Essay

My first essay of the year

3000 words on cross plat forming seemed a little overwhelming at first, although once I started my research and spoke to other people out of my class I found it to be rather enjoyable. I created a number of questionnaires to gather information for my essay. People in my class really helped me by answering the questions I provided. I also read a lot of online articles about social networking, advertisements and reality television.

As an overall I hope I get a reasonable mark on my essay I as feel I made a effort to try my best to catch up and research a lot.

You little star’s

 

I am very grateful for the support and help of JMU thank you it has really helped me and Carlie : )

The biggest thank you to all my friends at university who threw a surprise party for me as you are all amazing x

 

Overall year two at university

 

As and overall outlook on my second year at university it has been a big struggle. The start of the academic year was fine. I had to take November till January of as I was unable to attend; therefore I missed out on a lot of important lectures and assignment. Although suggested that I take the year of I decided not to, and due to this I have had to sacrifice my summer at Camp America to do some resits in the summer. I was very upset about this I felt like nothing was going the way I planned, but I had to stay in the right frame of mind and make a hard decision which would be the best in the long run. My work has defiantly suffered but I feel I am trying my best to pick myself up and carry on. Although I am still very proud of myself for coming back and trying and not giving up, hopefully 3^rd year I can up my marks

Digital Media Cultures- Group Work

 

I was in a group with myself, Carlie, Coral, Rio and Sinead for this assignment. We then spilt ourselves into two groups, to research books and online articles. Our subject was reality television, this was something I felt we had a lot to talk about reality television is something that we all have seen. I really enjoyed this assignment I felt the reading we done for it educated me. We were also giving a extension deadline due to me and Carlie having difficulties due to missing a lot of work. Although we were giving the extension we decided we wanted a challenge and submitted our repost with the rest of the class. I was proud of this I felt as if I was needed the challenge to prove to myself I am still capable and I believe Carlie did also.

Academic Writing

 

I attended an academic writing lecture; this was a very educational and helpful class. The lecturer went over all the basics of writing essays from how to structure to basic grammar. This was very helpful as the basic elements of writing are what people forget and we also pick up bad habits over the years.  I think we should have more of these types of classes thrown in our academic year; it helps boost our basic writing skills. This was one of the most beneficial classes I have been to in a while.

Animal Testing Social Networking .

https://twitter.com/AnimalorBeauty
http://www.facebook.com/tjandmurphy?ref=nf&filter=3#!/pages/Against-Animal-Testing/460078944061894

Convergence Media Teamwork- Transmedia Storytelling

We have now been put into groups for our next assignment Transmedia Storytelling. This style of assignment is something I feel very enthusiastic about. As we were allowed to choose our own groups and subject, this made the assignment more open towards our personal creativity. Our group decided to focus on animal testing and cosmetics. This subject is something our group feel we already have a lot of knowledge about. As a massive beauty junki I was intrigued straight away by the research. As a group we started to search the internet for factual sites on cosmetics and animal testing, this defiantly opened my eyes and helped me learn something beyond our assignment. We started to use mulit-platform media to give our assignment a boost. We opened a Twitter account and a Facebook page. The Twitter account straight away had other animal testing pages following our account. This showed how easy and effective social networking is.  

Back to school (again) …

Semester two I decided it was time for me to return to university, this was a very hard decision for me but I decided to build the strength and go for it. This decision was defiantly for the best I needed normality in my life to help me grow and become stronger. It was all very overwhelming both physically and mentality. There were a few meetings that I needed to attend, to discuss what needed to be done and what is the best root to take. Due to the amount of work I had missed I felt it to be a real challenge and still do to catch up with everyone else. I am optimistic and do feel I am more than capable of passing the year.  

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 Unfortunately I do not remember a lot of first semester at university due to a bad experience, I do feel I have missed an awful lot of work that could have been beneficial to me, I also feel like I will be marked down on a lot of my work including the Blog as there will not be a lot of posted. I am hoping that in my 3^rd year at university I will be able to really get stuck into my work and bring my grades up.  

TJ and Murphy

Around the 30^th of October we had a television studio session with a band from Liverpool called TJ and Murphy. This was one of my favourite sessions of the module, TJ and Murphy played us six songs that they have wrote

1.       I won't be afraid

2.       Notes in the wine

3.       Good night Houston

4.       In a heartbeat

5.       Joe crazy rose

6.       Michigan

This was a lot of fun as a huge music fan I felt like this was a little treat. My favourite song was Joe Crazy Rose the song reminded me of myself. After they had performed we got into our TV studio groups and discussed which song we felt would suit our assignment the most. As a group we were all respectful of each other’s personal thoughts which made working with my group enjoyable. Personally I really liked TJ and Murphy I felt there music had a relatable and truthful feel about it, the rawness of a band but without a band made their performance endearing. Unfortunately  I was not able to work with TJ and Murphy on my assignment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5BEKuUyOY

 

Second Year Began ...

 

After a nice long summer it was time for university to start again, I was excited to go back to university and carry on the education journey, we have for modules

1.       Digital Media Cultures

2.       Beyond the Camera

3.       TV Studio Production

4.       Applied Media Research

The Television Studio . . .

 

Second year we were introduced to the new JMU building which had a 1.1 million television studio installed. The studio was top of the range had all professional equipment and was all very intriguing. The first few TV studio sessions where to introduce the new equipment, I felt like I had learned a lot of the basics such as camera work, understanding studio setup and directing. I really enjoyed our studio sessions; it opened my eyes to the world of work. Although I enjoyed the television studio I was not able to finish the module therefore I feel there is a lot more for me to learn.