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Final project idea

Final Project Idea

Idea

The purpose of this project is to create an interactive cultural television program which will give information about events and cultural tours around the city. The program will provide interactive options to directly participation of the viewers. The aim of this project is to interact with viewers giving to them the power of decide what they want to watch during the programming. All forms of cultural expression may be part of the program contents, such as music, dance, arts, literature, touristic places and cultural events. The program format will be as a cultural agenda and offered three main options for reports. Inside each report there are other options for continuation that will be chosen by viewers. Initially, this program is thought to be a program aired on television, but due to new technologies and digital convergence there is the possibility that it be implemented in different Digital Media devices through the Internet, such as computers, mobile phones and iPad.

Motivation

The Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service has just been implanted in Ireland. This new transmission system enables users have quality and digital services as good as cable TV service. The DTT allows more channels to be created and the use of some features, such as interactivity, to be possible. Ireland television channels have to be interested in developing new programs using digital features to interact with the audience. One of the motivations is to allow users try the experience of interactivity on DTT system. The choice of the theme culture as the main content of the program arose due to a shortage of entertainment programs about culture, such as a cultural agenda in which viewers can learn more about the events happening in the city and to program what to do for weekend.

Development

Basically, to develop this project will require the use of some digital media skills, such as Video Production, Visual Communication, Interactive Design, Research Methods, 3D Modeling and Animation. First, the development of the program will be required to follow all the stages of pre-production, production and post production. After that, it will be necessary to adapt and implement the program for interactive functions

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Why Digital Media

Why I have chosen Digital Media?

I chose to study MSc. Applied Digital Media because I'm very interested in broadcasting. I have got degree in Social Communication and worked with television, radio and, also, produced some videos.

To learn about digital media is very important to my career, specially, nowadays, whereas the media is becoming digitized. We already have digital tlevision, radio and cinema. I'm really curious about to learn and to work with digital television.

The future of printed media

Printed media has future

With the advent of computers, mobiles and internet the communication speed has changed. Now we are in the immediacy era, where just a click can make all difference in to gain knowledge. Analysing an article from 1999, when the Internet was starting to become popular, The future of newspaper: survival or extinction? by George Thottam. As also, a more recent opinion to present the other side of this issue, a article from 2008, Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media by Risto Sarvas, Martti Mantyla and Marco Turpeinen. We will try to understand what has happened to the printed media and how is its current situation.

In the paper The future of newspaper: survival or extinction? , George Thottam argues about the decline of newspapers since the advent of “instant Medias”, such as Radio, TV and until the advent of the Internet. He tries to explain that the immediacy and interactivity are not part of the printed media. As well as He says that, increasingly, the newspaper would be migrating to the Web. He tries to claim that there is no future for printed media “the business models and journalistic practises inherited from the Gutenberg revolution are no longer valid today” [1]. However, he concludes that each media corresponds to different needs and different generations and “Newspaper must make sure that online technologies do not replace print or drive it to extinction” [2].

The other paper Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media, they bring the perspective of that papers is present in our everyday lives. People use paper and printing for all. They also explain how printed companies have to adapt their mode of production to the new digital era. For the authors, the paper has attributes that digital devices do not have. “paper is easily editable. Because it is a physical object, paper can be written on, folded, torn, and so on” [3].They also conclude that paper and printed will be always complement of digital media. “The paper and pulp industry should take an active role in reminding and promoting these qualities both to designers of future technologies and the consumers who take technologies into use”.[4].

According to what has been demonstrated in these two papers, I understand that the future of printed media is already being changed by technology. However, the printed media will not disappear, it should be working ever.

With the advent of technology, is true that many printed media have created their online version as well. It is a good sign for companies too, which now have two different audiences and segments. “Newspaper must take the challenge of online journalism and commercial Web sites seriously and immediately” [5]. They can explore the two areas in different ways. One will be for immediate news and support from various resources such as links, videos, audios and photos. The other one can work with more complex investigative reports. Where they can explore and is delving deeper into the theme chosen. They can explore and investigate deeper some topics like the way the magazines work. Other alternatives are also valid such some way that could involve the reader in the interactivity “visual codes embedded in magazines or newspapers to enhance the functionality of paper. A reader of newspaper could point her camera phone a visual code next to an article and receive a video newscast of the same article” [6]. I can conclude that there is ways for technology and papers are working together for a future printed media existence.

Reference

[1] Thottam, G. (1999). The future of newspaper: survival or extinction? Iona College. New York. Pag. 6

[2] Thottam, G. (1999). The future of newspaper: survival or extinction? Iona College. New York. Pag. 10

[3] Sarvas, R. Mantyla, M and Turpeinen, M. (2008). Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media. HIIT, Helsinki. Pag 4.

[4] Sarvas, R. Mantyla, M and Turpeinen, M. (2008). Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media. HIIT, Helsinki. Pag 5..

[5] Thottam, G. (1999). The future of newspaper: survival or extinction? Iona College. New York. Pag. 6.

[6] Sarvas, R. Mantyla, M and Turpeinen, M. (2008). Human-Centric Design of Future Print Media. HIIT, Helsinki. Pag 3.

