What I have learned from Industrial Media this semester

Time flies quickly. Suddenly, this semester is nearly ended. Industrial Media, which is my favorite course in this semester, really have taught a lot of skills and knowledge.

Firstly, During this semester, Dr. Paul and Dr. Andrea have taught many piratical skills and precious principles about edit. There are countless online tutorials, but those small principles is the priceless experiences. For example, how to organize files and bins clearly and neatly is a vital but always ignored point. After this semester, I module a correct attitude and habit for my future learning, which is an impregnable foundation.

On the other hand, I learned different filming skills. For example, how to operate camera, what are microphone’s polar pattern and how to record, what are lighting principles are, what proper video camera setting sequence is, how to handle a mixer, all of these skills are achievements for working hard in this course.

Overall, the one that is above all others is understanding film-making industry. This course has taught me the responsibilities and feelings of each position, which assists me to find out my favorite one requiring my all efforts to master it.

Wall of salvation 3: flipped lecture

A good morning

It is a normal morning, Like always. There is an empty road. Cold and tedious

Then suddenly, you saw the dawn. The red, intense light that purifies you in the first glance. You realize: A new day is here.

You keep walking. You saw the sea waving. Gently. He is still snoring, refuse to wake.

At the port, you saw nothing wakes. You feel proud as you are the only one watching this glorious view. You want to sing, you want to dance.

“Hey Master,” you ask, smile like you haven’t done this before,”can we run another marathon tomorrow? I like this.”

You said what???????

Analysis my blog views

According to these analysis, the conclusion is simple to make. The views number is based on my blogs. And the numbers are stable: average 2 views for each blog. I can see that most of them are my acquaintances. And their numbers are limited. If I want to attract more views to watch, I have to broadcasting it. For example, ask my friend to recommend it for me. And link my Facebook and this one together. Because I have most of my friend there. And they may have some time to read my story.

The other obvious point is that most of our views came from Australia(5 out of 7). Therefore, I should focus more information of Australia news as this may attract more interesting and commons than just talk talk.

My opinion of E-book

eBook (Electronic Books), so-called “e-books”, which is a new way of publishing using Internet technology to publish and spread. It is a new method that is different to traditional book publishing used by mass paper media for last centuries. E-book reading is increasing in the US, since by 2014 28% of adults had read an e-book, compared to 23% in 2013. This is increasing because 50% of Americans by 2014 had a dedicated device, either an e-reader or a tablet, compared to 30% owning a device at the end of 2013 ( E-reading rises as device ownership jumps. Pew Research. Retrieved 24 July 2014).

Unlike paper books, Ebook can provide a wide range of benefits. For example, there is no inventory and environmental issues. industry of paper making is a main reason of waste of resources and pollution. Cost of printing and distribution process will be greatly reduced, while completely breaking the constraints of the print run. For our readers, searching and finding will be simple, no limitation of adding and deleting comments, portable, and POD (printing on demand) will allow us to enjoy more happy reading time as a reader in digital age.

For making Ebook, there are many methods. And there are also many versions of E-Book. EPUB is used by Apple products such as Ipad, Mac, or Iphone. PDF is widely used by Adobe products such as Acrobat Reader. And they are require special reader apps for that special format.

There are considerable free software to make E-book. For example, PAPYRUS, Softonic, Mobiepocket. And there are company products such as Adobe Acrobat. Their functions are nearly same, making a E-book that can be read on special readers. Users can choose any one to make any words into a file that can spread and read online.

My peer feedback for others’ work

https://twitter.com/mrbadinglish

This one is came from my classmate Yuri Ardana, Angela Chohee Kim, Janet Chao Ji and Jessie Xi Tan.

I really like this one. It is short, it is simple, it is basic. But it is also meaningful. It is clear. And it is really funny.

There is no new style or some many digital decoration or website. But, it provides a video that I can fully understand its idea. There are thousands of digital stories which try to put as many information as possible into their stories. And they all think that audience want a whole brand new experiences which they use various ways to show their story and lines. Moreover, they eagerly adds new technologies into their work to create interactive functions which only make it hard to understand. This one does’t and that is why this is way much better than others. After all, this story telling is really amazing.

The other strength in this project is its interface. All important things are placed clearly without blocking the view or create distractions. Which I think it is useful for our next project.

I watch a digital story for recreation. I do not want to spend an hour to find out where are those information or how to use this thing. What I want is a great reading experiences and can spend all my time on taste the story. Those colorful decoration and makeup can only show hollow of the work. and this one is not. The designer has an idea and he expresses it properly and understandably. That is what I want. They only have one purpose which is let audiences enjoy this story comfortably without any distraction, and they did it successfully. That is all I need.

The only thing I think can be called as a weakness is its length. As a work, it may be too short. If it can have some more content, it will be marvelous.

