Creative Media Practice - Youtube Annotations

Our final mini creative media practice and it was YouTube annotations. The presentation mark produced I found I got into most, as I found myself skipping on ahead on blackboard whilst he was going through each, I felt this was good because I felt I had an opinion to give to the class while we was discussing the different YouTube interactivities. We were shown all different types of ways we could use YouTube to interact.  

There are different areas that concentrate on using YouTube annotations for different reasons:  

·         Play

·         Story

·         Education

·         Campaigns

·         Promotion

·         Websites 

I really enjoyed looking at the different styles that each of these had produced. I think I found my favorite was the Tipp-experience:

 

 

I thought the idea of this was fun and interactive, and really got the viewer involved. I think I found myself having a little bit too much fun typing in different scenarios I would have liked to have happened. So after much more fun I carried on researching the different styles and spoke to my group about something we could produce. 

We put ourselves into groups so I, Coral and Becca decided to work together. We brainstormed different ideas and thought about what we could focus on as the main aspect of the story. We wrote down a list of ideas that we liked and narrowed them down to three.

·         Partying

·         Drinking

·         Drug taking 

We decided to combine the three together to create a story about whether or not the young girl accepts the invitations to go out and it goes from there:

We decided to create an interactive story that would show a positive and negative awareness to the audience by making people aware of the things they need to look out for whether out on a night out or in a house party. For instance drugs and alcohol! We chose to film in a house party instead of a busy pub for risk assessment reasons.  We feel this will be hard hitting to some people and we want the point to get across but not make it too serious.  

Inspiration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7gWVA3lts4

Once we had shot all our footage we then sat down to edit it using premier, after the first few shots I really began to get into the editing aspect, I cut all the shots up into individual shots so that they would be able to link together. This I felt was easy enough to do and I done this reasonably fast. Once it came up to uploading onto YouTube, and learning how to annotate actual on YouTube I found that some of my videos needed more editing. This was a good time to notice as I still had a couple of hours to go back and do any editing I needed to. Once this was complete the actual annotating was rather easy because I had put my videos in order. I found annotating quite fun and felt I worked well on it, I didn’t find it too complicated and grasped it fast. I think I would have liked to have maybe used this for my final production.

If I was giving the opportunity to do this again or expand on it I would have made the story longer with more options to interactive with and maybe tried to include something similar to the tipp-expereince video with the typing in what they do. Overall I felt it was a good mini task and I did really enjoy it.  

Our YouTube annotation: