising. In this assignment, we were asked to watch three videos about Digital media. Before I watched the designated videos, I thought that the tools and skills I needed are good ICT skills, Art and design skills, coding, and a good knowledge and grasp of social media. After watching the videos, I realized that what I really need is strong Digital Literacy skills, the reason we need this is because we are increasingly communicating and accessing information through a variety of different digital environments, and we have an ethical responsibility to portray the truth. In the 1960’s media theorist Marshall McLuhan took these i...