Pod cast submission

Sam and I have finally handed in our pod cast. It has been a long journey with lots of ups and downs and I am relieved that we have finished. having said that, I have thoroughly enjoyed creating this pod cast and I am sad to be finishing this module. I mentioned in my last post that I will be putting up the pod cast and reference list in this post, unfortunately I cannot find a way to upload the animation as it is too big. The video was also to big to just attach it the the post, however I found that if I uploaded it to you tube first and then attached it to this blogg it worked.

Reference

Giddings, B. Hopwood, B. O'Brien, G. (2002). Environment, economy and society: fitting them together into sustainable development. Sustainable Development. 10 (4), 187-196.

National Botanical Garden of Wales. (2014). How Green is the Garden. Available: http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/?page_id=6035. Last accessed 1st May 2014.

Sustainable Development Commision. (2011). What is Sustainable Development. Available: http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/pages/what-is-sustainable-development.html. Last accessed 2nd May 2014.

Fourth meeting

Sam and I had our fourth meeting on Saturday, and we finalised all of the details on our animation. Before we even started our pod cast we had an idea to do two videos, one explaining why we were influenced by the Botanical Gardens and explaining what sustainable energy is. The second video will be based on science lessons about sustainable energy in the classroom that take an influence from the Botanical Gardens. We did not originally go with this idea as we thought we could not pull it off in the time frame we had, however, we found that we completed the first animation with plenty of time left to complete a second video. So, our pod cast will now consist of two videos which will be posted on here along with a reference list in my next post.  

Third Meeting

After much deliberation Sam and I decided to create an animation about our chosen topic sustainable development, we chose it as we though it was a creative way of putting our idea across. Originally we decided to take our influence from the Science Museum in Cardiff, however after further research we decided it would be a better idea if we took influence from our trip to the National Botanical Gardens, as they are actively seeking to develop ways of using sustainable energy. We have now completed all of our research on sustainable development and sustainable energy and created a script to be recorded and placed over the animation we have created. Sam and I are now well on our way to completing this pod cast, however I realise we may encounter some speed bumps on the way to finishing off our animation and placing the recorded dialogue on top of it. Having said that I feel confident in the work that we have done together.

Second Meeting

This was our first opportunity to actually do some work on this assignment as myself and Sam have been busy finishing off our dissertations. Now we have sat down and taken some time to consider the options open to us, we have decided to use sustainable energy as our topic to pod cast about. Our first pod cast is about what sustainable energy is and the pros and cons that come with it. now we have completed our first pod cast we will go away and think of some more ideas to record for out next meeting on 5/5/2014.

Podcast test for science assignment with Nick, Sam and myself.

I have now finished my FINAL PIECE, and it feels great. its been a long road but I have finally got there. Initially I did not quite understand what to do for this assignment but after I threw my self into it and forgot about my concerns, I think I finally understand what to do well I hope I understood what to. Having said all the I started to really enjoy the assignment after my initial stutter at the beginning.
I was slightly worried that my final piece was not going to work on the computers in the university as I tried it in the library and to my horror it failed to work PANIC TIME! But after seeing Mandy and trying it on one of her computers it worked, so all is well.
I am very sad to say goodbye to my first year at university and Visual Communication. But I am very much looking forward to next year and I am apprehensive at what waits ahead of me.
Until next time Blogger it has been fun.

Research Material

I have had BIG problems in deciding to what research for this project. After initial brainstorming, I decided to start to gather some ideas based around music and sport, as these are major parts of my life. After looking at sport I decided it would be hard for me come up with a final piece based on sport. So I continued to look at music, I researched many areas within music and then moved onto the area which most interested and influenced me.
Once I complete my research material, I will start to gather ideas about my final piece and how I am going to execute it.