My strengths were the designing the website. i used a website called Wix to help me design my website and bring all my ideas to life. On my surveys i got peoples opinions and what they would rather see and what would rather attract them. This helped me in my ideas and design. i looked at bunch of different websites like Spotify and youtube for ideas.

My weaknesses was the website idea and my time management. I didn’t plan my time well and spent too long trying to figure out what i wanted my website to be about but then i came to the conclusion that everyone is lacking in good music websites where you can not only stream your music but share it as well as find concert tickets at a reasonable price.

My opportunities were that not everyone thought of the idea to make a music website with all these features intact i was the only one so that helped me. i figured out how to use Wix with the help of my classmates and teachers swell as a a feature on Wix that helped me start off my website with template ideas and features and tab ideas.

My threats were the neighbouring websites with more attention to use my ideas and upgrade their websites with my ideas. as well as since you can share your own music people to hate on others or when buying tickets for a show it doesn’t go through and having un happy costumers.

 

Soundscape audio

 

Reflective vlog 1:

This week i did my powerpoint about the history of drama with the timeline as well as my sound scape and audio commentary. I did research about the history of drama and different types of drama and how the the history of drama has started and how it has developed I learned a lot about all the different types of dramas there are. It also helped me to have ideas on what to base my drama on like the genre. i faced a few difficulties with this because i couldn’t find any simple and sufficient websites where i could get good information and history about drama. but from a friend i found a good website which helped me a lot with my work.

Reflective Vlog 2:

I then did my script I based my script on a ex best friend of mine who isn’t good at communicating I wanted to have a sudden moment of shock in mine and I had an original idea of it to set in a tree house in the middle of a forest my character Susie has a plumber in her house she comes home to find she is alone in a house with a stranger he tries to communicate with her but fails to as she doesn’t respond at all because she is scared her voice it put on the line when she goes looking for her parents to come back and find the house is on n fire and she had locked the plumber inside she goes to run to her neighbours not too far from her house and starts to think what to do and she gets scared but doesn’t want the kind stranger to die so she screams from the top of her lungs and eventually gets neighbours attention.

Reflective Vlog 3:

the next week I had to do my actual audio drama we decided to go with Jodie Reileys script because it made the most sense and was interesting. We had to record it a few times because we wanted to make sure it was perfect it was a thriller type of drama we each played 2 characters with Zheng Rong and Natalia controlling the sound and saying improvements. we did the sounds of a monster and us running and dying aswell as out of breath. we used the studio room and a few props like a coconut and bags. I then did my equipment and booking list where I had to write down a list of equipment we used and the booking list. We managed to record it quicker than i thought.

Reflective Vlog 4:

i had to edit my recording  it took  a lot longer than i thought it would because i faced a lot of difficulties our recording was 7 minutes and i had to edit it down to 3-4 minutes this wasn’t easiest because i didn’t wanna delete anything because i thought it wouldn’t make much sense if i did that and i also had to add sounds which made it longer and harder to cut down shorter. i edited a lot and needed up with 4 minutes and it makes somewhat sense which was good i was particularly good with adding extra sounds.

Reflective Vlog 5:

This week I did my Foley task sheet and my sound scape I faced a few difficulties with my Foley sheet because not all the sounds recorded in the studio worked out well. I had to record in various locations form a café to a busy highway. I also had to recorded a bunch of sounds in the studio like twig crunching walking on gravel and many more I then had to do a soundscape audio labeled accordingly of  four different genres  each audio had to be shortened to 10-15 seconds each I did thriller, action, romance and comedy.

Reflective Vlog 6:

overall i did a lot of editing and research i found most editing easy but the audio drama itself was hard to edit i enjoyed the sound part where i had to record my own sounds and  where i had to go place and record it was fun because it resulted me to going new places i will take on the editing part to my further projects because i have learned how to edit audio pretty well so ill use that later and finding different audios too.

history of drama powerpoint

https://youtu.be/st1chwO4PiM

I chose to do my website about music because i personally cannot live without music. I know for a fact most people listen to music and they also spend a lot of money on data so they can listen to music any where. But i wanted to help people out by making this website where they can listen and stream music offline and you can check tour dates and new albums of your favourite artists. I chose to have a vibrant blue background  because i like blue and the logo is neon blue because it looks good. my font is interesting and the letter A is like a rotated play sign in a way and it looks good.

My Website

 

My Rationale:

My website benefits people by saving them time and energy by making a website where you can post, listen to your own music as well as get your own feedback and post your own feedback for other peoples music tastes and videos. It is a child friendly website with a wide range of search available. My website also allows people to find cheap concert tickets near them and get updates of upcoming music releases and merch drops this will save everyone’s time instead of them looking at 10 different websites for concerts tickets and merch and up coming music releases they have 1 website to go to for all of that. You can also stream downloaded music offline with no payment needed this is because I personally think is a good idea especially because we spend a lot of money on data for our phones to then spend it on apps to listen to music  even then it doesn’t always work for example on tubes because the service does so that’s why I think it is important to have this feature on my website to help out everyone.

