Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Piracy Simulated Project LOW QUALITY
Had to upload in low quality as my connection is really under par.... whenever i try to upload the 100mb fail it just fails on me!
Monday, 25 October 2010
Piracy simulated project COMPLETE!
My 30 second piracy advert is finally finished! I am quite happy with how the final advert has turned out.
I began the editing by really playing with the audio, recording an ambient white noise track and cranking up the levels on this to distort the audio quality. I added a de-noiser and upped the threshold, turning the actual noise reduction UP so it resulted in a very up and down audio level throughout, (working to the dodgey sound archetype of pirate videos)
The most problematic part of my project I found was the actual filming! I wanted really low resolution footage to make the video seem as though it has actually been pirated, so this required me to film on my camera phone! I began by filming on my iphone but the camera quality of this phone is actually quite good, so I got out one of my old Nokias and shot the footage on that phone! This meant my actor had to learn his lines to say in one take, not a major issue due to the short nature of the clip but had the project been of a larger scale, then this could well have been a problem! I was originally going to include more facts and statistics at the end of the video, but i think the 75,000 jobs line works well against the fact that the dodgey dealer is talking about running his successful business!
I will post the video as soon as it is done uploading to youtube!
I began the editing by really playing with the audio, recording an ambient white noise track and cranking up the levels on this to distort the audio quality. I added a de-noiser and upped the threshold, turning the actual noise reduction UP so it resulted in a very up and down audio level throughout, (working to the dodgey sound archetype of pirate videos)
The most problematic part of my project I found was the actual filming! I wanted really low resolution footage to make the video seem as though it has actually been pirated, so this required me to film on my camera phone! I began by filming on my iphone but the camera quality of this phone is actually quite good, so I got out one of my old Nokias and shot the footage on that phone! This meant my actor had to learn his lines to say in one take, not a major issue due to the short nature of the clip but had the project been of a larger scale, then this could well have been a problem! I was originally going to include more facts and statistics at the end of the video, but i think the 75,000 jobs line works well against the fact that the dodgey dealer is talking about running his successful business!
I will post the video as soon as it is done uploading to youtube!
Thursday, 21 October 2010
I'm BACK! RESEARCH METHODS!
First post in a while, didn't actually realise we had to fill this in anymore for the 3rd year but I guess it makes for interesting reflection on projects etc. so i'm going to kick off this years blog with a post on RESEARCH METHODS i could use!
After reading into different methodologies, there appears to be 3 different types of research that I could be using.
Causal Research is a basic experiment if you like. It is basically giving a subject a stimulus and seeing what the outcome is. In relation to my project, this could well be measuring the heart rate of someone running with a 'motivational' piece of music playing against someone who is running with no music and noting down the difference.
Descriptive Research is research to establish what already exists. This is interesting and nessacary for me to do with my project. This might mean taking a survey or a poll to see how many people actually listen to music whilst running. I think this research is mainly for gathering information, instead of actually testing!
Relational Research is an interesting one. This method looks at the differences between two or more variables, as opposed to the Causal research which just focuses on one. This might apply to me if I run an experiment comparing a trained runner to an untrained runner using synchronous music or asynchronous music to improve their time. It's all interesting stuff and I am sure to refer to this in my research document!
After reading into different methodologies, there appears to be 3 different types of research that I could be using.
Causal Research is a basic experiment if you like. It is basically giving a subject a stimulus and seeing what the outcome is. In relation to my project, this could well be measuring the heart rate of someone running with a 'motivational' piece of music playing against someone who is running with no music and noting down the difference.
Descriptive Research is research to establish what already exists. This is interesting and nessacary for me to do with my project. This might mean taking a survey or a poll to see how many people actually listen to music whilst running. I think this research is mainly for gathering information, instead of actually testing!
Relational Research is an interesting one. This method looks at the differences between two or more variables, as opposed to the Causal research which just focuses on one. This might apply to me if I run an experiment comparing a trained runner to an untrained runner using synchronous music or asynchronous music to improve their time. It's all interesting stuff and I am sure to refer to this in my research document!
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