Task 1: Flickr Slideshow
For Task One we had to take photographs based around ‘visualising statistics of my life’. As we are focusing on the convergence of media in this module, I decided to base my photographs on how much media I consume in a day and even in a week. This would therefore include Internet, TV, Music, Film, Books, Gaming, my phone and my camera. As the title of the task is ‘visualising statistics about my life’, I have decided to include in every photograph a statistic about my use on each of the objects. I took careful consideration into where I would place the text stating the statistic. This is because i didn’t want the object to overpower the statistic as well as the other way round. However, in some photographs I have purposely made it so either the statistic or image is overpowering the other to make it obvious to the viewer how often I use the media object. To edit the photos, I used the editing programme Photoshop. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the editing part of the task as I liked using Photoshop before and allowed me to experiment with the photographs and how they came out. My favourite photograph is the one showing my iPod or the one showing a small collection of my DVD’s. This is because the statistic is secretly hidden on the spine of the DVD’s. I liked this idea because it wasn’t a statistic I was particularly proud of – it showed me I spend far too much time watching films instead of other productive things! Overall, I think my collection of photographs went really well and I am pleased with how they turned out. The experimentation with Photoshop built up my confidence and made me feel a lot more confident on the programme.
i like the book one. The shadows around the side look cool! Good job!
Its clear from these photos that you have really thought about what it is that you wanted to take pictures of – your writing is also clear and backs up the photos and process you went through to create the images.
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you’ve got some really detailed work and quite abit of research. All that I would say is to do more production posts with screen shots of what and how you did everything and go into detail about what you did, what problems you had etc. But very good 
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Nice blogging going on here. Like the way you’ve added personal interests as well as Uni work. Very in depth and a good read. Keep it up
1: 3:0
2: 2:2
3: 3:0
4: 2:2
This has the bare bones of a very good blog but it’s very thin on the ground. Make sure you respond to all the lectures and produce some posts that detail the processes you went through to address the tasks that are there. You have done this here and there but it doesn’t have the breadth that will get you a stronger mark. The capability is there and the skills to get you a 2:1 are in evidence but there is a lot more reflection and analysis and work to do.
Mez
I think your work is presented really well, its clear and easy to understand =) I would probably just suggest doing more work overall in all areas. However I think your blog is looking really good so far, I especially like how you have gone into a bit more depth on Chris Jordan, who we found out about in one of our lectures.