International Research

Having got friend in America, i decided to send them a questionnaire to fill out, to get more of an understanding of what they like in relation to interacting with the shows they like, and if they have that available content.

Unfortunately I've only been able to get a few filled out

Although they didn't enter there gender, they where both females, however, looking at the results, and also researching the American re-make of The Inbetweeners, I have that Most US shows, and websites for them, do not offer as much extra content, or interactive elements for its audience to participate with the shows, therefore it comes to no surprise that in the questionnaire results they said they'd like to be more involved within influencing the storyline and characters, whereas in the the UK questionnaires showed us that we are more interested in the extra online content, like the games and apps they provide for us to be involved.

Doctor Who research

So I've just come across this thing called GetGlued, and basically its an American created online servise, aswell as having an app, that lets you earn stickers though 'checking in' when watching your favorite shows. You can play quizes and games and interact with others who have signed up.

There is also an option to link your Facebook so you can share things on your Facebook Timeline, and have discussions of the shows with your friends, and other people around the world.

Doctor Who has just recently made the site. I've never heard of this before, and i'm still not entirely sure how it woks, as it seems to have more of an American audience.

heres the site link:

http://getglue.com/tv_shows/doctor_who

Reasearch and social media.

Back to uni from Christmas break! Though i loved the 3 weeks off, i've been anxious to get back to work and catching up on research and the presentation for Applied Media Reasearch!

Now, with having done the questionnaires and focus group, we needed to do something that was more engaging for people, So using social networking sites such as Facebook would give us more of an impact, and we found more people participated when doing so, and people are more willing to interact with having such easy access in a click of a button.

The three of us took a poll on our status' and them to choose their favorite show, of the shows we were each research.

Here are some of the results:

We tallied them up and found that

Breaking Bad: 25
The Walking Dead: 18
Doctor Who: 11

I was a little disappointed, being that Doctor Who was my favourite! :(

With the most popular being an American show, we found that we should research into how American viewers differ from the UK's and how some shows are being re-made into American versions such as Skins and Shameless. And how their interactive experiences compare and differ to ours!

Beyond the Camera completed

So mine and Beccas digital artefact has been submitted!

I'm actually really happy with the result of it, however I do wish we could have been more creative in our imagery, , as we wanted the tone to be quite dark and unnerving, we needed to shoot all our footage and imagery at night, which proved to be difficult when finding a park with swings with decent [Text Box]lighting to take the images. So again we had to compensate by using an image we found from Flickr. Through the development stage we did have to change some of our original ideas of what shots and photographs we could take, such as leaves blowing across a path, however on the night we filmed, its wasn’t windy at all. We did try to create wind with newspaper; however it just didn’t turn out in the end.  

I think we both worked really well as a team, both participating in the development stages. Although we both didn’t feel hugely comfortable using After Effects at first I think both being able to experiment with it was better than each person doing separate elements, as it meant we got a turn at everything.  

Here's the final film anyway!

ENJOY

 

Focus Group/Research

So unfortunately I couldn't make it in for the focus group today, which I know my group probably isn't happy about, however i explained due to ilness and appointmenst etc.

However, they informed me that everything went well, and they had correlated the results.

Now, I just wanted to make it clear that, even though i haven't been able to attend some of the meetings, it doesn't mean i haven't done the work, which almost everything is thinking.

So I did as much research on Doctor who as i could today:

I found many different sites with statistic on viewers over the years, and started to look at its American audience, as well as asking people on Facebook, from America, what they thought about the 3 different shows the 3 of us were researching, so i conducted a little poll.

http://www.kasterborous.com/2011/10/doctor-who-stats-infographic/

http://mashable.com/2012/08/31/doctor-who-america/

http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2011/04/22/watch-now-mysterious-new-viral-silent-videos-online-for-doctor-who

General facts about doctor who:

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television series broadcast on the BBC

•It was first aired on television on the 23rd November 1963 on BBC One

•The story follows the character of a timelord named ‘The Doctor’ who travels through time and space.

•From 1963-1989 there had been a total of seven ‘Doctors’

•In 2005 the series was revived and continued with a a new Doctor starring Christopher Eccleson.

•The show draw’s in an average of 8 million viewers

•Although the British-American-Canadian Tv-movie created drew in a total of 9.8 million viewers in 1998.

•The TARDIS and the DALEKS have become worldwide iconography of the show.

Also, Doctor who over the years have created many online content which interacts with its audience such as Pond-life, and online webisode, featuring clips each week exclusively online, aswell as online games where the audience could use social networking to participate.

There links to official Twitter pages, Facebook, and also has an offical app with more extra content for its audience.

More creative!

Been so stressed out lately that i have hardly done anything create, in terms of projects. I used to be so motivated, but this year has just drained me of everything, so it was really nice that i've finally picked up the pace and made something!

Just an image of some unique snow globe glasses i made for decoration! In fact Becca's mum bought two of them at the Christmas fair i did! which i was really pleased about :)

Show is finally done!

I'm honestly thrilled that the TV show is all done, there's been so much stress over it. Not because of the work, but the lack of it, and it's really got me down. Especially when i was looking forward to doing it, but i think everything just took it's toll on us, and we all didn't try our hardest

Personally I thought the overall show went great. Our guest. A professional Rugby Player, maybe wasn't the best choice, but for the idea he was appropriate  I think in the end we just had to work with what we had, which was a shame.

I got quite a bit of the backlash though in terms of how little work we had done. I had literally a day to come up with the set design, with no money, and i couldn't travel anywhere to pick anything up, so it was kind of impossible for me to make anything fantastic.

Genuinely nobody told me we couldn't use the store cupboard for the set, so when i got slated for that i was a bit taken back. I thought i had a solid concept for the set, sort of like an old english/tradition feel, very cosy and homely, with exposed brick for a more masculine touch with it being a sports show. But i guess in the end it just didn't work

I was a little bit, well very much so annoyed about the fact nobody said anything to me about if the dick didn't work we would ultimately fail on the spot, especially when i could have sorted it before i handed it in, which i feel wasn't very fair at all.

So at the moment i'm really in a good place with the course and have a lack of motivation to carry on.


But in other news i got all my drawings done. Heres is a few i sold. 

Also here is a link to my official facebook page: 

Artwork by Elicia