2. 1. What event did we choose?
The Tower of London remembers WW1. 888,246 ceramic poppies were made, each
to represent a soldier that died in support of Britain
2. Why did we choose it?
We chose the event because it was current and it was a big news story as it has
been 100 years since the start of WW1, it was so important to so many people and
still is so important.
3. When did it happen?
The War and Friendships talk we attended was on the 27th October and the day
we attended the Tower of London was on the 29th October.
3. 4. Research into the event beforehand.
We did some background research on the First World War, and the adult talk we
attended,
featured guest speakers, so we did some background research on these
individuals also
5. Planning the event.
As we were the only group in the class to pick our own event we had to find our
own news and background information.
6. Looking at other multimedia websites for ideas,
and what we learnt.
Originally we were doing a Wordpress site so we looked at the example from last
year (damedash2013) to try and get inspiration for layouts. Because we chose
weebly in the end we just thought of our own ideas.
4. 7. How we organised the team.
We allocated roles at the start of the process to help us have a starting point:
Anastasia: Web Editor - Lucy: Multimedia Editor - Lauren:Social Media Editor
We stuck to this plan, but as time went by and we got used to the multimedia tools
and our website, we all got more involved with the different roles.
8. What we did first when we got to the event.
When we first got there we sourced the best places for interviews, photographs
and videos. We did this both inside and out of the tower.
9. How we organised ourselves with regards to
allocating roles and tasks.
Originally we chose three key roles - web editor (Anastasia) social media editor
(Lauren) and multimedia editor (Lucy). Each of us had slightly more input on these
chosen roles e.g I ran two of the social media websites instead of just one.
5. 10. How we completed our tasks throughout the
day: Who did what? How it worked out?
We didn’t religiously stick to any specific tasks. We swapped roles when filming and
interviewing, to ensure we each participated equally, and to give everyone in the
group a chance at gaining or enhancing our skills
11. Digital tools, software and equipment we used.
Digital tools – Twitter, Instagram, Thinglink, Bambuser, Youtube, Nikon cameras,
Weebly, iPhones, iPads, One Drive Photoshop
12. How we identified people to interview.
We decided beforehand that we wanted to interview a range of different aged
individuals. We approached a family, a teenage boy and an old lady that seemed
friendly and willing to speak to us.
6. 13. People we interviewed:
How many? Who? Why? Their perspective?
Estelle James, who gave us an insight into the educational importance of the event.
Emmanuel Batista, who gave us a teenager’s point of view
Christine Farebrother, who felt the event was of great importance
14. How we identified what to film (locations etc).
The three of us decided on what to do by grouping together once we had arrived
and thought ‘what can we film?’ we decided to take it in turns to get a range of
people, old and young to interview.
15. Our website:
Design, sections and links to social media.
We chose the layout as we believed it looked professional an similar to a
newspaper. We decided to choose a theme that showcase a header picture
immediately when you click on the website. The pages we included were: the
Tower of London/War and Friendship including two reviews on the home page, an
"about" page detailing about the event and us, a photo an video gallery page.
Another page we created was a history page of the First World War and brief
educational ideas. The final page we decided was a "coverage" page of what we
had recorded an reported. This included vines, audio interviews, life footage and
social media feeds.
7. 16. Did we publicise our site via social media and
get any traffic? If so, how?
We added the live Twitter feed and the Instagram feed onto our website, to act as
a gateway between the sites. We tweeted about the website from our twitter
accounts throughout the process,and also posted links to the site from our
personal social media websites like Twitter and Facebook. We received over 250
page hits from one weekend alone.
17. The multimedia we produced individually.
Lucy – Instagram account, Thinglink, Bambuser, Youtube, Soundcloud and Vine.
Lauren – Twitter account, Bambuser, Youtube, Soundcloud and Vine. Anastasia –
Facebook page, Bambuser, Audioboom, Youtube, Soundcloud and Vine.
18. The text we produced individually.
Lauren - War and Friendship review, About the Tower of London and About myself
Lucy - Tower of London review and About me
Anastasia - About the talk, About me, History and education and the interview
briefing
http://theseaofred.weebly.com/
8. 19. The photos we took individually.
We all took a lot of photographs throughout the event, but decided to choose a
select few to include on the website. We each have our own slideshow with 8-10
images, and we ensured that none of our photos were too similar, to avoid
repetition for the page viewer
20. Who we interviewed individually.
Lucy – Emanuel Batista, Lauren – Christine Farebrother, Anastasia – Estelle James
and Andy Merry
21. Individually, the tasks completed towards the
assignment. Before the event and during.
As we have stated throughout the presentation we equally shared the roles so that
each of us were doing the same amount of work to make the group assignment
fair. We all took photos, interviewed, recorded videos and wrote pieces for the
assignment.
9. 22. Did the assignment go according to plan?
The assignment went according to plan. We had a basic structure and an idea of
the outcome we wanted, but because nothing was set in stone, it allowed us
flexibility to capture as much multimedia as we could, resulting in us being able to
choose the best from what we had.
23. Three things that work well in our assignment.
1) The event was a success
2) The building of the website was great fun and we learnt a lot.
3) We (the three of us) worked really well as a team, because we worked on
our strengths and weaknesses.
24. Three things we found difficult about this
assignment.
1) Getting quotes on paper and phones when it was raining
2) Not being able to record in the talk
3) Lack of signal in the Tower of London made it harder to live tweet
10. 25. Three ways we could improve this assignment.
Some videos we were unable to film them correctly and horizontally. However in
the editing process, we could’ve attempted to edit the videos to be horizontal.
We could’ve interviewed more people, to gain a wider perspective and opinion on
the event.
In the early stages of the process, we went with Wordpress, but due to technical
difficulties around embedding, we changed to Weebly. The theme we chose only
allowed us to have five pages – so we could’ve spent longer looking for a theme
that would allow us to develop more pages if required
26. Three things we have learned by doing this
assignment.
1) We shouldn’t give up when it gets hard, just find a different platform
2) Embedding
3) Being on camera isn’t that horrible, if you want to get strangers on camera
you have to be comfortable on it too.
27. The skills we need to learn and improve on, to
produce a more successful multimedia website.
1) Embedding things into the website, took us a whole to figure it out and took a
lot of googling.
2) Publish the website earlier in an attempt to drive more traffic
3) Practice more with using the apps in spare time to avoid trouble trying to get
things to work on the day
