Methodology reflection 3

So, I’m sitting here reflecting on this last mission and I mean I’ve learned a lot. I’m happy with the grade I got and all and in a bitter sweet kinda way I’m well a little sad but mainly I’m super happy it’s over I know I probably shouldn’t say that but god it was so stressful like STRESSFUL!!!!!!!!!

I improved my teamwork skills which I have done in every mission I did get to experiment with video editing at the very beginning before deciding Nadine was gonna do the edit and with that it was definitely the best choice.  I am super happy with how this all came out the video looked great my voice never want to hear that again ugh disgusting!!!!! The girls out did themselves as well I thought that that they put so much effort in and I think everyone of us did great. I do think we could have improved in some aspects (because there is always room for improvement you know like if everything was perfect what would be the actual point no thanks) for example I think our time management skills could do with work. We had an issue of someone always either being sick or busy with something etc for like a period of the project and that was really frustrating but that is part of life and considering that the project came out really well considering how bad we were at times with our time management at points. We were having issues with our audio and when we where re recording we all had a hard time with keeping a straight face and not laughing at each other and ourselves. This was especially difficult for me as I have a lot of anxiety of talking in front of others especially when I can see there fasces. (Nadine was getting very annoyed with me and Enoh during this point because I just really couldn’t stop laughing and Enoh was making me laugh without even trying.) I would like to apologise to Nadine for that as well.

If I was doing this mission again, I wouldn’t change much just maybe the time management and I would personal would have done some editing to help Nadine out. I think we did very well, and I had a lot of fun doing this mission yes, I had moments of pure stress, but they were balanced out by the moments of laughter (both nervous and of joy) yeah it was an experience. The time spent on this mission definitely is reflected in the finale presentation I was super happy with how it turned out and I’m glad that we did something different to the majority because I think it helped us out in the finale product. I think our group worked well because we all knew each other out side of this which meant that it was easier for us to get a work flow I think this helped us out because we didn’t have go through that awkward stage of getting to know each other.

Signing off

John Garry

Methodology Process 2

So, we have started working on the project like I said in my first post I talked about how I would be using Voyant to analyse our texts so I will talk about that here, I guess. As a group we where chose two scripts and then I would use them to analyse. The scripts we chose where High school musical and the spinoff of that series Sharpay’s fabulous adventure also we took the first chapter of the great Gatsby. (I wanted to do the bee movie but majority rules I guess.) The process was very easy as it was mainly a copy and paste you know and then your just pressing reveal your then met with a lot of things that are hard to get your head around at first, but it does make sense trust me. There are graphs and cirrus these give you the findings of trends and etc through the texts. I thought this was a really good idea as its not like your being presented it in one format because you could be looking for specific information and not everyone would be looking for the same type of information. Overall I think Voyant is really easy to use and is quick to learn how to use it. I also screen recorded the process all three of the texts being put into the Voyant tool and then all I need to do was send them to Nadine. I’ve had a few issues with this because some clips just wouldn’t send and therefore had to be re done and re saved and we had to try out several different types of file to find the right one that would allow me to send the clips to Nadine. This took awhile and was very frustrating so much so that I had to walk away and just watch YouTube for a few hours because you know the saying of take a break from something it helps or something. Idk?

I feel like the project is going well with minor issues, but we can and will get past them Nadine has started the editing process and we have all done our voice overs for the video however… I think there are issues with mine and Nadine’s so we are planning on recording ours again hopefully they come out better the second time round because I can’t be dealing with doing it again Like no chance will I re re record them again like no way. Other than that, there going well I have seen what Nadine is doing with the video and it looks super nice. I have had worries throughout the project at time I was just like why we chose this like where we looking to fail or what like and then other times I was like yeah we got this man we gonna ace this come on let’s go!!!!!! I actually am really excited to see this video now I can’t wait to see the finale version.

