Methodology: Update 1

Unlike our previous two group projects, our final project on culture and creativity involves creating a video. This video will be recorded and edited using Adobe Premier Pro Creative Cloud. Any research done on our chosen topic will need to be viewable within this video. The video will have to be no more than 5 minutes in length, feature the TU Dublin and Creative Digital Media logo in the end credits of the project. As part of our last assignment we had the option of working with individuals outside of our own group. I thought this was an interesting idea but in hindsight I didn't realise how difficult this was going to be.

I was approached by one of my fellow classmates named Claire about working on this project together. At this stage I didn't really have any ideas of what topic to choose from, but I was leaning towards the Digital Journalism. It was something I always had an interest in, and I wanted to learn more about it. I personally felt by covering this topic I would be able to highlight some of the negative aspects of cancel culture in this digital age. My goal for this project was to bring awareness of the dangers of cancel culture, and how accusations can not only be damaging to a person’s professional career but also their mental health.

In one of our labs for the introduction to digital media, Claire and I decided to approach our class lecturer for advice on our topic of cancel culture. This was a great opportunity as it allowed us to further develop our ideas and realistically see what we could get done within the time frame of the project. Our lecturer name was Shaun, he recommended using a program called Timeline JS because it would be a perfect way of presenting our research in a video format. Doing this during Thursday's class was a great benefit as it really helped me plan out my initial ideas and discuss them with my fellow group member Claire. Thanks to this early development we were able to plan out most of our initial ideas prior to finding a third person for our group.

It wasn't until that Friday that we were able to confirm a third member using Slack. Prior to this point we were afraid that we would end up being the only two in our group working on this project. This was a scary thought as we felt a little bit under pressured with the amount of work, we would have to get done within such a small-time frame. This meant we would have to limit the amount of time we would have to spend on a topic when developing our concepts and doing our research. Luckily, we were able to find a third member by the name of Joseph Dolan who was also stuck in the same position as us.

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Culture: Update 1

No sooner finishing the first assignment on creativity we ended up starting a new project on culture. This assignment came a little too quick in my opinion. Although, after reading the description of what we would be doing it seemed to have better topics compared to the first project. We had the option to choose from 12 new topics which had a lot of interesting elements to them. The two subjects that piqued my interest was YouTubeing and blogging. After further research on these two topics I felt blogging would be the better options as you're not limited in what you could do with this medium. This was great because I had two other friends named Keith and Wiktoria who were also interested in developing blogging as part of the project. This was great as I didn't have to run around looking for people to join a group. After we had formed our group, we decided on writing down a couple of ideas into a notebook. During our Introduction to Digital Media class we worked on furt...

Culture: Update 3

Looking back on what I've learnt from this assignment, I feel a lot more confident when it comes to presenting a PowerPoint presentation in front of people compared to the last assignment. I really think we all did a great job in our group and because of this it really shows in our blogging website. The time and effort we spent developing this project and meeting up to add more information into it was one of the best experiences I have had working on a group project. I really liked working with a good group of people that felt the same way I did about this project which really made this feel like a labour of Love. I hope we can find the time to continue developing this blog down the line. The only thing that I think we fell short on with the PowerPoint presentation was the fact we focused too much on discussing the concept instead of going through the process of making the blogging website and not the challenges we faced. We did create a nice-looking PowerPoint presentati...

Creativity: Update 1

In today's class of Introduction to Digital Media we were given our first project which we must complete over the coming weeks. We had to create an animated GIF and present it in a PowerPoint presentation as part of a group project. At first, I was horrified at the idea of doing a presentation as I am not great when it comes to speaking in public, as I can sometimes get extremely nervous. When it came to be finding the best people to work with, I was lucky as they were individuals that I've already become good friends with. Ron and Cian are very nice people and I know I can rely on them to get this project done the right way. Since we decided to go with an animated GIF for a project, I decided to take it upon myself to create a group page using WhatsApp. I felt this would be a great way of communicating since this is something, we have been using to keep in touch with others in our creative development class. This way we would be able to keep up to date with any ideas tha...

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