Intro to Digital Media- Mission 3: Digital journalism - 3

After having presented our project to the class I feel I have had a lot of time to reflect on how each stage of the project went. The stages: planning, process and post presentation. While doing this mission Digital Photography, I learned that when you use other sources that you do not own you have to mention and reference them in the description box. This became evident after the video was uploaded to the public. After the first four hours of the public having access to watch the video, it got taken down for copyright claims. Another thing I learned was you cannot download videos from YouTube if their channel is associated with a company. For example, the channel FA Premier League is a channel who’s videos you can’t download. You can’t download’s videos from this channel because the premier league owns all the rights. I learned when I tried to download them on “Y2Mate” and got no access to them. 

What I discovered about my mission while doing it was that most people who are you still use newspaper as well as digital apps and websites to find out about football. This proves that Digital Journalism has not taken over the older sources of news but instead enhanced how many ways we can find info and how much we can find it. I also discovered that there is a lot of respect involved in English football. I found this out when I was researching the videos, because at the end of every match, the players and the managers shake hands with everyone. Even Jurgen Klopp, who is the manager of Liverpool will always go over to the opposing team if he managed them and gives them a hug. This shows even though, during the 90 minutes in the they are enemies, there will always be a form of respect on it. 

Although it was overall a success, there were some minor failures that had occurred along the way over the past few weeks. Some of these were the fact that our video got removed from YouTube.

 We had only a few hours to make the second project because our first one failed. This put us into quite a panic because we were there thinking “great, the project is now finished. I’m going to go home and finish the rest of my assignments”. But then we receive an email that our video had gotten a copyright claim from the official FA Premiere League company. This was terrible because we ended up having to stay in college for another 9 - 10 hours researching new information, making a new project, editing a new project on Premiere Pro, exporting that video and then uploading this video before the deadline. Although we had gotten all that finished around 10 o’ clock that night, we still had a technical error and could not upload it. So even though we had uploaded our new project 6 hours late we had still received an above average passing grade. 

I was very proud of this because we could have just said we don’t need the third mission because we all had a passing grade from the last two missions. But instead of doing that we made two projects and passed the module. 

Intro to Digital Media- Mission 3: Digital journalism - 2

After all the planning we had to get to work on producing and making the artefact. So, we started with the original idea of the YouTube video. For this we each had a task. 

My role was to research the champions leagues highlights and download them and email them to Eamonn. While doing this I had to also search for the champions crowd of supporters celebrating as well as background music. While I was doing that Godzy’s job was to search for facts on each match as well as searching for facts on football journalism back in the day in comparison to today. Eamonn’s job was to cut down the clips and put them in order in Adobe Premiere Pro and we all talked about the editing to each other. He also had to alter the volume of the background music we had put into the video. 

To do this I looked at a screenshot of the Premiere League matches and searched on YouTube. I had to get them off channels that weren’t official like FA Premiere League. I also had to pick music so to do this, I decided to pick the song “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy but a remixed version for the background music.

After we had finished adding the videos, music, facts and scored into Premiere Pro, we decided to edit and export it. At this point we had encountered a problem. The problem we had encountered was that it would save on the computer. So, after trying to export it for the final and 50^th time we decided to just upload it to a YouTube channel. Considering I was the only one that had a YouTube channel we decided to render and upload it there. This was fine for the first three hours but after that I received an email about how our video was removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim. This was because we didn’t have a description. This meant we couldn’t give credit.

So, after we had to find another way to convey the knowledge, we had obtained from the research we did. We decided to make a PowerPoint, screen record it and do a voice over for it. To do this we rehearsed it by using a stopwatch and when we finally got the times correct, we were going to screen record the PowerPoint and record our voices at the same time. We screen recorded us going through the PowerPoint using the “QuickTime Player” application my MacBook. We used voice memos on our smart phones to record our voices talking over it.

I also made a survey using an app called “Survey Monkey”.  This is an easy to use application because it gives you options on what types of questions to ask: yes or no, open ended, multiple choice, etc. I sent this to all my social media groups and gave them four hours before I checked the result.

After we had finished the recording the screen and finished recording our voices and roughly got it down to 5 minutes and 9 seconds, we decided to put it into Adobe Premiere Pro and cut it down to the right time length (5 minutes max.). Then I had to research background music while Eamonn and Godzy worked on the editing. I chose a Lo-Fi song to use. After we uploaded the file.

Intro to Digital Media- Mission 3: Digital journalism - 1

The first thing I did before I started before I chose the mission I was going to do, for the methodology project, was read through each and try to find one that would spite my interest. After looking through for quite some time, I had picked my topic of interest. I picked Digital Journalism. I had chosen this topic because I had always liked journalism and everyone uses it these days instead of other forms like newspaper.

Next I had to find a group of people who shared this same interest as me for digital journalism. I found two guys because the maximum amount of members in each group was 3 people. The next thing we had to think about was what was the video going to be about and how we would insert digital journalism into it. After a few minutes of brainstorming we eventually found a topic to do our project and how to include Digital Journalism in it. We decided to do our project on the “Premiere League”.

We decided to give the question: Has Football Journalism changed for the better” to the public.

The next thing we had to do as part of the planning stage was to brainstorm ideas on how to get evidence for the question to be answered. How we would use digital journalism in this project. The best way to word the question to all age groups who would answer and how to present the video.

We had originally planned to make a video about each match of every week of the Premiere League. In these vids it would show the teams walking out, the best goal from that video and the managers shaking hands at the end of the matches. In between each video there was information about the match that would relate to the topic of journalism. I would search the matches in order and find music to play in the background so it would be a little bit out of the ordinary. While I did this the other guys would research information about each match and the history and good facts about Digital Journalism nowadays in comparison to journalism thirty years ago. This was a good system because we got lots of work done within a few hours. After all the information was collected we emailed it all to one computer. Then we all sat around the one computer, opened premiere pro and began editing.

We ended up editing this for about eight hours. But sadly after being up on YouTube for 2 hours it got removed. So we decided to make a screen recording of our project with our voices over it and some back round music. 

I presented the question to people so we could see public reactions on the screen recording. Then  decided a good way to get answers out of people was create a survey they could take. This was a good idea because a survey is one hundred percent anonymous. This would help persuade people to take it because they wouldn't be worried about their information and opinions getting out there with their name. After I would make this survey I would check all the results after a few hours.