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My first experience in the radio room was teaching and compelling, and I fell I  love with how it was immediately. I already have some knowledge on using interfaces, mics and Logic Pro, but being in a room that is soundproof and has all of the equipment set up was a lot of fun and it helped me to learn more about how people broadcast and podcast their videos/work.

Below is the instructions that were handed out so all of us were able to set up and work smoothly in the radio room, and personally I believed that these instructions helped a lot as I dived into it, and eventually I learned how to use it all without having to use the instructions.

After that, I went on to record a a podcast with a peer of mine, which is now on the College Hard Drive.

My LinkedIn profile:

My Data was based around all kinds of Social Media, and I realised that by the end of my survey, when I found it was finished that I focused the majority of my survey on people who were more on Facebook due to the fact that I had people on FaceBook who are family that shared it to help with my College work, and I found that any of my closer friends that partook in the survey decided to be rather inappropriate.

If I was to do this again, I’d make sure to not give questions that could allow some of my friends to be childish, and I would include other questions that would allow me to gain more data.

In this, I’ve realised that:

There is an array of ages on all Social Media platforms.

Most of my viewers are no longer in education.

I have a lot of different professions that look at my social media platforms.

Facebook, WhatsApp. YouTube and SnapChat are the most used platforms and because of this I will either use Facebook or Youtube because I wish to be more digitally based where my work can be kept and seen.

Deadpool is one of the highest grossing movies of all time, and when the sequel was set to be released, Ryan Reynolds and his working team were not at all shy about it. They had many ways to promote their upcoming film, like the teaser that was actually promoting the 2017 hit movie Logan, where Deadpool takes a very long time to change in order to try, and fail at saving a civilian. There is also the case of him with his interaction with football star David Beckham, and lets not forget his work based around Bob Ross and his work in the Wet on Wet trailer.

I believe that these forms of advertisements simply made the audience even more curious about what was set up for his upcoming movie. Purely because none of these trailers actually had anything to do with what the movie was about, they were literally teasers, which were created to make sure that Deadpool wouldn’t lose any of its audience.

The Christmas teaser released at the end of 2017 was probably the one that got most of the Deadpool fans riled up the most. This was due to the simplicity of the trailer, featuring Reynolds talking about, in the Deadpool costume, the twelve days of Christmas, with absolutely no indication as to what the twelfth day would bring. This was another way to keep the audience gripped, as they were aware that the last day would reveal the new trailer for the upcoming film.

When it came down to the actual trailer, Deadpool went all the way and shocked its viewers, due to the fact that I don’t think that any of them expected so much brutality and action to be thrown into the trailer as it seemed to give away all of the fight scenes that would feature in the movie. However, Ryan was as great as ever and really pulled off the movie in the end.

Overall, I believe that Deadpool has one of the most creative marketing ploys, and they’re extremely clever when it comes down to promoting their work. They know how to keep their audience aware, and they don’t fail when it comes to presenting overall. It’s also a really great movie.

My mission is to complete my level 3 media course with a minimum of a pass, although I am headed for a distinction. I wish to pass this course due to the fact that it would aid me in what I wish my future job to be. I hope for my future job to be working within the media industry either with music production or theatre work where I help with the lighting and the sound in the back booth. I’ve always had a passion for music and playing an instrument, but I always felt like there was something missing from it all. It wasn’t until I realised a few years ago that there was a digital form of working with music that I finally realised what I wanted to do in life.

Within all of this work I want to travel at the same time, hoping that my job eventually takes me around the world so I can experience more in life and have a chance to try all different foods from around the world.

Twitter: Twitter began as an idea that Jack Dorsey, the co-founder had in 2006, in which he imagined twitter to be a SMS based communication platform. During the early days, Twitter was referred to as Twttr. This was due to the fact that a popular trend at the time was to drop the vowels in the name of a company. The first tweet was posted on March 21, 2006 by Jack himself, and was quoted, ‘just setting up my twttr.’

LinkedIn emphasises a user’s professional connections, unlike other social network platforms like Facebook or Instagram. It’s used so creators can form resume like profiles that will help them to summarise their careers or advertise their skills or list their previous education and employment history. It also allows users to connect with other users and search for jobs or search through connections (even third hand) at a particular company. 

It was launched in 2003, making it older than any other large working social media platform like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Reid Hoffman, the Co-Founder; recruited a group of old colleagues from SocialNet and PayPal to work on an idea. LinkedIn was launched six months later, and the growth was slow at first, with around twenty sign ups a day. 

In 2004, the growth accelerated with the introduction of the address book upload feature in in late 2003. The platform also introduced new features that included groups and partners with American Express to promote offerings to small business owners. In early January, LinkedIn moved over and into a new office that was situated on the third floor of 1975 El Camino Real in Mountain View. 