Methodology Planning 1

I started this project full on (kind of hoping I was reading it wrong for a while and hoping it was really about mythology) (That’s a joke by the way just in case you didn’t get that). I went straight to getting myself a group this took a while however I joined a group with Nadine from group 1 and Enoh from group 4. We chose to do Text analysis for this mission at this current point in time I know nothing about text analysis don’t know what it is or what it’s used for I just think it seems cool and also not many groups seem to be doing it so that works in our favour right??????? God I really hope so otherwise I’ll just go eat a cake to myself or something, I guess.  We started planning on finding out what text analysis is and what its used for. Once we figured that out, we had to chose what we what texts we were going to choose so after much debate we eventually got three texts to analyse two being scripts and one being a novel. We chose this format because it seemed like a better format as a lot of what we where doing is just voice over so we wanted to do things that wouldn’t need much explaining.

We then decided to split the task between the three of us because we have three main parts. Nadine wanted to have the edit, so we all agreed on that pretty much straight away. Then me and Enoh said we would do the research Enoh said she wanted to get the background on text analysis and put it into her words for the video. I was left with using and researching Voyant which yay (leave the dyslexic member to do the actual analysing of text nah it was grand because I didn’t have to actually examine it). I’ll talk more about that in the Process post, but we had a plan and we were determined we worked for about seven hours the first two days each planning and gathering the research we needed. (The amount of people I had to tell I couldn’t meet up was ridiculous but also well worth it I think). I am very optimistic about this project the team seems enthusiastic about the mission so hopefully we produce something that matches our enthusiasm. God I hope this goes well I really do. Nadine and Enoh seem like there on top of their stuff I hope I’m not the one who lets everyone down. I’m sure this mission will go really well fingers crossed anyway.

I think it’s a really interesting topic we chose Like every other group seems to be doing journalism. It must be the Gif of this mission, I guess. I just want to see what we come up with and how it looks and all that you know like will it look good or well I don’t know if I can say it so I’ll just put the emoji I guess💩  .

Culture project post 2

I have found someone who needed a group Shane. He has decided to do the background research of some YouTube videos and Youtubers salaries. The project is not what I would hope for it to be done. I can’t really blame anything specific, so I am just going to have to just get on with it. I have begun to film my video today. It is proving to be more difficult than I thought it would be I have over an hour of footage I have decided to use premier pro to edit it because we will be using it for the finale mission. The planning of the video has been a great asset in getting the video exactly how I want it to be. It doesn’t mean I haven’t messed it up several times in the filming process from my phone’s storage to me messing up a lot of times from stuttering to stumbling over my sentences etc... This isn’t as easy as I thought it would be, I guess I was just really naïve as thought it would be really easy to get it to be perfect. I have learned a lot of this over the project so far.

The editing is being a very difficult and a lot of the moments I’m trying to get the edit down to as small amount of time as much as possible, so I just won’t have the making the presentation to long as I won’t want to bore the audience. I am just waiting on some research slides from Shane so I can start forming our presentation.

I have had issues with exporting the video the quality is coming out different on a all the devices I have watched it on. There were no issues with uploading the video to YouTube it was actually quite easy however the file type seems to actually be the problem. I have had to just accept this because I’m not going to be able to change it at such a late date. I showed the video to Shane he thought it was good enough. We organized the presentation adding the information in the correct order.

culture assignment 1 planning

This week we started the planning phase for our second mission culture. Me and Danniella have chosen YouTube as our missions. We decided we would each make our own video one being what a first video by any youtuber stating out would look like low quality and then one video that is of better quality. We want to do this to show how YouTube channels are constantly growing and changing. We also have decided to do research on incomes and growth of popular YouTube channels to try and identify any common trends between the different types of channels across the platform. We each decided to start doing our own research and then meet up in person. I haver decided to look through popular Youtuber’s videos and viewing there older videos to try and identify some trends I have also decided to research.

