25/02/15 News Package Feedback - Ria and Sophia

Today we received feedback for our initial rough draft of our news package. Here is some of things we will be changing to improve the quality of our piece. 

1) Put statistics together - Right now we have edited the statistics randomly so they appear throughout rather than in a formulated structure.

2) Have the regular theme being accidents - Right now our news package is based on a general theme of young drivers. We need to be more specific and make our footage more relevant to one theme that we chose to be accidents by young drivers.

3) Stabilise the Vox Pop - Right now our footage is very shaky so we thought to use iMovie to stabilise the footage making appear to be more professional.

4) One question with cutaways to several answers - We have had various Vox Pops with different types of questions. However, to receive more marks we plan to ask several people the same range of questions and edit the footage so the answers come out one after the other. 

5) Film moving traffic before the news presenter starts talking about busy roads - Before the news presenter starts speaking we have filmed a road of parked cars. It does not make sense to what she is saying therefore, we will films some cutaways to moving traffic. 

6) Film Vox Pops in more crowded places - We have filmed every Vox Pop in quite secluded areas. To expand the variety of Vox Pops and make it look like we have stopped strangers in public we will film some more in crowded places.

7) Get footage of driving instructor and learner car - As you can see our Vox Pops have all been filmed with young drivers, however, it would be relevant to film someone with experience and would break up our news package as well. We want the learner car as the cars we have filmed are not fully relevant to our niche news topic that is advice for young drivers. So, Ria will film her instructor and car during one of her lessons. 

- Sophia and Ria 

Graphs

After creating the graph on photoshop I then went on After Effects to create the image. I made this image with a white background, however when I rendered it the background had changed colour. As the graph was made with black linings this evidently lead to them blending into the background. As a result of this I then tried rendering it with the original background colour, however this didn't turn out like I hoped.
So then I decided to change the lines within the graph to a different colour so they would stand out on the black background, and this is how it turned out.....

I prefer this to the original as it makes the graph as a whole stand out.

Caryss

Graphics - Sophia

Today I used photoshop to create a bar chart that I will later put into after effects to edit to put into our news package that will have a voice over to explain it .

The way in which I made the Barchart was in Photoshop this was so that I could make each section in different layer so that when I put it into after effects I will be able to edit the parts I need and to make them rotate and transform individually without having the whole image moving


- Sophia

Graph

This is the final result of animating the graph from photoshop.
Caryss

Graphics

In our news package to show statistics we are presenting them in graph form. I have started out by creating the graph in photoshop with different layers, this is because we will animate it in After Effects.
Caryss

Continuing with the website - Sophia

In todays lesson I carried on with the website , by adding in new features such as pictures and videos, I also changed parts of the text. The problem I encountered was that the website would not  allow me to add a navigation and change the colour of the text, also the computer kept freezing when ever I tried to make an adjustment to my work. The way I overcame the problem of not being allowed to change the text was by watching a youtube tutorial which showed me how to do it ( this video is seen below). The way I overcame the freezing of the computer was by shutting down the computer and re-starting it, although this took a long time , it was mainly the only way to overcome the problem.

Here is the video that helped me.

- Sophia

Today's Lesson 06/02/15

In today's lesson, we continued making the website. The problem's we encountered was that our previous progress had been deleted from the last lesson meaning that we had to restart.

However, we managed return to the level of work we had done and managed to add on top of that as well by including more gifs and improving the website structure by adding more information and trying to add videos to input.

- Ria & Sophia

New Website and Gif Making - Ria

I originally started making the website using the standard templates, without any expansion or direction as to how to make our website slightly more original and exciting.

However, with further experimentation I found out how to input different forms of a gallery and how to structure it around our website homepage.

I then looked into interesting images to input into the gallery and was informed of a a website called gifmaker.me. You are able to input a number of images and create a gif, simple to download and is excellent for showing advertisements on the website.

We are also able to input more images as to not overcrowd the page. As our news product is advice for young drivers we are able to advertise many things like insurance or driving lessons. Making our website believable and useful.

- Ria

Using photoshop - Lauren

Today i was using photoshop and I learnt how to use the inverse tool.

This allows me to make the background of an image transparent so that i can edit it on after effects.  This helps me as it makes the graphics more professtional as there is no background and it is all one colour, this is good as our news package needs to look as professtional as possible.  

I was challenging to get used to at first however the more i did the action the easier it got and it became more fluent so i could carry out the task more efficiently. 

Lauren

Editing - Sophia & Lauren

In today's lesson we continued editing our news package, the problem we encountered was moving footage from different computers , the way we overcame this problem was that we changed the way in which we were transferring footage , we found out that it wasn't recognising the footage on out memory stick so we transferrs it using a different setting so that it would find our footage on the computer with out having to plugg in the memory stick every lesson.

-Sophia & Lauren