The Authorship Unit Brief ! October 15, 2009
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Finally I have found the authorship unit brief at long last. So with out any further to do here is what I shall be doing over the next month and a bit:
The Brief
To design a front end solution, including branding, for a new online Media School service called ‘THE STATION’ that will showcase media students work. It will consist of an archive student work as well as present a live Television Studio broadcast every weekday at 12pm.
Design work is to be minimalist in style and reflect the nature of the website. There must also be a location emphasis within the design work i.e. that it is Bournemouth/Dorset/South Coast.
To build a back-end editorial interface to ‘THE STATION’ that will allow Level I student teams to add new media content to the website and administrate/edit material already online.
The target audience for this service will be made up of the local community, media student peers and professional media companies
Overview
As of next academic year there will be a new online repository of Media School Student work. This will be made up of archived material plus a live 15-minute Television studio broadcast that goes out every weekday at lunchtime.
Level I student teams will man ‘The Station’ on a weekly rotation, providing regular updates to both the archive and the Live shows.
There will be a web front-end to allow the general public to access this work and view the live broadcasts, as well as a back-end editorial solution to enable the student teams to update the site with new content.
As a precursor to ‘THE STATION’ going live next academic year there will be trials of the potential services that will be used, in particular the HD TV Studio broadcasts, which will commence in week 5/6 of this academic year.
Technical Overview
The live broadcast will be streamed via the HD TV Studio, using a QuickTime Streaming Server that will announce the video using Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).
Video material for archiving will be provided either on tape or as a QuickTime DV-Pal file.
Interactive Media will be provided by means of a web address or on CD/DVD-Rom as potentially Photoshop/HTML/Flash/Unity 3D files
Script writing material will be provided by means of a Word document.
Radio material will be provided either on miniDisc/CD or as a WAV/AIFF audio file.
All this material needs to be encoded into a web friendly format, archived and searchable by use of meta-data.
Material that is uploaded by the student team must be cleared of copyright or have permission from the original authors.
Archived material needs to have the ability to be rated and commented on by the viewers of the web site.
The base requirements for the server are PHP5 & MySQL
Word to the Wise
Try to be realistic about what you can achieve given the short period of time you have to complete your project. Remember this is only a working prototype not the fully finished version of the website and back-end editorial interface.
Even though this is an individual project you will be expected to collaborate with others to help provide content on their websites.
Bournemouth Universtiy BAIMP Level I Authorship Production Element Brief 2009
My personal opinion about this project is that I am not going to like it one bit….. o dear but always up for any challenge.
Second Week Of Uni October 13, 2009
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Well my second week of uni have been manic, mad and taken very bit of life out of me !, however in the past 5 days i have manage to design and produce my online portfolio, which would have taken about a couple of months and hopefully shall up uploaded to the internet tomorrow or thursday. In reflection I am happy with what I have been able to do with the thanks of friends to help me out when I was in trouble.
Yet this portfolio has some what delayed me in starting my first, second year project by a couple of days. So lets get down to business and i’ll explain what this project involves:
(I have just spent the past half hour trying to find the brief for this project on Mybu with no success)
As I can’t find the project brief I shall explain what mybu is.
Mybu is Bournemouth University online virtual learning environment, and this is what it SHOULD BLOODY DO !!!!!:
- helps develop independent learning (DOES IT HELL, you can’t find a anything your looking for)
- provides access to flexible, student-centred resources (THIS IS A LOAD OF RUBBISH, the user interface/navigation is the worst I have ever had to use)
- supports communication and collaboration (ERRR NO !, I would only agree if you could find the things you need)
- supports student and academic communities of interest (HAHA SURE !!! if you ask any student in Bournemouth University, I can pretty much granite that they will have something to complain about it)
So there you are Mybu explained in a nut shell what it should do and what it DOES do !
You can tell I have had one of those weeks already.
My next post will be about my project that I have been assigned to do, if I can find the brief on Mybu
First Week At Uni October 7, 2009
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Well my first week at uni has been busy, no surprise there to be honest. I knew once I got back that starting the second year at Bournemouth Uni would be a bigger step up from my pretty relaxed first year. However always love the challenge trying to get through a tough situation !!!!
Last friday I had a talk about work placement that I would be doing towards the end of my second year. The lectures were painting a pretty bleak picture about it all due to the way the economy is at the moment. But over the summer I was suppose to be doing some work experience for a advertising website company, but due to personal medical reasons I was unfortunantly unable to do it. So during this work placement lecture, I thought I would drop them an email to see if the offer was still open, and within that day got the email back confriming that it was very much still open to my delight.
So in the next nine days I have to create my online portfolio and CV to take to them up in London.
Three words come to mind at this point: God Help Me !!!!
