Methodology Video

Process of Making the Video

Heyo! So, after doing all the research and making our own fake news brand, all that was left to do was to make the actual video. We started pretty early for the video, as we wanted to finish it in one day. We went into our morning lab at 9 am on a Monday morning so we were pretty tired but we had to get it all done. The video and voice overs was our only objectives left. We had most of the materials we needed and all we needed to do was the tedious part, video editing. We wanted to make this video look semi-professional so we went with a formal video format. Our objective for the start of the video was an opening that explained the objective of the video:

At the start of the video, we wanted to get the boring stuff out of the way and showed footage of other fake news sites from back in the day compared to the sites nowadays and it was all to be voiced over by Alex:

Our next goal for the video was to state our goals with our research of fake news:

And we then added footage of Eddie designing 'The Vibe Network' logo, the design process of the website and social media pages and it was all voiced over by Eddie himself:

Then, after Eddie's part is all done we edited my part onto the full video where there is footage of me designing the articles and posting them onto the website and social media sites where I also voiced over that part:

For the result, we showed screenshots of the publicity we got, and some of the comments we also gained from different people on social media:

And after a long day of editing and recording voice overs, we were finally done with the full video. We spent 10 hours in college doing all this and I have to say, the end result was very satisfying.

That's all from me!

Methodology Process

Process of Researching Digital Journalism

Hola! So for this project, I decided to work with Alex and a person from a previous project I worked with, Eddie. We decided to do digital journalism as it was the more fun option in my opinion and we decided to solely research fake news. We spent the first week brainstorming what we wanted to do for the research such as what we wanted to accomplish, and how successful it may be. We decided that we would run our own fake news platform, so we made a fake news website, Facebook and Twitter.

Here's our fake website:

Here's our Twitter:

Here's our Facebook:

We named our fake news platform 'The Vibe Network' and Eddie was the one who designed our logo for the social media sites:

Once we set up our social media sites, we decided to briefly research how fake news first started and figured out what footage we wanted to use to explain how it started and how its changed over the years in our video. The next step was to create some fake articles for our social media sites so we can try and get some traction. Our goal was to make stories that once you look at them, they grab your attention from the headline and that would you make you question the legitimacy of the story, and we wanted to make the articles short so that it isn't too time consuming of a read and when you have read it, you immediately realize that the article is fake:

Once we have designed the articles and posted them on our website, we wanted to spread these pieces of fake news on our social media sites to see more traction and gain more clicks. Once we posted them, we waited a good few days to see how many people had found our articles and to see how many views and likes we have gotten.

That's all for now, till the next post!

GIF Presentation

Hey I'm back.

So the presentation is done and out of the way. Overall, in my opinion the presentation went well although there were quite a few groups doing a presentation on GIFs. Not to brag but I'd say our presentation was the better one out of the rest.

Since it was the first presentation I have done in a long time, it was a bit nerve racking as our turn approached. But once got up in front of the class it wasn't too bad. In the presentation, I presented the brief history of the GIF and it's uses in social media and overall, I think I did pretty well. Eddie talked about his process of making the 3 GIFs in photoshop and talked about his experience:

Since Denis was our photographer for our group, he talked about the process of taking the pictures and videos for the GIFs:

In conclusion, I think the work we put in and the overall presentation was really well done and if we were to grade ourselves, we agreed the the project was satisfactory.

That's it for this project, until the next one!