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.