Dear Diary - Editing Process Part 2 - (Problems with Clips)

PROBLEMS WITH CLIPS

When listening to what I have edited in the voxplots I had noticed in some areas where the microphone tends to make an unplesant sound. I did not realise this when I was recording the Voxplots, despite this sound I have decided that I will still add that interview to my final edit. I believe that the sound does sound very unplesant and unprofessional, but during this period of time it would be hard to re-record and get more interviews, as most students are busy either doing projects or revising as exam season approaches.

Unfortunately I cant post the video that presents the errors as blogger says that the clip needs to be more than 100MB but you will see the clip and how it sounds once my edit has fully been completed and you will also see how I try to hide it through music and other methods. 

In my opinion, I believe that I can edit and change this so the sound is not present in my final edit, by cutting some of the voxplots and fading the sound levels so you can not hear it. I could also cut the clip so she just starts speaking instanly and I could replace my voice with font, which sounds like the easier option as even on the clips my voice did not seem to be heared that much.

Risk Assessment - Drug use in Lyrics Documentary

Dear Diary - Editing Process

Sneak Peek of my introduction to Drug Use in lyrics.

The process of editing my documentary Drug use in lyrics has been going very good and effective. So far I have added my voiceovers to my visual clips, edited some of my voxplots and added music to my work.  I do have a lot more things I have to edit but I am determined to finsh my documentary by the deadline that I have set.

All the pieces I have edited up to date have a duration of 6.41 mintues, So I am sure that my documentary will be around 10-15 mintues which is what I am aiming for.

A screenshot of my timeline and what I have edited up to date.

VOXPLOTS 

Here is the pictures of the two girls that I have interviewed. The 1st one is called Larissa and the second interviewee is called Sherene. Overall I had done 3 interviews, 2 with females and one with a male. I decided to interview 2 females, merely because most teenaged boys around the ages of 16-18 tend to listen to a lot to songs. Especially in my class the boys tend to listen to Grime, which is a genre of music which comes from England, that sometimes promotes drug use in their lyrics. This is why I decided to interview more females then males because most females that I am friends with dont really take in any consideration of what they're singing, even me I tend to sing along to songs without actual knowing what it means its like a trend for people to sing the latest songs and not really know what the singer is talking about.

Some people may even know that the song is about drugs but not the effects of being under the influence of it. The guy that I interviewed seemed to know that the song was about social status but not about drugs, even when I played the infamous part ''pop the molly im sweating''  I had to edit the clip as he paused a lot and said uhmm. This was a shock to me as I thought that he would be aware of what the message of the song was but he had no idea, it just goes to show that just because some males listen to Grime it does not mean they're always aware of what the rapper/singer song is about 

Dear Diary - FMP (Final Major Project) Progress

The shooting process of my documentary has become very successfull, despite missing a couple of days I had managed to still get the right amount of footage in time, for the editing process and also to complete my deadline. Today I thought that it would be sensible to go over my clips just to see if they are of a high standard and if they were suitable to present in my documentary Drug use in lyrics.

I believe that the visual parts of my recordings were quite good, I had managed to do different types of shots such as a close up and a pan shot of the area in which I had interviewed people. I also did some visual shots where in my documentary, I had mentioned that drug use in lyrics were present in songs in the 1960s and the 70s.

Here is a clip where I did a closeup shot of the flowers in the area where I had interviewed some people, I thought that it would be a good idea to shoot these flowers, as their apperance was very beautiful and I wanted to present to the audience the type of environment that I was in. If I didnt show the environment that the interviewees were in, it would have been pointless and un-synced when editing.

Another shot that I did which was apart of my visual work was the pan shot of the designated smoking area sign. I had managed to interview someone who was in this area and thought that it would be important to record the sign, so my audience is aware that some of the people I had interviewed were in a smoking area.

After this post I will start the process where I edit my clips and start to form them together. On the days that I was absent I took the opportunity to edit the clips that I had recorded when I was present at college, which was the 4th to the 15th of April, So I am positive that the editing process wont take a long duration of time, due to the fact that I had already edited some of the scenes this is why I set my deadline for the 30th of April

Further more I will begin to still do diary entries where I update you guys about how the process is going on my documentary Drug use in lyrics.

DEADLINE EXTENDED - FINAL MAJOR PROJECT

Dear Diary,

My deadline of my final major project has been extended, due to the fact that I was not present in school on the 18th of April to the 24th due to a personal family issue. The 24th of April was supposed to be the day where everything was expected to be finshed. I have now had to extend my deadline of completiting my final major project to the 30th of April.

I believe that by the 30th of April, that everything will be completed and edited. So far all I have to do is more research on my final major project and shoot some voxplots and some scenes of me informing my viewers about these types of drugs.

Unit 7 - Blogs (Interactive work) + Homework

UNIT 7 BLOGS HOMEWORK

What is a blog?

A blog is a website in which a person owns. A blog revolves around people making entries and posts which could be about entirely anything. You could say that a blog is your own personal diary and outlet where you have the ability to express yourself and gain followers whilst doing it. A blog has various features such as it allows people to post pictures, make posts, and also allows people to network with other people.

Many people use blogs to their advantage and start to make an income of it, by placing ads and by recieving sponsorships. Some bloggers even get products sent to them for free by companies, companies do this in hopes of getting their product out their in the market and reached to a bigger audience.

