Seminar Feedback

Having just completed the seminar it honest I felt that we should have put more effort into our research and material that we used as it seemed that other groups had put allot more time and resources then us. Some of the other groups had even gone as far as contacting the companies of the material they were using .

I also feel that our presentation skills were not as great as people in the group had to use there sheets allot to remember so I feel in the future we should learn the pitch better so we don't need to use the sheets.

Lecture on data protection and IPR

In this lecture Ania spoke about digital rights management, creative commons and moral rights. I feel that these lectures are really building my understanding of copyright. Which I feel is so important as being on a digital course there's so much copyright restrictions and I need to know what i can and cant use.
The punishment involved with abusing copyright was discussed which was an eye open to me as it is really serious. TV shack was discussed as an example of abusing copyright. However it was clear that most abuses go to court and are then dropped.

So I feel that attending these lectures as well as using my own research I will have a much broader understanding of copyright laws.

Preparation for seminar

Today, I had a meeting with  my seminar pitching group and we planned the first five sections in the brief that we needed to research. We then assigned roles and area which we each wanted to research, everyone was happy with their choices and then we worked on our research sections.As we were researching together it was effective as we could keep each other up to date on what research we had found and could see if everyone was happy with the standard of everyone's research. Brad opened up a Google doc so everyone could put their work in one document which allows us to see our project as a whole.

I choose to go for researching images of crashed fighter planes and found this main resource on www.britishpathe.com, this website was great as there was so much choice and had all dated material and showed the copyright licences so you know what you were allowed to use. I found allot of images of fighter planes between 1915 and 1930. I choose three images which came to a total of £40 to use the images.

I felt that it was an interesting experience and really helped my researching skills and also showed that our team was productive and that we could work collaboratively together.

Copyright lecture

Today's lecture was focused on copyright. It gave me such a better understanding of what copyright is and what it protects. It was interesting to hear some copyright statistics i was shocked when I heard that other 35% of films were illegally downloaded. I felt like this was a scary thought and i can imagine this will only get worse as we continue into the digital age so I feel something needs to be done to crack down on stolen content.
I think the lecture are really key towards our own future work as we need to know how to protect our work. It was interesting to hear that if you sell an item of your own produced work it will be copyrighted for a 10 year period.
I really learnt allot from this lecture and it has pushed me to research further into copyright as its clear there's still allot I need to learn.

Searching for placements

Having chosen to do a year in industry I have been searching for a digital arts associated placement for next year. I have spent weeks developing my CV and have gone to three meetings over this period to meet with Famy to review my CV and make improvements.
I have been using the site ratemyplacements to find a placement I have found two placements at Disney which I have both created personalised cover lettersd for the job roles. I have just applied to both of these placements Disney creative placement and Disney production managment placemnt.
Both of these placements are involving being a digital course so I fit the requirrments correctly as well as having key skill sets which i have learnt as modules at university. I hope to hear back from the

Film and TV future trends

Today's lecture from Jane was pretty interesting as it was focused on other forms of online television such as catch up TV , you tube stars and Vlogs. Firstly she showed us some youtube and Vlog videos of some internet famous twins who call themselves Jacksgap. I had heard of them before and seen some of their videos so I knew hoe popular they are however she showed some statistics about them that I had never heard and which I found interesting  88% of their subscribers are female between the ages of 13-17 so shows who the majority of their audience are. Another example she showed us of youtube stars was a gamer called Joseph Garret who has over 2.3 million subscribers and focuses his channel around minecraft which is a game which is very popular in the gaming community.

I watch one youtube comedy star name Jimmy Tatro who has over 2,266,700 subscribers. He is a naturally funny person who channel is full of comedy short films that he makes about everyday life he started of in college making the videos and now is hugely popular and his popularity has lead to him staring in the Hollywood film 22 jump street. So I feel this really shows the power of sites such as YouTube and the opportunity they can give talented people.

Jane then moved on to a game show called "Rising start" which I had never heard of yet I found it a really interesting idea. It added a new element to game shows as you can download an appTo finu for the show and the audience then vote using the app whether they like the singer or not. So really created an individual interactive experience for the user which I felt was great and should be used on more programs.

To finish of the lecture Jane talked about Netflix which i personally have and use allot. I feel that streaming sites are going to revolutionise how me consume television. And I fell that more and more shows are going to want to sign up to be on Netflix.There are already allot of big shows such as Orange is the new black that is a Netflix based show so I fell this will happen to allot more shows in the future.

First seminar task - Pitching first idea

For our first seminar task we had to pitch an idea for a TV program or film to be broadcast in the UK.

I choose to pitch with  a group of five and decided to pitch a TV program instead of a film. As we had choose a TV program we were presenting to a Channel 4 daytime commissioner for

broadcast. 

I contacted the group together for a meeting and we brainstormed ideas, we researched popular channel four day time programs for inspiration and soon came to the idea of creating a cookery game show with a twist. 

We then decided our roles for the pitch so we could individually research our roles in the making of the game show in order to effectively convey each of our parts in the making process to our pitch audience .

Group Roles:
Director: Thomas Morgan
Producer: Khalid khan
Assistant Producer: Steven Everest 
Production Manager: Brad Arnott
Researcher: Robert Harden

The feedback from our pitch was very good because we were told that we were confident and had presented well as a group and all seemed to have a good understanding of individual roles. To improve in the future, we could have maybe researched more into statistic and cost to get a more in depth understanding of the cost of creating a project like this. However all in all the practice went really well and I think that it helped a lot with my confidence and presentations skills. 

Guest speeches

We had our first guest speakers  today, we had four different  speakers each selling the opportunity of doing a Year in Industry at there company. The first speaker we had was from  GForces which was a very interesting company who creates online software, 3d models, advertisement, animation , videos, and websites for different car companies. There were two Kent students who also spoke on behalf of the company they had just finished there year in industry there and was great to see some of the work that they had produce. It relly got me enthusiastic towards doing a year in industry for a creative company.

It was interesting as the speaker introduced the work of the company showing us a car advert that they had produced recently and showed us some behind the scene footage to convey the filming and photography opportunities available at there company. He also showed us two more videos of some of there work one was anther car advert that was filmed in there office in Dubai which i found very interesting and showed that working t the company could allow you to travel and work globally for them. The next video he showed was some of the 3dmodelling work they do and tried to get us to spot the difference between a 3D modelled car and an actual car, Half the room had got it wrong which shows amazing they had become at 3d modelling.

 He told us what it was like to interview and what the processes were and this therefore meant that for future I could easily understand what I will have to go through to be able to get an interview, and what to look for and to be prepared for. Alongside this, it was good to be able to see what other aspects there were rather than just working, they also said about having a great social life to it as well.

The second guest speaker was Cos Costantinides he was a Kent student who was did his placement with Argos. I thought it was great hearing about his experience from a students point of view as he seemed honest and open to his year in industry  which was very informative. He explained his recruitment experience and gave us tips on whats best to do in order to come across as professional and serious about the job.  
He conveyed his enthusiasm to doing a placement year and showed us some of the work he had produced which was amazing as he had helped develop some of the Argos website as well as designing the pages for the womans jewelley.section.
It was an eye opening speech and I will defiantly look into a placement at argos for my year in industry.