Friday Randomness (Yes I've done work this week!!)

Last Friday in Brians class we started the first design sheet for his project. On Tuesday in John's class we completed a comparison of 4 search engines for our blog, on Thursday in Gavins class we did a jukebox jury thing in the morning to find out which 4 tracks won, and then we are doing a review of that track next week, in the afternoon we made Conventions of Musical Genres posters in groups of four.

Today in Ewans class we are continuing with our projects, setting out plans for the website we are creating and updating our blogs..

Blogger v LiveJournal

Both of these websites offer much of the same service, offering users an online blog service with lots of features. They both give users the opportunity to post an online blog with photos or videos included, and the ability to embed links in the blog. Users can also use and HTML editor to compose the blog if they prefer.

On LiveJournal, the user can specify the permissions for each individual post as to who is allowed to view them, leave comments and also show viewers what mood they are in, what music they are playing etc.

Blogger also allows the user to set permissions for their posts but it is done from a central page in the options.

LiveJournal offers a messenger service based on Windows Live Messenger, Blogger does not offer such a service but does offer many more services in its collaboration with Google.

22 September 2009

The search engines I chose were Google, Ask, Yahoo and Bing. Google and ask returned much of the same results, while Bing and Yahoo were more similar in their results.

All of the search engines provide the function to search for web pages, images, videos, while Google and Bing provide a map search function.

They all have a function to search the whole web or just pages from the UK, and also have an advanced search and the ability to set your own search preferences and save them.

Friday Again???

18 September 2009

On Tuesday this week we were doing storyboards with John in the morning because the computer network was down for most of the class, then in the afternoon we went to the library and did research for our projects. With Gavin on Thursday we did formal letter writing in the shape of a complaint letter, then in the afternoon we had a debate on should smoking be banned, where the smokers in the class had to take the side of banning smoking. On Friday morning I continued researching my project, trying to collate all of the links I have found together in one place, as follows

Directors Masterclass – Phillipe Falardeau – It’s Not Me I Swear

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=review&id=2478&reviewid=VE1117938243&cs=1

• Review of film from Berlin Film Festival

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7X0CwulMg

• YouTube link to It’s Not Me I Swear

http://www.azmovies.net/its-not-me-i-swear.html

• Movie trailer for film It’s Not Me I Swear

Film Screening – 32a

http://www.janeypictures.com/32A/

• Link to website for film 32a, has reviews, stills, video and more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysIJlVXE0g

• link to clip on youtube

Film Skycrawlers

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8269

• Website with info on film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sky_Crawlers

• Wikipedia page for film with links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDcpm1GVAiA

• youtube link to Skycrawlers

General Links

http://www.dca.org.uk/

• Link to DCA website

http://www.dca.org.uk/about/news/discovery-youth-screen-award.html

• Information on Youth screen awards

alice.black@dca.org.uk contact details for Alice Black at dca, need to contact her regarding which actresses are doing the 32a acting masterclass, and which films are in the Youth Screen Awards.

Email received from Colin Gunning today

Hi All,

I will contact the DCA today to find out what they can offer. I’ll be in touch as soon as possible.

Regards,

Colin Gunning

Friday Again...

This week we have finished off our podcast with John on Tuesday, and finished off our paintings with Angie in the afternoon and were told what we would be doing next week. On Thursday morning we wrote a short story and did a quiz on types of communication.In the afternoon we were split into groups, in my group was John, Adam & Becca, and we had to discuss the conventions of musical genres within our groups, agree on 4 for each genre then discuss it with the class. On Friday morning we had a quick intoduction to photoshop, then did another comparison of video sharing sites using YouTube and Google Videos. We then started work on our projects.

YouTube v Google Videos

YouTube v Google Videos.

YouTube is proboably the most well known site for video sharing, its has many thousands of videos and has started some of the biggest internet crazes. There are short films and adverts now speciffically made for YouTube it has become such a sensation.

The main features of YouTube are an easy to use search function which corrects spelling and gives a list of all the related videos, plus other options with results from the channels on youtube and other users playlists. You can also sort the results by different options.

YouTube also offers the option to create and account and upload your own videos, create your own playlists and share your video with others.

Google videos

Flickr V Photobucket

Flickr v Photobucket

Flicker offers an easy to use front page with a good search engine. The site is organised in a very user friendly way, with a simple tour which explains almost all of the functions. Photos can be uploaded and organised into groups with other photos from other users with the same subject type, the user can edit photos with a built in editor, set the photos to be shared in a variety of different ways, use the map function to show where the photos were taken and make different products using their, or others photos.It also offers the ability to download the photos in many different sizes.

Photobucket offers a search engine, easy to upload photos, easy sharing with different websites/email,there is no option to download the photos in different sizes, however there is an option to send them straight tot a mobile phone. Photos can be edited and saved to the users own album even if the photo is not theirs originally, depending on permissions. There is no map function on the site, unlike flickr. Users can also add their photos to site wide groups with other members. Photobucket also runs competitions where users can enter their photos.

In my opinion, flickr is a more user friendly website in it's design, and based on the search I did there are many more photos on flickr then photobucket. Many of the features are the same on both sites, and each has it's own individual features which are good.

Friday Feeling?

It's Friday, today we have set up our blogs at blogger.com, used iweb to learn how to set up a basic website and iphoto to do some basic photo editing.