In Unit 7 we were asked to do research about different interactive media formats. Then make a survey asking people about the sort of font that engages them to pay attention more to a website and the colour scheme they would rather see in a website, the results that we received from the survey we used to design our own website of a topic of our choice and then to present it in the format of a presentation pitch to the class.

my choice of topic for the website is about Music. my website template is vibrant because my survey answers showed see that most people like to see that on websites. my typography that i will us for my website will be bold. On my website you can post your own covers and get feedback on them from anyone. Celebrities, producers, friends and family. My website is called Replay this idea cam to me because if you like a song you replay it because its that good that you can’t stop listening to it and its stuck in your head.

in my survey i asked people how often they use social media from a scale 1-5. One being hardly ever and five being all the time most of the day. I also asked what they use their phone for and from the answers they could list a number of things they use it for and most said talking to people ad watching videos and then i decided to add a feature to my website where you can watch music videos and covers and post them.

From personal experience i have realised that most apps and websites don’t allow you to be able to replay a song more than once and most people would want to be able to replay  their favourite songs over and over so i added that feature aswell to my  website.

 

December 10th:

We have just been assigned to our new project which is about charity adverts and we have to do it in groups. we started our presentations and our research for our own charity adverts. the research that  did was about different charities such as blue cross and cancer research this has helped strengthen my work by teaching me more about different types of charities.

my strengths this week were that i finished what i ha planned to finish which was the research for the powerpoint. i found out a lot about the different types of charities there was and saw adverts linking to them and who they help and their aim and techniques they use to get attention of different types of audiences. My weaknesses were my timing because i didn’t use my time well i could have finished it earlier if i had planned my time out a lot better.

 

December 15th:

We are starting to focus on our group advert which is about animals and is based on the charity Dogs Trust. We aim to video 1 dog in the alley way wondering looking for a loving home. We decided on this idea because it seemed most ideal to us all since we all like dogs and some of us have our own or even have adopted our own dogs. we have gotten different ideas from the averts we have watched and we have seen the different way charities use characters music and lighting to show that theres something going on and that you should feel sympathy for the character.

my strengths in this were the ideas for my group i tried to give as much ideas as i could and we managed to use some of my ideas for the advert itself my weakness was the planning for when we will meet i wasn’t gonna be in the country for some of the time too it would mean we have less time to film with me being in the country.

 

December 20th;

We have done the planning for our adverts and are ready to start filming we have finished our research and our powerpoint for it we have ideas and aims of what we would like to see as our outcome of our work. i did my comparison which was an advert for blue cross and another advert for cancer research i analysed  both adverts how they spoke to the target audience and used the lighting background music and sounds to make their target audience feel sympathy and then lead to them making a small donation for the charity itself.

my weakness was the timing again it took me longer than i planned it to do the comparison of my 2 charities because i couldn’t find a new advert to analyse so it took long than it should have taken. My strengths were the comparison and how i analysed the adverts and described them and the compared them both it was easy to see what the different types of lighting did to the people watching. e.g the dark low key lighting and sad music pulled the target audiences heart strings making them feel bad if they don’t donate money to cancer research.

December 30th:

We have done all our powerpoint work and the majority of the filming is done and discussed, even though it didn’t plan out the way we imagined but it still looked good and the footage we could work with. we had a chance to video a wide range of different dogs in different locations. we filmed our main character the dog chained to poll all sad and made sure the weather was all dark and gloomy and the music behind the advert was all sad and slow.

my strengths in finishing my powerpoint and the filming were the powerpoint i managed to finish it aswell as my pitch and i had it recorded and the filming i managed to help in the filming of the dog and ask a friend to then play the role of the owner and run happily with our main character the dog. we were successful with all the work planned for this week.

January 11th:

we have don all our work with this project we have finished the advert. The editing took a bit of time to perfect but it all turned out good enough. we have done our survey and our comparisons. w have submitted our work. we made the advert all down beat and sad to catch our target audiences attention. i finished my powerpoint and my surveys with questions on them and results of the questions and i have done my survey evaluation. i also did the script.

my weakness was the swot analysis i didn’t quite know what to write and how to start it and finish it my timing wasn’t as bad this week as it was the few weeks before which is good because it meant i had more work done. my powerpoint i did research about 4 different charities instead of 2 to make sure it was enough. my strength this week was the timing and the focus group feedback and evolution and the unit 7 presentation.

 

https://youtu.be/Gidqj3siKW8