Jan

Unit 4 (first draft) was complete for over christmas. I found it hard to understand and i didn't get a great mark. So i need to do my final draft.

I also did my Unit 5 work which i did quite well. I just need to finalise the budget and the risk assessment.

17th sept

Finished work on my questionaire. I needed to find out some information on my target audience, so i asked three simple questions in order to achieve this. This was simply finding out their age group and what they would like to see in a musical promotion based documentary.
I did a good job of choosing my questions, as they are clear and open. I can also find out everything i need from them.

I now need to have all my questionaires filled out, finish my proposal, then pitch my final idea.

4th dec

I finished my unit 4.3 work. This involved demonstrating skills that i have not yet used in previous work. Firstly i demonstrated the use of screen capture and voice overdubbing. This took me a long time to capture properly as the sound did not work at first. After it was sorted i manged it well. I did this by capturing the screen on Windows Encoder, and capturing the sound aswel as the screen. I then used Audacity to record my voice over, then imported both pieces into Adobe Premiere.

Then i had to show finetic editing. So i staged a fight between two people and filmed it at a few different angles. Then i edited it to fit well with each other and added heavy music to set the mood. This worked really well and i did a good job of making it work. The only problem was the sound levels, but i made them equal by altering the levels and it was fine.

22nd nov

a quick note on applying sound to windows encoder.

• properties
• audio = soundMAX HD audio 1
• configure
• enable
• pin line = stereo mix

19th nov

Just some notes on what i must do for 4.3

half of the work is learning more about my target audience. so questionaires, interviews, focus groups etc will tell me more and prove there IS a target audience.

The second half is to practice techniques i will use in my product. i have never used quick camera cuts with sudden stop/start music (MTV style) so i will do this. i have never over dubbed my voice to narrate, so i will do this. finally, i have never screen captured. so i will do this.

they only need to be basic, but i just need to demonstrate i have practised this.

5th Nov

I had done work on 4.2 however, it wasnt detailed enough, and so was infact suitable for 4.1 - i will now need to make it detailed and a "certain" approach in order to have it classed as 4.2

I also need to make my own schedule for unit 4. the dead line for it is november 30th, so i need to fit in times when all of it will be finished.

I am also ready to pitch my idea, which is part of unit 4, and i will do the pitching on the 8th of this month.

I have also been told that my AS re-sit is due at the end of may. so i will need to plan out when i will do each piece of work.

Also - useful site;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace

16th oct

I stated work on the "what, why, who, where and how."

I discovered that this is as literal as it sounds.