Me and Danniella have had issues with meeting up as it is reading week and we both have other commitments and so to combat this we have decided to video call each other to share our findings of our research. We have planned to try and meet up but with everything going on in Danniella’s life I highly doubt that it will happen.  

We have tried to meet up but due to unforeseen circumstances Dannillea has not been able to do much work and I have found myself carrying the entire weight of the mission by myself. I don’t know how I’m going to manage the all the work by myself, but I am just going to have to manage. I have planned it out that hopefully I can get this to work out. I have decided to see if there is anyone else looking for a group who maybe couldn’t find a group before now. Wish me luck.

reflection on the Culture mission

So, for the second mission my group chose YouTube. Things were going fine over reading week we had a plan and deadlines the group was me a Danniella however due to personal issues Danniella was struggling and as ripple effect so was I. Then Shane joined the group and I wasn't left to do all the work myself. But due to the deadline of the presentation there was still a lot of work and it was stressful the presentation is tomorrow I am still worried, but I feel as though it’s at a point that we can get a good enough grade that I'll be happy with. I know this is short and I should have at least another blog post for this mission, but it was difficult to even get this one out.

In reflection there is some stuff that we could have improved on. For example, I could have put the video in a different format to maybe have better quality. We could have done a bit more research and we could have organized it in a better format so as to not have us reading straight of the screen. The way we sourced the information could have been done better. When introducing the presentation, I could have taken a few moments to collect myself and then introduced the presentation to the class.   

I have learned a lot from this mission I learned how to use Adobe Premier Pro software and I learned how to use YouTube studios and how the algorithm works. I learned that I was doing a lot of things wrong in my presentations and also that the way that I was referencing in a very bad way and that I should be leaving links to the websites I used and not just saying where I’m getting the information from. I also learned how to make a YouTube video. It may not have been perfect, but it was my first time I had ever made a video, so I was overall happy with the finale outcome. I got to improve my problem-solving skills along with my team working skills. If I had to pick one part of this project, I would have done differently it would have been the presentation layout I wish I could have chosen a different layout and to just overall make it a better presentation. I would have had shorter points and I would have made it, so I wasn’t just reading them straight off of the screen. I do except the fact that if it where not for Danniella’s circumstance that the project would have had a better flow as well as having a more coherent feel throughout. I think if a lot of the circumstances where different then this project would have been better but in saying that I am happy with the overall result.   

Signing off from this mission (Thank god probably should say that but I mean you told us to be ourselfs sooooo............🤷‍♂️ 

John Garry. 

My reflection

Sitting here reflecting on this project I’ve learned a lot for example the origin of the name of gif. Which comes from freaking peanut butter of all things!!! I also learned that gifs cannot lose their quality because the format. We learned these facts through online articles.

I also learned that I really enjoy working as part of a team. Working with Natalia and Flosie was a really refreshing way of working on a project because it was a very natural group and it came very naturally to bounce ideas off each other.

 I discovered that gifs have a long history that’s longer than I’ve been alive. The creator Steve Wilhite had some weird motivations behind the name. I also learned that making a good gif is a lot more difficult than it looks even if you are using a website like Giphy.com.

I’ve learned that I like working in a video format and wheatear that be creating an idea that needs to be filmed or being filmed I like that dynamic.

 Like in any project there are success’ and failure’s in this project some of the success’ would be the video in our presentation as it was a part where we all put all our energy into it. The failure I would say is my own gif’s as they are probably the weakest part of the presentation.  

The final update!!!!!

Tomorrow is the day!!!!

I've finished my parts of the presentation. I'm just waiting on the finale pieces of from Flosie and Natalia. As a group we have learned many things like how Gif is pronounced "Jif". I honestly didn't think that there would be so much background about the origins of gif's. I was completely taken back when I found out that Steve Wilhite wanted to name it after his favorite peanut butter but jut changed the first letter like wow!!!!!