Facebook is a largely known Social Media platform and is arguably one of the largest alongside Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat. It was founded on 4th February 2004 by a man called Mark Zuckerberg who at the time was a student in Harvard who before the launch of 'thefacebook'; initially created the platform Facemash for the purpose of contacting other people within the university. It was a hot-or-not style of site and Zuckerberg used his computer abilities to hack into the university's school system and access the photo's of the students. The site received twenty-two thousand page reviews from four hundred and fifty people in the first four hours that it was up. Soon after, Harvard demanded that it be taken down, and Zuckerberg received disciplinary action, but was allowed to stay at the school.  

Even though he had only recently been scolded for creating Facemash, Mark went on to create 'thefacebook' which was a site that other Harvard students could access to find friends, people who were in their classes, look at friends of friends and see a visualisation of a social network.  

Six days after the launch, three Harvard Seniors stepped forwards and claimed Zuckerberg had had an agreement with them where they had all pitched in their ideas for what eventually became Facebook. The seniors filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, which was later settled in 2008 when the seniors received 1.2 million facebook shares, which were worth $300 (£228,445,500) million at that time. Within a month, half of Harvard's students had joined TheFacebook.  TheFacebook had reached all the way to Yale, Columbia and Stanford by March 2004. Zuckerberg brought in fellow harvard members to help him to manage the site's growth and build it into a business. A few months after the first launch, they began to prepare their first ad-revenue, in which Zuckerberg was still working from his dorm room in Harvard.  It wasn't much longer until Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard, much like Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. During 2004, Zuckerberg hired Napster cofounder Sean Parker to be Facebook's first president. In june 2004, Facebook set up shop in a tiny office in downtown Palo Alto, California in which it was known as a party hub just as much as it was known as a serious start-up. It was said that Zuckerberg spent most of his time with nothing but some shorts and a beer in hand. 

The same month that Facebook moved into Palo Alto, Facebook received its first outside funding which came to a $500,000 investment from PayPal cofounders Paul Theil and Elton Musk. Thiel has since become a prominent venture capitalist, while Musk, of course, went on to found Tesla and SpaceX.

By this point, Facebook was climbing its way up and into stardom. In mid 2005, Facebook raised $13.7 million in funding, and by 2006 it created its first news feed. The feature, which gave people a real time stream of what their friends were doing or how they were feeling was a breakthrough and became a core feature on the site.

In late 2007, Zuckerberg met a Google executive named Sheryl Sandberg at a Christmas party. At the time, Sandberg was considering taking a new position with The Washington Post. But after meeting her, Zuckerberg decided Facebook needed a chief operating officer, and managed to persuade her to come aboard in early 2008. It was a smart hire. Facebook was already growing quickly, but the rise of the smartphone brought with it a lot more users.

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For my film, I went to the LAGC (London Anime and Gaming Con) and I recorded a Vlog for the day, talking about what was happening and what kinds of things that were going on. I thought this would be a well enough thought out idea for the festival project as it was something different, but it was also something that I enjoyed attending and recording when I got there. 

The film footage itself didn’t come across as I had hoped, but I believe that was down to the fact that the Con was a lot more crowded than I had anticipated, and I didn’t actually have enough time to record as much as I would’ve liked, but this was my own fault as I got too caught up in what was actually happening to remember to film. I believe I got enough footage for the film to be sufficient enough for the final piece, however if I were to do something like this again, I would probably find some solution that would allow me to shoot more footage.

Following on about the footage, I decided that when I was editing that I would make some parts comical so they could spread to a wider range of people who wouldn’t just want to watch a video of myself going around the con and doing nothing that interesting.

The audio worked well, even though I used the mic that was built into the camera. I believe that if I did it again I’d use another way of capturing audio, however now I know how crowded it can get i would ensure not to use anything that would be prone to breaking or being too big to actually interfere with what is going on around me. The phone mic was more efficient with the environment I was in, even if the audio didn’t come out as strong and as clear as I had hoped it would.

In the second section of my video, I interview one of my friends, Hijaz; who also attended the Con and who I had the luck to bump into whilst at the Con. The interview involved he and I talking and discussing the Con, what we liked about it, what we didn’t, what our favourite parts of it was and if we purchased anything whilst we were there. 

As I mentioned before, I added some comical aspects to my work. One aspect being Hijaz in the interview. He kept looking at the camera whilst in the interview, which naturally would’ve come across as unprofessional. To save this as I didn’t have enough time to re-record it in time for the deadline, I decided to emphasise the fact that he had been looking over at the camera instead of trying to edit around it and getting rid of it. When it was played back to peers, they found it amusing and that’s what made me decide that that way was the best approach when it came to dealing with a footage difficulty. 

I gained feedback from my peers, and they commented that they found the comedy aspect of the film to be rather enjoyable and that it made the video a lot more interesting and fun to watch. It also received a share and a couple of likes on my Digital Self social media, which ties in with Penny’s work as I’m showing what I do here at college.