This is another digital story (from Courtney, Anthia, Yoyo and An). It is an also a very good example.

The design is as good as others.

It is used different methods to express its idea. The graphics, the video, the interview. And it combines them altogether, and it creates a really good story of that.

The narration of this video is amazing. It is undoubtedly a professional performance. Design is great, and I fully understand the idea, which is the best thing in their design.

I think their work is fantastic. the only suggestion I can give is that I will make a website which will play this video. On the bottom of the video, I will add some links for relative stories and links.

The only weakness hear is lack of excitements. It may because of my own interesting. I feel it is a little bit too slow and too peaceful. That is the missing part.

A digital story made by us

http://www.crematoriumcafe.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005988198644&fref=ts

https://twitter.com/Warren_Ebony

This is our group work. It is a complicated digital story and it really bring a lot of benefits for me and my teammates. My job in this project is developing and testing the website. And making materials for the flash.

First of all, this story is based on a period of life of two people (Ebony and Stephen in 8 weeks). These two are fictional characters and they are created on social network. We carefully put twitters and Facebook posts and blogs to make these two characters real. All of these activities are planed and scheduled for keeping it real. At last, we make a flash and website to record all their behaviors and life in this short period. Then we broadcast it.

Because all of these story happened on social network. Therefore the entire story is part of our strategy. On the other hand, we also write some stories which uses this as an example or just a funny story to others. There are some misunderstandings about the strategy. Because we were using social network as a main part of our story, I did not decide a plan for promotion. At the middle point of the plan, Alex and Florence mentioned that and then I started to do it. It is reflect my careless. In the future, I must do better than this.

This is our social network strategy:
Social media plays a twofold purpose in our digital story project. Firstly, it is embedded within the digital story itself. The main character has interactions on Facebook, Twitter and Blogger. She is the sort of person that tweets her whole life to her followers and will share screenshots from other media straight to her twitter feed. Throughout the production stage, we will be using hash tags frequently to attract traffic to the main character’s twitter page. We will also follow and friend people from our existing networks using the main character’s Facebook and Twitter profile. This will help garner attention, and most importantly, make the fake character’s profile look realistic.

Secondly, social media will be used heavily to promote our project. Once the whole story is completed, everything will be collated into a website and the link for the website will be shared across our existing social media networks. We will also showcase this story on websites such as Reddit and Upworthy that feature unique, human-interest stories and have heavy web traffic, as well as QR and forums( you can add your bits here and talk about why we are doing that) , to build and audience for and encourage conversations around this topic. The hook or tagline for our story is that online relationships can end up with a surprising, nasty twist (needs fixing!). It would function as a cautionary tale to anyone who is interested in pursuing a relationship with someone they met online. We wanted to focus on online dating because it is currently a trending topic with the rising popularity of dating apps like Tinder that connects users through Facebook and shows like Catfish that shows the truth and lies of online dating.

Technology we used is not particularly sophisticated including Social network software(desktop version and mobile version), website developer, flash (Adobe flash), editing software (Premiere and some others), photographic software(Photoshop). Overall, we did it successfully. But there is also some issues. In project, we assigned the flash making and website developing to Tammy. Unfortunately, they are too much for one person. And when she said she cannot do both, we suddenly cannot arrange anyone to assist her. I finally took her work and the result is all fine at last. But it reflects that we underestimated the difficulty of making a flash and did not plan a B plan for accidents, which we should be very carefully at next time.

The outlook design and confidentiality are decided by group. We finished the website allowing everyone give an opinion. We changed those opinion via social network (because some of them made this work at work time (don’t tell my boss I did this), Skype group meeting is unacceptable). Website developer(me) make a basic version and everyone provide a proposal via social network. Then we tried those suggestions and made this final version.

The collaboration is something we can be proud of in this project. We have meet every week and switch ideas and suggestions via social network frequently. The whole project plan is well made (thanks Alex’s fine work). And when someone facing a problem, there were always helps from someone else. Everyone’s ideas were expressed clearly and after all, everyone was participated in and no feel left behind.

Overall, this is not a perfect result but it is beyond our expectation. Everyone is dedicated for this assignment and we all feel proud of it.

Resources
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My plan of knight of Demacia (Chapter 1)

This is just an idea. I will make a story buy using twitter and QR code.

First of all, the Knight of Demacia is a fiction story that Audiences can choose their own line of the story. Most of the story will write on twitter or some other blog. When there is a bifurcation, audiences can send their choices to the organizer by twitter the number of your option. Or scan the QR code that represents your option and then entering a story line that they want. For twitter, the organizer will send later part to each group for making sure the story will follow their choice. For who choose QR code, the QR code is the link to the entry of the next part. Then they can see a story that based on their own choices.

This is the decision tree

Decision Tree

This is the poster

Post for my story

An infographic

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