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 Podcast Projection Plan and Research What do you hope to achieve? What is the purpose/function of the work? Is it for entertainment, promotion, information, education etc? What is the structure? In my podcast i hope to achieve the ability to make other people happy through the things we talk about. Id also like to strife to make my listeners comfortable and more confident. The purpose of the podcast is to make people smile, focusing on how smiling can effect your mental health in positive ways, helping to reduce stress and anxiety. The podcast will be for promotion towards the mental health charity Mind, this will also help to further peoples own knowledge on mental health. Hopefully we will be able to do this in a way that our audience will also find entertaining. The structure for the podcast is unknown as of now, but it may be unstructured so there is no direct script reading although we will most likely make some notes about the topics we could talk about...

Podcast Resources Microphones Whilst recording our podcast we will more than likely be using a RODE NT1A as our mic. They are a large diaphragm condenser microphone which makes this suitable for our project as they are used to record studio vocals rather than live vocals like a hand held microphone, using a diaphragm condenser microphone will make the vocals sound clear and over all will provide us with a higher quality performance. For our last project we used a dynamic microphone to record, we did this rather than a condenser because dynamic mics are better for grasping loud, strong sounds such as loud vocals. Whereas a condenser microphone is used for more light sounds that could be considered delicate as well as higher frequencies (studio vocals). Using a condenser microphone means we will have to use a cradle mount in order to stop any unwanted vibrations interfering with the recording. A pop shield will also help to reduce these as well as plosives whilst speaking. These are impo...

Pitch Rational I have worked at pulling together all of the research i have done over the past few weeks into creating a pitch for my final project regarding the smile campaign. As the main section of my pitch it shows in detail the idea that has come to mind, explaining what i have decided to create as my final project.  I devised another google form as a way to get feedback on my pitch.  The first question focused on the appearance of my pitch by asking the personal opinion of the audience that watched my pitch, asking them what they thought about the layout of my pitch. The rest of my questions asked for written answers similar to the first however these were more specific to the information i needed to gather. I was given feedback and told what i did well during my pitch. I was told that my amount of writing came off as what i assume would have been obnoxious however i was told i had their attention throughout and made sure to explain my thought process thoroughly in ...

 Audience. We were given the task of creating a survey on google forms. Conducting a survey in order to round up enough information to understand who our audience will be. Knowing our audience was extremely important going forward in our project because we had to have an audience to focus on for our advertisement. Without this information we would be left with an advert made for ourselves rather than other people which would defeat the point of the project we were given.  Having age and gender as the first two questions were the most important. It shows who our general audience is and what would be appropriate to include in our advertisement. The results told us that 73.3% of the people that took part in the survey were aged 15-18. Giving us the freedom to assume other things about our audience. 40% of the results identified as male, 45.7% of the results identified as female. This means that gender will not be a main focus in our advertisement as there is no need for it. The n...

  10/11/21  Today was the day of the shoot. I loaned out a camera this morning and made sure to check in with my grandparents to check they were still free for the photos this evening. They said they had everything ready and had been going through different photo albums they thought would work as props. After getting there a few hours later (after college) we set up how we wanted to take the photos, trying different positions and places around the living room. We tried switching sofas and using different albums but eventually we settled on the arm chair and my grandparents wedding album. Finding the right lighting was something that was proven very difficult even after changing the settings on the camera, i wonder if this could've been avoided if we had taken the photos during the day. Despite this we still took the photos. My Grandad at some point had moved his hand to be on the album and we got the idea of him seemingly pointing at the photos, i really liked this idea and i ...

  For the Canon project, i made my rationale to showcase my ideas for the advertisement. Creating my rationale allowed me to think thoroughly through my process going forward as well as to gather feedback from my peers. (This feedback was spoken and not filmed.)

 

 

 

 

 

As a society we are constantly reminded about our mental health, especially during secondary school going forward into college and university as these can be very challenging times for people in life as there are so many changes happening in what seems like such a short amount of time. According to  www.forthwithlife.co.uk  it has been proven through surveys that women in the UK are more likely to be stressed than men,  "The female participants of our surveys admitted that, on average, they suffered from stress for three more days per month than their male counterparts."  www.apa.org  also agreed with these results, stating that, "Women are more likely than men to report having a great deal of stress. Almost half of all women surveyed said their stress had increased over the past five years, compared to four in ten men."  www.stress.org  also tells us that stress increases as you move towards becoming an adult, "According to the APA, those people aged ...

Mind. Mind is a mental health charity ran by a group of people trying to make society happier by supporting and encouraging positive changes in peoples lives. Mind was founded in 1946 and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016, with their president, Stephan Fry. Mind offer many services to people in need of help, things such as housing, crisis helplines, drop-in centres, employment and training schemes, counselling and befriending for children and adults of all ages. As well as a legal line that simply provides information about mental health while raising awareness, as well as a website and social medias to push forward more help and allow you to get in touch and be a part of their process in bettering mental health. Mind have done fundraises over time, sporting events being put in place in order to raise money needed to progress their charity allowing them to help more people at a faster and more efficient rate. They even took part in raising money over the past couple of years to g...