All Sessions PPD’s
Media Briefing SDS’s
Overall I felt comfortable completing all the SDS tasks. I think this is because we had already done tasks like these in class, so I knew what to do. Although I did struggle with coming up with ideas when brainstorming about the theme of self for the magazine. I don’t really understand completely or know how I am supposed to relate the theme of self to the magazine. I tried to come up with things I knew I could kind of show in my photography in an easier way, such as self expression. Since I applied to do journalism, I believe it’s a bit easier also to relate the theme of self because I can interview each person based on that. I just find it very hard to come up with just ONE theme of self to base the entire magazine on. I found the target audience board a bit easier to do because I know I want to focus it on people my age. When I was doing the self Styling shoot, I had some trouble with how I should pose in each picture, since I am still a bit confused on which theme of self I want to do. In order to improve that I am going to take more pictures so I have more options to choose from. I also think if I have more options, It can be a way to help me decide which theme of self I want to focus on. The photography task was a bit easier because I could take pictures of other things and atmospheres instead of myself. Still, I am also planning on taking more pictures like that so I have more options to choose from to decide which theme to focus on. Lastly my draft proposal was the hardest SDS task for me. I had trouble explaining what I meant. I will improve it by fixing what I am not sure of and adding things in as I go.
Term 3 Week 1
Session 1
In this session we focused mainly on creating a concept board. I struggled a bit with this because I feel like my audience board and concept board are very similar, which I am not sure if that is correct or not. I also struggled a bit with this because I still am not sure what theme of self I want to focus on my magazine. I had a lot of trouble writing my draft and I feel like I need to have that perfectly done before creating my concept board. I still created one in class, I just think I am going to change it when I have all my ideas straight. The only thing I know now is that I want my magazine to have pictures captured in the ‘moment’, and have this sort of candid idea. I am not sure if that makes sense or how to really explain that, which is another reason why I had trouble creating my concept board and proposal draft. In order to fix this I am just going to brainstorm and write down all my ideas so I have that all in one place and can figure out exactly what I am going for. I am going to do that as soon as possible. Something else I struggled with in this session was presenting my work to a partner. As I stated before, I am not sure exactly how to explain what I want to focus on in my magazine, so it was hard to present it and to get them to understand what I really meant.
Session 2
Today we were supposed to go to an external outing at the Barbican. I was not able to go in this day because I had to delay my flight since I got sick right before I left Brazil. Despite this, when I got back to London I went by myself and took many pictures. It was difficult for me to imagine different PR stunts at the Barbican while I was there because I cannot really picture things like that in my mind at the time, I need time to think it. So when I was there I just took as many pictures as possible and then later I looked at all of them and came up with many different ideas. Something else I had difficulty with in the Barbican is that at first I was very confused on where to go and where to take pictures. But I figured that out pretty quickly and even went to the conservatory. I am very happy with the pictures I took because I was able to come up with many different ideas through them, so I am glad it all worked out.
Term 3 Week 2
Session 1
In this session we created different ideas for PR events for our magazines. As I mentioned before, my photos really helped me come up with these ideas. It took some time and I changed a somethings a few times, but I am really happy with the final ideas I had after this session. We also had to create some more ideas for SDS, which I had some trouble on. It took some time for me to come up with different ideas than I already had, but I guess I managed to do it. I still prefer my first set of ideas though to use. I think this session was very useful because it got me thinking on what to do and showed me a base of how to portray my ideas, which was very helpful. It helped me organize my ideas better and I now know what I want my magazine theme to be.
Session 2
Today we worked on building our magazine’s PR package. We created a social media posts using the Zine tag lines we had to do for SDS. I had trouble when choosing the pictures to use for my social media posts. I edited some pictures I already had and tried to make it in a way where identity was questioned. I am not sure if the viewer will capture what I was going for, so I am worried about that. I am going to ask my friends what they think and see if they understand my idea just to be sure it really makes sense. I also had trouble in assembling all the pictures together and choosing which one matched my theme more. I am a very indecisive person, and so choosing only a couple of pictures was very hard for me, so I created multiple different orders with different pictures using the instagram post layout. That really helped me choose which one out of all I liked best and in what order. I finally decided on focusing on myself in comparison to others, that way I can talk about different forms of self such as self expression, self identity, etc, and not just one. I am still a bit worried on how I am going to get that message across combined with the idea of ‘living in the moment’, that I want my magazine to have. I don’t really want to include posed photoshoot pictures, and rather candid in the moment ones.
Term 3 Week 3
Session 1
In todays session we created a video in partners as practice for when we create our PR video for our magazine. When creating video content, I was the model. I found that challenging because I don’t really know how to model. I am not sure what poses to do and facial expressions and such, so I was a bit lost. My partner defiantly helped and our video turned out pretty good. I also had trouble editing my video and adding sound. I was having some technical difficulties when doing it. Me and my partner were both going to create a video, but we ended up doing it together since I couldn’t. I went to the apple store to see what was wrong with my iPad and they said it did not have enough storage, so I deleted a lot of unnecessary things that were occupying most of the space and now I am able to use it just fine. I found this session very helpful because now I know exactly what to do for my video and what format to do it in. I think without this session I would’ve been very lost on what exactly to do. I am planning on taking some more candid photos of wherever I go this weekend to add to my media.
Session 2
In this session we had a one on one with Carlyn and also worked on our magazine format. Although I worked mainly on doing my proposal and tried to organize everything to show Carlyn when it was my turn. I found this session very helpful because she helped me by going through my camera roll and letting me know what pictures she thought were good for me to include. I was a bit lost before this session but now I know what kind of pictures to put. I really like the idea of using candid pictures. I just think its different than other magazines and it could feel relatable to people my age.
Term 3 Week 4
Session 1
In this session I worked on making my magazine invitation and my magazine press release. I think I did very well when creating the invitation. I had most trouble creating the press release. I was not sure how much to write or what to write. I also feel like I wrote similar things in both my magazine invitation and press release and I am not sure if it really supposed to be like that. I am going to review both again to make sure I did them right. I am also going to try to add more sentences because I don’t feel like I wrote enough. It makes it harder for me that I was not in this session today because I was very sick. I am trying to do and keep up with all my work despite this, but it has been very hard.
Term 3 Session 5
I was not there during this session because I was very sick. I am upset by this because it would have been great to get feedback on my work from my peers and know what I should change or if I need to include anything I haven’t already. I hope my project will contain everything needed when I submit it.
Adobe
Session 1
In todays session we were introduced to Adobe Premiere. I honestly had a lot of trouble understanding how to use it, and usually I am good with apps like these. I did not understand how to add the effects on the videos I added onto it. Every time I tried adding an effect it would either not work or it would cut the rest of my video, making it really weird. Next class we are going to learn more on how to use it, so I am going to make sure to take notes so I know exactly what to do when creating my PR video. I did think it was very good how many effects we could potentially add. I think it can make the video so much more interesting, not many apps give so many options like Premiere does. I think this class was very useful to me because it gave me a good introduction on everything this app has to offer so I am going to try to come up with some ideas on what to include on my PR video based on what I have already seen is possible to create in this first session. I am also going to try to download Premiere in my own computer to try to practice some more so I can get more used to using it before next session.