Eletronic vote

Since 1996 Brazilian people started to use Direct Recording Electronic "voting machine" in few states of Brazil. Nowadays all country use that machine during the elections. This tool facilitates to know the total of votes in the same day and we can have a safe and fast election result. Though electronic system is not 100% safe, the Brazilian electronic "voting machine" would be "almost 100% safe." Also, it is easy to use and designed to blind people too.

silly things

How to ruin a wedding!! I can not stop laughing....I could not accept what the crazy girl did.

Look at the bride's face!! Very angry!! hahahhahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZf7erAcuKA

Helvetica

The Helvetica typeface originally called "Neue Haas Grotesk" was invented in 1957 by Eduard Hoffmann and Max Miedinger. The word "helvetica" is a variation of the word "helvetia" that means Switzerland in latin. This typeface was created in Switzerland, then its name makes mention of the country where it was developed.

Helvetica is a kind of "sans-serif typeface" and since it was developed it became the most popular used sans-serif typefaces. It is extremely easy to find Helvetica typeface everywhere, particulary in public places, advertisements and information boards, such as metro maps, traffic signs and a lot of commercial brands.

Why did it become so famous? Would be it because of its symmetrical design?

However for some people and graphic designs who work with typefaces, Helvetica not conveys emotion and it is already turned cliche.

Visual Communication

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This is a execise with Photoshop. I tried to use my creativity and ability with the program. So shy with my SQUARE art! hehehhehe

Chrome the best!

In my first contact with internet I was certainly using "Internet Explorer", because I always worked and have had Windows on my computer. However, I tried to change for "Mozilla Firefox" when my husband (who was just my boyfriend in that time) told me about how fast and safe it was. Then, when I got used with Firefox..again my husband come to suggest a new web browser, this time for "Google Chrome".

I only have to say that the Google Chrome is perfect for me. Super-fast and safe. The feature that I like best is: it guess what I'm writting. For example, if I write the incompleted address it goes directly to search the URL that I want (by "automatic" Google search).
I'm addicted to Chrome and I get very impatient when I have to use Internet Explorer in some places.

Street View Ireland

Few days ago Google released the Street View of Ireland. This is one more tool of Google Maps. Now if you are looking for some address in Dublin, you can know how the street and buildings look like. Some other places in Ireland are also avaliable, such as Cork, Cavan, Kildare, Wicklow.

In my opinion, it is an amazing tool that facilitates our life. In July, I went to Paris for holiday and I remember have seen the hotel that I would be hosted in Google Maps(Street View) before to leave Dublin. Then when I arrived there it was so easy to find the hotel.

If you want to know how Google do it, let's check the beautiful video that explain this process in this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bALLcEygc&feature=player_embedded

Virtue of Forgetting

In these days of rapid technological advancement and many tools to exchange information, the way how to share and to record moments and dialogues has become easy, particularly with the help of the internet. Nowadays is possible to keep all conversations, photos, videos and documents stored on a computer and, especially, in virtual places, such as email, blogs and virtual communities. To have access to all information whenever you want and with the speed of a click is very practical. However, is really necessary to keep all that content stored? Can you have privacy uploading your "life" on the Internet?

Some of these questions are discussed in the book Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age written by Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, who is director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Centre at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

In Delete he is talking about how the ability to "remember" has grown in the digital age. As well as, he makes us think about how "to forget" is important and, also, is a natural process of humanity. One of the issues presented for him is when our information can't be literally deleted from the Internet because other search sites had already tracked and stored our information. For some people this may not be a big problem, but for others it is totally a threat to privacy. In the book he cites two examples of people who have been harmed by having personal information exposed on the network. First example involves a teacher, Stacy Snyder, who was in training and had her certification denied because one of her photo called drunk pirate on MySpace, that was interpreted for her supervisors as drunkenness. The second example is about a Canadian psychotherapist, Andrew Feldmar, who was forbidden to entry into the USA in 2006, because his name was found in a online journal about his experiences, in the 1960s, with LSD. Faced with this problem Mayer-Schönberger suggests some solutions, among them, establish a deadline for information on internet: expiration dates. We don't need to have certain information in the network forever.

This issue was discussed in class and, also, a survey was conducted whether is it a big problem or not? The result is 18 people think that it is a big challenge to face in the digital age. 12 people think that it is not a big problem. In my opinion, when I read Delete reviews I thought that it was a problem of privacy. You are who can decide what you want to publish of your life. However, when at class the professor and some classmates started to talk about Google and other devices that can track and store all of our information including emails and conversations, I started getting worried. I don't know if the government can ensure that companies comply with "expiration dates", if it would be the best solution. Whether this is true or not, I'd rather not risk it and start to think better before publish anything about me on the internet.

Underground

I can not imagine how would be to live one month in a locked place. I wonder how the Chilean miners are living trapped 700 meters underground. This accident has already completed one month and 21 days. According to the "rescue officials" they will be removed from the tunnel in November.

An interesting fact of that story is how digital media are helping to keep the miners alive. They're communicating with rescuers and doctors through micro cameras sent by all of the ventilation tunnel. Also are keeping in touch with family and getting entertainment devices such as iPods with favourites songs and portable games as PSP. They can watch soccer matches and movies by mini hd projectors as well.

I know that to be living in a "hole" should be a nightmare but it could be worse without the digital media devices.

I hope everything goes well!!!!

Test

This is a test for Research Methods.

Getting started

Hi, I'm starting to get familiar with media tools, among them the Blog. Here I'll try to write some personal opinions about digital media communication.