My world with words

Work is all done, now it's time for the fun bit.. the reflection!  At first I was a bit apprehensive about this mission as I wasn't too sure on the angle I wanted to take but I am really happy with the end product. As a team we all worked really well together. We took turns with all aspects of the video including the filming and editing. As we were doing our video on fake news we decided to make our video look like a real news feature, including a banner going along the bottom. From completing this mission I learned a lot about fake news and how people can be gullible when asked something false in the form of a question. I feel we achieved our main message in the video which is to show that when you ask someone something in the form of a question they will nearly always believe it.  As part of our research we also looked up fake news stories from the past and how they came out to be untrue. Surprisingly there was a lot more than I originally expected to be. I guess f

(img vectorstock.com)  Our mission chosen, our group put together and our task decided, our next step was to make the video. To start, as said in my previous blog, we wrote down a list of fake news questions to ask the person we were interviewing. We then had to find people to interview. Since we were in college we decided to go around and see if we could find students or lectures and ask them questions. We wanted to interview people that we didn't know or who weren't in our group as they would have known it was fake news. We were lucky to find five willing people to participate in the video who all fell for our fake news questions. Their answers were all varied, some more shocked about the questions than others. There were also a few funny replies which we found really added to the lightheartedness of the video. We filmed the video using one of our iPhones and the footage came out very well. We all took turns filming and interviewing people.  I will reflec

Hey guys!  I am getting used to this blogging thing, I hope you guys are enjoying reading them just as much as I enjoy writing them. Mission three has fast approached and it is time to decide what task to choose yet again. This was quite hard for me to choose as nothing seemed to jump out at me. After going over the options numerous times I have decided, like most people, to do Digital Journalism.  As we had to create a video for this mission, I felt that choosing digital journalism made the most sense. As an avid social media user I am interested in the world of journalism and story telling within the borders of my phone.  After choosing what to do my next job was to find a team to work with. Through using slack I joined teams with my friends Robyn and Daniella. We came together and brainstormed on what we could do for the task at hand. After a few hours switching to and from ideas, we landed on and all agreed to do 'Fake News'. We wanted to capture how easily fake news

Welcome back to my blog!  I have decided to write a quick blog post on my first few weeks in college and how I have been getting on with assignments.  As it is my first year in college I was apprehensive and anxious to start, I wasn't sure how I was going to handle my time and get everything done, but so far I have managed quite well.  The module that I have enjoyed the most since starting college would have to be Creative Digital Media. Even though out of all the modules it is the one that involves the most work, I have thoroughly enjoyed the wide aray of subjects we get to choose from and the tasks that we have to complete within them.  The youtubing task was the most fun for me. I loved getting the opportunity to film and improve my editing skills. Although I am proud I have done so far, I do feel I can still improve in some areas.  It is taking me some time to get the hang of using Adobe premiere Pro as it is all new to me but hopefully over time I increase my confiden

For my next creative digital media task I chose to do Youtubing. I chose this because I have always loved watching youtube videos and it is something I have a strong interest in. I teamed up with my friend Mel and together we sat down and put our ideas together. We decided to go for the 'beauty' side of youtube and do a chit chat get ready with us kind of video as this is something we would both watch in our spare time. We organised a time to meet up and film our video. It took a while to find a suitable room but after a few tries we found a suitable place and got the camera rolling. We were a bit nervous at the beginning but as time went on we were more comfortable which shows in the video. I edited the main video and Mel edited the vlog that we done documenting the process of filming our video. I found it quite difficult to edit as it is something i've never done before and it was a long video (46 minutes). I managed to edit it down to 24 mins. I wanted to add more skil

As discussed in my previous blog I chose Digital audio and more specifically to do a podcast. Coming into this it was all new to me and something i've never tried doing before. I learned a lot along the way and would like to reflect on the experience in this blog! Myself and two other came together to discuss the ideas we had. We all agreed that a podcast was something we would all be interested in making and since we couldn't find a specific topic to talk about that would grasp the listeners attention we decided to do an interview style podcast using story-corp inspired questions which was suggested by our lecturer Sean. As our group consisted of two girls and one boy we thought that it would be interesting to ask the same questions to each boy and girl and sort of compare their answers and see what differed between them. As a group we decided that I was going to be the interviewer as such. I enjoyed picking out what questions to ask and I was excited to get to know my f

I have decided to choose digital audio as my first mission. We have chosen to do a podcast as they are very accessible and have become extremely popular over the past two or three years. Over the past year i've discovered podcasts myself and have loved listening to them ever since. For our podcast myself and two others have decided to ask each other fun, relatable questions. Creating a podcast has been something that I have been thinking about doing for a while and i'm excited to have this opportunity to be able to create one. We plan on recording the podcast on the voice memos app on an iPhone. From there we will edit it using software on our laptop. Hopefully through editing we can add intro music and some sound effects. It will be interesting to see and learn how audio can affect a listeners experience and how much it makes an impact on the podcast. After creating what we hope will be a fun podcast episode we will collectively bring together our findings and what we have

This blog post is going to hopefully provide you with some interesting facts about myself even though I don't have much to work with! Im going to try keep this short and sweet. My name is Leslie and I just turned 21 this Wednesday (and before you ask, no I don't feel old yet). I live in a bungalow in a field in Kilbride but thankfully I drive or else I would have to walk ages to get to anywhere which does sound very appealing to me! This is my second time attempting college. I went directly to college when I finished my leaving cert around 3 years ago now but realised very quickly that the course wasn't for me. I am extremely indecisive on what I want to do in life and on simple decisions in general but i'm hoping to get into film in some way so fingers crossed I don't drop out of this course. Hopefully this will be the first of many blog posts I write.