Wednesday 18 March 2015
Sunday 15 March 2015
EVALUATION QUESTION 4 - TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
This timeline presents my use of media technologies I used throughout the course. To show the detail in my development click on the box with the image. To see more media technologies that I used, click the plus sign at the bottom to expand the time line.
Saturday 14 March 2015
Wednesday 11 March 2015
QUESTION 4 TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Here is a timeline of the technologies I used throughout the course, click on the tech to see a paragraph detailing it's use and my development.
The technologies have been colour coded so:
Blue are the internet based tools and software
Purple Technologies are downloaded pieces of software
And
Red is the hardware
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Sunday 8 March 2015
Tuesday 3 March 2015
Monday 2 March 2015
Sunday 1 March 2015
Saturday 28 February 2015
Thursday 26 February 2015
Saturday 7 February 2015
Monday 2 February 2015
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Made in Brum
Before now
Joseph McElligott was relatively unknown- but he’s shot onto the scene with new
one off documentary
By: Hayley Soen
Joseph McElligott doesn’t have any prestigious awards to his name, nor a boastful documentary portfolio, but that doesn’t stop us from being extremely excited about speaking to him ahead of his new, innovative documentary that set to create a stir.
Joseph McElligott doesn’t have any prestigious awards to his name, nor a boastful documentary portfolio, but that doesn’t stop us from being extremely excited about speaking to him ahead of his new, innovative documentary that set to create a stir.
You don’t often hear about new
documentary makers landing prime time slots straight away but we’re here with
the guy that has done just that.
‘Cliché as it sounds, I wanted to make TV shows since I was young,’ he says, ‘all my friends wanted to be on the TV, I wanted to create it!’
‘Cliché as it sounds, I wanted to make TV shows since I was young,’ he says, ‘all my friends wanted to be on the TV, I wanted to create it!’
Growing up in Birmingham was pretty
normal for Joe, he went to a local school and college just like most other
teenagers but it was after college that he began to step away from the crowd.
‘Going to Uni[versity] was what I thought I was going to do but then you can’t
just turn down this sort of opportunity’.
Joe was approached by the BBC after
they saw him writing about his experiences and ideas for a documentary on his
personal blog. ‘I didn’t even think anyone really looked at my blog, I
used it more as a diary to log all of my ideas. Getting a phone call from BBC
Head Office was not what I expected to come from it!’
‘I’d done some work placement with a
TV studio local to me when I was 16 and that was what inspired me to go into
documentaries,’ he explains, ‘I then kept writing about my ideas on my blog
just as a hobby.’
And what was Joe’s incredible idea I
hear you ask? Selfies. Not what you were expecting? Didn’t think so.
‘I know it seems like a trivial
topic but when you speak to people selfies are actually having a big impact!
[Laughs]'
And he isn't wrong, according to research;
up to 30% of the pictures that young people take nowadays are selfies- that's a
lot of pouting!
'I think it's important that
documentary makers try and make their topics current. A light-hearted
documentary is much more likely to appeal to young people than a heavier one
and getting young people into factual television is vital.'
Joe's documentary, #SELFIE is
already trending online but we wanted to know exactly what it is like to
make your first documentary and how he sees the reaction that it's had from the
public. 'It's been really crazy,' he blushes, 'I've been inundated with
tweets and messages from people about how excited they are to watch it. I'm
just as excited to see it go out, I've had so much fun working with an
incredible team and talking to a lot of people- it's been truly
incredible!'
The documentary follows Joe as he
finds out how something as simple as taking a photo of yourself has become
such a huge craze, particularly amongst teenagers and young adults. Joe visits
a college and Solihull Town Centre to speak to students and members of the
public first-hand about their opinions on this phenomenon. There are also
exclusive interviews with technology and psychology experts which uncover the deeper
issues that lie behind a seemingly innocent trend.
'I wasn't expecting it to be that
eye opening,' says Joe.
If there's one thing we know about
this documentary it's that it is not one to miss. Catch #SELFIE on the 24th
March 2015 on BBC Three at 8pm.
Sunday 1 February 2015
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Tuesday 27 January 2015
RADIO ADVERT SCRIPT
RADIO
ADVERT SCRIPT
MUSIC BED: (COPY RIGHT FREE MUSIC USED IN THE DOCUMENTARY PLAYS) 2
SECONDS
VOICE OVER: What’s the new trend that’s become a thing in our society 5 SECONDS
SOUND BITE: CUT FROM DOCUMENTRAY OF GIRLS SAYING “SELFIE” 2 SECONDS
VOICE OVER: What is the most popular form of photography today? 4
SECONDS
SOUND BITE: SECOND CUT FROM THE DOCUMENTARY OF A DIFFERENT GIRLS SAYING
THE WORD “SELFIE” 2 SECONDS
VOICE OVER: And what is the phenomenon that that has become a global
sensation? 4 SECONDS
SOUND BITE: THIRD CUT FROM THE DOCUMENTARY OF GROUP SAYING THE WORD
“SELFIE” 3 SECONDS
SOUND EFFECTS: FLASHING ON CAMERA BULB TO INDICATED THAT A PHOTO IS
BEING TAKEN. 2 SECONDS
MUSIC BED: (COPY RIGHT FREE
MUSIC USED IN THE DOCUMENTARY PLAYS) CONTINUED
VOICE OVER: Today, over one million “selfies” will be
taken and shared on social networking sites. As the trend grows each day, so do
the numbers. Yet is this novelty craze known as the “selfie” slowly becoming a
more dangerous epidemic amongst the teenage population?#SELFIE” is a new
documentary on BBC Three that set out to discover through both professional and
public opinion whether or not the Selfie phenomenon is merely a by-product of
popular culture or the narcissistic domination of a young generation. 12
SECONDS
MUSIC BED: MUSIC
FADES OUT AT THE END OF THE TRAILER 2 SECOND
Thursday 22 January 2015
Friday 16 January 2015
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