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Methodology: Update 2

During the early stages of this project Claire and I decided that we would be focusing on gathering the information that would be presented in the video. This information would come from numerous sources such as digital news articles as well as physical papers covering cancel culture. I decided to focus more on cancel culture in gaming and how it affects different communities online. While Claire focused more on the accusations made against the rugby players and the “I believe her” movement. Joseph decides to take on the role of editing the video footage as well as working on a script and questions. We did offer to help with the editing process, but he felt confident he would be able to cope with the work. He had prior experience using Adobe Premiere Pro CC and has a keen interest in developing his skills in this area. We felt this roll would play to his strengths and make the video stand out.



When all this information was gathered, I would be responsible for creating the research artefact that would be presented in our video. When creating the research artefact, I decided to use an open source tool called Timeline JS as I felt it would make our information appear more presentable and professional. It is a nifty little program that allows you to use Google spreadsheets to gather your information and then present them in a HTML style format.


This program was a little bit hard to use as you are limited in the amount of colour combinations you can use. The main issues I found with it was any time you tried to change the background colours of the slide it would automatically change the topography colour to white no matter the background colour. This was frustrating at times as there was no real way of getting around it and if you wanted to have black text instead of white you had to leave the background colour as white. This program does support a little bit of HTML (hypertext mark-up language) coding but unfortunately it does not support inline styling for CSS (cascading style sheet). I did try this method modifying the colours but unfortunately the software prevents you from doing this.









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