Are blogs interactive?

Blogs are very interactive as they give people the freedom to communicate to each other and comment on other peoples posts and pictures on their blog. For example, I own a blog and so far it has allowed me to submit work on posts and has given people, worldwide to see my posts and comment. You may think that just because you live in london and have a blog that only people from london will see your posts, but their has been many cases where people abroad have seen my level 2 media blog.

Here I present to you the different audiences I recieve on my blog.

Another way a blog can be interactive is through forums, Many people tend to create a forum blog, which is a blog where people can discuss various topics and leave their opinions. A forum gives people the chance to make friends and debate on loads of different subjects. In forums a community of people are made and sometimes events are created in order for people to meet up and connect with one another.

Guru Gossip

A very popular forum blog where people talk about famous Youtubers, some tend to talk postive about these Youtubers and some negative. 

Youtubers are people who have a YouTube account and make videos. 

As you can see at the top of the website it says ''TRASH A GURU'' - This shows that their is a specific post where people can talk negatively of a person. 

Another forum blog Lipstick Alley

Where people discuss topics about anything and anyone it could be about a celebrity or a personal issue that a person needs help on. 

The Main Functions of a blog 

The functions of a blog are endless, blogs provide a lot of features.

Such as :

• Customization choice

It gives people the permission to customize their blog to their specific taste. So if a person wants their blog to be all black they could just change the color or if someone wants a wallpaper as their background they could upload one. 

They are thousands of headers and free themes online that people can download and use to give their blog some personality and style. 

For example on Wordpress you could purchase different themes. You could purchase a magazine  personal theme where your blog will appear in a magazine format and have magazine style fonts which would be bold fonts and colorful. Or you could purchase a clean and minimal theme where your blog will consist of the colors black and white and would appear to be very neat and organised.

On blogger you would just have to go to settings and you would have a choice of different types of themes that you could apply to your blog. You could also purchase themes online if the themes that blogger have are to plain and dull.

• Being able to share posts

A blog allows users to share their blog and posts to a wider audience that is not only national but also international. You could share your blog through big social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many more known more social media platforms. 

We are now in a era of technology that allows people to share their interest through a number of social media platforms to thousands and millions of people. Just by the touch of a button an indivual can share anything to a variety of social media platforms that have a wider audience unlike the days where we used to communicate and share things through letters that took days to have to be posted. Social media platforms are something that are instant. 

• Can edit your blog anywhere!

Most blogs now have the feature where you download a mobile app where you can enter your blog making it easier for you to edit and alter your blog when you're outside rather than at your home on a computer.

This function is great as it allows users to have the opprutunity to edit their blog even if they're in a different enviroment or in a place where their is no computers avalible.

• Quick posting & publishing 

When posting things on blogs it publishes  immediately and can even be published at atime schedule you have set, making people access up to date information that can go to audiences quickly so they never miss a update. 

Webography:

https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=what+is+a+blog&gfe_rd=cr
http://www.slideshare.net/sadmanprodhan/functions-and-features-of-blog-twitter-wikis-google-ad-words-and-bitcoin

Final major project (The Benefits of taking drugs) - Research part four

Instead of focusing on the negative effects of drug use, my teacher told me to stop being vague and also include the facts that some drugs are used to treat people medically. This post is not to promote people to take drugs its just presenting how these drugs  have minor benefits when consuming it.

CLASS A DRUGS 

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MAGIC MUSHROOMS 

ALSO KNOWN AS PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS 

From the last research that I had done, I discovered that Psilocybin mushrooms cause people to have colorful hallucinations even if you ingested tiny amounts of it. Despite the drug giving people hallucinations it is said to help benefit people by decreasing the signs of cluster headaches, OCD and depression. This drug has a underlying impact on the brain that it has to be significant. Research that was submitted in the British Journal of Psychotheraphy in 2012 discovered that participations had enhanced recall which made the drug play a effective addition in psychotherapy. 

People even studied and found out that psilocybin mushrooms lessen the activity in the frontal of the brain that are hyperactive when a person has depression. 

ECSTASY

ALSO KNOWN AS MDMA 

Despite Ecstasy leaving abusers to experience hallucinations and a high level of energy, it is said to have some benefits. The same hallucinogenic and high energy properties is which what makes this drug so popular in party scenes, and what makes it suitable in treating PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)

Some researchers have discovered that ecstasy even has long-lasting anti-cancer belongings for leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma and in 2011, researches from the University of Birmingham uncovered out that an altered form of ecstasy was 100 times more overpowering in killing cancer cells than MDMA.

COCAINE 

Cocaine is also said to have a lot of benefits too. This drug can be used as a vital part of anesethic for surgical procedures because of its fast responding numbing properties. If cocaine is even mixed with other substances such as TAC it could treat skin lacerations as the drug is effective in narrowing blood vessels.

CLASS B DRUG

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MARIJUANA

Marijuana has been in the media a lot especially in America, as so many people want to legalise this drug because of its aiding properties.  Through various scientific research this drug has been noted to  help sooth chronic pain, decrease PTSD, control nausea, sooth intra-ocular pain with glaucoma and many more things. Overall Marijuana is said to have help aid a lot of things.

Webography:

http://www.livescience.com/41277-health-benefits-illegal-drugs.html