Tuesday 10 December 2019

digital journalism - process

Process - We began by agreeing to work on a project based on digital journalism. We first read through the brief and made a plan of what we could do, we felt it would be best to find out about the history and or how each form of digital journalism works and what the differences are. I first began by making a very short survey on survey monkey asking people what they thought digital journalism was, what sites and apps they used and where they get their news from. After a few days we looked at the results and peoples opinions gave us a better idea of what we should be looking for as well as that , we also recorded the data of what media people use, to show off in our presentation.

survey monkey data table & link
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QDSM3ZN

We first met up in the college library to make a brainstorm of what we could talk about for each of our chosen topics and we also decided we wanted to present each topic in the same format, for example when talking about snapchat , we would take our video recording on snapchat, i also planned on making a html page to be an example of a longform scrollytelling-esque site and i planned on making a blog post that would look like a listicle page.

We spent a few hours in the seating area in D block on our laptops gathering information and background data for our project. My teammates did most of the research side while i was working on creating the HTML page, the blog post , the survey data visual aid and the title cards for our video presentation. We created a google document to keep all of our findings together and so we could each access the data, and make changes accordingly. We agreed to research 9 of the topics listed in the project brief so that we could each record 3 segments for our final presentation. We then wrote a script for what we wanted to say in each of the video segments before we began filming. Our first recording was for horizontal video recording, being like a normal news cast so we decided to use D002 as we thought it would be the easiest to record a segment in due to the white walls. This first segment was our longest, uncut about 2 minutes and unfortunately for the final presentation video had to be cut down to about 30 seconds. We believe this is quite unfortunate as it was definitely the most entertaining. We re-recorded each segment 3 - 5 times due to outside noise or mistakes.

We made our recordings over 2 days , I compiled all of them from mine and Aaron's cameras and added the title cards. I used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the clips and make a 5 minute video. The first render of the video went terribly for some still unknown reason taking 6 hours to render. the video also ended up not being playable. I re-edited the video 2 more times due to a computer crash before finally creating our final presentation video.

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