Month: May 2018

The Feature Story was one of my favorite projects. I really enjoyed the process that included all of the different types of mediums. The audio section was fun for me because I am currently in the class Audio 2. It was fun using the skills that I learned in that class and transferring them over to New Communication Technologies. I think the interviews came out pretty good. I used the Rode shotgun mic on my camera. Then I edited the audio on Adobe Audition. I think out of everything on the project. The audio came out clean and full after I put on some effects on it to improve the quality of the audio information. I think the interviews were well structured. In addition I had really great responses from the people I interviewed. They gave me full articulate responses that really tied into my topic quite well. I wish I could have interviewed them for my video project as well.

Video is the thing that I do the best. In this project I didn’t use my full potential. I didn’t read the rubric and forgot about the B-roll. In addition I could have found better people to interview. Because of these reasons I am not super proud of my final product but I also know I can be overly critical on my own work. The main thing with videos is having enough time to get them done at a high quality. Coming off of a very busy week I had to rush the shoot and edit. This is one thing you really shouldn’t do when it comes to video production. That being said this project was a fun one. I enjoyed telling the same story through different mediums. It really made you think about what information and content should appear in each.

I feel that our meme presentation went very well. We had several great things that went into the presentation. The first being the meme it’s self. We chose the Roll Safe meme because we felt it was one that was easy to replicate and the narrative of the meme wasn’t too complicated and was easy to explain. I personally make multiple meme’s a day and post them on my meme page so this project was especially fun for me. I have personally used the Roll Safe meme many times and probably will many more in the future. It was fun to dive into the research behind what makes a meme spread and why they reach and connect with such a giant audience. Twitter is one thing that really elevates the spread of memes. Retweeting and sharing are so instrumental to the growth of a meme. Platforms that don’t include this feature are at a disadvantage to ones that do. Instagram for instance doesn’t have a sharing feature. Because of this it is not an ideal outlet for meme pages. Twitter on the other hand has pages for only one meme format and through retweets these pages can explode very quickly. The pages on Instagram have to be varied and constantly posting different material.

In this class I have learned many things. About the ever-changing landscape of modern media and communication. As our technologies change so do the dynamics of communication through them. The many to many dynamic that the internet has provided us is for the most part still being studied and understood. This class put us in several situations within this topic to understand the dynamic and changing relationships.

We learned about how cell phones have created new solutions and problems. We read articles and reviewed the effects of social media and how it is constantly evolving our interaction abilities. We studied how fast the changes are coming to the landscape and how each change alters the communication between two people. The article reviews helped me to really read in depth and understand the material. I enjoyed the group work that we had in the class and all of the presentations. It was nice to collaborate and bounce ideas off of one another rather than just doing it alone.

I really enjoyed the content we studied and it is going to directly into my career. I actually run my own meme page and it has gotten quite big so it was really fun for me to study the history of meme’s and what makes them spread. This was probably my favorite thing that we did in this class. I also like the studies we did on all the discussions we had that were video related. The industry is ever changing and it was a lot of fun for me to discuss these changes in class. In conclusion, I really enjoyed this class and would recommend it to anyone in my major.