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Week 10Video project from week 10. I totally forgot to do this one a couple of weeks ago so here it is. I shot this video on my Lumix camera. I took 5-6 different short videos and pieced them together in youtube editor to make this. I found youtube editor very easy to use.

The filters allowed me to give the video the same look throughout although the lighting was quite different. I also liked how easy it was to add text so you can tell a bit of a story at the same time. I could easily edit the length of video immediately, I was expecting more of a delay but it was really quick. 

The last shot is of an image which provides great flexibilty and I also liked how you could slow individual frames right down, like I did with the second last frame of the wine swirling in the glass.

Google + does offer a great platform to share videos, photos, links, events BUT despite their efforts to push people into having an account so they can compete with facebook, many people still don't know about it and very few use it. I have had a google + account for a couple of years (since its inception) but I don't use it for my personal use at all, nor for my work really either. Couple of reasons, no one else is using it to engage with and the fact that if you use any other Google accounts they practically force you into having an account which no one likes obviously, try starting a youtube account and just wait until a google + account is forced on you.

Some links to the backlash

http://www.zdnet.com/forced-google-plus-integration-on-youtube-backfires-petition-hits-112000-7000023196/

http://business.time.com/2013/11/13/googles-relentless-campaign-to-make-google-work-becomes-youtubes-problem/

http://mashable.com/2014/01/10/google-plus-gmail/

If Google + just backed way off, and made us feel less stalked by them into wanting control over our entire online presence, then I think it would be used more. The damage has been done though.

I reluctantly posted my vintage photos and shared a company video to Google + just so I could fulfill this activity.

https://plus.google.com/

You can find me under my full name - Carrah Lymer

I have had no experience with digital video production and editing other than occasionally liaising with and watching those who can through my job. There has been an increased focus on shareable content so we had plenty of videos made. I have watched the filming process and realise it can take a whole day to get 3mins of footage but I myself have not produced or edited any work myself.

New technology has definitely been a game changer for tv and cinema. We are now in an era where we control what we want to watch and when. Recording live tv, downloading shows from the internet and watching it on our laptops and phones, accessing worldwide opinions from armchair critics within minutes of it being aired, access to sites such as youtube where there are millions of videos to entertain us for free. See article link at bottom of post.

I remember when the Blair Witch Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blair_Witch_Project came out. The home video concept created such hype around the film - no one knew if it was real or not because of how ordinary the footage was, it seemed legit and as a result was a hit at the box office. That was almost 15 years ago now, if it was released today exactly as it was it wouldn't make a blip on the radar as we are more exposed to digital media plus a lot more sceptical.

All media now (at this level - tv/cinema/music) has to be across all forms of digtial media when it comes to promoting themselves. We want the information to be quick yet personable so their reach needs to be across so many platforms. See article link at bottom of post on how social media is changing how movies promote themselves.

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Interesting article from 2006 on the Impact of new media technology on society http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=52164

Interesting article from 2010 on how movies promote themselves via social media