Deadlines

So tomorrow is deadline day for:

- My Blog
- Applied Media Research Essay on cross platforms 

I remember thinking at the start of the year 'Oh no I have to update my blog again'. Last year I thought it was just a pain to do, but this year it hasn't bothered me as much. Maybe because I've felt more settled in uni this year OR maybe because this year I have made notes for my blog so I knew to update it. But who knows.

Even though tomorrow in deadline day, we still have two more deadlines to meet before our second year is complete. Over this year I have kept a note on all grades I have received and looking back I'm happy on what I have achieved I just hope I do as well on my blog, essay, presentation and report only time will tell. 

But overall I have enjoyed this year a lot more than last year. I just hope I can find a work placement which will set me up for my third year and maybe lead me into a career path. 

Convergence Media Teamwork

So today only myself and Ceri turned up to uni from our team of four, as the others where completing their essays for another module. So the session started off with a small introduction of what we need to be doing for this module. We were asked to create a presentation for next week to explain to our tutors and also the class where we are up to with our stories or campaign. 

So myself and Ceri decided that we would place all the content we have up to now onto a prezi;

- ALL IMAGES WE HAD TAKEN LAST WEEK
- STORY/PLOT
- PLATFORMS WE WILL BE USING FOR THE STORY TO BE TOLD
- CHARACTERS FOR THE STORY

For each of the characters we had made email accounts on gmail, having all the characters on gmail will allow us to connect them as friends. Alongside creating character emails we started to create a website which will be the main place for all the platforms to be based. 

Not long left until our final presentation which will be our completed story. I'm really looking forward to seeing our story completed. Check out our presentation for next weeks session, just to warn you it's not completed just yet but will be before the deadline next week. 

Convergence Media Teamwork - Little Red Riding Hood Presentation

Applied Media Research

So over the last two weeks or so I've been typing up my 3000 word essay on cross platforms. I don't know why but I worry about essays every time! I must just be a person that worries too much! 

But all that is left to do on my essay is to read over it and send it off on Friday, and to celebrate by going out for a meal with old friends, which I think is well deserved. (If I do say so myself) 

Convergence Media Teamwork

Over the last two CMT sessions we have discussed the little red riding hood story, for which we will be following and telling through transmedia. 

Our main idea for the story are;

• The viewers will take the role of Little Red Riding Hood.
• The wolf characters, would be a group/gang of friends that are into drugs. They will try to pressure Little Red Riding Hood into taking drugs. 
• The grandma character will be a victim of drug abuse, but will try to show Little Red Riding Hood the effects of what drugs can do.
• The woodcutter character will be a support worker, also trying to show the effects of drugs. 

Here are some of the points we came up with;

• The main place that will hold all information for the story will be a website.
• For characters of the story we will create social networking account for them e.g. Twitter, Facebook.
• Video Diaries from characters OR voice memos from characters.
• Blogs
• Google Maps
• Images to help tell the story.

Our idea may change slightly, that will all happen in time. We decided after our last session that we would go around the city centre and take some of our own images for the part about gangs and the google maps. Check out some of my images below!