Monday, 21 April 2014
Evaluation
Evaluation
Seeyouthereonline
The concept for this website was a user
generated, simplistic/interactive travel blog. We have achieved this. We have
taken inspiration from Tumblr pages and instagram feeds. The idea of their
simplicity is admirable but they are extremely common. So we took the format
and added the interactivity (videos, user feedback and user generated images).
I believe this has brought the much-needed diversity to our site.
Image from Aditya Zulizar T (Instagram)
Instagram: ADITZT
My main role in this site was to produce
the video and imagery. I edited several videos for the project using Adobe
Premier, Adobe Audition and Adobe Photoshop. The process of editing was
straightforward and all packages were self explanatory. The part of the editing
that was time consuming was the cutting. I have taken much inspiration for my
interviews from the current youtube and vine wave. On these mediums you see
fast cuts making for humorous editing. This is fun to watch but it is time
consuming. An example of this is “Diary of a badman” (follow link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_k8i65VWdw
When choosing the sound files to use it was
mainly based on how I felt when editing. For example with the interviews I
edited the first 10-20 seconds to generate a clear mood in my head, then I
selected the backing track that would go with it. When it came to the Ibiza
experience video I had to pick the music first to make sure the videos fit to
the drop of the beat.
Some of the main issues I experienced were
when recording. We formatted our SD card by mistake and wiped all of our data
once. The other issue with it was sound. Editing the sound levels was more
difficult than anticipated. Partly due to the output only coming from one
speaker. My other main issue was the quality of the video. The interview
quality was poor and the lighting made it look unprofessional. In the future I would
use lighting, a boom mic and a better camera.
In reflection I believe the site has achieved its goals and could with the right enthusiasm and maintenance be a success.
Issues when editing
Editing my videos has been pretty straight forward however there were some minor issues. One of which was my sound. When playing my recordings back i noticed that the sound output was only playing out of one speaker. this was a problem that i did not manage to resolve. however i have managed to find a solution now for future reference. I also found that controlling the audio levels so they went distorted was something that required care and time.
Out of everything i enjoyed editing the party video the most. I had a vision of it in my head and it came out in a similar way. I managed to time the clips perfectly to drop with the beat and i really felt transported when watching it. My only issue was with the quality. It did give it a raw feel but i think in the future i would like to use for purpose HD camera.
Out of everything i enjoyed editing the party video the most. I had a vision of it in my head and it came out in a similar way. I managed to time the clips perfectly to drop with the beat and i really felt transported when watching it. My only issue was with the quality. It did give it a raw feel but i think in the future i would like to use for purpose HD camera.
3's a crowed
Like I said before the team consists of 3 different personalities and we set the site up to reflect that. Its useful because we felt we reflect the 3 main demographics of our age group in terms of holidays. This gives the site more in terms of volume and also allows us to target a much wider audience. It was also useful as we were all able to supply or source images to get us started.
The tumblr influence.
When we were discussing how wanted our site to look and feel we gravitated towards a tumblresque dimension. We appreciated the raw feel and simplicity of it and believed that the sustainability of a site like this would make it easier for us to maintain and develop.
Example of blogs we viewed are
http://tinywrld.com/
http://threeguysheadingwest.com/
http://theworldwelivein.tumblr.com/
I also took great direction from the way some 'Instagram' pages are presented now. Some Instagramers take every opportunity at home or abroad to capture the world most beautiful moment. That is something See You There is striving to reproduce.
Instagramers
imaginationdetonation
aditzt
anlamarama
Example of blogs we viewed are
http://tinywrld.com/
http://threeguysheadingwest.com/
http://theworldwelivein.tumblr.com/
I also took great direction from the way some 'Instagram' pages are presented now. Some Instagramers take every opportunity at home or abroad to capture the world most beautiful moment. That is something See You There is striving to reproduce.
