An article taken from Media Mania Magazine, article by Hannah Ashworth
New television show tigerlily has taken the television world by storm for its new way of teaching young children a moral message. Despite this, it fits in nicely within the childrens market because of its traditional approaches. Today we are interviewing Grace Robertson, director and writer of the show who is talking about the different types of technologies she used to tie in with our our technology feature week. So Grace, tell us, how did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Grace: well creating tigerlily would have been quite literally impossible without different forms of technology. To create the initial idea, for the planning element, I used the internet alot to have a look at the current market. Youtube was the ideal place as they had literally thousands of videos of the actual shows, as well as the theme tunes and titles of the shows, so i had so much variety in which i could base tigerlily on. It is great how easily accessible all of the past shows are. This was the same for the research, once again, it was the internet that allowed me to find so many different examples of successful shows. The use of cameras as well allowed me to do my research, by interviewing young children who I would have liked to focus my show on. However, their answers in my research were basic and they were shy, so I used teenagers for my audience research. being a student myself, it was easy for me to create a professional finish, and use a range of shots. The actual construction was via the camera and also on iMovie, a video programme on apple computers This high tech programme allowed me to do things such as extracting sound, putting in my logo, and merging the clips together properly and putting my song over the top to make it look like an actual programme. Also, for the ancillary tasks, from examples online, i could see the different things that a magazine has to include such as a strapline and a masthead. Also, the use of photoshop helped me tremendously with the masthead, which also appeared at the start of the programme and the DVD, it was all the same logo.With the evaluation, the fact that the show was on a quicktime file, it meant that i could put it onto my iTunes and put it onto my iPhone and then I could show my friends and other media students the product and find out what they thought of it. Also, i showed it to my classmates on my blog, which has helped me tremendously throughout the project, as it has allowed me to document my work all of the time. All in all, I am very lucky that I had so many good media products around me that I could use!
Grace's show, Tigerlily is on the Cbeebies channel, at 3pm daily.
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