After receiving feedback on my final piece, I realise that making the more comedic effect worked for my aged target audience (15-21) as most of my peers found it both amusing an interesting at the same time. However, if Hijaz wasn't to have continued to look over at the camera, then I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to make my work that comedic and then I would've more than likely had a different approach to the work, and it wouldn't have had the effect that it did on my peers.

Editorial photography is a style of photography used to support or acompany a story or an article.

The photographers invloved with this type of photography would rarely have the story to actually read, and would only have a vague outline to work with.

They would also have parameters given to them, meaning that they would have a limited amount of images that they could take, what kind of text they need to have on them and the budget they would have to actually go out and take the photographs.

They’d be required to capture the complete essence of the story.

They’d have to take into consideration of what kinds of risk assessments there would be, and what kinds of forms that would need to be signed by anyone who would model for their photo.

A photo Tim Walker took for Vogue.

Covert is another word for secret photography. It’s a styke of photography where the subject of the photo isn’t actually aware that the photo is being taken. A woman who was great at this style of photography was called Vivian Maier, who passed away in 2009. She took multiple street styled photographs, and if you look into it, the majority of her work was based on covert images.

A photo she took on her Rolleicord camera in 1954.

My own work:

Rule of Thirds:

Although nothing was professionally taken for my actual work, when I was playing around with my camera outside during lunch one day I managed to capture a photo of Mason that I believed worked well with the Rule of Thirds. This is because of how she is positioned perfectly center to the photo, and if you were to draw the Rule of Thirds line over the top of the image then she would also be perfectly sitting in the centre square. To improve this photo even more, I could have perhaps tried it again and asked her to position herself in another way or keep her eyes open.

Line: Lines are the first of the Visual Languages in photography. It counts as a point in motion that is only one dimension in length. The longer the length, the greater the importance of the visuality. There are a multitude of lines in photography, and all of them will have a different impact on the viewer, whether it be physical by intergrating vertigo on the top of a building looking down, or emotional by relating to ones experiences.

Photo by Harvey Lees.

Tone: Tone is identified by the lightness or the darkness of a photograph. Tone is one of the more powerful design elements as it has the ability to show contrast between light and dark, which is what can make the difference in what a photo is trying to convey. In any painting or photograph, the areas that are in the highest contrast between light and dark will always gain the maximum attention to the eye.

Megan McLengdon’s work, conveying tone.

Texture: Texture is a part of the visual arts, and it is also a case of what is percieved more than anything else. It is both a two and three dimentional aspect to photography, and is distinguised by its percieved visual and physical properties.

Lottie Simpkins, a GCSE student who conveyes teture in her photograph.

Shape: Shape in both art and photography is one of the seven classical design elements, its importance weighing in high due to the fact that almost evert photograph contains at least one or more shapes. Great photographers manage to convey their shapes in more unique and interesting ways.

Photo from Ayla Darling’s photography blog.

Pattern: Pattern in photography is a rather wide aspect to the visual language. It can be something that is natural, like a bee’s honeycome or it could be handmade, like a building. It could also be a piece that is either regular, or irregular. This means that they don’t necessarily have to consist of any of the standard geometric shapes with precise placement; like a zebra’s stripes.

Photo by Scott Anderson, called Stars and Stripes.

Form: Form has always been similar to its cousin, shape; and it is most important to understand that the differences between the two are although similar, quite different so you’re able to develop an eye for how to use both of the elements. Form is an object that exists in three dimensions, which includes both volume and shape. Form is unique as it invokes a feeling of presence to the viewer, giving off b=vibes that the viewer would be able to reach into the photo and pull whatever the subject of that photograph is right out. It’s something that gives the photo a real-life feel, as though it’s right there with the viewer.

Not sure who the artist is here.

Colour: Colour is a component of light which is seperated when it is reflected off of an object. The colours in your photo is more than likely the last thing that comes to mind, yet its always the colour in the photo that brings it out in a unique way. The colour usually influences your audience, and colour is the high road to emotional reactions. Some photographers focus their art on specific colours, and that’s exactly what makes them famous.

Discuss how effective your solutions to resolving visual content problems were, and how you could have improved or changed what you did to create a better outcome.

One visual problem that I had experienced was the fact that after I had planned out my work to go to the LAGC (London Anime and Gaming Con) and record a vlog as I believed that would be the best way to represent this convention; I had an incident that caused my camera to become rendered no longer usable. so I had to figure out what else I could use to record and capture all of the footage that I had began to plan out for my vlog, as I had already to plan out all of my shots and the storyboard for all of the shots I wanted to capture, and I felt like the work was too far in to restart and decide to do something different like a podcast or a trailer due to the fact that I would have to start over everything that I had already done and I didn’t feel like I would've had enough time. Another reason I didn’t want to change what I was going to do was the fact that I had already purchased the tickets to attend the con and I didn’t want to lose out on the money. However, even if I had changed my idea for this project then I would’ve attempted the con purely out of leisure.