As individuals we learned mostly from websites and online articles (because that's are nature online I guess.) We brought what we learned and structured are presentation around the most relevant information and formed a script for are video. I learned that I actually enjoy have a dynamic where everyone in a group where everyone is somewhat a leader. For example when I would suggest we did something and the one of the girls was unsure and then I would insist we at least try it out. We all took this approach If we really thought something would make the presentation better. This didn't always work but when it did it was an amazing feeling. I also learned that I improve on my own ideas when I have someone to bounce off. Flosie and Natalia where to great team members to bounce ideas off of. 

From my own Non biased opinion I think we are gonna have one of the best presentation in the class. Mainly because we don't just have a few slides of just writing. We have a video that we put a lot of effort into to deliver the information in an entertaining way. I would have preferred more time just with timing of Natalia go to Moldova if we even had an extra week we could have maybe added like 10% to are already 100% killer presentation. Wish us luck.      

Progress of mission 1

I joined a group with Flosie and Natalia. We have decided to do mission on art of the animated gif. In this blog entry I will be talking about my hopes for what I will learn from working with the girls and what I hope to gain from this project myself.

We all decided in our lab that we wanted to do the art of animated gif. Then we had to decide on how we wanted to present. Natalia had the brilliant idea that we make a video for are presentation. After a few minutes of discussing how that would work we all came to agreement that we would.

As a group we decided this was a pretty smart way to do the presentation as many people would not do that (hopefully). The only issue we had with creating a video is well it's very time consuming and we had the added issue that one of us was traveling to Moldova (Natalia!!!). So we set about planning the filming and then Natalia would deal with the editing and me and Flosie would  deal with creating the presentation.

We all met the morning of the recording to plan how we were going to structure the video and to share what we had learned. Then we chose the information that would make it into the video.

I learned a lot from Natalia and Flosie. For example from Natalia I learned you can actually make the process of making a presentation as enjoyable as the finished product. From Flosie I learned to keep positive and it's ok to make as many mistakes as you need to before you get it right. I hoped to learn more about the history of gif's and their creation which I did.

All that's left to do is the final bits of the presentation and then present let's hope it all goes to plan.

Introduction to a future who know's

Hi my names John!!

Hi I'm John. I am 20 years old. I have four brothers and a sister. So what do you really need to know about me other than those three basic facts well that's normally up to you. Well it kinda still is except I'm just leaving this information here for someone to read if they want. So since I was a kid I've had a fascination with space... like other space (obviously) to me it's always been the concept of the universe always expanding and we are only seeing a very small fraction of it that's amazed me that even though we are in the universe really for just a blip we are part of a giant machine. It was something that gave me comfort when I was first diagnosed with epilepsy as a child that everything had a purpose even if it was a thing like epilepsy.

Then when I was sixteen and I was re-diagnosed with epilepsy that concept didn't really give me the same kind of comfort it did the opposite in fact. But at this time I found my love for reading and also Marvel movies and TV shows. so what was it that appealed to me about reading and Marvel exactly well, when I would sit down to read or watch a movie/ tv show I felt like I was a viewer in someone else's mind/ world. I was seeing the world through their eyes and not my own which was nice because I wasn't someone who had seizure's or someone who had to go to hospital appointments instead of school trips. I was all the characters in the books I read. I would watch these people come together to be more than their individual parts to take on an unimaginable treat and that gave me comfort but also hope.

 Currently my favorite book I've read is Scythe by Neil Shusterman, my favorite Movie is Avengers Endgame and my favorite TV shows are Marvel's cloak and dagger and Marvel's Runaways.  I also enjoy music my taste in music varies from rock to really anything. I grew up just outside a village called Dunderry in Meath but I spent most of my time in the the local Gaeltacht, Rath Chairn because I have cousins their. I went to school in Rath Chairn for five years and I can't speak a word of Irish even though half of my family is fluent oops... Well that's about it from me for now. Thank you for reading all that if you've made it this far. 

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My first Blog

My first blog 

This is my test blog.

My name is John. I'm 20, Irish.