Progress

Applied Media Research

 

 

This week was just a continuation of Onteca question and how we were going to answer it. This project so far has been a slight challenge because Ive been finding it very hard to try and find an approach that is useful, this is why again I like the idea of the task! My task was to get Futuretainment out of the Library but unfortunately it wasn't there so i guess I failed! I have read the book before so I was able to give some knowledge and understanding to it.

 

We decided that we wanted to create a questionnaire for the class to find out if they buy apps, if they don't, and if they don't why don't they. Also we decided that we would like to interview three people. Someone that uses Android, someone that uses Blackberry App World and someone that uses Itunes App Store, The reason behind this is to find out how many people are willing to buy apps from each one of these and how many aren't, to find out trends.

 

 

TV Studio Production

 

 

This week we met up with Ambrose Reynolds and his business partner Liz to discuss the show and the sorts of questions that we are going to ask him next week! This was a very useful meeting and I feel that we made so much progress, more progress than we ever have previously in this module. Ambrose is a great person to interview because he has so much to say and as one of the presenters of the show I am extremely looking forward to talking to him!

 

On a finishing note this week was a bit crazy because we had a meeting regarding the continuation of the course and as a course rep I obviously had quite a lot of involvement in this meeting and felt that it was useful. I hope to have more of these because a lot of people within my year and others on this course are worried about its future!

The Decision

Applied Media Research

This week we arrived in class and decided on which question we would like to approach. After quite a lot of thinking I decided that the question I would most like to do would be the Onteca question. I think that with this question first of all it interests me quite a lot and second of all there is a lot of opportunity to research this question. As a reminder this question was:

What new models are there for selling media? When people download so much media freely, what are people willing to pay for and how? What are and what can we learn from the best monetization mechanics for Freemium games on mobile?

We were then given half an hour to give Sarah time to randomise and select the groups. I liked the idea that we weren't given the choice to pick our groups because I like working with new people and socialising with the whole class. This was also interesting because with these random groups I might find someone I work really well with and can work with in the future. Once we were put into groups we got together and started to discuss what we could do.

I was put into a group with Molly and Sam. I'd worked with Sam before but not Molly. We discussed initially what we could do with this question and gave each other a task to do for next week. I think because we had just started this project, giving each one of us a task each for next week was a really good idea because at this stage we wouldn't be able to give a constructed answer so starting off with he ball small tasks would get the ball rolling!

TV Studio Production

 

 

At this stage of our TV studio production module we were meeting up regularly and trying to decide over who we wanted. This week we came to a decision! We decided we wanted  Ambrose Reynolds from Urban Strawberry Lunch to be the guest on our show. We tried to get into contact with him and couldn't yet so we will keep trying throughout this week. We had a group meeting this week again and discussed all of the aspects of the show. This included set, shots, costumes, lighting and content. It is really useful to have meetings on a regular basis, because the nature of this project requires a lot of involvement and attention. I really like the group I'm working with as well because everyone works well together and no one is being lazy!



Nine Lives Media

This week we had Mike Welch, who was representing his wife who unfortunately couldnt make it to the presentation! He told us a bit about Nine Lives Media and what they do. After some discussion and a presentation Mike set us the last question in our project:

Which are the three most successful ever examples of cross platform television programming, how did viewers participate and most importantly, what did they gain from the experience? (I would anticipate answers such as the London Olympics/Paralympics & Embarrassing Bodies).

Straight away I liked this question because I thought that there was a lot of things that would be interesting to research regarding multi-platform programmes. After he set us the question Sarah gave us time to think about what question we would like to do and then told us that next week we will be deciding on which question we would like!