digital journalism - product

Product - For this Project I made a HTML Page to be an example of a Longform scrollytelling site, a blog post to look like a listicle site, a lot of title cards for the video presentation, a survey about digital journalism , an audio backing track with help from my beat producer friend and Aaron attempted to make a timeline of important dates for digital journalism but was unsuccessful.

I made a HTML page to look like a normal Longform scrollytelling site so that we would not have to use footage of sites that we don't own. This meant it had to contain large images and large amounts of text throughout the page. I copied code i wrote for my web development project and made changes to make the items on the page fit right, i then compiled random images from my camera roll to use on my site, i used a large chunk of text from one of my google docs and repeated it under each picture as i knew it would not be legible on camera anyways and it did not need to have a point other than to look right. I played with background colour , image borders and text size for the page. Finally i attempted to upload it to the internet through a free website uploader but for whatever reason it has not worked correctly and so in a separate blog post there is a link to the files on google drive.

longform scrollytelling files download link -  https://drive.google.com/open?id=11R9SQyulR2XgWDz_QstsoxuIVpKp5OF_

I made a blog post to re-create a listicle site as the formatting is quite similar being all a long list. I compiled a number of photos i had taken in digital photography of a pencil pearer and made a listicle about the best photo ops for a pencil pearer and added some text under each image to replicate sites like buzzfeed.

listicle look alike blog post -  https://conorcdm.blogspot.com/2019/12/listicle-example.html

I used picsart, the app, to make each of the title cards for the video presentation, i fist downloaded the cdm logo and tud logo and placed them and my group's names on a black background. I then made cards for each of our topics in the presentation. Problems arised when i was editing the video clips as none of the title cards were the same size and were all being displayed incorrectly,meaning i had to redo all of them the exact same size, 2000 x 1333 pixels.

Images i made for the project -

I wrote a quick survey on survey monkey to give us an idea of what people knew about digital journalism and what we should do for our project. This also gave us survey results to add into our final presentation for a bit of extra information.

survey monkey link -  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QDSM3ZN
survey results - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yMjL5GZ3OhIZRzCVmADK0N2RwFA3qc4sBFVKTdHkGXU/edit?usp=sharing

I used the beat "sadmess" by Sagon , a friend of mine, for our backing track making my own edits to extend the audio from around 2 minutes to 5 minutes exactly. I used audacity to make the edits.

original beat link - https://soundcloud.com/user-315900057/sagon-sadmess

link to our extended version - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Atv3pJWmOi8uhuouy7EP_TCXshHo2Va-

Aaron tried to make a timeline of important events using the software recommended on the project brief but could not get the software working properly so unfortunately this idea had to be scrapped.