Instagramers
imaginationdetonation
aditzt
anlamarama
Image by Aditya Zulizar (aditzt)
McLuhan and his Global Village.
With the website being a travel website it would be imposable to create it without acknowledging McLuhan's Theory on our "Global village". Global Village is a term coined by Marshall Mcluhan. He explained how the world has been turned in to a village by digital technology and the freedom and pace of technology. See you there is part of this. We are bringing people together through their experiences and are proud of the fact. We aim to provide a digital environment that makes the user feel as though they are already at the destination they are researching.
The interviews!
So as a group we interviewed willing participants in order to bring another dimension to our website. As the website wasn't live at the time we decided to interview in a light hearted fashion that would simply demonstrate the mood of the website. The long term goal for the website Is to have interviews by topic, possibly on a monthly basis. Eventually dependent on the success of the website i'd like to see these small supplements develop in to something more of a documentary. My inspiration for this would be something like 'Noisy' https://www.youtube.com/user/noisey or 'Vice' https://www.youtube.com/user/vice
My Personal Inspiration
So for the site we decided it would be cool to have some videos and stop motions. The idea was that once the site was live we could do a monthly supplement interviewing users and using their images for the home page stop motion.
My inspiration was us as a team. We all enjoy different types of holidays. I enjoy partying, Arfa enjoys site seeing and Eliana enjoys drinking cocktails on the beach. This inspired me to create a stop motion or a video for each of these different themes and pages.
To create the videos i pooled together the teams images and videos plus what we had already gathered from volunteers. On top of this I used music from free mixtapes with no copy rights.
My favourite video so far is the Ibiza experience video. I like this one because all of the video was filmed on a camera phone. this gives the video the gritty feel most of us experience when in Ibiza night clubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAC3mq5Bwx4
My inspiration was us as a team. We all enjoy different types of holidays. I enjoy partying, Arfa enjoys site seeing and Eliana enjoys drinking cocktails on the beach. This inspired me to create a stop motion or a video for each of these different themes and pages.
To create the videos i pooled together the teams images and videos plus what we had already gathered from volunteers. On top of this I used music from free mixtapes with no copy rights.
My favourite video so far is the Ibiza experience video. I like this one because all of the video was filmed on a camera phone. this gives the video the gritty feel most of us experience when in Ibiza night clubs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAC3mq5Bwx4
The budget.
The Budget for this website was minimal and as all of the content is user generated we had minimal outgoings.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRNTBsd3ZVdGNndXhxb3luLWhsUDJFTl83SmNB/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRNTBsd3ZVdGNndXhxb3luLWhsUDJFTl83SmNB/edit?usp=sharing
The Banner!
The next step was creating the Banner. Like the Logo this was created on Photoshop using images given to us by participants in the website.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRRlN6c2w5Rmp6OW1zeEZBM0VuMTF5OG1QemNB/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRRlN6c2w5Rmp6OW1zeEZBM0VuMTF5OG1QemNB/edit?usp=sharing
The Logo!
After much deliberation we decided on a final Logo for the website.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRak9GUGFRZlo1czNGRHd3ZGtjTmxtS19mV2JB/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kkyvO8GmJRak9GUGFRZlo1czNGRHd3ZGtjTmxtS19mV2JB/edit?usp=sharing
Plan B's
Obviously things rarely go to plan in life. but that is why we have plan b's. We originally began to film to the schedule but we experienced various difficulties such as organisation and equipment failure. In the end however our plan B came together well and we managed to get all of our filming done in a few days.
19th February- 1st day of filming
3rd March- 2nd day of filming
5th March- 3rd day of filming and final day
This gave me a lot more time to focus on the editing of the videos and stop motions.
Roles within the team and the equipment and software used to make the site work.
Lawrence- Editor, producer, director
Eliana- Social media marketing executive, designer
Arfa- Project manager, designer, programmer
Equipment used:
- Audio Technica- microphone
- Libec Tripod
- Panasonic HC-X900
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