Mr D's comment

Good posts, Shona - well done. Can you say more about your individual contributions to the group's work?

24th September . Vox popping :D

OMG! todaay was actually soo funny but at the same time NervRacking .. We had to go out in our groups and interview lots of random people in town, but at frst we did our piece to camera and i actuallu looked discusting :O and didnt even know what i was saying and looked even more retarded making funny faces :/ anyway that was over and done with and then it was the real thing going up to some random person asking them if we could interview them our first one was really good we interviewed her about our toiv under age drinking and what peple thought of it was different as we went along.

We interviewed about 3 people but asked loads but peopel were just ude or in a hurry .. so we gave up on that and went to lunch ( Mcdonalds ) The best :) ... so everyone had a lunch break and went round town for a bit and we thought it would be better asking people instead of saying " can i ask you a few questions we thought we would just say " excuse me can we ask you a quick question for our school project" and that went really well after lunch we interviewed like 10 11 other people and some were really succsessful :) Finally !!

Filming in CRAM :)

Today we learnt all about vox popping and how to interview some one properly and even how to hold the camra when your interviewing someone ... At first Mr D showed us everything we needed to know about filming something like the angles and if we want to have a bit of four ground in our film and how to make our film look perfessional
and to have the right lighting where ever you are.. So after that we went out in our groups and film an intro of an documentary so there i was in the camera and looked like an absolute retard and even worse talked about cars:/ but turned out okay Mr D liked it i thnk :/ .. but i did learn somethign about vox popping that was how to make an interview look good by the way i hold the camera what parts of background i do need for my interview..because we have to thnk about what background would suite the interview Eg:if your doign an interview about traffice you might want cars in the background going past on a busy road. Also we have to be careful while vox popping as there is health and safety risks like being on a busy road while taking shots or vox popping also going up to a random person is a risk they might be dangerous or they might try an jack the camera :/ wouldnt be good ! but filming at first is quite difficult as we havent had much exsperience with all the different types of lighting and tools you have to use so our practise interview didnt go too well as you couldnt really hear the sound the camera was tlted and all the questions were done too early when the camera wasnt ready :/ so yea but we didnt improve everything when we did the documentary :) but practise makes Perfect :D ...

Mr D's comment

Great posts, Shona - it's interesting to read about your experience of media. You sound confident, which is good!

My Experiences :D ..

Ive done loads of practical work around The good old Manor :) like in music when we composed our own songs we used a program on the computer called sequal which was media Making songs. And obviously in drama we have used still camras , video camras <0n on a tripod ;) To perferm our Piece of drama. Also i have used loads of graphics websites like photoshop and paint shop pro in art when we made colages about life and used different images from google and created a colage and used different tools to get a different effect and design. Soo its not much experience but its something the onyl other thing i can think of is when we were studying structure we had to design a bridge that worked on a program on the computer in DT. So Yea thats my Experiences but still havent got the hang on some of em .. :) but hopefully do in Creative and media :D ...

A Biit About me :) ...

Me : Well i surpose you can say i watch Tv Sometimes when im in the mood and having one of those lazy days otherwise im out and about :) ... But when i do watch it i normally just watch Hollyoaks or the Hills Or listen to the good old Tunes on the music channels! :D .. Films , Me And the girls are always watching films mostly comedies because i hate horrors but now and again they make me watch em :/ i like any good movie really just not too grose :) .. Music , i love my tunes i mostly listen to R&B like everyone does Drum & Bass, hip hop and any thing good really.
I dont Really read unless i have no choice like in a lesson at school But otherwise i wouldnt spend time reading a rusty old book not my idea of fun ! .. If Im on the internet catching up with all the goss Thats around Facebook(I LOVE facebook), Msn, if i have to google, Youtube and occasionally Bebo. But if im not doing any of that im out and about With everyone, Shopping in the good old Primark or Just Grafton.. So yea thats me i guess all that woffling<--(Wich i love doing)_ has made my fingers Ache :O !! :/

TodaYy ... :)

To Begin With we talked about safety and camera safety. how to use a camera properly, how not to use a camera near a road or how not to run backwards when filming. SOMETHING I OBVIOUSLY WOULD DO! but how easy these things are to doo.Mr D told us all the things we need to do before using the camra and all the types of things like the white balance and contrast and the different lighting we will use as in outdoor and indoor.. Then We had 20 minures to go out and take snap shots of buildings... after we took 4 snaps of random building we went back and gave in out tapes:)

First Day:)

OiOi :D .. First Dayy And Buzzing :P But Already been quite confused :/
Should bee good tho i hope ..
Hope its not too Hard that i get soo confused my head falls off :L Ha!
But any way Should Enjoy it :) .. x